Via NY Times:

Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Tuesday are expected to publish a report on the disputed gun trafficking investigation called Operation Fast and Furious, concluding that agents in Arizona — not Obama administration officials — were responsible for the tactics used in the inquiry and for providing misleading information relayed to Congress.

In an 89-page report, titled “Fatally Flawed: Five Years of Gun-walking in Arizona,” the Democratic staff portrays Fast and Furious as the fourth investigation, dating back to 2006, in which Arizona-based agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives employed the tactic “gun-walking” — failing to interdict illegally purchased guns in an attempt to build a bigger case.

“This report debunks many unsubstantiated conspiracy theories,” Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, wrote in a cover letter. “Contrary to repeated claims by some, the committee has obtained no evidence that Operation Fast and Furious was a politically motivated operation conceived and directed by high-level Obama administration political appointees at the Department of Justice.”

It was paid for by Obama’s stimulus, page 407, written and passed by Democrats. Attorney General Holder, appointed by Obama, bragged about the operation and then lied by claiming he had no knowledge of the gun trafficking scheme. Then we have the head of the US Attorney’s Office, under Holder’s command, refusing to testify and pleading the 5th. Obama knew about it before Holder (though Holder is lying through his teeth) and order the operation. Democrats don’t want you to believe your lying eyes…

Still, because the report was written by Democrats, the political impact of its conclusion exonerating high-level officials of wrongdoing may be limited. Its publication comes two days before Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is to testify before the committee. In previous hearings, Republicans have accused the department of sanctioning the tactics and lying to Congress.

In Fast and Furious, which ran from late 2009 to early 2011, A.T.F. officials lost track of about 2,000 guns purchased by suspected “straw buyers.” Many weapons are believed to have reached a Mexican drug cartel. Two guns linked to the investigation were found at the site of a shootout in which a Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, was killed.

Recently turned-over e-mails show an aide to AG Holder informed Holder about the death and gun connection the same day of Terry’s murder.

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Every city that has these Occupier goons has seen an increase in crime rates. This is the movement that Obama says is just like the Tea Party, where the number of arrests, murders, rapes and vandalism still stands at ZERO!

From The Hill:

The Republican National Committee is launching a new web video hitting President Obama on the state of Florida’s economy and using footage of one of his staunchest public advocates.

In the new web ad entitled “Not Up to the Job” to be released Monday, the RNC reminds voters that Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) opposed Obama and backed then New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic nomination contest.

The web video shows footage of Rep. Wasserman Schultz praising then candidate-Clinton and leading supporters in a chant of “Hillary.”

On-screen text reminds viewers that “Debbie Wasserman Schultz refused to endorse Barack Obama in the 2008 Florida primary.”

The text then presents statistics about Florida’s economy “four years later, under President Obama” including figures claiming a 9.9 percent unemployment rate in the state, 1.1 million new foreclosures and a 650,000 more state residents below the poverty line.

“In 2008, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz knew Obama wasn’t up to the job… Four years later, we all do,” concludes the on-screen text.

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From Wapo:

“The defining issue of our time is how to keep that promise alive,” he added. “No challenge is more urgent. No debate is more important.”

Obama spoke as the top Republican candidates for the presidency are debating economic fairness on their own terms, with Romney, a former venture-capital chief executive, defending his large income and relatively low tax rate.

Romney released tax returns Tuesday that show he paid an effective tax rate of 13.9 percent on his 2010 income of $21.6 million. He estimates payment of an effective rate of 15.4 percent on income of $20.9 million in 2011 — below the rate that the White House says many middle-class families pay.

To make the case for a host of economic proposals he is likely to unveil in the speech, Obama invited the billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s secretary, Debbie Bosanek, to sit with the first lady in the House chamber for the speech.

Bosanek is the inspiration for the president’s call for wealthier Americans to pay a higher tax rate, known as the “Buffett rule,” which Obama first announced in September but described Tuesday in the most detail to date.

Bosanek is a pawn and she is possibly one of those rich people Obama claims are “millionaires and billionaires” who makes $200,000 plus.

The Buffett rule — which the president said was developed after the billionaire investor said he paid a lower effective tax rate than his secretary — forms a key component of Obama’s plan to boost short-term spending to help create jobs for the middle class.

But Obama’s advisers said he will not include the tax rate or the deductions he believes should be eliminated for the wealthiest Americans in his budget, which he is scheduled to present next month. As a result, it serves more as a political marker than a firm proposal.

Yes, Obama is violating the law by not submitting his budget on the first Monday in February. Then on top of it, the blow-hard isn’t going to put his main proposal in his budget. He knows the Republican House wouldn’t pass it anyway.

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From BigGovernment:

Over the last three years, the number of Americans on food stamps has skyrocketed by two-thirds and stands at a record-high 46 million citizens, or one out of every seven people in the United States.  Despite the historic rise in food stamp use, however, the Obama Administration believes not enough people are receiving food stamps who should be and is offering $75,000 grants to groups who devise “effective strategies” to “increase program participation” among those who have yet to sign up.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s website singles out Hispanics and elderly Americans as groups who often fail to enroll in the food stamp program (officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) and says  that one of the contributing factors that must be overcome to get more people to sign up for SNAP benefits is individual “pride”:

There are many reasons why eligible people, including seniors and Hispanics, do not participate in the SNAP. These include unawareness of eligibility, confusion about program rules and requirements, a complex application process, and a lack of transportation and pride.

To reduce these “barriers” to food stamp enrollment, the Department of Agriculture offers non-profit groups the chance to receive $75,000 grants for projects designed to boost food stamp participation among those who are eligible but have yet to sign up.  The Department of Agriculture believes that the SNAP program is “severely underutilized” and says that 33 percent more Americans who are eligible to receive food stamps have yet to apply, thus the need to offer federal grants to sign more citizens up.

What else would one expect from a President who believes  unemployment checks and food stamps are a “job creator” and so do most in his party. If this were true, unemployment should be lower since we have record long-term unemployment and record food stamp usage. Liberal logic is insanity.

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Not only racist, documented antisemitism along with criminal acts such as rape, murders and child abuse. This movement is a shit stain upon America and our President and his party support these low-lifes.

From The Hill:

Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod hit at Mitt Romney over his tax returns and work at Bain Capital on Sunday and dismissed comparisons between the government’s investment in failed solar firm Solyndra and bankruptcies at Bain-backed companies.

“Leverage buyouts of the sort that Governor Romney profited off of are quite different,” said Axelrod on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday.

Umm, Bain risked their own money, not the taxpayer’s money, like Obama did with Solyndra. Doesn’t Axelrod know that Bain gave three times more campaign cash to the DNC than the RNC?

“Where you buy a company, load it down with debt, strip it down, let it go bankrupt and then make money off of fees on the bankruptcy. That’s quite different. That’s a different approach.”

That’s what Obama is doing with the US. He’s loaded it down with record debt, he is stripping away American fundamentals and hopes to bankrupt us all to make his “fundamental transformation.” Obama and his campaign bundlers and donors are making hundreds of billions. Ask George Kaiser, Steve Westly and Steven Spinner.

…Romney “has a great track record of creating wealth for himself and his partners, and he’s done it by closing 1,000 plants and stores and offices around the country,” alleged Axelrod. “He’s done it by outsourcing jobs. He’s done it by profiting by loading companies down with debt and then putting them into bankruptcy, on which he and his partners made hundreds of millions of dollars.”

Axelrod said that Romney’s emphasis was on “creating profit for himself and his partners and his investors, not creating jobs.”

Does Axelrod really want to talk about outsourcing as Jeff Immelt, CEO of GE, sits on Obama’s economic and jobs council?

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The interviewer should have asked Soros who he would spend millions on to get elected. That would be Obama.

Al Gore and those flaming mouth-breathers on the left will explode. No global warming for the past 15 years. This is the decline global warming alarmist wanted to hide.

From the DailyMail:

The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.

The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.

Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.

Meanwhile, leading climate scientists yesterday told The Mail on Sunday that, after emitting unusually high levels of energy throughout the 20th Century, the sun is now heading towards a ‘grand minimum’ in its output, threatening cold summers, bitter winters and a shortening of the season available for growing food.

Solar output goes through 11-year cycles, with high numbers of sunspots seen at their peak.

We are now at what should be the peak of what scientists call ‘Cycle 24’ – which is why last week’s solar storm resulted in sightings of the aurora borealis further south than usual. But sunspot numbers are running at less than half those seen during cycle peaks in the 20th Century.

Analysis by experts at NASA and the University of Arizona – derived from magnetic-field measurements 120,000 miles beneath the sun’s surface – suggest that Cycle 25, whose peak is due in 2022, will be a great deal weaker still.

According to a paper issued last week by the Met Office, there is a  92 per cent chance that both Cycle 25 and those taking place in the following decades will be as weak as, or weaker than, the ‘Dalton minimum’ of 1790 to 1830. In this period, named after the meteorologist John Dalton, average temperatures in parts of Europe fell by 2C.

However, it is also possible that the new solar energy slump could be as deep as the ‘Maunder minimum’ (after astronomer Edward Maunder), between 1645 and 1715 in the coldest part of the ‘Little Ice Age’ when, as well as the Thames frost fairs, the canals of Holland froze solid.

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Amonix Inc. is tied to Steve Westly, an Obama bundler who is also tied to Solyndra and Tesla Motors, which received over $1 billion ($535 million/$465 million) in taxpayer-backed guaranteed loans. Westly was also considered for a position to be Obama’s Energy Secretary. Instead, Obama made him an “energy adviser.” If you add up all the money Obama has given Westly and other bundlers, its in the billions.

Obama For Bundlers, Bundlers For Obama. That’s been the pattern and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

FLASHBACK TO AUGUST 2010…

LAS VEGAS – President Obama on Friday tried to reassure unemployed Nevada workers that help is on the way.

“Nevada, I know we’ve been through tough times, and I can’t promise you the difficult days are all behind us,” the president said. “I can’t promise you there won’t be more times to come. But, I can promise you this. We are headed in the right direction. We are moving forward. We’re not going to move backwards.”

The president moved to policy issues, using a Nevada business as an example of job creation. “A solar power company called Amonix received a roughly $6 million tax credit for a new facility they’re building in the Las Vegas area,” President Obama said.

FLASH FORWARD TO THE PRESENT…

From GlobalWarming.org:

Earlier this week, Stimulus beneficiary Evergreen Energy bit the dust. Then, Ener1, a manufacturer of batteries for electric vehicles and recipient of Stimulus largesse, filed for bankruptcy. And today, the Las Vegas Sun reports that Amonix, Inc., a manufacturer of solar panels that received $5.9 million from the Porkulus, will cut two-thirds of its workforce, about 200 employees, only seven months after opening a factory in Nevada.