On 09-16-10, ROSS SAUER said to ALL:

It sure is fun watching the right-wing tearing each other apart, over
the right to be "Too conservative to have any brains."

Waters aides expelled from Pelosi event
By Russell Berman - 09/16/10 06:06 PM ET


Three staffers working for embattled Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.)
were asked by security officers to leave an event in downtown
Washington on Thursday after they tried to display large campaign
signs just as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was about to
speak.


The aides were holding lawn signs that defended Waters from the
ethics charges she is facing in the House.


"Let's fight for Maxine Waters,"¥ read a headline on the signs
above a large picture of the congresswoman. Smaller headings read:
"No improper action. No benefit. No failure to disclose. No one
influenced. No case!"


Pelosi was appearing outside the Historical Society of Washington,
D.C., where she addressed an X Prize awards ceremony honoring the
winners of a contest to build a safe car that gets at least 100
miles per gallon in fuel efficiency. The staffers entered the
outdoor area where Pelosi was scheduled to speak and departed
without incident when asked to leave minutes later.


Waters told The Hill afterward that the staffers had been displaying
the signs at the annual legislative conference for the Congressional
Black Caucus Foundation, which was held at the Washington convention
center a few blocks away. "It ain't about Nancy. It's about
black people,"¥ Waters said.


The charges against Waters were first handled by the Office of
Congressional Ethics, which was established by Pelosi in 2008.


Waters said she was deploying campaign signs at events throughout
the country to defend herself against charges that she improperly
intervened to help a failing bank secure a meeting with Treasury
officials even though her husband had owned stock in the company
and previously served on its board. "These signs will show up
wherever large numbers of African Americans gather,"¥ Waters said.

A campaign aide to the congresswoman said the young men at the Pelosi event were staffers paid for the day. The aide said 40 to 50 yard signs were
printed, in addition to 10,000 handouts. The aide said a similar presence
would be made at other events between now and when Waters's trial takes place, but that no formal plans had been made.


"It's important to communicate our message,"¥ the aide said.


The staffers who attended the Pelosi event declined to speak to The Hill, but before leaving one of the aides identified Waters as his aunt and said they were at the X Prize ceremony to see the cars on display. The Waters campaign aide said no family members were among the staffers sent to the CBC
conference. Told that one of the staffers had identified her as his aunt, Waters shrugged and replied: "I'm everybody's aunt."¥


Pelosi's office said Friday morning that it did not ask for anyone
to be told to leave the event on Thursday.





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On 09-16-10, ROSS SAUER said to ALL:

It sure is fun watching the right-wing tearing each other apart, over
the right to be "Too conservative to have any brains."

Townhall - Extremists Calling Mainstreamers Extremists


David Limbaugh


I'm surely not the only one who notices the persistent efforts of the
leftist establishment and certain establishment Republicans to portray mainstream conservatives, especially those inhabiting the tea party movement, as radicals and extremists. The more they push this theme the more they marginalize themselves.


You'll remember that Obama's Department of Defense released a manual identifying "protests" as a form of low-level terrorism. His Department of Homeland Security issued a report characterizing protesters as potentially dangerous right-wing extremists and racists, being sure to slander disgruntled veterans returning from duty overseas as part of that frightful mix. Also unforgettable is Obama's categorical derision of small-town people as bitter clingers.



We can learn a lot about people from their dislikes, as well as their likes.


They reveal a great deal about themselves when they call "extremists"
patriotic Americans who believe in the American ideal, lower taxes and fiscal responsibility, originalism, the rule of law, blind justice, equal protection under the law, strong national defense, limiting government to its assigned constitutional functions, the Second Amendment, the nondiscriminatory application of freedom of speech and expression, the free exercise clause, a reasonable -- not unduly expansive -- interpretation of the establishment and commerce clauses, protection for the unborn, judicial restraint, federalism, the separation of powers, the free market, racial colorblindness, the
existence of good and evil in the world, equality of opportunity rather than
of outcomes, law and order, immigration control and border protection, motherhood and apple pie.


That's a fair summary of a typical tea partier's credo. By definition, then,
in America at least, tea partiers are not extremists. For approximately two times as many American voters identify themselves as conservatives than as liberals, and conservatives mostly believe in those things I've referenced.


Tea party protesters are decidedly peaceful people -- so much so that the only time you'll see violence at any of their protests is when liberals bus in
their union thugs to foment it or to masquerade as conservative participants.

The only time you'll hear about racism at one of their events is when leftists trump up the charge and fabricate events.


Nancy Pelosi -- speaking of extremists -- disagrees. She said she was "very happy" with this week's election results because they showed that extremists
in the tea party movement are dominating Republican primaries.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs also feigns glee as he celebrates the apparent dissension in the Republican Party caused by the alleged wedge tea partiers are driving.


Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski betrayed a similar misperception, saying in her sour grapes speech following her defeat that the GOP had been "hijacked by the Tea Party Express -- an outside extremist group."


I wrote in my book that Obama is either tone-deaf or utterly contemptuous of the express will of the majority of the people. He is entirely cavalier about their strenuous, unambiguous objection to most of his agenda items. When they rejected Obamacare, he didn't go before the nation in his State of the Union address showing contrition for having ignored their wishes, nor was there the slightest indication he was willing to adjust his extreme plan to nationalize our health care to make it more acceptable to the people. No, he didn't say,
"I hear you loud and clear, my fellow Americans." Rather, he shouted, "I want everyone to take another look at the plan."


After his reckless $868 billion stimulus package -- with all its untraceable waste, redistribution and corruption -- failed to "jump-start the economy" and keep unemployment from rising above 8 percent as he had promised, he not only didn't take ownership of his failed prescription but also blamed former President George W. Bush again. Worse, he asked for $50 billion more with the promise that one-eighteenth of the amount of the initial stimulus would jump-start the economy and create jobs, when the initial stimulus did not.


So who is more extreme? Is it the guy (and his enablers) who is driving us at warp speed into national bankruptcy, supports abortion on demand and the militant homosexual agenda, appoints judges who believe government has the right to "unskew" speech when it becomes "overabundant," Mirandizes terrorists on the battlefield, appoints one radical czar after another, apologizes every chance he gets for the country that we love, fires his inspectors general without notice for uncovering corruption among his friends involving stimulus money, takes over and then tries to restructure Chrysler and GM in a way that discriminates against secured creditors in favor of his union buddies, forces national health care on the nation when Americans told him they rejected it
and on and on, or is it a typical tea partier?


It's not even a close call, and the more tone-deaf that liberals (and establishment Republicans) are to this reality the worse their respective electoral futures will be.


David Limbaugh, brother of radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, is an expert in law and politics and author of new book Crimes Against Liberty, the definitive chronicle of Barack Obama's devastating term in office so far.






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On 09-16-10, ROSS SAUER said to ALL:

It sure is fun watching the right-wing tearing each other apart, over
the right to be "Too conservative to have any brains."

"Rip! Shred! Tear!" Ah yes.....the sound of Tea Party Conservatives eating leftist democrats alive!


Townhall - Jones, Others Burned For Daring To Be Americans


Diana West


Another Sept. 11 is behind us, leaving something new and disturbing, a
dark spawn to examine with plenty of careful soul-searching.
That legacy is the reflexive, lockstep process by which an American citizen, Terry Jones, was simultaneously depicted and denounced as a raving lunatic for even conceiving of his plan to burn copies of the Quran to mark the ninth anniversary of demonstrably Quran-inspired attacks. In society's fearful
fervor to distance itself from Jones, there was evidence of that same politically correct lie that has plagued us from Day 1: that there exists no logical and discernible connection between what the Quran commands and what happened on 9/11. Thus, Jones' lawful, harmless symbolic stunt making the connection -- burning copies of the Quran at his Florida church -- became a paralyzing taboo, and Terry Jones was demonized with impunity, even by many
who defended his free-speech protections and constitutional rights.
It's not that his plan required hosannas, ovations or even a Cracker Jack prize.


But there was something alarming in the rush of invective that prefaced even arguments in the man's defense. In these apparently obligatory denunciations, there was something very nearly dehumanizing -- and particularly when the name-calling could be heard as sympathetic vibrations to the violent
explosions of outrage over Jones that brought death and destruction to Islamic lands including (so far) Indonesia, Afghanistan and India.


Even with the Constitution on his side, Jones was in effect stripped of equal standing in the eyes of his fellow citizens. Little wonder, then, that his
bank actually called in his church's mortgage; his insurance company actually canceled his church's policy; and his Internet server actually pulled the plug on his website -- all repercussions of his planned 9/11 demonstration. Inside of a week, Jones achieved a state on nonpersonhood that exceeds that of most convicted criminals, despite the fact that the only law he contemplated breaking was Islam's.


Jones' state of disgrace was perhaps never more apparent than during a live appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Co-host Mika Brzezinski, worked up over the "blood" Jones personally, as she believed, would have on his hands, cued panelist Jon Meacham to deliver to Jones, standing by live, an honest-to-goodness New Testament homily on forgiveness -- an MSNBC first? -- and to appeal to him as a "fellow Christian" to drop his plans. Jones' reply?

He was never permitted to open his mouth.


"Well said, Jon Meacham," said Mika Brzezinski as Meacham's sermon ended. "And Pastor Terry Jones, we appeal to you to listen to that. And we don't really need to hear anything else, so thanks."


So thanks? Talk about potted palms. The irony here is that Jones-the-person
was increasingly objectified as a dangerous "nut," while Quran-the-object that commands jihad was increasingly enlivened with a uniquely inviolate status. Which brings us to Derek Fenton. On 9/11 Saturday, Fenton tore pages from a Quran and lit them in front of the planned Ground Zero mosque. According to
New York Daily News sources, Fenton said, "he wanted to stand by (America) in
a tea party kind of way" by exercising his "right to protest." Police ushered Fenton away but released him without charges.


Come Monday, it was a different story. Constitutional rights aside, New Jersey Transit fired Fenton, ending his 11-year career with the agency for burning those Quran pages (and on his own time), an act which, again, violated not America's law, but Islam's.


Fenton's story repeated itself almost exactly in Australia where, also on Monday, Alex Stewart, a Queensland University of Technology employee, was placed on "indefinite leave" after satirizing mass Quran hysteria in a YouTube video -- now censored -- in which he smoked pages from both the Bible and the Quran.


And on Wednesday, the Seattle Weekly (rather calmly) announced the planned disappearance of its cartoonist Molly Norris, she who once called -- in a cartoon -- May 20 "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day." The paper wrote: "On the insistence of top security specialists at the FBI, she is, as they put it, 'going ghost': moving, changing her name, and essentially wiping away her identity."


"Wiping away her identity"? For a cartoon? But this is exactly what Western civilization itself is doing. And that's why all you hear, past those echoing denunciations of the Florida preacher, is silence.


Diana West Diana West is a contributing columnist for Townhall.com and author of the new book, The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization.





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On 09-17-10, TIM RICHARDSON said to ROSS SAUER:


He's gonna make it about `race'. He has no other card to play at this point.

The economy is in the tank.....he's made a fool of himself (and America) on
the International scene .....his agenda is on the ropes....the republicans are on the verge of taking over the U.S. House....maybe even the Senate.


So Hussein turns to the only thing that will stir up excitement: racism! The title of this article ought to be: OBAMA PLAYS THE RACE CARD!!!!



Obama to black leaders: Fire up against GOP surge - Politics - Decision 2010 -


WASHINGTON President Barack Obama came out swinging
against Republicans in a fiery campaign-season speech to black lawmakers Saturday night, urging them to "guard the change" he was delivering with the kind of organizing that propelled the civil rights movement.


With the GOP hoping to regain power on Capitol Hill in the November election, Obama described his adversaries as "a crowd ... that wants to do what's right politically, instead of what's right, period." He never named the opposing party, referring to it as "the other side."


"I need everybody here to go back to your neighborhoods, and your workplaces, to your churches, and barbershops, and beauty shops. Tell them we have more work to do. Tell them we can't wait to organize. Tell them that the time for action is now," Obama said in his remarks.


The words of America's first black president showed a deliberate effort to recapture the enthusiasm that had helped him win the White House in 2008,
after polls showed African- Americans much less likely to vote than whites
this year.


"The last election was a changing of the guard; now we need to guard the change," Obama said.


He said the recession had struck "with a particular vengeance on African-American communities" and he defended his approach to reviving the
sour economy.


Members of "the other side," Obama said, "want to take us backward. We want to move America forward. In fact, they're betting that you'll come down with a case of amnesia. That you'll forget about what their agenda did to this
country when they were in charge. Remember, these are the folks who spent almost a decade driving the economy into a ditch. And now they're asking for the keys back."

With polls showing his party facing a wide "enthusiasm gap" with the GOP,
Obama sought to rally an important constituency in his speech.


"What made the civil rights movement possible were foot soldiers like so many of you, sitting down at lunch counters and standing up for freedom. What made it possible for me to be here today are Americans throughout our history
making our union more equal, making our union more just, making our union more perfect," Obama said. "That's what we need again."


The caucus is reeling from ethics charges against two leading members, Democratic Reps. Charles Rangel of New York and Maxine Waters of California.


Republicans are preparing TV ads spotlighting the cases, even though House trials are now not expected until after the November election.


The cases complicate an already difficulty electoral landscape for Obama's party, with polls showing Republicans energized and Democrats unenthusiastic about the vote.


A recent AP-GfK poll found that 84 percent of Republicans believe their party will seize control of Congress in November. Just 51 percent of Democrats thought their party would keep it.


While neither party's rank and file thinks much of politics these days, Democrats' feelings have slumped badly. Just 26 percent said they're
"excited," compared with 80 percent when Obama was elected.


For Obama, the caucus dinner at the Washington Convention Center capped a week of concerted outreach to minority supporters, a traditional wellspring of Democratic strength.


The effort began Monday with a White House reception for black college officials. It included speeches by the president on Wednesday to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and by first lady Michelle Obama to a black caucus legislative conference that same day.


Last week, Obama was interviewed on "The Tom Joyner Show" radio program, which enjoys a large black audience.Black caucus members have been staunch backers
of the first African-American president. But they've also voiced concern that he hasn't done enough to help struggling black families.They point to persistent high inner-city unemployment and a new census report showing a jump in poverty on Obama's watch. The poverty rate was 14.3 percent, with the ranks of working-age poor at the highest since the 1960s. For blacks, the rate was 25.8 percent and for Hispanics it was 25.3 percent.Obama told Joyner he knows unemployment has been "brutal," especially among African-Americans, but he compared the economy to a patient recovering from an accident. "It can't run yet, but it's walking," he said.advertisement | ad info Advertisement | ad infoAdvertisement | ad infoThe president told the Hispanic group he is committed to an immigration overhaul, even though it has stalled in Congress.

He blamed GOP opposition and said Hispanic voters should keep that in
mind."You have every right to keep the heat on me and keep the heat on the Democrats," he said. "But don't forget who is standing with you, and who is standing against you. ... Your voice can make the difference."









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