Who are the Social Democrats/Marxists Backing in the 2012 Elections?

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5 Progressive Candidates to Watch as the 2012 Campaign Heats
Up

By Sarah Jaffe

September 23, 2011

http://www.alternet.org/story/152514/5_progressive_candidates_to_watch_as_the_2012_campaign_heats_up

Watching the news lately, you’d think that Election 2012 was
only between Republican candidates for president, each
trying to outflank the next to his or her right.

The Republican primaries may be getting lots of attention,
but several progressive candidates around the country are
gearing up for races that could swing the Congress and put
some control back in the hands of progressives.

It can be easy to despair when audiences at GOP debates
cheer executions and boo gay soldiers, but the fight is far
from over. With Barack Obama striking a new, more populist
tone as election season nears, we should all remember that a
lot can happen between now and next November. And attention
early on for the good candidates can help ensure their
success in primaries and general election campaigns alike.

While Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul eat up time on cable
news with their latest out-there soundbite, we thought we’d
bring you five progressive candidates to keep an eye on.
Their message is resonating with people in their districts,
and these candidates are ready to steal some of the
spotlight back from the ultra-right with policies that would
actually improve the lives of working people.

1. Tammy Baldwin – Wisconsin Senate

One of the hardest losses in the 2010 election was Russ
Feingold’s Senate seat, as conservatives swept Wisconsin’s
races. Yet just a few months later, Wisconsin was the center
of a growing resistance to anti-worker, anti-union, pro-
corporate politics, as hundreds of thousands of
Wisconsinites hit the streets and camped out in the capitol
protesting Governor Scott Walker’s attempt to strip union
workers of their right to collectively bargain.

Walker won’t be on the ballot in 2012, but there will be an
open Senate seat, as Wisconsin’s senior senator, Herb Kohl,
is retiring. Tammy Baldwin, the only openly gay woman in the
House, where she represents Madison and its surrounding
areas, is running to be Wisconsin’s next progressive
champion.

“I know that, in this campaign, well be up against some
powerful special interests. But I’ve beaten the odds before.
All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can’t win
because I’m a progressive, because I’m a woman, even because
I’m a lesbian. And I’ve proven them wrong because I’ve had
rock-solid supporters like you standing with me,” she said
when she announced her campaign.

Republicans are going to try to paint Baldwin as too liberal
for the state, but as Wisconsinites already held insurgent
recall elections this year and removed two Republican state
senators from office, Baldwin’s early move into the race
seems to fit with the mood of her state.

Meredith Clark, a reporter and Wisconsin political watcher,
said, “Baldwin has enough character and charisma to get
votes from UW-Madison students and their farm-dwelling
grandparents as an openly gay woman. She supports policies
that are good for all of her constituents, and her
constituents care more about that than right-wing moral
panic.”

2. Eric Griego – New Mexico House District 1

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee’s made its first
endorsement for a 2012 Congressional race, and it’s Eric
Griego, currently a state senator and running for New
Mexico’s 1st district House seat, as Democrat Rep. Martin
Heinrich is vacating the seat to run for Senate.

The PCCC’s email called Griego “one of the most progressive
members of the New Mexico Senate,” and pointed out that he
challenged a more conservative Democrat for his state senate
seat. They jumped into the race to try to raise funds for
Griego early and warn off more conservative Dems, saying
that Griego will “vote to bring our troops home, tax big
corporations and the rich, and protect Social Security and
Medicare from benefit cuts proposed by either party.”

The 1st district, in central New Mexico, in and around
Albuquerque, is considered pretty safe, so it’s a move by
the PCCC and others to get a fierce candidate who will
actually fight into the Congress rather than have another
Blue Dog in the spot.

And Griego seems to be up for the challenge–”The last thing
we need to send to Washington is a Democrat who is a kinder,
gentler version of the Republicans, frankly,” his campaign
video says.

3. Chris Murphy – Connecticut Senate

At long last, Joe Lieberman is retiring from the Senate. The
Connecticut Democrat-turned-Independent was almost driven
out back in 2006 due to a primary challenge from Ned Lamont,
but managed to remain in his seat as an Independent and
seems to have dedicated the last six years of his career to
thumbing his nose at those progressive voters.

With Lieberman leaving, it’s possible to put a real Democrat
back in that seat, and Chris Murphy looks like a good chance
to do just that. He’s currently leading in the polls against
both Republican and former World Wrestling Entertainment
executive Linda McMahon, and another Democrat, Susan
Bysiewicz.

As the representative from Connecticut’s 5th district,
Murphy is the founder of the Buy American caucus, a group
dedicated to bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US, and
has advocated for the end of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Recently, as several Supreme Court justices were accused of
possible unethical conduct regarding fundraising, Murphy
introduced a bill that would end the Court’s immunity to
federal ethics law – making such fundraising explicitly
illegal.

Connecticut has been one of the few bright spots for
progressives since 2010′s election, becoming the first state
in the country to mandate paid sick days for its workers,
and leaning blue in a very red year.

It’s too soon to tell what a general election campaign from
Murphy might look like, but if his Twitter account is any
indication, he’s willing to pick a fight. This week, as the
House debated continuing to fund the government and John
Boehner was grandstanding about government spending, Murphy
tweeted: “Question for @SpeakerBoehner: if now isn’t a good
time to rebuild roads, bridges, etc…when is? Just
wondering.”

4. John Waltz – Michigan House District 6

Blue America wrote, endorsing John Waltz in his challenge of
Republican – and budget supercommittee member – Fred Upton:

“I want to introduce you to Democrat John Waltz, a
movement progressive, who’s taking on cartoonish
plutocrat, Fred Upton, the Whirlpool heir who has always
treated the district as though it were a feudal fiefdom.
Upton, by inheritance one of the richest members of the
House, was appointed to the SuperCommittee by his crony
John Boehner because Republicans know he will never
agree to anything sensible that can in any way help dig
the middle class out of the economic mess the modern day
Robber Barons, in their unparalleled greed, have created
for the rest of us.”

Waltz, an Iraq veteran, appears ready for a fight. He’s
hitting Upton for his family’s outsourcing of manufacturing
jobs as well as his votes on the issues, and hashtags his
Tweets #FedUpton. And just this week, he responded to the
booing of a gay soldier at the latest Republican debate this
way:

“Not one presidential candidate uttered a peep about the
hateful and homophobic booing of a gay soldier in Iraq.
I challenge any Republican or Tealiban member to sign up
for the military and get shipped over there and see if
they have any complaint when a gay or lesbian soldier is
protecting their lives.

“I know during my time in the service we had a massive
fire and several of us were pulled out by a lesbian and
not one of us stopped her to ask if she was sleeping
with a man or woman that night. This behavior is
despicable and should never be tolerated. The repeal of
DADT was a major step forward in civil rights for our
nation and anyone that is willing to serve our nation to
protect our freedoms should never be discriminated
against.”

Michigan is one of the states with a widely hated new
Republican governor, attacks on workers, as well as a long-
standing jobs crisis. Michigan residents have known for
years what most Americans have just begun to realize; that
big business doesn’t have working people’s interests at
heart.

A populist Democrat running against the heir to a
manufacturing fortune whose idea of job creation is the
Keystone XL pipeline? In a district, in southwestern
Michigan including Kalamazoo, that voted for Obama in 2008,
that’s already seen protests against that business scion,
including a giant puppet?

That sounds like a race worth watching.

5. Elizabeth Warren – Massachusetts Senate

The death of Ted Kennedy was always going to be a blow to
supporters of universal health care and the rights of
working people. But when his seat went to Tea Party
Republican Scott Brown in the special election, progressives
felt punched in the gut. A Tea Partier in the Liberal Lion’s
seat?

Now Elizabeth Warren is stepping into the fray – and doing
so in a big way. The plain-spoken Harvard law professor has
the banksters and Congressional Republicans terrified, and
with good reason.

The Washington Post said of Warren, “She came to keep banks
honest; she stayed to keep consumers safe.” She first came
to national prominence as the chair of the Congressional
Oversight Panel, keeping an eye on the bank bailouts. From
there, she was able to get her brainchild, the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau, created, though Republican
opposition kept her from being named to lead it. Instead of
simply returning to teaching bankruptcy law, Warren decided
to challenge Brown for Kennedy’s former seat.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee has reportedly
raised $300,000 for her campaign already–$100,000 of it
before she even declared she’d run.

Republicans might try to paint her as an out-of-touch
elitist, but Warren’s got working-class roots, and her work
over the course of her career has been solidly on the side
of the people and against the big banks. She’s just the kind
of person, in other words, that Democrats need to strike
back at those “elitist” arguments.

A video of Warren doing what she does best – explaining
deficits and progressive taxation, not normally sexy
subjects, in a way that both makes them clear and rallies
the crowd to fight with her – has gone viral, and it’s easy
to see why:

Elizabeth Warren on Debt Crisis, Fair Taxation
http://youtu.be/htX2usfqMEs

She gets a laugh or two, just to get the crowd firmly on her
side, and then she gets to her real point:

“I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class
warfare, this is whatever.’ No! There is nobody in this
country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a
factory out there – good for you! But I want to be
clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the
rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us
paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because
of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us
paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands
would come and seize everything at your factory, and
hire someone to protect against this, because of the
work the rest of us did.

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into
something terrific, or a great idea – God bless. Keep a
big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social
contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for
the next kid who comes along.”

Greg Sargent at the Washington Post noted, “A Warren
candidacy could test the electoral limits of true populism
in a way that few other Dems have been willing to venture.”

We’ve seen right-wing populism over the last four years as
the Tea Party rose to power. One of the first places it
demonstrated that power was putting a Republican in a
Massachusetts Senate seat. If Warren can take it back – and
take it back as a progressive populist – she’ll not only
help put another nail in the coffin of the Tea Party
movement, but she might inspire other candidates around the
country to get a little bit fiercer on the campaign trail.

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Do your homework America; vet the candidates and study their platforms and ideology BEFORE you vote.

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Allen West with Michael Berry, in Studio: “The President is a Marxist”

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From Trevor Loudon

September 30, 2011

Good, wide ranging interview with Allen West. Tells it like is with Obama. Also great on economy and taxes.

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Allen West For President In 2012

 

 

 

 

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Obama Enlists IRS for New Union Shakedown of US Business

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From Townhall

September 29, 2011

By John Ransom

The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has submitted Freedom of Information requests to the Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue Service following an announcement that the administration is investigating homebuilders in an attempt to bolster union membership at the expense of housing sector jobs.

“In a letter [from the Labor Department] cited by The [Wall Street] Journal,” wrote Crain’s Detroit earlier this month “homebuilders were asked to immediately turn over the names, addresses, Social Security numbers, pay rates and hours worked for all employees over the past two years. The letter from the Labor Department asked for the names of all contractors hired in the past year. The letter didn’t allege any specific violations of law.”

No. It’s just the usual harassment that the Obama administration gives industry when they have a disagreement with a key Obama constituency such as unions that are all mobbed up. Re-write the rules, send investigators in, bury them in document discovery and government lawyers until they cave.

In the meantime, since January 2008 new housing starts have remained at their lowest sustained level from any similar time period since 1959, the last year records are available.

“Construction of homes and apartments last month decreased 5.0% from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 571,000, the Commerce Department said Tuesday,” reports the Wall Street Journal. “The month’s results were pulled down by a nearly 30% drop in the Northeastern states.”

The construction industry has shed 2.3 million jobs since its peak in 2006 and added only 46,000 jobs since then according to the Tacoma News Tribune.

This is what a trillion dollars of shovel-ready stimulus has bought the American people. By the mob, for the mob, of the mob.

And they wonder where the jobs have gone?

“The pay rates for construction workers and the subcontractors used by general contractors hired by PulteGroup,” says Crains “is part of a long-term conflict between the homebuilder and unions, in particular the Laborers International Union of North America.”

Oh, so now I get it:

The White House, with the cooperation of several state governments and the Department of Labor, will attempt to get the Internal Revenue Service to go after homebuilders. The IRS will use supposed violations of independent contractor rules that allow homebuilders to hire independent contractors at a straight hourly wage, without subjecting them to payroll taxes and union membership.

If this works out this will be bleepin’ golden scam for unions, as they say in Chicago.

That’s because the IRS rules governing independent contractors are unclear. Some would say that they are purposefully unclear. The IRS is pretty adept at making life difficult for companies targeted under the independent contractor rule. Let’s just say that they pull the rule out when they want to put pressure on someone.

“The Center wishes to review documents showing the role played by the federal government, some states and possibly other outside entities,” wrote NLPC in their Freedom of Information request to the Department of Labor, “to impose additional administrative costs on an industry in which few publicly traded companies are profitable, most have seen major cutbacks in work and many have had major layoffs.”

The outside entities referred to by the NLPC would be the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA).  LIUNA locals still act as fronts for mob activity. In March, the New York Daily News reported that the Brooklyn District Attorney was “plotting strategies to break the Gambino crime family’s 50-year stranglehold on the Pavers and Road Builders District Council,” a LIUNA affiliate.

The Obama administration knows a lot about Chicago “pavers,” too.

Last week we wrote about Ray LaHood, the Republican secretary of transportation under Obama. You know the guy responsible for doling out much of the $787 billion stimulus package?  LaHood’s patron is William Cellini, the former executive director of the Illinois Asphalt Pavement Association. Cellini is under indictment in Chicago for trying to extort $1.4 million from a Hollywood-type who wanted to manage teachers’ pension business in Illinois.

What does the Pavement Association have to do with teachers’ pensions? The same thing the IRS has to do with a dispute between unions and homebuilders. Let’s just call them “interested” parties or “known associates.”

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Mob style politics the Alinsky way

Alinsky learned mob tactics years before actually beginning community organizing…….

Obama learned and taught Alinsky strategy in his community organizing days.

Alinsky Profile HERE.

Excerpt:

But it is not enough for the organizer to be in solidarity with the people. He must also, said Alinsky, cultivate unity against a clearly identifiable enemy; he must specifically name this foe, and “singl[e] out”[44] precisely who is to blame for the “particular evil” that is the source of the people’s angst.[45] In other words, there must be a face associated with the people’s discontent. That face, Alinsky taught, “must be a personification, not something general and abstract like a corporation or City Hall.”[46]  Rather, it should be an individual such as a CEO, a mayor, or a president.

Alinsky summarized it this way: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it…. [T]here is no point to tactics unless one has a target upon which to center the attacks.”[47] He held that the organizer’s task was to cultivate in people’s hearts a negative, visceral emotional response to the face of the enemy. “The organizer who forgets the significance of personal identification,” said Alinsky, “will attempt to answer all objections on the basis of logic and merit. With few exceptions this is a futile procedure.”[48]

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Given that the enemy was to be portrayed as the very personification of evil, against whom any and all methods were fair game, Alinsky taught that an effective organizer should never give the appearance of being fully satisfied as a result of having resolved any particular conflict via compromise. Any compromise with the “devil” is, after all, by definition morally tainted and thus inadequate. Consequently, while the organizer may acknowledge that he is pleased by the compromise as a small step in the right direction, he must make it absolutely clear that there is still a long way to go, and that many grievances still remain unaddressed. The ultimate goal, said Alinsky, is not to arrive at compromise or peaceful coexistence, but rather to “crush the opposition,” bit by bit.[57] “A People’s Organization is dedicated to eternal war,” said Alinsky. “… A war is not an intellectual debate, and in the war against social evils there are no rules of fair play.… When you have war, it means that neither side can agree on anything…. In our war against the social menaces of mankind there can be no compromise. It is life or death.”[58]

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In his book Radical in Chief, Stanley Kurtz describes Alinsky as “a cross between a democratic socialist and a communist fellow traveler.” But Alinsky carefully avoiding drawing any attention to that fact. Writes Kurtz:

“He was smart enough to avoid Marxist language in public…. Instead of calling for the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, Alinsky and his followers talk about ‘confronting power.’ Instead of advocating socialist revolution, they demand ‘radical social change.’ Instead of demanding attacks on capitalists, they go after ‘targets’ or ‘enemies.’”

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The following are WELL WORTH your time to read:

Playboy interview Saul Alinsky and his “inside study” of Capone’s mob:

Part #1: http://www.progress.org/2003/alinsky5.htm

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Part #2: “Worthwhile struggles”

http://www.progress.org/2003/alinsky6.htm

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Part #3:  ”Radicals amid the Depression”

http://www.progress.org/2003/alinsky7.htm

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Part#4:  Organizing the Back of the Yards

http://www.progress.org/2003/alinsky8.htm

Excerpt:

PLAYBOY: What tactics did you use?

ALINSKY: Everything at our disposal in those days — boycotts of stores, strikes against the meat packers, rent strikes against the slumlords, ***picketing of exploitive businesses, sit-downs in City Hall and the offices of the corrupt local machine bosses. We’d turn the politicians against each other, splitting them up and then taking them on one at a time.*** At first the establishment dismissed us with a sneer, but pretty soon we had them worried, because they saw how unified we were and that we were capable of exerting potent economic and political pressure. Finally the concessions began trickling in — reduced rents, public housing, more and better municipal services, school improvements, more equitable mortgages and bank loans, fairer food prices.

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Say WHAT? Forgive student loans and Save the Economy?

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From the Communist Party USA newsier People’s World

by Jordan Farrar

September 27, 2011

When the first economic meltdown hit in 2008, speculation and sub-prime loan debt were to blame. Now, with $900 billion in student loans, Americans are beginning to ask the question, is the student debt crisis next?

Students attend institutes of higher learning with the general understanding that making the commitment is going to ensure they have a productive future and more stability in the job market.

Unfortunately with college graduate unemployment the highest it has been in 40 years, the idea of a safe future for any American seems like a distant fantasy.

The Project on Student Debt estimates the average debt for 2009 bachelor’s degree recipients at $24,000, and with students graduating $100,000 in debt and even more in some cases the prospects for home ownership and making a comfortable life for one’s self becomes next to impossible.

Recently however there is now a call for one solution to both our almost trillion-dollar student debt, and America’s floundering economy. Petitions are circulating the Internet addressing House of Representatives Bill 365, which uses student loan forgiveness as a means of economic stimulus. And so far the bill has been sponsored by House giants like Representatives Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, Keith Ellison of Minnesota John Conyers of Michigan, and Elijah Cummings of Maryland.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans have signed the petitions and the argument to forgive student debt seems to have some real weight. In one of the petitions that has almost half of a million signatures so far, Robert Applebaum the petitions creator, stated, “Forgiving student loan debt would have an immediate stimulating effect on the economy. Responsible people who did nothing other than pursue a higher education would have hundreds, if not thousands of extra dollars per month to spend, fueling the economy now.”

He goes on to make the obvious argument that “As consumer spending increases, businesses will begin to hire, jobs will be created and a new era of innovation, entrepreneurship and prosperity will be ushered in for all.”

HR 365 was introduced by Michigan Democratic Rep. Hansen Clarke in a YouTube video posted on the representative’s page, he said “We need to cut, cap, and forgive student loan debt,” and that “That is the true debt that is burdening American families. We cut student loan debt we’ll have a freer more prosperous country.”

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Only the Marxists/Communists would come up with this other way to spread the wealth.

Take out a student loan through a bank. Then ask that your student loan be forgiven.  Thus leaving the bank giving the loan in the lurch and eventually be burdened on responsible taxpayers that repay their own loans.

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Quote from above:

“Students attend institutes of higher learning with the general understanding that making the commitment is going to ensure they have a productive future and more stability in the job market.”

***Note to students:  Just because you go to college DOES NOT ensure you will be GIVEN a job.  It is called GO OUT and PROTEST the Marxist policies of excessive taxation and regulations on businesses so they will have the freedom to expand their businesses and HIRE new employees, including YOU.***

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How about teaching the students taking out the loans the word…….Responsibility.

What’s next on the Marxists/Communists checklist?

Car Loans?

Personal Loans?

The most ludicrous statement made by these Marxists/Communists:  Forgive student loans and save the economy

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Other Link:

Communists Back Obama’s “Jobs Bill”

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“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

–  Alexis de Tocqueville

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From Berlin: Obama’s Euro-Crisis Lecture Is ‘Pitiful and Sad’

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From Speigel International

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The World from Berlin

Obama’s Euro-Crisis Lecture Is ‘Pitiful and Sad’

IMAGE CREDIT REUTERS

September 28, 2011

– Kristen Allen and David Gordon Smith

Obama slammed the Europeans at an event in Mountain View, California on Monday.

US President Obama has given the Europeans a harsh lecture on the dangers of their ongoing debt crisis. Offended by the unsolicited advice, Europeans have suggested the US get its own house in order first. Obama’s remarks were ”arrogant” and “absurd,” German commentators say on Wednesday.

Europeans are well aware of the seriousness of their ongoing debt crisis. But they don’t, it seems, like to receive lectures from other countries — especially the United States, which is struggling to deal with its own mountain of debt.

On Tuesday, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble curtly rejected recent American criticism of Europe’s approach to solving its debt crisis. ”I don’t think Europe’s problems are America’s only problems,” said Schäuble, who has become increasingly sharp-tongued as the euro crisis deepens. “It’s always easier to give other people advice.”

Schäuble was referring to strongly worded comments made by US President Barack Obama and US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in recent days. At an event in California on Monday, Obama warned Europeans that their inaction was “scaring the world.” The Europeans, he said, “have not fully healed from the crisis back in 2007 and never fully dealt with all the challenges that their banking system faced. It’s now being compounded by what’s happening in Greece.” He continued: “They’re going through a financial crisis that is scaring the world, and they’re trying to take responsible actions, but those actions haven’t been quite as quick as they need to be.”

Distracting From Problems at Home

Those comments came hot on the heels of Geithner’s remarks over the weekend. Speaking in Washington Saturday at the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Geithner warned that the European debt crisis represents “the most serious risk now confronting the world economy.” He said Europeans needed to do more to create a “firewall” against further contagion and talked of the threat of “cascading default” and runs on banks. “Decisions as to how to conclusively address the region’s problems cannot wait until the crisis gets more severe,” he said.

German observers have reacted angrily to the comments, saying that the US is in no position to criticize other countries, given its own $14-trillion pile of national debt and ongoing wrangling over the country’s debt ceiling. Others claim that Obama is just trying to distract attention from the US’s problems and point out that the US president was in California to raise funds and voter support ahead of his reelection campaign next year.

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The mass-circulation Bild writes:

“Obama’s lecture on the euro crisis … is overbearing, arrogant and absurd. … In a nutshell, he is claiming that Europe is to blame for the current financial crisis, which is ‘scaring the world.’ Excuse me?”

“The American president seems to have forgotten a few details. The most important trigger of the financial and economic crisis was US banks and their insane real-estate dealings. The US is still piling up debt … The American congress is crippled by a battle between the right and the left. The banks are gambling just as recklessly as they did before the crisis. The president’s scolding is a pathetic attempt to distract attention from his own failures. How embarrassing.”

The center-left Süddeutsche Zeitung writes:

“One needs to remember the context within which Obama’s scolding of the Europeans took place. It was an event where the president was raising money for the Democrats and where he wanted to explain to voters why the US economy is much worse off than he and his economic experts had believed until recently. Hence his criticism of the EU was simple electioneering.”

“The problem, however, is that the US president is absolutely right. For far too long, the Europeans — including the Germans — treated the financial crisis as a purely American problem. They have still found no solution for their own debt crisis. Now Europe’s problems are having a negative impact on growth and jobs around the world, including in the US. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Europe is threatening Obama’s already precarious chances of reelection in 2012. That is something that surely does not leave Obama cold. In that respect, it doesn’t help much to point out that, once the Europeans have got their house in order, the financial markets will return their attention to America’s debt crisis and its ailing political system. Financially, Europe is currently the most dangerous place in the world.”

The center-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes:

“Dark clouds have gathered over the American president. The gloomy state of the economy is putting a dampener on Obama’s future prospects. The optimism of the past is gone, replaced by a cheap search for a scapegoat.”

“Obama thinks he has found one. He blames the Europeans for reacting too late to the debt crisis.

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The financial daily Handelsblatt writes:

“That’s not how friends talk to each other. That applies particularly to friends who have themselves failed to get a handle on their own, self-made crisis. Barack Obama governs a country where, despite billions in state aid, the economy is stagnating, companies refuse to invest despite calls for patriotism, and which gets embroiled in one political trench war after another … Now this country is dispensing advice, suggestions and finger-pointing.”

“These are suggestions that have already failed to work in the US: Money is supposed to save Europe — quickly and in the largest quantities possible. US Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner has been trying for more than two-and-a-half years to suffocate his crisis with money. But aside from the lack of success, the collateral damage is immense. It manifests itself in a loss of government credibility, a loss of trust in the currency and the paralysis of any sort of dynamism — because the crushing debt mountain is robbing the famously optimistic Americans of their confidence.”

“The fact that Barack Obama, who is a brilliant thinker, knows full well that things are much more complicated in reality does not help. Indeed, it does the opposite. In the desperate battle for his re-election he’d rather construct myths, such as claiming that the Europeans alone are responsible for the American mess. Not only is this fundamentally wrong, but — coming as it does from a friend — it’s downright pitiful and sad.”

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Has Obama lost his “messiahship” with the Europeans?

Have the Europeans finally realized that Obama is just a man?

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” In the desperate battle for his re-election he’d rather construct myths”

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The optimism of the past is gone, replaced by a cheap search for a scapegoat.”

“Obama thinks he has found one. He blames the Europeans for reacting too late to the debt crisis. We Europeans are apparently taking on too little new debt to get out of the crisis. But we are already feeling the wonderful effects of borrowing too much money.”

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“One needs to remember the context within which Obama’s scolding of the Europeans took place. It was an event where the president was raising money for the Democrats and where he wanted to explain to voters why the US economy is much worse off than he and his economic experts had believed until recently. Hence his criticism of the EU was simple electioneering.”

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“Obama’s lecture on the euro crisis … is overbearing, arrogant and absurd. … In a nutshell, he is claiming that Europe is to blame for the current financial crisis, which is ‘scaring the world.’ Excuse me?”

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The European Socialists will continue to support our Socialist/Maoist President.

Others in Europe see through the gimmicks, the finger pointing and Obama’s mantra of nothing is HIS fault.

Obama is looking more and more like a Business Unionist and at times a petulant child.

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N.C. Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue suggested suspending Congressional elections for two years. Liberal Peter Orszag Believes Representative Government Should Be Less Democratic One

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FIRST THIS

NEW YORK – The First Annual Communist Party USA National Conference, held April 16-17, reflected a potential new turning point for the CPUSA and the allied Young Communist League (YCL), its relationship to the working class and key social forces and movements and its growth in size and influence.

CPUSA National Chair Sam Webb noted in his opening remarks the new level of receptivity and respect the party has gained in the labor and other mass movements, the growth in readership of its websites and the growing numbers joining, especially online.

Webb also argued that for the labor and democratic movements to continue to develop to effectively challenge corporate power a much larger left and Communist Party are essential.

Can this turning point be realized? That is the big challenge.

The party and YCL growth is bound with the current labor and people’s upsurge, in what Rev. Jesse Jackson has described a “Martin Luther King or Gandhi moment.”

A number of shifts have been taking place in public opinion, creating a favorable climate for growth of left and progressive movements including the CPUSA and YCL.

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In addition to launching the new websites, a Southern Tour was organized, resulting in new party organizations in Kentucky, Tennessee and South Carolina, joining recent organizations in Georgia and North Carolina. The South is a place the party had not seen growth in years.

Two weekend schools held for young people, including new members of the CPUSA and YCL, were held in Los Angeles and New Haven, Conn., where almost 60 youth attended. Other weekend schools are coming up in Chicago, Florida and Texas (where more young have joined the YCL than any other state).

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NOW THIS

Elections? Nah!

September 27, 2011

From Big Government

Speaking to a Cary rotary club today, N.C. Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue suggested suspending Congressional elections for two years so that Congress can focus on economic recovery and not the next election.

“I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that,” Perdue said. “You want people who don’t worry about the next election.”

The comment — which came during a discussion of the economy — perked more than a few ears. It’s unclear whether Perdue, a Democrat, is serious — but her tone was level and she asked others to support her on the idea.

“You have to have more ability from Congress, I think, to work together and to get over the partisan bickering and focus on fixing things. I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that. The one good thing about Raleigh is that for so many years we worked across party lines. It’s a little bit more contentious now but it’s not impossible to try to do what’s right in this state. You want people who don’t worry about the next election.”

Great logic Bev. Josef Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini didn’t have to worry about elections either. Look at the great things they achieved for their countries!

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Think that she is kidding ?  Read this article by Peter Orszag

Peter Orszag is vice chairman at Citigroup and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. This article appeared in the October 6, 2011, issue of the magazine.

Too Much of a Good Thing

Why we need less democracy.

Excerpt

FACING THIS PROBLEM is crucially important because our current legislative gridlock is making it increasingly difficult for lawmakers to tackle the issues that are central to our country’s future—issues like climate change, the hard slog of recovering from a financial slump, and our long-term fiscal gap. It is clear to everyone that a failure to act will lead to undesirable outcomes in these areas. But polarization means that little action is possible. This is why I believe that we need to jettison the Civics 101 fairy tale about pure representative democracy and instead begin to build a new set of rules and institutions that would make legislative inertia less detrimental to our nation’s long-term health.

As the debt-limit experience vividly illustrated, by polarizing ourselves, we are making our country more ungovernable—and no one has come up with a practical proposal to deal with the consequences. I wish it were not necessary to devise processes to circumvent legislative gridlock, but polarization isn’t going away. John Adams may have been exaggerating when he pessimistically noted that democracies tend to commit suicide, yet, as we are seeing, certain aspects of representative government can end up posing serious problems. And so, we might be a healthier democracy if we were a slightly less democratic one.

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Government recommended WATCH of this in Congress…….

H.J.RES.17
Latest Title: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.
Sponsor: Rep Serrano, Jose E. [NY-16] (introduced 1/7/2011)      Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 1/24/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.

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Peter Orszag just printed an article saying the same thing.  Obama has opined that he wished he could “work around” Congress.  Woody Allen and a few other Hollywood libs have said the same thing.

These are not jokes.  Liberals are the most frightening threat to a Democratic Republic. At heart they are “let them eat cake” elitists who think the average voter is just too stupid to vote properly.  They say shockingly arrogant and stupid things like this because, at heart, they are dictators.

They prove every day the maxim “Absolute power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.

Read more: http://projects.newsobserver.com/node/22856#ixzz1ZFLzmgm4

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“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”

 -Samuel Adams”

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“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

–  Alexis de Tocqueville

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Communists Back Obama’s “Jobs Bill”

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From Trevor Loudon

September 27, 2011

Sam Webb, national chair of the Communist Party USA, held a national teleconference with Party members, September 27, “on the fight for jobs.”

The purpose of the call was to boost support across the nation for party “friend” president Barack Obama’s proposed Jobs Bill.

The communists understand that while not as far reaching as other proposals, the president’s plan would still bring a bonanza of money and influence to the party and its allies.

Just as the Communist Party took over and shamelessly milked FDR’s Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, Sam Webb’s crew plan to exploit the various make work and “Green Jobs” boondoggles proposed by Obama.

The following is Webb’s recent article in PeoplesWorld.org on the fight for jobs and role of the left.

The American Jobs Act is the leading edge of the jobs struggle. It is the ground on which millions can be drawn into the fight to create jobs and rebuild the nation’s infrastructure.

The AFL-CIO is embracing and promoting it. Others will come on board too as the jobs campaign gathers momentum.

The Jobs Act, introduced by President Obama in a well-crafted and passionate address to a joint session of Congress, is not as far reaching as some other jobs proposals. The plans put forward by the Congressional Black Caucus, Progressive Caucus, AFL-CIO and Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., are more ambitious, and we recognize that they contain more in-depth solutions. But the hard fact is that none of these stand a chance of congressional approval given the current balance of forces in Congress, and in the House in particular.

The president’s proposal does. The various provisions in the act appeal to a broad constituency, including political moderates in both parties.

Even for this plan the going will be tough. The Republicans, while initially making conciliatory noises, are determined not to give the president a positive record to run on. They figure a president with no accomplishments, especially in a period of crisis, will not be returned to office.

Both Sam Webb and Barack Obama are being good Leninists here. The communist influenced Congressional Progressive Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus and Democratic Socialists of America supporter Jan Schakowsky have all put forward “better” but essentially unwinnable proposals.

The communists and the president both understand that it is better to make “moderate” demands and win, than to make more openly socialist demands and lose.

Just like the health care battle, the President and the communists got much of what they wanted, but not all. They were both willing to compromise rather than risk losing everything.

The strategy is simple. Pass what you can. Open the door. Consolidate your gains. Come back for the rest later.

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The OBAMA PLAN?

Is Obama Creating a Politburo Right Under American’s Noses?

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While YOU were busy with the Bin Laden News: The Senate Seeks to Create Caesar

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Obama Building a Politburo; ONE step at a Time

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Head of Marxist-led institute joins Obama team

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ANOTHER CZAR? Obama Donor, NOW Medical Records Czar Gets Little Gov’t Job BIG Gov’t Contracts

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“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”

 -Samuel Adams”

Return of the real Obama

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From The Washington post Opinions

By Charles Krauthammer

September 22, 2011

In a 2008 debate, Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama about his support for raising capital gains taxes, given the historical record of government losing net revenue as a result. Obama persevered: “Well, Charlie, what I’ve said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.”

A most revealing window into our president’s political core: To impose a tax that actually impoverishes our communal bank account (the U.S. Treasury) is ridiculous. It is nothing but punitive. It benefits no one — not the rich, not the poor, not the government. For Obama, however, it brings fairness, which is priceless.

Now that he’s president, Obama has actually gone and done it. He’s just proposed a $1.5 trillion tsunami of tax hikes featuring a “Buffett rule” that, although as yet deliberately still fuzzy, clearly includes raising capital gains taxes.

He also insists again upon raising marginal rates on “millionaire” couples making $250,000 or more. But roughly half the income of small businesses (i.e., those filing individual returns) would be hit by this tax increase. Therefore, if we are to believe Obama’s own logic that his proposed business tax credits would increase hiring, then surely this tax hike will reduce small-business hiring.

But what are jobs when fairness is at stake? Fairness trumps growth. Fairness trumps revenue. Fairness trumps economic logic.

Obama himself has said that “you don’t raise taxes in a recession.” Why then would he risk economic damage when facing reelection? Because these proposals have no chance of being enacted, many of them having been rejected by the Democratic-controlled Congress of Obama’s first two years in office.

Moreover, this is not an economic, or jobs, or debt-reduction plan in the first place. This is a campaign manifesto. This is anti-millionaire populism as premise for his reelection. And as such, it is already working.

Obama’s Democratic base is electrified. On the left, the new message is playing to rave reviews. It has rekindled the enthusiasm of his core constituency — the MoveOn, Hollywood liberal, Upper West Side precincts best described years ago by John Updike: “Like most of the neighborhood, she was a fighting liberal, fighting to have her money taken from her.”

Added Updike: “For all her exertions, it never was.” But now with Obama — it will be! Turns out, Obama really was the one they had been waiting for.

That is: the new Obama, today’s soak-the-rich, veto-threatening, self-proclaimed class warrior. Except that the new Obama is really the old Obama — the one who, upon entering office in the middle of a deep economic crisis, and determined not to allow “a serious crisis to go to waste” (to quote his then-chief of staff), exploited the (presumed) malleability of a demoralized and therefore passive citizenry to enact the largest Keynesian stimulus in recorded history, followed by the quasi-nationalization of one-sixth of the economy that is health care.

Considering the political cost — a massive electoral rebuke by an infuriated 2010 electorate — these are the works of a conviction politician, one deeply committed to his own social-democratic vision.

That politician now returns. Obama’s new populism surely is a calculation that his halfhearted feints to the center after the midterm “shellacking” were not only unconvincing but would do him no good anyway with a stagnant economy, 9 percent unemployment and a staggering $4 trillion of new debt.

But this is more than a political calculation. It is more than just a pander to his base. It is a pander to himself: Obama is a member of his base. He believes this stuff. It is an easy and comfortable political shift for him, because it’s a shift from a phony centrism back to his social-democratic core, from positioning to authenticity.

The authentic Obama is a leveler, a committed social democrat, a staunch believer in the redistributionist state, a tribune, above all, of “fairness” — understood as government-imposed and government-enforced equality.

That’s why “soak the rich” is not just a campaign slogan to rally the base. It’s a mission, a vocation. It’s why, for all its gratuitous cynicism and demagoguery, Obama’s populist Rose Garden lecture on Monday was delivered with such obvious — and unusual — conviction.

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“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

–  Alexis de Tocqueville

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Allen West’s Weekly Address. Wish THIS MAN was our POTUS

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Greetings to our constituents, fellow Floridians, and all Americans, it is time again for our weekly update.  It is hard to believe that almost nine months have gone by.

I want to begin with the issue of the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state in the United Nations. Because of a short-sighted speech given last year by our own President at the United Nations, we saw an emboldened Mahmoud Abbas submit his request for statehood. A request for the creation of something that even in its name is a misnomer.

As I have often stated, the word Palestine has nothing to do with Arabs. It has everything to do with a region that was conquered by the Romans who suppressed the Jewish rebellion between 68-73 AD and by decree of Emperor Hadrian, who changed the region’s name from Judea to Palestina.

Hadrian and the Romans took the word Palestina from the root word, Phillistia, referring to the original Philistines, who were in fact Greek.Therefore, the true “Palestinians” are the Jewish people, hence why I believe the first step to a peace process solution in the Middle East is recognition of the modern-day Jewish State of Israel. The second step is a complete repudiation of radical Islamic terrorism and dismantling of terrorist groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al Aqsa and Al Quds Brigades, Hezbollah, and others which threaten Israel.

If these critical conditions cannot be met, and if Mahmoud Abbas cannot agree to this, then his attempts are nothing more than a charade. The audacity of Abbas to attempt to circumvent the negotiation process, and the applause he received at the United Nations is very concerning to me.

The United States must adamantly oppose and submit its veto vote in the United Nations Security Council and unequivocally assert that we shall not support this measure until the “Palestinian” Authority evidences itself as a credible peace partner.

If the UN continues its support of Abbas without the above measures taking place, then the United States House of Representatives should withdraw the support of the American taxpayer dollars to both the United Nations and the Palestinian Authority. In times of economic hardship, fiscal responsibility means that we are the guardians and stewards of American taxpayer dollars.

I also want to confront the absurdity of Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad having a platform on our soil upon which to spew his vile rhetoric. There must come a time when Ahmadinejad is no longer granted a visa into the United States. How dare he stand in New York City and blame 9-11 on our America!

Lastly, I want to discuss the Continuing Resolution (CR) the House of Representatives passed this week. It is vital that we as Conservative Republicans learn to and demonstrate our ability to govern, something the liberal progressives seem to be  incapable of doing. We passed a measure which would keep our Federal Government functioning while we complete the remaining six appropriations bills.  There are a total of 12 bills and the United States Senate has only taken up one.

Part of the CR, ensures the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is funded in order to alleviate the suffering of Americans from the recent natural disaster which struck our nation. To be fiscally responsible, House Republicans found spending offsets to ensure we pay attention to our deficit issue. That offset came from a Department of Energy government loan program for “green” vehicles.  The Federal Government does not need to inject itself into the automobile industry, or any private sector industry, as it has done with the mortgage industry and now the healthcare industry.

I call upon Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to stop playing the games of political brinksmanship and pass the House legislation. We do not need to repeatedly portray the United States Congress as a dysfunctional body politic. I ask you, Senator Reid, to stop trying to maneuver and manipulate a failing political agenda at the expense of the American people and  “Pass the House Continuing Resolution, now!”

In closing, never forget that leadership is about taking action, it is different from managing. Our America needs principled and pragmatic leaders who have a deep passion for this country, the American people and their advancement and success.

Steadfast and Loyal,

Allen

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VIDEO: LIBERAL LAW STUDENT CHOKES ON SILVER SPOON IN (FALSE) PROTEST

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From The Blaze

By Meredith Jessup

September 26, 2011

Author’s note: This post has been updated.

The latest anti-business viral video burning up the liberal blogosphere today seems heart-wrenching… that is, until you do your homework.

Robert Stephens graduated from Carleton College (average cost: $42,942/year) in 2010 and now studies law at The George Washington University Law School (average cost: $70,449/year).  His father has a Ph.D. and two master’s degrees; his mother also has a master’s degree.  Only in America could a kid have been blessed with so much… and only in America could he still claim to be a victim. America’s capitalist society has apparently leveled a grave injustice against his family and Robert will not stand for it.

Robert, right, with a friend on the GWU campus (Image: Facebook)

Stephens — who identifies his personal political philosophy as Bolivian socialism — made a trip to New York City this weekend to participate in the “Days of Rage” march on Wall Street.  He was arrested Saturday when he refused police requests to get up and out of the way of traffic in the street.

In his emotional “rage,” Stephens told the sympathetic Socialist/Marxist/Anarchist crowd how an eeeeeevil Wall Street bank had taken his parents’ home away from them:

Attempts to contact Robert to find out exactly what grave injustices he and his family have suffered have gone unanswered.  In the meantime, sympathetic comments on both Robert’s Facebook page and the YouTube video are also… unsettling:

(Full disclosure: I attended GWU as an undergrad and, to help make sure my mortgage gets paid every month, I continue to work at the law school as a part-time employee on the weekends.)

Our friend Robert and his woeful tale have quickly become darlings of the liberal blogosphere and the mainstream media (and Iran’s Tehran Times!).  Here he is in a picture posted at Buzzfeed — an image that perfectly captures him utilizing the biggest tool in the left-wing’s arsenal: the media.

Caption on this photo: “Protested (sic) falls to his knees in tears in front of Chase Bank crying – this is the bank that took my parents’ home.”

According to the Daily Kos, Robert should be commended as “a patriot” for spelling out the reason people are protesting.  “If you can watch it without being affected, you are as heartless as Dick Cheney,” the site notes.

There’s just one problem: Robert Stephens’ story is (surprise!) completely bogus. [Emphasis added]

Phone inquiries into the county property records & taxpayer services office reveal that the Stephens family home is not and never has been in foreclosure, that property taxes had been paid in full this year and the remaining balance on their mortgage for the half-million dollar homeis less than one year’s worth of tuition+fees at their son’s law school.

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Seems Robert Stephens has studied Alinskyism well.  ”pick a target, freeze it….”

Bolivian socialism as his political philosophy……..

WHY  the MSM’s didn’t do their own homework before posting this imposer ‘s falsehoods is  actually not surprising.

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Newspeak

n. Deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public.

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