Russell Simmons accuses US of killing 200,000 Iraqis; blames Tea Party for hate

Perpetuating The Cycle Of Hate
When will it end? In Tucson, a madman attempted to assassinate a member of Congress, but only wounded her -- along with over a dozen others and killed six. The Mainstream Media and the Professional Left spend the next week blaming Sarah Palin, the Tea Party movement, and the right in general for driving the madman to his act of madness, then desperately tries to find or manufacture some evidence to back it up. And then, one week to the day after the shooting, one of the wounded (and a member of...

Most endangered species in America? Reality.
Let’s also face another tragedy: The only two civic reforms that might have actually stopped him — tighter Gun Control and an effective Mental Health safety net — won’t materialize even now. Gun and ammunition sales spiked last week, especially for the specific varieties given the Loughner imprimatur. No editorial — or bloodbath — will move Congress to enact serious Gun Control (which Giffords herself never advocated and Obama has rarely pushed since 2008). Enhanced Men

Tuscon Shooting Victim Arrested, Shouting Death Threats To Tea Partier
James Eric Fuller was one of the 19 people that were shot in Tuscon when a madmen unloaded his gun on Congress woman Giffords and many of her supporters. Within hours of the senseless Shooting Spree, many on the Left (including Fuller) decided to blame the Right for stirring up the violence even though the shooter had absolutely no connections to conservative beliefs. Sadly the blame game has led to Fuller being arrested Saturday for shouting out death threats to a Tea Party member. Saturday, at...

Tucson Shooting Survivor Arrested At Taping Of ABCs This Week For Threatening Tea Party Founder
ABC’s ‘This Week’ with Christiane Amanpour shot a ‘Town Hall’ meeting today called “Tragedy in Tucson: An American Conversation Continued” (to be aired Sunday Morning) where survivors, witnesses and First Responders of the massacre were reunited.  Towards the end of the otherwise sad and emotional event, as was described by AZ Central, Amanpour brought up the touchy issue of Gun Control. When Tucson Tea Party founder Trent Humphries rose to suggest ...

J. Eric Fuller, Tucson Shooting Victim Arrested at Town Hall Meeting For Threatening GOP Rep Terri Proud & Tea Party Spokesman
One week after the Tucson, AZ tragedy and there is an arrest at a town hall meeting for death threats … So much for that call for peace, calm and tranquility in the aftermath of the shooting last week at the hands of Jared Loughner. Tucson Shooting Victim J. Eric Fuller threatened Trent Humphries, the Pima County Tea Party Leader, stood up to speak during the event. He was being very respectful. Trent told the audience that before we start placing blame on individuals we need to get al...

Sunday Talk - The Power of Words
In the immediate aftermath of last Saturday's horrific shooting in Tuscon, critics were quick to assign blame to the violent Rhetoric and imagery employed by Sarah Palin and her Tea Party compatriots. But to hear Palin tell it in a video posted on Facebook Wednesday morning, not only is the charge bloody ridiculous, it's also bloody libelous. In her view, she was not a cause of the shooting; rather, she is a Victim. Meanwhile, later that same day, President Obama delivered what was arguably the...

The Party Line Vindicated!
Recently we have had a hard time of it with the masses and our Propaganda arm the MSM. Our efforts to pin the actions of a lone crazed delusional gunman to the Tea Party and Sarah Palin have, lets face it failed miserably. That is until now! I have obtained shocking photo evidence taken from Sarah Palin's garage while they left the door open momentarily. Proof positive that they have installed a portable Death Ray beam machine in their garage!!!!!!! Evidence that is now on its way to CNN, MSNBC,...

Youre Dead! Tucson Shooting Victim Threatens Tea Party Leader at Town Hall
One of the Arizona Shooting Victims was arrested Saturday and then taken for a psychiatric evaluation after authorities said he took a picture of a tea Party Leader at a televised town hall meeting and yelled: "you're dead."Members of the Activist left had held up Mr. Fuller as a symbol of righteous anger against Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and members of the conservative media....

Mission accomplished, Markos Moulitsas.
The Left gets its violent responder to Hate Speech, after all: the only problem is, from their point of view he’s aimed the wrong way. I started following the saga of J. Eric Fuller a couple of days ago: the short version is that he was one of the Victims of the Tucson attack of last week that killed six people and nearly killed Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.  Despite the fact that the consensus is, from the President on down, that harsh political Rhetoric had nothing to do with the ...

What Child Is This?
The President continued, “Christina was given to us on September 11th, 2001, one of fifty babies born that day to be pictured in a book called Faces of Hope. On either side of her photo in that book were simple wishes for a child's life. ‘I hope you help those in need,’ read one. ‘I hope you know all of the words to the National Anthem and sing it with your hand over your heart. I hope you jump in rain puddles.’” “If there are rain puddles in heaven, Chr...

State job goes to ex-lawmaker who supported tax hike
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn gave a nearly $86,000 state job to a former lame-duck lawmaker who supplied one of the votes needed to pass his major income Tax Increase, but the Governor's office and former state Rep. Careen Gordon both said Friday that there was no connection between the actions. "In the seven years and couple weeks I was in the legislature, my vote was never for sale," Gordon said. "Sometimes, there's just no Conspiracy." Gordon, a Democrat from Morris who recentl...

State job goes to ex-lawmaker who supported tax hike
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn gave a nearly $86,000 state job to a former lame-duck lawmaker who supplied one of the votes needed to pass his major income Tax Increase, but the Governor's office and former state Rep. Careen Gordon both said Friday that there was no connection between the actions. "In the seven years and couple weeks I was in the legislature, my vote was never for sale," Gordon said. "Sometimes, there's just no Conspiracy." Gordon, a Democrat from Morris who recent...

Pat Quinn signs big tax increase
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. • Gov. Pat Quinn signed a major state Income Tax hike Thursday, hoping to address what he called "a fiscal emergency" for the Deficit-ridden state. For many Metro East residents and businesses, though, the emergency begins in April 2012, when they will see their 2011 tax bills rise dramatically. They include Belleville businessman John Bigalke, who says he had set money aside to buy new equipment and hire a second employee at his screenprinting shop, Beatnik's. "Now, I'm ...

One state's solution
Illinois faces a projected Budget gap of $13 billion this year and $17 billion in fiscal 2012. State Government's solution? Raise taxes. During a lame-duck session of the legislature last weekend, the state's Democratic leaders passed a 67 percent increase in the state Income Tax and a 45 percent jump in the Corporate Tax. No Republican voted for the Tax Increases in either the Illinois House or Senate, where the votes were close. Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn explained: "The state was car...

Obama political fortunes are rising
No doubt about it: President Obama is on a political roll. Obama's Approval Ratings have cracked 50% in a number of polls, and a new McClatchy-Marist survey shows him pounding potential 2012 Republican challengers Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee. There are many reasons, pollsters say: Obama's political successes in December, particularly the Tax Cut deal with Republicans; the generally improving economy; and his handling of the Mass Shooting in Arizona last weekend. "Clearly, the la...

ABC Claims Everyone Loved Lame Duck
From a shameless ABC News: Poll: Obama and Lame-Duck Congress Popular - But Will it Quack Again? 77% Welcome the Lame-Duck Cooperation Between Obama and Congress ANALYSIS [sic] by GARY LANGER Jan. 14, 2011 Americans overwhelmingly welcomed the flurry of lawmaking between the lame-duck Congress and President Obama last month — but they’re hedging their bets on whether the duck keeps quacking. Seventy-seven percent in this ABC News/Yahoo! News poll say it was good for Obama a...

He's Back? Obama's Approval Rating Surges In Recent Polls
Just two months removed from a midterm shellacking that sent 63 members of his party packing from the House, President Obama's Approval Rating has suddenly spiked in recent polls, a change so significant that for the first time in eight months the President has a net positive Approval Rating in the TPM poll average. In the current TPM poll average, Obama posts an Approval Rating of 47.9% compared to a Disapproval rating of 47.3%. It marks the first time Obama has notched a net positive in the ...

Poll: 77% Say It Was Good For Obama and Congress To Agree on Lame-Duck Cooperation
ABC News/Yahoo poll abcnews.com Americans over whelmingly welcomed the flurry of lawmaking between the lame-duck Congress and President Obama last month -- but they're hedging their bets on whether the duck keeps quacking. Seventy-seven percent in this ABC News/Yahoo! News poll say it was good for Obama and Congress to agree to lame-duck Legislation on Tax Cuts, Unemployment benefits, Gays in the Military, the START Treaty and aid to 9/11 responders. That includes majorities across the spectrum...

Hooray! Dear Leader Celebrates Letting Us Keep an Extra $20 a Week
Our fearless leader was so gracious to help extend George W. Bush's Tax Cuts, and now he's making efforts to remind us of his munificence. How wonderful of him.The Payroll Tax cuts President Obama negotiated and signed into law during the lame-duck session went into effect on Friday, and the White House wants to make sure the millions who will benefit from the law know it. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Friday that for the tax cuts to have a stimulative effect, the public needs to be a...

Liberal group bashes Biden's pick for chief of staff
A liberal group that has sparred with the White House slammed Vice President Biden's pick for Chief of Staff. A co-founder of The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) expressed disappointment with Biden's choice of Bruce Reed, most recently the Executive Director of President Obama's fiscal commission, for the top staff job in the vice president's office. "It's unfortunate that this administration keeps gravitating toward individuals who push policies that benefit big corporations over...

WH: Benefits of payroll tax cuts start Friday
WASHINGTON (AP) — The administration says Americans will start seeing the benefits of the Payroll Tax cut that President Barack Obama signed into law in their paychecks starting Friday. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the 2 percent decrease in the Payroll Tax will benefit more than 150 million families. He says the average worker will see take-home pay increase by about $700 a year as a result. The White House says the cuts will provide a boost to The Economy and job growth this y...

WH: Benefits of payroll tax cuts start Friday
The administration says Americans will start seeing the benefits of the Payroll Tax cut that President Barack Obama signed into law in their paychecks starting Friday. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the 2 percent decrease in the Payroll Tax will benefit more than 150 million families. He says the average worker will see take-home pay increase by about $700 a year as a result. The White House says the cuts will provide a boost to The Economy and job growth this year. The Tax Cut was inc...

Geithner: Improved economic outook due in part to tax package
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Friday that there is more confidence in The Economy now, and the tax package passed at the end of last year has something to do with that. Generally, predictions for The Economy in 2011 are more optimistic than in 2010, and the large tax package that extended Income Tax cuts for all Americans helped contribute to that sunnier outlook, Geithner said. "If you look at the average of what private forecasters are saying -- business Economists, et cetera -- w...

WH: Benefits of payroll tax cuts start Friday (AP)
WASHINGTON – The administration says Americans will start seeing the benefits of the Payroll Tax cut that President Barack Obama signed into law in their paychecks starting Friday. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the 2 percent decrease in the Payroll Tax will benefit more than 150 million families. He says the average worker will see take-home pay increase by about $700 a year as a result. The White House says the cuts will provide a boost to The Economy and job growth this year...

Big U.S. companies take tax gripes to Geithner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chief financial officers from multinational companies meet with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Friday to air gripes about the tax code under which they pay the steepest rate in the industrialized world. Companies want the rate slashed, arguing that it handicaps them competitively against their foreign-based peers. "The current tax code with its punitive corporate rates and complex maze of deductions and credits highly distorts economic decision-making," said Dean ...