“I want people around the world to hear me: To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished,” he said.
Biden: [Barry the Great]“Has done more for Israel’s physical security than any President of the eight I’ve served with.” (clapping)I mean if this just isn't the whopper to end all whoppers. This administration IGNORES Israel even as it's prime minister begs for a meeting with the president and repeatedly asserts that in the absence of US assistance, Israel may have to act on it's own to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Barry pussyfoots around on the issue of Iran and nukes while every other word out of the smelly Iranian president's mouth references either nuking Israel, killing all it's people or death to America or all three at the same time.
Mitt Romney in Wayne, Pennsylvania:
Romney: “I sure as heck don’t consider Iran becoming nuclear a bump in the road. We need someone who recognizes the seriousness of what’s ahead and is willing to lead.” (cheers)
“I want people around the world to hear me: To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished,” he said.
“I want people around the world to hear me: To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished,” he said.
The first day of early voting in Polk County was busier than ever for election staff.Why is this primarily a Democrat phenomenon? Because early voting it the perfect set up for voter fraud. When you can vote in every imaginable building from a frat house to a Mexican restaurant, the logistics of safely and securely getting ballots from all these locations to the county auditor's office present nearly unlimited opportunities for voter fraud. And Democrats are the kings of voter fraud -- rampant voter fraud is essential to the Democrat machine if they want to win and it's been happening for decades.
By 4 p.m., 550 people had cast ballots at the Polk County Election Office. In 2008, 100 people voted on the first day but that number had been far eclipsed by 11 a.m.
Of those, 401 were registered Democrats, 90 were Republicans, 57 had no party affiliation and two were affiliated with other parties, said Polk County Auditor Jamie Fitzgerald.
He could not say who people had actually voted for.
After an initial two-hour rush when the polls opened at 8 a.m. that led to hour-long wait times and was largely a function of Obama campaign efforts, the office saw a steady stream of people throughout the day, Fitzgerald said.
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The first ballots are in, and judging from the myriad of Obama stickers, buttons, signs and campaign volunteers enthusiastically trawling down the line in front of the election office, in Polk County most of the ballots so far were for President Barack Obama.
“I want people around the world to hear me: To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished,” he said.
How much do you want to bet that this envelope was sent by a "tolerant" leftist partisan hack?SARATOGA SPRINGS — A packet of information sent to Mayor Mia Love's office that city officials described as racist launched a police investigation Tuesday.City Manager Mark Christensen described the contents of the thick envelope as "disturbing" and "pretty creepy stuff." He said it included a picture of Love and her husband, Jason, and a hooded Ku Klux Klan character. There also were pictures of aborted fetuses, he said."I couldn't tell if it was threatening or anything. It kind of shocked me, what I saw," he said.Christensen said the city has received others mailings aimed at Love but nothing like the one that arrived Tuesday. He said he turned it over to the police department.
“Over the last four years, the deficit has gone up, but 90 percent of that is as a consequence of two wars that weren’t paid for, as a consequence of tax cuts that weren’t paid for, a prescription drug plan that was not paid for, and then the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Now we took some emergency actions, but that accounts for about 10 percent of this increase in the deficit, and we have actually seen the federal government grow at a slower pace than at any time since Dwight Eisenhower, in fact, substantially lower than the federal government grew under either Ronald Reagan or George Bush.”
“Taxes are lower on families than they’ve been probably in the last 50 years. So I haven’t raised taxes.”
— President Obama, interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recorded on Sept. 12, 2012, and aired on Sept. 23
“I want people around the world to hear me: To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished,” he said.
"I've got to tell you, I don't like the idea of a quarterback controversy at the start of a season," Obama told WNBS in Ohio. "If I were a Jets fan, I'd be pretty nervous. Sanchez is not Tom Brady yet, but he led them to the playoffs two years in a row. I think Tim Tebow seems to be a wonderful young man and he's got just a great, winning attitude … but there's going to be a lot of tension in that situation."Of course Barry had an opinion on the NFL replacement refs as well:
(CNN) – Even the president is ready for the replacement refs to go.On Twitter Tuesday, President Barack Obama wrote:
Perhaps he doesn't want Goodell's job, maybe he wants a starting QB job:NFL fans on both sides of the aisle hope the refs' lockout is settled soon. -bo
About 300 workers at Anderson Erickson Dairy in Des Moines will return to work despite a vote by the local Teamsters Union to not accept the company's latest contract offer.What does this prove? This proves that the well-paid but ungrateful AE workers are smart and that the overpaid, under performing union reps like the $128,000 man cited above, are worthless.
A strike began early Monday morning after workers rejected the proposal the night before, but the strike was suspended Monday night to allow negotiations to continue.
Mike Klootwyk, the vice president of Teamsters Union Local 120, said the latest proposed contract would have required workers to accept a pay freeze and to pay significantly more for health care insurance.
Several dozen picketers with "On Strike" signs walked around the dairy's building on the city's east side earlier on Monday.
The previous four-year contract expired in March.
“I want people around the world to hear me: To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished,” he said.
A remarkable truth about Obamacare is how many aspects of its initial programs and initiatives are already in disarray.Read more at RealClearMarkets.com.
The Obama team is woefully behind its own schedule for implementing features of the legislation. The critical regulations outlining what the Obamacare insurance benefit will look like was supposed to be out more than six months ago. Now it looks like this regulation won't be dropped until after the election. This is just one key aspect of the program that is way behind the administration's own timeline.
These facts alone should give proponents of the law pause. But the early experience with the elements of Obamacare that have already kicked in is downright dismal.
Mortimer Zuckerman, the influential Democrat editior-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report called the Obama campaign “dishonest, divisive” in an article published in the online edition of the magazine.
“It is a dishonest, divisive campaign. It's discouraging of enterprise,” he penned. “It does the opposite of uniting the country to deal with the current economic crisis.”
Zuckerman, who is also the publisher and owner of the New York Daily News, said that Obama’s argument on taxes “is not just about whether the super-rich should pay more,” which he would support.
“It is about whether individuals, households, and small businesses should now be seen to cross the threshold into a plutocracy when earnings reach $250,000 a year — which buys much less in metropolitan areas than in the heartland,” according to Zuckerman. “It is outrageous to infer that aspiring to reach such a level is somehow un-American, and the Obama campaign surely must know that. Shame on them if they don't!”
Zuckerman blamed “careless remarks” on the part of GOP challenger Mitt Romney for allowing Obama to “get away with a program that pits ‘the millionaires and billionaires’ against the people.”
General Motors is offering big discounts to boost sales of the Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in extended-range electric car that struggled to attract buyers until its price began dropping early this year.
Discounts run as high as $10,000 per Volt, according to figures from TrueCar.com, an auto pricing website. They include low-interest financing and subsidized leases. Leases have run as cheap as $250 a month
Sales of the $39,995 car have quadrupled this year, and set a monthly record in August. They show that Americans, who have been slow to embrace electric cars, are willing to buy them if prices are low enough.
The Chevrolet Volt can run about 25 miles on its batteries and electric motors before a gas engine takes over. Because it can be recharged by plugging in, owners rarely need to fill up at gas stations. But the car has been controversial because of the government bailout of General Motors and its cost.Yes, that's correct. You drive the car 25 miles and plug it in for eight hours. This tends not to work very well for the normal driver who drives 20 miles to work and parks in a parking lot that doesn't have a place to charge their Volt. Which means that the Volt is for the most part a backwards gas-engined car that uses a gas engine not to power the wheels but to charge the battery. Kind of like peddling a bicycle to run a little generator that powers a little electric motor that turns the wheel of your bike. Positively ridiculous.
ourside. As Andrew Wilkow says on The Blaze (Dish channel 212), “We’re right. They’re wrong.” We will be victorious. And victory means one thing, as Ronald Reagan said, “We win. They lose.” That’s the plan. We only have a few weeks left. So get out there, and make it so.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid charged Mitt Romney with manipulating his 2011 taxes to “conform with his public statements,” after the Republican presidential challenger's return showed he paid nearly $500,000 more than he should have.This proves a couple of things: First the old adage that a Republican can't do anything right has never been more true. Romney should have stood firm and refused to release any more tax returns because he's damned if he did and he's damned if he didn't. Second, this is exactly as all of us conservatives predicted: The liberals only wanted more Romney's tax returns out there so they could beat him over the head with them. They aren't interested in the fact that Barry's big buddies Jay Z and Beyonce are wealthier than Romney could even imagine, as are some of his pro athlete buddies he likes to play pick up games and golf with. THEY'RE liberals.. Nobody seems the least bit interested in how Dirty Harry Reid became a multimillionaire when he's been a public servant for decades (can you say influence peddling and land deals?). And no one remembers four years ago when Shiftless Joe Biden released his income tax returns and he had paid $360 to charity on over $300,000 in income -- far less than most Americans gave to their churches on a fifth of the income.
"Governor Romney is showing us what he does when the public is looking," Reid said. "The true test of his character would be to show what he did when everyone was not looking at his taxes."
Reid was referring to the Republican presidential candidate's decision not to take the full write-off on the huge amount he and his wife Ann gave to charity last year. The return, released Friday, show the couple donated some 30 percent of their $13.7 million income — but they did not take the full write-off, making their effective tax rate higher.
One tax expert estimated that decision cost the Romneys a little under half a million dollars.
An ex-Guantanamo detainee once considered a “threat” to America is believed to have been involved in the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya — possibly orchestrating the deadly rampage, intelligence sources told Fox News.
The potential link with the militant, identified as Sufyan bin Qumu, could lead the White House to revise its claim that administration officials saw “no evidence” that last week’s attack on Sept. 11 was preplanned, and was instead a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Islamist film produced in the United States.
Conservatives rushed to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s defense Tuesday after the release of a video tape showing him characterizing supporters of President Obama as people "dependent on the government" who "believe that they are victims."
From Rep. Allen West to radio pundit Laura Ingraham and website commentators like Erik Erikson, conservatives around the blogosphere rallied to Romney's defense.
The response was notable both because of the speed and the depth of passion with which they defended Romney, who has bothered some conservatives with his flexible positions on issues like abortion over the years.
"Mitt Romney probably could have better explained himself," West, R-Fla., said Tuesday on Fox News. "I think he was a little clumsy in doing it."
Romney was right to say the US is "moving toward economic dependence instead of economic freedom." West pointed to the increase in food stamp recipients under the Obama administration as well as poverty and unemployment rates.
As of late yesterday, the Obama administration was insisting that the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens was not planned in advance. But this ignores what is known from sources on the ground in Libya and from the Libyan government itself. Mounting evidence will likely force the Obama administration to reverse itself and admit that the attack, which occurred on the eleventh anniversary of 9-11, was not spontaneous but was in fact a pre-planned act of terrorism and a major failure of U.S. intelligence.
The Social Security Administration improperly awarded disability benefits in more than 25 percent of cases examined between 2006 and 2010, according to a new Senate report -- potentially costing taxpayers millions of dollars.
The findings conclude an 18-month investigation by the chamber’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and show that roughly a quarter of the 300 randomly selected disability cases were awarded benefits “without properly addressing insufficient, contradictory and incomplete evidence.”
Each questionable decision can mean a big taxpayer expense. According to one estimate, the average lifetime disability award is $300,000.
The investigation was led by Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, a medical doctor and the subcommittee’s top Republican. He said the bipartisan report shows information gathered over the past several years concludes the Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income programs are “teetering on financial bankruptcy.”
The 136-page reportfocuses on questionable benefits rulings made by administrative law judges, including one in Oklahoma who was found to have awarded more than $1.6 billion in lifetime benefits in just three years. Judge Howard O’Bryan, in Oklahoma City, approved roughly 90 percent of more than 5,400 cases from 2007 to 2009 -- most of them held “on-the-record” without hearings, according to the minority report.
"While Mitt Romney has done 20 debates in the last year, he has not done one in four years, so there certainly is a challenge in that regard," Jennifer Psaki, Obama's campaign spokeswoman, said of the president on Monday.Face it, Forward losers, your candidate is a pud. As a president, he's a pud. As a candidate, he's a pud. He'd screw up the happy birthday song if it wasn't running on a TelePrompter in front of him. It's not that he's long-winded, it's just that it takes him eight years to get out a cogent point out on the rare occasions that he DOES get out a cogent point. And speaking of rare occasions, when does he EVER have a "news conference or town hall-style meeting"? More often than not, as he has done during this entire Middle East crisis, he makes idiotic pronouncements and retreats back into the safety of the White House, our plane or limo or his campaign bus. And by the way, "the polls" had Jimma Cata leading Ronaldus Magnus by a large margin at this point in the 1980 presidential race and the sorry excuse for a president lost his ass at the ballot box six weeks later.
With Obama edging slightly ahead of Romney in public polling seven weeks from Election Day, the three October debates could be one of the Republicans' best opportunities to break through with voters. But the high-profile events are just as crucial for Obama, who was an uneven debater during the 2008 Democratic primaries.
In that way, some of the Obama campaign's tactical lowering of expectations is also rooted in the truth. Aides say the structured — and time-limited — nature of the debates isn't a natural fit for Obama, who often is long-winded when answering questions during news conferences or town hall-style meetings.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi last week was not premeditated, directly contradicting top Libyan officials who say the attack was planned in advance.
“Our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous – not a premeditated – response to what had transpired in Cairo,” Rice told me this morning on “This Week.”
“In Cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier, there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was disseminated,” Rice said, referring to protests in Egypt Tuesday over a film that depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud. Protesters in Cairo breached the walls of the U.S. Embassy, tearing apart an American flag.
“We believe that folks in Benghazi, a small number of people came to the embassy to – or to the consulate, rather, to replicate the sort of challenge that was posed in Cairo,” Rice said. “And then as that unfolded, it seems to have been hijacked, let us say, by some individual clusters of extremists who came with heavier weapons… And it then evolved from there.”
The White House presented a detailed breakdown Friday of $109 billion in across-the-board spending cuts scheduled for January, setting off a fresh blame game between the Obama administration and Republicans over responsibility for what both say is a preventable budgetary calamity.
The itemization of the so-called "sequestration" plan showed potential pain all around: $11 billion out of the Medicare healthcare program for the elderly, a $15.3 billion cut in defense procurement accounts and hefty cuts to a Department of Agriculture program that supports farm prices.
There was also a cut of $129 million from embassy security, which would be particularly ill-timed in light of deadly attacks on U.S. diplomatic posts in the Middle East, Africa and Afghanistan by Islamic militants in recent days.
"Sequestration would be deeply destructive to national security, domestic investments and core government functions," the report says.
Don't let this feigned "alarm" from the White House fool you -- this is exactly as the Obama Administration wants it. Don't take my word for it, listen to retired Lt. Colonel and current U.S. Representative Alan West in the Republican's weekly radio address:
It was easy enough to miss the press release. Goodness knows there was a lot to pay attention to this week. If you missed it, the government announced its payouts to social security and disability payments had hit annual records, even though there was still a month left in the budget year.Is it any wonder that Gerri Willis at Fox Business is the only one reporting on this?
Through the end of August, the federal government paid out more than $591 billion. That's $3 billion more in social security benefits and $129 billion more in disability benefits than last year.
There is more evidence of the growing claim of entitlements on our budget and while nobody begrudges retirees who've spent their lives paying into social security claiming their fair share, the numbers of Americans getting disability benefits is concerning.
Carter got a very positive response in Des Moines Thursday when he defended his use of negotiations instead of war to solve international problems.
He said that in 1979 some of his advisers urged him to punish Iran militarily for taking the hostages, and he was told, "If you go to war, you're kind of a hero. If you stay out of war and prefer peace, you're too weak."
He did order a rescue attempt that failed. But he said a broader military strike would have killed tens of thousands of innocent Iranian civilians, so he resorted to negotiations, which were ultimately successful.
"Many people still look on that as a symbol that I was a weak president," he said. "But sometimes it takes more courage to preserve the peace than to go to war." At that point, many in the audience at Drake University gave him a sustained ovation.
At least the Democrats have learned well from their leader -- never take responsibility for anything you can blame on someone else. But worse than them not owning up to their mistake is the dismissive attitude their "apology" takes towards this grievous insult to everyone who has worn the uniform and fought for our great country.The organizers of the Democratic National Convention apologized on Wednesday for accidentally using an image of Soviet-era Russian warships in its backdrop during a tribute to veterans at last week's convention in Charlotte, N.C.The ships were shown on a screen behind 50 veterans assembled onstage Sept. 6 during a presentation by retired Adm. John Nathman."Due to vendor error, incorrect images appeared briefly on screen behind fifty-one veterans during the convention and the DNCC apologizes for this mistake," a Democratic National Convention Committee spokeswoman said in a statement to the Navy Times. "This error should not distract from the words of Admiral Nathman and others who spoke to President Obama's strong record on issues that impact those who have served our nation."
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney calls a new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report finding that President Obama has missed over half of his daily intelligence briefings “hilarious.”The last time we had a president who didn't take national security and the terrorism threat seriously was during the Clinton Administration and we are commemorating the 11th anniversary of the result of that dereliction of duty. It's no coincidence that we just "celebrated" the 14th anniversary of Clinton's lies about Monica Lewinsky so we know where his priorities were. And this guy is the best they can do for an elder statesman in the Democratic Party, but I digress.We can't afford another president who is even less engaged in what should be one of his primary duties: To keep this country safe. Add this to the long list of reasons why we need to boot this guy out of office in November.
“It’s revealing that Mr. Carney did not dispute the Government Accountability Institute’s actual numbers,” said Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer in an interview with Breitbart News. “That’s probably because our findings are drawn directly from the White House’s own calendar.”
The study found the following:
The Government Accountability Institute, a new conservative investigative research organization, examined President Obama’s schedule from the day he took office until mid-June 2012, to see how often he attended his Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) — the meeting at which he is briefed on the most critical intelligence threats to the country. During his first 1,225 days in office, Obama attended his PDB just 536 times — or 43.8 percent of the time. During 2011 and the first half of 2012, his attendance became even less frequent — falling to just over 38 percent.
By NBC Chicago and news servicesThis may be the one and only time I have ever agreed with Rahm Emanuel. (BTW, this Chicago mayor gig is really getting to this guy -- he looks like hell, which is saying something for a guy who isn't all that great looking in the first place.)
Updated at 8:03 a.m. For the first time in 25 years, teachers in the country's third-largest public school system hit the picket line early Monday.
After a weekend of unsuccessful 11th hour contract negotiations, the Chicago Teachers Union made good on its promise to walk out on more than 400,000 students at 675 schools.
We have failed to reach an agreement that will prevent a labor strike," Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said.
The strike follows more than a year of slow, contentious negotiations over salary, health benefits and job security after the school board unanimously voted last year to cancel teachers' 4 percent pay hike in the final year of their contract.
CPS went into full-on strike mode Monday, enacting a plan to keep 144 schools open from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. And after a violent Chicago summer, police Supt. Garry McCarthy said he's "emptying our offices" to patrol the thousands of unsupervised kids on the streets.
"This is a difficult decision and one we hoped we could've avoided," Lewis said Sunday. "Throughout these negotiations, we've remained hopeful but determined. We must do things differently in this city if we are to provide students the education they so rightfully deserve."
Moments earlier, Chicago School Board President David Vitale said more than 20 offers had been made to teachers throughout the talks in hopes of preventing a strike.
Still, there was no deal.
(CNN) – Mitt Romney gave the appearance of taking a stunning new position Sunday when it seemed he was embracing parts of Obamacare, a law he's vowed – vehemently and repeatedly – to repeal if he wins the election. "So you'd keep that part of the federal plan," NBC's "Meet the Press" host David Gregory asked the candidate, referring to ObamaCare provisions about pre-existing conditions and coverage for young adults. Romney replied, "I'm not getting rid of all of health care reform. Of course, there are a number of things that I like in health care reform that I'm going to put in place."As is always the case with the Clinton News Network, they aren't telling the whole story.
