Obama is ‘everybody’s president,’ top aide says

He is ‘everybody’s president’ who wants a bigger government in their lives. For the rest of us, we wish he wasn’t president.

USAToday.comreports:

While some aides may be thinking about the 2012 re-election campaign — see our post below – President Obama himself is focused on the task at hand, a top aide says.

Obama has been campaigning since the first day he stepped into office.

“His obligation is to think about all Americans every day,” White House adviser Valerie Jarrett said on NBC’s Meet The Press, and not be “distracted” by purely political news.

Jarrett later said, “he’s everybody’s president, regardless of party affiliation.”

Prodded by host David Gregory, Jarrett said Obama does not spend time thinking about possible 2012 Republican opponents like Sarah Palin.

Yet Palin’s name is always mentioned by the liberal media and by Obama’s goons.

If Obama focuses on things like jobs, national security, and other issues important to all Americans, Jarrett said, “then I think the politics will take care of itself.”

How has that ‘focus’ been on jobs and national security? Unemployment has been above 9.5% + for over 17 months while Obama pushed for the takeover of the health care system along with home and college loans and now the internet. Instead of ‘focusing’ on jobs, Obama turned to attacking those who want the federal government to protect our border; sued a state (Arizona) for wanting to protect its citizens and pushed amnesty for illegal immigrants.

Jarrett also said that Obama will work over the next two years to end the George W. Bush-era tax cuts for the nation’s wealthiest Americans. A two-year extension of those high-end tax cuts was included in the deal Obama signed this month with congressional Republicans.

If Obama is ‘everybody’s president,’ why isn’t he fighting for everybody to keep more of their money?

“That’s something he is willing to fight for,” Jarrett said. “He is going to fight very hard when those two-year extensions expire.”

Obama will be a one-term president. He tricked over 50% of Americans back in 2008. In 2012, the American voters won’t fall for the catchy campaign slogans and empty promises from a silver-tongued Obama. The fraud has been exposed.

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Mexican Soldiers Kill US Citizen; Plant Assault Rifle in his hands

I wonder if the Obama administration will sue Mexico for killing an unarmed American citizen like it did Arizona for simply wanting to ask for identification?

The Associated Press reports:

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Joseph Proctor told his girlfriend he was popping out to the convenience store in the quiet Mexican beach town where the couple had just moved, intending to start a new life.

The next morning, the 32-year-old New York native was dead inside his crashed van on a road outside Acapulco. He had multiple bullet wounds. An AR-15 rifle lay in his hands.

His distraught girlfriend, Liliana Gil Vargas, was summoned to police headquarters, where she was told Proctor had died in a gunbattle with an army patrol. They claimed Proctor — whose green van had a for-sale sign and his cell phone number spray-painted on the windows — had attacked the troops. They showed her the gun.

His mother, Donna Proctor, devastated and incredulous, has been fighting through Mexico’s secretive military justice system ever since to learn what really happened on the night of Aug. 22.

It took weeks of pressuring U.S. diplomats and congressmen for help, but she finally got an answer, which she shared with The Associated Press.

Three soldiers have been charged with killing her son. Two have been charged with planting the assault rifle in his hands and claiming falsely that he fired first, according to a Mexican Defense Department document sent to her through the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.

It is at least the third case this year in which soldiers, locked in a brutal battle with drug cartels, have been accused of killing innocent civilians and faking evidence in cover-ups.

Such scandals are driving calls for civilian investigators to take over cases that are almost exclusively handled by military prosecutors and judges who rarely convict one of their own.

“I hate the fact that he died alone and in pain an in such an unjust way,” Donna Proctor, a Queens court bailiff, said in a telephone interview with the AP. “I want him to be remembered as a hardworking person. He would never pick up a gun and shoot someone.”

President Felipe Calderon has proposed a bill that would require civilian investigations in all torture, disappearance and rape cases against the military. But other abuses, including homicides committed by on-duty soldiers, would mostly remain under military jurisdiction. That would include the Proctor case and two others this year in which soldiers were accused of even more elaborate cover-ups.

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Napolitano: ‘see something, say something’ campaign isn’t Big Brother

Ever notice that when anyone from the Obama administration denies something, it’s because they’re doing it? Like, ObamaCare isn’t a government takeover of the national health care system or net neutrality isn’t about government control of the internet, it’s all about making the internet ‘fair.’

Get me drift?

Now that idiot, Janet Napolitano, who is over our Homeland Security, claims that her commercials telling Americans to rat out anyone or anything suspicious to the government is not ‘big brother.’

Politico reports:

The federal government’s “see something, say something” campaign to encourage citizen vigilance against the terrorism threat doesn’t amount to a “Big Brother”-style spying effort, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in an interview aired Sunday.

“It just sounds very Big Brother to me, turning in the next door neighbor…” CNN’s Candy Crowley said to Napolitano during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“It’s not,” Napolitano insisted. “It depends on the common sense of the American people. I think they have common sense. And it depends on, again…getting through this notion that our safety, our security and the world we live in today is a shared responsibility.”

Crowley suggested that the type of activity that citizens are supposed to report is totally undefined, but Napolitano argued that — with a reminder — people can figure out for themselves what merits reporting. She also noted that the “see something” campaign started not with the federal government but in the New York subway system after 9/11.

“All we have done is expand it. And the reason we have is because we want the citizenry of the United States to be alert, not alarmed, but alert — alert to situations, alert to unattended packages at the airport or unattended bags at a bus stop, alert to things that are highly unusual,” Napolitano said.

What happens if you report something the government doesn’t want you to report?

From the Associated Press, via Breitbart.com:

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Federal authorities are investigating a pilot who posted videos on YouTube that were critical of security at San Francisco International Airport, the pilot’s attorney said Friday. Don Werno of the Santa Ana-based law firm Werno and Associates said the Transportation Security Administration is looking into whether his client revealed sensitive information.

The pilot remains employed with a major airline, but he has withdrawn from a program that trains flight crew to help prevent hijackings after authorities confiscated his federally issued firearm, Werno said. He declined to release the pilot’s name, citing concerns about the man’s job.

The TSA wouldn’t answer questions but said in a statement it is responding to the situation and is confident in the security at San Francisco International Airport.

“As to access control at SFO, TSA is confident in the tools the airport has implemented and reminds passengers there are security measures in place that are both seen and unseen.”

The pilot posted several videos on YouTube in late November or early December that showed ground crew members swiping security cards and entering secure areas without undergoing any screening. He notes in the footage that pilots undergo intense screening, but then have access to ax-like weapons that are stored in the cockpit in case of emergencies.

The sixth and final video was of federal air marshals and sheriff’s deputies who came to the pilot’s home earlier this month to seize his federally issued firearm. The pilot had been allowed to carry the weapon on board as part of a program after 9/11 that trains certain flight crew to serve as “federal flight deck officers” to prevent hijackings.

Werno said his client was upset about what he feels is lax security for ground crew, including baggage handlers and caterers, working at SFO while flight crews and passengers are subject to intense screening.

“The airport should be a security zone where everything that comes into the airport perimeter is checked,” he said.

The pilot removed the videos from YouTube after the TSA objected.

The pilot, a 50-year-old Sacramento-area native, has worked for a major airline for the past 10 years and continues to fly, according to Werno. He has been advised by his airline not to disclose his identity.

In its statement, the TSA said it “responded and took action in this situation because the pilot in question was a FFDO (federal flight deck officer).”

“FFDOs must be able to maintain sensitive security information as a condition of the FFDO program,” the agency said. It did not elaborate.

So its ok to report things, just as long as it doesn’t show the ineptitude of Janet Napolitano and her Department of Homeland Security. Obama sure knows how to pick ‘em.

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Congress gets a 13% Approval Rating

But Obama claims this is the most productive Congress in history because it passed all those wonderful bills that increased the national deficit and granted more power to the government than anytime ever in history. I guess it is a productive Congress if a dictatorship is your goal.

Rasmussen Reports:

The current session of Congress finally closed its doors this past week with voters remaining largely as critical of it as they have been for months.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 13% of Likely U.S. Voters rate Congress’ performance as good or excellent, consistent with surveys for much of the last two years. Fifty-three percent (53%) say it’s been doing a poor job. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Republicans are twice as likely as Democrats to rate Congress’ work as poor, a view shared by 58% of voters not affiliated with either of the major parties.

Late last month, before the lame duck session voted to extend the Bush tax cuts for all Americans, Congress received good or excellent marks from only 11% of all voters and a grade of poor from 60%.  The latest poor finding is the lowest Congress has received since October 2009.

Once again, Obama is on the opposite side of the majority. Nothing new here.

This session of Congress has never won any popularity contests. Its best showing was in May 2009 when 23% gave it good or excellent marks and only 44% rated it poor. In surveys since it opened for business in January 2009, this Congress has earned good or excellent marks ranging from 10% to 23% and poor marks running from 43% to 71%.

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Russian Immigrants are fleeing the Democratic Party to join the Republican Party

You know its bad when Russians, who know all to well about communism and socialism, flee a party they consider to be more socialist than the country they left.

SILive.com reports:

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Many Russian immigrants to the “red borough” of Staten Island are flocking to the Republican Party, saying that the national Democrats’ “socialistic” policies remind them too much of the top-down oligarchy they fled in their native land.

With many of the borough’s Russian arrivees already owning businesses and active in civic organizations, their muscle could help the Island GOP solidify electoral gains made this year, when the party took back congressional and Assembly seats.

Businessman Arkadiy Fridman said that the newly formed Citizens Magazine Business Club, a confederation of more than 50 Russian-owned businesses here and in Brooklyn, has aligned itself with the Molinari Republican Club (MRC) in an effort to increase the Russian community’s political and economic clout.

“We decided we had to support this club,” said Fridman, a former Soviet Army officer who came to the United States in 1992. “They are very close to our political and business vision.”

In the wake of the national GOP’s big wins this year, when the party took back control of the House, Republicans everywhere are more confident that their bedrock message of smaller government and lower taxes will resonate with American voters.

Fridman said that the Democrats “are going in an absolutely different direction,” focusing on “income redistribution” and rich-versus-poor “class war.”

“It’s too socialistic,” said Fridman, head of the non-profit Staten Island Community Center and president of Citizens Magazine, a public affairs publication. “It’s very painful for us to see.”

The Democrats’ national losses were seen as a rejection of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law and other initiatives that opponents say went too far in pushing government control on Americans.

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Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming is the “greatest scam in history”

Al Gore and his eco-terrorist will hate this article. Their man-made global warming…I mean climate change, continues to be proven fraudulent. Don’t believe me. Look around the world as countries are experiencing the coldest winters in centuries or read about “ClimateGate.”

From theTelegraph:

The founder of the The Weather Channel in the US has described the concept of global warming as ‘the greatest scam in history’ and accused global media of colluding with ‘environmental extremists’ to alarm the public.

“It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM,” John Coleman wrote in an article published on ICECAP, the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, which is known for challenging widely published theories on global warming.

The maverick weather forecaster is known for his regular critique of widely accepted global warming theories. The Weather Channel broadcasts weather forecasts and weather-related news in the US 24 hours a day.

His views challenge the consensus of the international science community that it is at least 90 per cent certain that temperatures will continue to rise, with average global surface temperature projected to increase by between 1.4 and 5.8ºC above 1990 levels by 2100.

This increase will be accompanied by rising sea levels, more intense precipitation events in some countries, increased risk of drought in others, and adverse effects on agriculture, health and water resources

A recent joint statement by the scientific academies of 17 countries, including the UK’s Royal Society, endorsed the theory of climate change and dismissed doubts raised over the need for action to mitigate possible damage caused by climate change.

“We do not consider such doubts justified,” the group said in a joint statement, urging prompt action to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

But Mr Colemen slams their views as part of a global conspiracy: “Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create in [sic] allusion of rapid global warming.”

“Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the “research” to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus.

“Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them, then teamed up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild “scientific” scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda.

“Now their ridiculous manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmental conscientious citizens.

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How the Democrats have Distorted the Tax Policy

I have written many articles explain that a ‘tax cut’ is not the government giving us a check. It is the government taking less money out of our checks. Democrats have played this class warfare game for years attempting to trick their weak-minded voters into believing that the government is handing out free money in the form of a tax cut.

Ron Paul explains how Democrats have distorted the tax policy:

George Orwell warned us about the use of “meaningless words” in politics, words that are endlessly repeated by sloganeering politicians until they have no meaning at all.  Meaningless words certainly were on display during last week’s congressional debate over the latest tax bill.

Over and over again we heard trite, empty phrases like “tax cuts for the wealthiest 2%,” “tax giveaways,” “tax earmarks,” and “borrowing money to give to millionaires.”  Time and time again the same falsehoods were presented as fact, and reported as such by a credulous media. 

But all of these clichés about taxes are based on the presumption that government has a right to all of your income, and so government “gives” you something when it allows you to keep a portion of that income.  To this mindset, tax cuts represent a “cost” to government.  After all, they argue, money that really ought to go to the most noble of purposes– wealth redistribution via taxation–is being kept by greedy people and corporations who just don’t want to pay their fair share. 

Far too many Americans truly believe that tax cuts represent a government giveaway, indistinguishable from an outright subsidy or entitlement payment.  To combat this mindset, we need to be clear with our language. 

A subsidy, properly understood, occurs when government takes tax dollars and gives them to favored individuals, companies, or industries.  A tax cut, by contrast, simply means government takes less from an individual, company, or industry.  When government takes less from you, it has not given you anything; it merely has harmed you less.  This is the critical distinction that has been lost in the endless, tired debate about tax policy.

Of course the bill passed last week did contain some actual spending, mostly in the form of an extension of unemployment benefits for another 13 months.   The total spending in the bill amounted to about $60 billion.  But the tax savings in the bill, meaning the amount of money that will remain in the hands of taxpayers rather than being sent to Washington, is approximately $850 billion.  So while a clean tax bill certainly would have been preferable, the tax relief it contains is significant.  It means $850 billion will be spent, saved, or invested by American citizens rather than being sent into the black hole known as the federal treasury.

The media, however, dutifully reported that opposition to the bill came from concerned members of Congress who felt the $850 billion “cost” of the bill was too high, and would add too much to the deficit.  As always, they could not distinguish between government giving and government taking away.  The American people already pay plenty in federal taxes; the deficit is the result of a spending problem, not a revenue problem. 

Had the bill not passed, millions of Americans would have seen their paychecks shrink in January due to increased tax withholding.  That is the plain and simple truth, and that is why I voted for the bill.

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Remember those Death Panels that Democrats said wasn’t part of ObamaCare? Guess what? Their back!

People were warned about government-run health care. Obama infamously said sometimes you should take the pill instead of the surgery. Sarah Palin was lambasted by the left for speaking out about these death panels and now the New York Times is writing about these “end of life” panels. These are death panels but it sounds much  more pleasant when you call them “end of life” panels.

WASHINGTON — When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Jan. 1.

End of life=death. End of life panels=Death Panels.

Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare regulation, the government will pay doctors who advise patients on options for end-of-life care, which may include advance directives to forgo aggressive life-sustaining treatment.

This is health care rationing brought to us by the government, except it is the taxpayers who foot the bill. Doctors will be paid to push patients to give up on life saving procedures to save money. Remember, Obama is cutting $500 billion from Medicare. The savings will come by doctors pushing patients to avoid costly medical procedures and medicines. 

Congressional supporters of the new policy, though pleased, have kept quiet. They fear provoking another furor like the one in 2009 when Republicans seized on the idea of end-of-life counseling to argue that the Democrats’ bill would allow the government to cut off care for the critically ill.

Notice that this is the goal as mentioned in the above paragraph.

The final version of the health care legislation, signed into law by President Obama in March, authorized Medicare coverage of yearly physical examinations, or wellness visits. The new rule says Medicare will cover “voluntary advance care planning,” to discuss end-of-life treatment, as part of the annual visit.

Under the rule, doctors can provide information to patients on how to prepare an “advance directive,” stating how aggressively they wish to be treated if they are so sick that they cannot make health care decisions for themselves.

And as stated by the NY Times above, the government is going to pay doctors to tell patients to forego expensive procedures.

While the new law does not mention advance care planning, the Obama administration has been able to achieve its policy goal through the regulation-writing process, a strategy that could become more prevalent in the next two years as the president deals with a strengthened Republican opposition in Congress.

In this case, the administration said research had shown the value of end-of-life planning.

“Advance care planning improves end-of-life care and patient and family satisfaction and reduces stress, anxiety and depression in surviving relatives,” the administration said in the preamble to the Medicare regulation, quoting research published this year in the British Medical Journal.

As we all know, the UK health care system is all about rationing. This is why Obama appointed Dr. Donald Berwick, a self-admitted lover of the UK health care system, as head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. It’s just a coincidence that Berwick is a pro-health care rationing goon.

The administration also cited research by Dr. Stacy M. Fischer, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, who found that “end-of-life discussions between doctor and patient help ensure that one gets the care one wants.” In this sense, Dr. Fischer said, such consultations “protect patient autonomy.”

Opponents said the Obama administration was bringing back a procedure that could be used to justify the premature withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from people with severe illnesses and disabilities.

Remember when Obama said take the pill instead of the surgery? This is what he was talking about.

Section 1233 of the bill passed by the House in November 2009 — but not included in the final legislation — allowed Medicare to pay for consultations about advance care planning every five years. In contrast, the new rule allows annual discussions as part of the wellness visit.

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Obama Nation: Christmas Dinner Talk

H/T to Hud and Lash

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