Great idea: Take an Entrepreneur to Capitol Hill Day; Updated: Boehner bringing a dozen job creators tonight incl. Gibson Guitars, White Castle CEOs
There’s “Take Your Daughter to Work Day.”
Now, here’s a clever twist that all GOP politicians who are attending President Obama’s Redundant Festival of Failed Spending Orgies should join:
“Take an Entrepreneur to Capitol Hill Day.”
GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is taking Nashville-based Gibson Guitars CEO Henry Juszkiewicz, via the Memphis Daily News:
Gibson Guitar CEO Henry Juszkiewicz will be Republican firebrand and Tennessee congresswoman Marsha Blackburn’s special guest for President Barack Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress Thursday night.
At that address, the president will unveil a jobs proposal. Blackburn released a statement explaining why she’s bringing along the CEO of Gibson, a company that added hundreds of jobs over the last two years but whose Nashville and Memphis facilities recently were raided over wood that’s allegedly illegally manufactured.
The Memphis and Nashville plants are back up and running. The Gibson CEO told The Daily News production is not back to normal levels because of the seizure of a substantial amount of inventory.
In various interviews with reporters, he estimated the value of inventory seized at between $2 million and $3 million.
He’s also been making the rounds giving media interviews and loudly criticizing the government, which he says is bullying his company.
Rep. Blackburn’s idea is terrific, proactive, and powerful.
Every Republican in attendance should have a guest entrepreneur or small businessman with them to provide powerful testimony about the Obama Jobs Death Toll and the stifling, selective enforcement of Obama land grabs, power grabs, and regulatory grabs.
Fill the entire chamber with a vast cross-section of Obamanomics victims.
Tell their stories.
Make their voices heard.
Grab hold of the narrative, yank it from Obama’s out-of-touch propagandists, and don’t let go!
As I said in September 2010:
…the Right needs to forcefully counter the Obama machine’s Alinsky story-telling tactics as the desperate White House strategists ramp up the “personal tone.” (Underscoring my point: Obama was in Virginia at a backyard event this afternoon “telling stories” to tout health care.) The leftists who claim to speak for hard-working people who play by the rules won’t put the names and faces and suffering of Obama’s jobs death toll victims front and center. We must.
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On the other side of the aisle, Democrats can bring Obamacare waiver recipients or food-stamp enrollees with them to demonstrate their bleak vision of Winning the Future.
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Note to Republican staffers: If your boss is taking an American entrepreneur to the speech tomorrow, please let me know. Send me their stories and I will publish each and every one. America needs to hear them.
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Update 9/8 9:48am…Speaker Boehner will host the Gibson Guitars CEO in his guest box tonight. Good call.
I have more suggestions for GOP guests tonight. How about:
– The CEO of Hornbeck Offshore Services, which successfully challenged the Obama drilling moratorium;
– Any small business owner who hasn’t had the special privilege of receiving an Obamacare waiver like the Teamsters have;
– The mom-and-pop fishermen who protested Obama enviro regs at Martha’s Vineyard.
The possibilities are endless. Seize the day and the narrative.
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You know who would be the perfect Obama speech guests to represent his constituency and values?
Aunt Zeituni and Uncle Omar.
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Yes. Now this is what I’m talking about! Boehner’s office announces that a dozen job creators will join him tonight in the Speaker’s Box.
Here’s his list:
Speaker Boehner to Host Private-Sector Job Creators in House Gallery for President Obama’s Address
Speaker’s Guests Include More than a Dozen Job Creators Who Have Run Into Government Barriers in Their Efforts to Create New American Jobs
WASHINGTON, DC (Sep 8th) House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) today announced he will host more than a dozen private-sector job creators in the House gallery during President Obama’s address to a Joint Session of Congress tonight. Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam (R-IL) recruited these job creators as part of Republicans’ effort to reach out to American employers being hampered by excessive regulations from Washington, along with House GOP Conference Secretary John Carter (R-TX) and Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). Following is a brief look at each of the Speaker’s guests:
Spencer Weitman is the President of National Cement, which recently suspended construction of a new $350 million cement kiln in Ragland, AL due to regulatory obstacles. The construction project would have created more than 1,500 construction jobs and 20 new full-time operational positions, but was determined too costly and unpredictable because of proposed changes to EPA Clean Air Act regulations. The obstacles encountered by National Cement are on the list of “Top 10 Job-Destroying Regulations” identified in Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) August 29 memo outlining the legislative agenda for the remainder of the year.
Rock Katschnig is a corn and soybean farmer of 32 years from Prophetstown, IL. Hurt by a stream of harmful federal regulations, Katschnig appealed to President Obama at an Atkinson, IL town hall last month, pleading, “Please don’t challenge us with more rules and regulations from Washington D.C. that hinder us.” The president replied, “Don’t always believe what you hear.” Despite President Obama’s statement, one proposed regulation on “particulate matter” (dust) would devastate Katschnig’s industry and destroy many farming jobs. The obstacles encountered by Mr. Katschnig are on the list of “Top 10 Job-Destroying Regulations” identified in Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) August 29 memo outlining the legislative agenda for the remainder of the year.
Eric Treiber is the CEO of Chicago White Metal Casting, a third-generation family-owned die casting company employing 250 workers in suburban Chicago. Jobs at White Metal Casting are being threatened by increased costs associated with excessive federal regulations, in particular Clean Air Act and utility MACT regulations. White Metal Casting has also been forced to dedicate multiple employees to the task of complying with existing federal regulations.
Lisa Ingram is the COO of White Castle, a 90-year old family-run company that serves signature “slider” hamburgers. Excessive federal regulations – current and proposed – have put a strain on White Castle, contributing to a plant closure in New Jersey and slowing the company’s ability to create new jobs. The new health care law, for example, has not only jeopardized White Castle’s ability to provide health benefits to its employees, but one provision alone could increase costs so dramatically that it would destroy hundreds of jobs.
Jim Plante is CEO of Pathway Genomics, a 100-person San Diego-based biotech startup that developed a genetic testing product for consumers. Last year, Pathway partnered with a major drugstore chain to help market their product – a move that would have enabled Pathway to hire 100 additional workers. Despite being in compliance with all available FDA regulations, the FDA attacked Pathway in the media following the announcement of the partnership. The drugstore chain consequently backed out, and Pathway was unable to create those 100 new high-paying jobs.
Ignacio Urrabazo is president of Commerce Bank of Laredo, Texas, a small community bank with $450 million in assets. Urrabazo would like to lend more money to local businesses to help create more jobs in Laredo, a border community with an unemployment rate nearly 10 percent higher than the state of Texas as a whole. Unfortunately, current FDIC regulations have kept him from lending to qualified businesses. Urrabazo believes excessive federal regulations will soon put community banks out of business.
John “Jack” Earle is the Managing Partner of Earle Enterprises LP and is a multi-unit franchisee of McDonald’s restaurants in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey. Mr. Earle also serves as the Chairman of the International Franchise Association. Excessive regulations imposed by the health care law and Dodd-Frank, the ongoing threat of tax hikes, and regulatory overreach by agencies like NLRB, have hamstrung Earle and other franchisers with uncertainty and stifled their ability to create new jobs.
Glenn Rieger is a General Partner at NewSpring Capital, a private equity fund in suburban Philadelphia that provides capital for growth and expansion-stage businesses. A lead investor in more than 50 mid-Atlantic businesses of all sizes, NewSpring’s ability to support job creators is being hampered by excessive regulations from Sarbanes-Oxley, which is costing them millions of dollars annually.
Safi Bahcall is the CEO of Synta, a biopharmaceutical company focused on creating new drugs for treating cancer. Hampered by an increasingly uncompetitive American business environment, Bahcall is advocating for the research and development tax credit to be made permanent. More favorable tax incentives in France and Canada have encouraged Synta to out-source work to Canada and the company is currently weighing the potential of moving American jobs to France.
Kaleil Isaza Tuzman is the CEO of KIT Digital, a 1,200-employee publicly traded video technology company. KIT faces considerable costs as a result of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance regulations. A first generation American with Colombian heritage and fluent in Spanish, Isaza Tuzman was a U.S. special trade representative in Colombia and Mexico under the Clinton and Bush administrations, and is a strong proponent of passing the U.S. -Colombian Free Trade Agreement that the president has yet to submit to Congress.
Chris George is the CEO of CMG Finance, a mortgage company in the San Francisco Bay area employing 370 people. Hurt by increased health care costs and higher taxes from the new health care law, CMG Finance says the uncertain business environment created by the Obama Administration is preventing them from hiring an additional 15 to 20 workers.
Henry Juszkiewicz is CEO of the Gibson Guitar Company. Armed federal agents have twice raided Gibson Guitar’s facilities. Why? Unelected Washington bureaucrats won’t say. No charges have been filed and federal regulators have not explained to the company what may have been done wrong or how to rectify the situation.
Gordon Logan is CEO of Sport Clips, a hair salon chain with over 800 stores. If not for the environment of uncertainty created by Washington, Logan estimates he would have opened 50-100 new stores over the past three years. Instead of hiring new workers, Sports Clips franchise owners are struggling with the new health care law’s burdensome costs and mandates, and considering canceling existing health coverage for current employees. Logan also struggles with access to capital, complicated by government-created uncertainty.
The Speaker’s guests are all employers who have run into unnecessary Washington-made barriers as they’ve tried to create jobs – barriers that will be addressed by legislation scheduled for action in the House this fall as part of the House Republican Plan for America’s Job Creators. Learn more at Jobs.GOP.Gov.
I hope each and every other GOP lawmaker who is attending tonight will be bringing their own local entrepreneurs and job creators.
And I hope Boehner’s office holds a press conference to introduce each of their stories one by one to America. (Wonder if they still can re-claim rebuttal time?)
Now, they are making it worth watching tonight.
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“Take an Entrepreneur to Capitol Hill Day”
Entrepreneurs are too busy working to go to Capitol Hill…
On September 7th, 2011 at 3:16 pm, MonoPed said:
Dead on MonoPed — any Entrepreneur is too busy working to go o a place that only denigrates hard work.
yeah, if they take a day off to go to Capitol Hill, the lost productivity will trigger a triple-dip recession. Maybe we could get Entrepreneurs to have a “Take a Politician to Work Day”.
GREAT idea. They could bring all those the epa have seen to it no longer have jobs also. The the small banks, the former real estate people who can’t sell homes, the farmers who have been put out of business with regulations, the grocery stores who are gone because of high prices on food, I could go on for days! DO it dc bunch, give it to bho, his slimy team, and the d’s!
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I love it!
Go Gibson Guitars!
Entrepreneurs? Do we still have any around?
This Cartoon Seemed Far-Fetched In 1948
LOL. This is spot on. You gotta check out this 1948 cartoon making the rounds. Especially the last three minutes.
Jeff Immelt sits with B Hussein Obama all the time, and it hasn’t hurt G.E. at all. Oh, wait.
I think they should all sit on bails of hay to visually protest the EPA regulating it as a pollutant.
I’d take this old Filipino man in my neighborhood that does yardwork with weedeater, machete, and a Portuguese vacuum.
He’s a real Entrepinoy.
Barack Obama and his Marxain Socialist friends in Congress are antithetical to the Constitution and to the principles of the American Revolution. As such, they are in direct violation of their oaths of office. He must be impeached — it is our right and our duty as Americans to do so, concurrent with rolling back all of their unlawful policies. The time is now.
Dynamite idea!
I love it! Yes, if a bunch of entrepreneurs took the day off, they would lose revenues–in the short term. But think what they might accomplish in the long term. I’ll volunteer my hubby (although our congresscritter is Gabby Giffords, so she probably wouldn’t take him…)
And who should Obama bring, why his great successful investment …Solyndra execs. Ta-da.
Fender: Hey no fair! We want equal time! Er..nevermind, our crap is made in Mexico anyway.
I’d like to see George Thorogood show up with a Gibson in hand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VsoxT_FUY
Show Doh!bama what he’s messin’ with.
You can tell how low we have sunk in the nation because this is about the first time I’ve seen the word “entrepreneur” used in any type of debate in years. It doesn’t even enter into the psyche, let alone any sort of language or debate with the Obama administration, unless it’s for some “green” jobs mythology. And, those green jobs they talk about epitomize the worst of crony capitalism and fleece the taxpayer anyway.
Or we could have a Take Michelle Malkin to Capitol Hill day. Then again, if Michelle was arriving Thursday, Obama would be too afraid to give his speech.
Maybe we need take a forced out of business by obamanomics entrepreneur to the capitol day.
From Dictionary.com:
See also: American Dream
Yes, you can find the list on
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Enemies_of_the_State
FANTASTIC!!! I AM SO LOVING THIS IDEA! And somehow, the people who have been intimidated, harrassed and threatened by this administration MUST be heard! If they can possibly get near a mic, let them say something!
Anyone bringing one of the Chrysler Dealers who were shut down because they were republicans who were successful?
i was kind of hoping, perhaps if the gibson ceo is bored, as i am sure he will be. they could ask him to deliver the rebuttal to obama’s blathering, perhaps from the very same place obama was just speaking.
Exactly, Peteee! The CEO of Gibson and the CEO of Boeing should be invited to give the rebuttal to Obama’s speech. What could be more powerful symbols for what is wrong with Obama’s job policies?
Badda bing badda boom.
Communists must go down, they must go down hard. The Littlest Marxist is cooked.
I wonder if Obama will mention the announcement made today that the U.S. is now in FIFTH PLACE economically in the world. He must be so proud of his accomplishments. Just as planned.
Trotsky, Tito, Castro, Hugo Chavez, Stalin, Che, Ho Chi Minh….
Marsha is one of the better Representatives and does an excellent job representing Tennessee.
I love the idea and I have an adition. How about if Limbaugh showed up with a truck load of two if by tea for the GOP members and their Entrepreneur guests to be drinking during the speech…after all Limbaugh has created more jobs with his tea than Obama has created his entire life.
If history is any indicator, the Zero-in-chief is indeed spiraling in. Pull up little Zero! Too late – brace for impact!
DITTO! I doubt Rush would do this, but it would be golden! He doesn’t have time and he would probably be watching the football game rather that bho’s blather!
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he could always send Mr. Snerdly….
I was thinking about that one too.
Or how about Steve Wynn.
OR the CEO of some corporate jet manufacturer.
How about the Chryler bond holders.’
And Obama can invite the CEOs of the bankrupt green energy companies.
while snerdly is there, perhaps he can check in with the cbc, and give them a once over?
That would be worth paying to see.
There wouldn’t be any room for congress to attend.
Democrats bring Entrepreneurs to the Hill all the time – to testify in federal witch hunts that will put them out of business.
He’ll be sitting in the Speaker’s Box, via twitter:
I might actually have to tune in now.
Beautiful !!!
Looks like no other Republican has picked up Michelle’s challenge yet. Why am I not surprised? This one-party government is so predictable. Now that the conservatives have been marginalized by the entire “conservative” media, we are back to Rombama vs Perrybush and who is the biggest conservative candidate killer, Rove or Coulter?
At least Cheney did something constructive today calling for Hillary to run. That would really set up a
3rd2nd party run for someone with the spine to give it a shot. Expect to hear something from the Trump camp soon. Of course, Palin should be thinking about it too.Obummer is definately B.B.B.Bad to the bone and makes the rest of us want One burbon, one scotch, and one beer.
Me thinks bho has gotten his skinny hind end out done by the r’s! This is just delicious! I will not watch bho, but I will look here for those who does to see how you think things went down. Wonder is dear nan will be popping up and down when the guests are announced? Wonder how mo will handle this? Will she have that nasty face she does when she is all bent out of shape?
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*Joe Wilson ought to bring Uncle Sam in an open coffin, saying this is our future if we get 4 more years of P-BO; And Joe Wilson would not be lying!
Any GOPers from the Philly area?
They could come dressed like a NBPP polling location ‘observer’, complete with billyclub.
Obama could bring Li’l Wayne, or any other entrepeneur street thug he admires… Or Chicago politician/crime boss/union thug.
one small problem with the entrepreneur, without bright flashing lights and arrows, the dems couldn’t spot one if they were punching them in the nose.
This is AWESOME! I’m glad John Boehner reads your blog, Michelle!
I hadn’t planned on watching, but now I wouldn’t miss it for all the tea in China!
As a consultant, I am a believer in the Company of One. I would like to see people who are their own company like Michele Malkin. Being proactive means not waiting around to be hired. It means seeing what needs to be done, and doing it.
Hope that last comment doesn’t anger our new Chinese overlords.
Wow, if this had been planned earlier and these entrep’s had the $$$, wouldn’t this have been a great halftime show???
Michelle, from what I have read about the rebuttal is that Boehner has said there will not be a GOP rebuttal, of course he never said there would not be an Entrepreneur rebuttal.
Barky’s lecturing of Congress and the USA tonight will probably be golden and provide plenty of material for those smart enough to use his words against him for campaign ads.
I read somewhere that members will be answering questions in the Statuary Hall afterwards. Invite these CEO’s along!
I imagine that Jug-Ears is REALLY pissed off about this. And the anger is going to ooze from him as he delivers his big speech.
Holder should attend the speech and bring the Democrat owners of the guitar companies that he did not raid, who use the same wood as Gibson Guitars. /sarc
I take it the Memphis Daily News is not a right-leaning paper? Here are some synonyms for “firebrand”–troublemaker, agitator, hothead, demagogue. Do you think they call Pelosi, Reid, Waters, etc. Democrat firebrands? Somehow I doubt it.
The good news is that this will be a very entertaining evening and I wouldn’t miss it for the world.
The bad news is that the ratings for Obama’s speech are going to increase because of this. And, they will spin it to appear that Obama has masses of fans who tuned in to hear their great savior speak from on high.
Most of the ratings for this speech will be conservatives and republicans tuning in to watch Obama crash and burn.
Now that’s a Republican rebuttal I can live with!
Boehner needs a hand signal for the entrepreneurial attendees “You Lie” chant in unison.
I say Barky’s talkin’ tonight will be less a speech and more of an angry finger point lecture to the uncooperative Congress and the ungrateful citizens who question and criticize his imperial edicts and plans for our future.
WAY to go R’s! This is just awesome on your part for doing this. Maybe other R’s will find someone to bring. Can you just imagine mo’s face with all these business people that bho is trying to put out of business? That is going to be golden!
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Somebody should invite that guy from Alabama who said he won’t open a coal mine because of all the regulations and complaints about the environment.
Hell yeah!
Let Mr Holier than thou see the tragedy he’s brought this country.
He won’t like having to be confronted with his handy work but the majority of Americans will.
On September 8th, 2011 at 11:36 am, hawkeye54 said:
I wouldn’t be surprised if he works himself all the way up into a harrangue.
Stomp your little hoof, Barry! Shake your little tail!
The most important question will be if the Packers win the toss should they receive or defer?
Maybe they should invite all those oil workers who are unemployed because of the moratorium and this adminstration’s defiance of the law and the contempt of court charges. I’m not sure Obama would like these guys when they’re mad! Now, THERE is some intimidation I could get behind!
Maybe Obama can bring the CEO of Solyndra when the FBI gets done with him.
Mark Kirk should have the head of that Caterpiller plant in Illinois that had to cut jobs after Obummer gave a speech there.
Sadly, Pravda won’t mention any of these people tonight.
Perhaps the GOP should have a rebuttal that consists of introducing these people to the media.
The FDA is another of those agencies that have gone off the deep end. Why haven’t they raided your local drugstore for selling vitamins? Because Mexican drug cartels have all the weapons they need….
VERY interesting!! WTF??
I’ve had Obama up to my eyeballs. I will not subject myself to listening to his campaign speech tonight. He’s going to attack the Republicans in the House, the Tea party, continue to blame Bush, etc., blah, blah, blah.
I still say the entire Republican Congress, as well as their guests now, should quietly get up and walk out when Obama starts attacking them.
He’s going to propose ideas for turning the economy around that are the samo samo of the past; keep people enslaved with unemployment payments, raise taxes on the rich, use more tax dollars we do not have for repairing infrastructure that should have been the responsibility of state and local governments over the years.
Who needs his rhetoric? Who needs his feeble attempt at leadership? Who needs to listen to his speech? The answer to all three is nobody, especially not me.
Wow, I am so proud of everyone involved with this grassroots show of Obama-fatigue! All of this organized within one day and the day isn’t over yet!
This is how we win; when we send a message that even the MSM can’t ignore (though they will try). Obama is the problem!
Obama always likes to introduce some poor sad-sack who’s dog ate her food-stamps or some nonsense, so this speech might be fun. Maybe I will watch it!
And a Chance-Vought F4-U Corsair (with a T.E.A. Bag symbol on its tail) does a victory roll…
“Astronaut” Barack Obama: She’s breaking up! She’s breaking up!
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Oscar Goldman: Barack Obama, President. A man criminally inept.
Oscar Goldman: America, we can replace him. We have the teleprompter. We can get a better president. Smarter. Conservative. Better.
(Cue “Six Million Dollar Man” theme music)
Seeing what’s happened to Gibson and all the regulations placed on business makes me think that Ayn Rand was a modern day prophet. I’m amazed at the accuracy of something that was originally written as a work fiction. Also, Hank Reardon made metal. Gibson makes guitars and I play alot of metal on my guitar. Coincidence? I think not.
This is another RINO that needs to go…
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), part of the GOP Senate leadership, said he supports a Balanced Budget Amendment and will not rule out voting for one that does not cap federal spending or require a supermajority vote to increase taxes.
Without a spending cap, Judge Bork says Congress will be tied up in a mountain of special interest lawsuits and demands for tax increases.
Michell just keep doin what you’r doin cause you do it so well. This just a great column.
I’m going to be watching specifically to see how much camera time the Speakers Box gets.
Speaking of Gibson guitars it does make one wonder where exactly is all the seized wood.
If not already done, the GOP should create a video montage of these folks and their stories to get the message out there and show how the current administration is choking recovery.
Not sure, but you can bet that the value of Gibson’s guitars is definitely going to go up after this. I was thinking about it, but now I know I’m going to buy a Les Paul in the near future.
She said “I don’t believe you’re trying to make no jobs”. Said “I seen you today you was standing on a fairway, leaning up against a golf cart”.
Obama said “But I’m tired! I been golfin’ all day”.
She said “That don’t confront me, long as I see some jobs by election day”.
Now election day come; no jobs, but all the money was spent…
And out the door I went.
Don’t wait for the GOP itself to do it. It might not get done. But it is the very thing all GOP presidential candidates and conservative political organizations should be doing.
Michelle, you can name another bho family member to the list he can bring.
“You know who would be the perfect Obama speech guests to represent his constituency and values?
Aunt Zeituni and Uncle Omar.”
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=342529
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While this is a great idea, and I hope it pans out, I had already planned on walking (conservative AND environmentally-conscious…I am a hybrid!)down to support my local entrepreneurial (no national chain) pizza parlor, picking up a double-pep with green chile pie, walking home and watching the football game. I will enjoy the walk, leave a good tip for the low-wage pizza folks, and I guess I will miss the speech. Dang!
Frankly, I’d like to see more gumption from the Repubs. At various intervals during Obeyme’s tired diatribe, a few Repubs just get up and leave, then a few more, and so on. By the end of this waste of time, no repubs are in the Chamber. Or, the entreprenuers could just get up and leave as they see fit. Or, if they don’t want to do that, they could be drinking tea and making “clinking” sounds with the china cups and saucers while TheOne speaks. I’d love to see something like this…who cares if the dems think its disrepectful. Obama has shown zero respect for us…and we’re his boss.
Speaking as a now retired 25 year vet of the NYPD, I have to wonder just what the *%&# is going on with this generations cops? Guards taken “hostage?” That my friends is a FELONY – kidnapping – so why was nobody arrested? This is a friggin disgrace – they can shut down kids lemonade stands but can’t arrest these thugs for felonies? Makes me ashamed of my former occupation I served so long.