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Terrific. After hinting that they might show some brass and skip out on the Obama health care dog-and-pony show, House GOP Whip (or should that be “Whipped”) Eric Cantor said today that Republicans will show up after all. “Absolutely,” he warbles:

Oba-kabuki: Places everyone, places!

Asian-American grievance-mongers and “diversity” bureaucrats in Atlanta need to justify their existence and their salaries.
They found the perfect opportunity. Cry “yellow!”:
Asian-American activists offended that MARTA re-named the train line into the heart of Atlanta’s Asian community the “yellow line” will take their objections to the transit agency’s chief on Friday.
“Yellow,” as a term for skin [...]

Because we haven’t seen Barack Obama campaigning enough on TV the past two weeks, the White House broadcast his meeting with the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Issues Conference this morning.
The audio stream is here if you are just dying to hear him and aren’t near a boob tube.
The event was a dog-and-pony show with the [...]

Democrat Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, the chair of the Senate Budget Committee, was against using reconciliation to pass the government health care takeover before he was for it. Naked Emperor News dug up the tape:

And here’s a partial transcript of Conrad’s April 2001 remarks:
A group of us were approached and asked [...]

“You gave lame excuses then, you are giving lame excuses now.”

Big Labor poured millions of rank-and-file members’ dues into a tax hike campaign in Oregon. It worked. The “wealthy” and the “evil corporations” will now be forced to bail out government schools and social services. Look for affected business owners to start Going Galt en masse.
The Oregonian reports on the gloating by public employee union [...]

Blue-on-blue.

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Remember the proposed Dem tax on investment income to pay for the government health care takeover that I told you about the other day?
Just a follow-up on the backroom deals being cut by Obama and his Big Labor thug-cronies, via The Foundry. Here’s what the tax will pay for:
Yesterday, President Barack [...]

I lived near the epicenter of the Northridge quake in the San Fernando Valley in 1994 and will never forget the terror and chaos that ensued. It measured 6.7 on the Richter scale.
Haiti is now suffering in the aftermath of a 7.0 quake. Thousands may be dead:
The earthquake was the worst in the region in [...]

Reid’s “Macaca” moment.

Sharing an e-mail from reader and fellow Coloradan Jayme, who writes about her congressman, GOP Rep. Mike Coffman. We don’t hear many stories of good guys in Washington these days. Coffman is one of them.
By way of background, Coffman enlisted in the Army at 17, served in the Army Reserve while in college, transferred to [...]

Last month, I noted how Massachusetts Senate GOP candidate Scott Brown called out rival Democrat candidate Martha Coakley’s SEIU thug pals.
The Purple Shirts continue to “pull out all the stops” to install Coakley in Teddy Kennedy’s seat. The special election will be held January 19.
SEIU endorsed her in October, poured $214,000 into a [...]

Jetting off for Broadway dates, undeserved Peace Prizes, botched Crony-lympics bids, and world apology tours is hard work, don’t you know?
Cue the world’s smallest violin:
After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired.
Who could blame him? [...]

GOP Sens. Jim DeMint and John Ensign announced this afternoon that they’ll force a vote on the constitutionality of Demcare’s individual health care mandate. (Democrat response: Constitution? Wellness prevention programs are an inalienable right!)
Here’s the press release:
Today, U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) and John Ensign (R-Nevada), raised a Constitutional Point of Order on the [...]

Cue up “Do the Hustle.” Looks like the extortionists of the Congressional Black Caucus got their way.
Last week, I noted the CBC’s efforts to squeeze bailout money from the Democrats’ financial “reform” package for minority-owned businesses — specifically, the failing radio/media empire of former Malcolm X lawyer and Air America/Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton/Charlie Rangel crony Percy [...]

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You are going to be shocked, shocked, I tell you, when you read the conclusion of the “independent” review of ACORN’s recent activities by ACORN’s “independent” assessor, left-wing former Massachusetts AG and Common Cause president Scott Harshbarger.
Harshbarger has determined — wait for it — that ACORN engaged in no wrongdoing depicted in [...]

From GOP Rep. Pete Hoekstra’s office, a demand for transparency from the Obama administration on its Gitmo relocation plans:
[Hoekstra,] the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, used a rare, open hearing of a House Intelligence Subcommittee to highlight the fact that nine months to the day after President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order [...]

The WSJ spotlights tax code affirmative action for golf club carts:
We thought cash for clunkers was the ultimate waste of taxpayer money, but as usual we were too optimistic. Thanks to the federal tax credit to buy high-mileage cars that was part of President Obama’s stimulus plan, Uncle Sam is now paying Americans to buy [...]

The Zero Tolerance Tyrants claim another victim:
Zachary is six years old and was a first grader at Downes Elementary School in Newark, Delaware.
He is a smart, happy, outgoing child who plays Little League Baseball, is a Cub Scout, studies martial arts, is actively involved in his church youth group, and is actively involved [...]

On October 5, I reported on the parental backlash against the SEIU-led campaign to drag Illinois home health care workers into the union fold. Mom Pam Harris, whose grass-roots activism has inspired folks across the country, continues to spread the word about the state Democratic machine and the unions’ underhanded tactics. The local Fox affiliate [...]

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The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports tonight that the ACORN/Rathke embezzlement sum was $5 million, not the widely cited $1 million figure admitted publicly to date by the left-wing racketeering group.
But guess what? The figure is not new — and it is not news to the whitewashers at the New York Times. More [...]

The Naked Emperor revisited.

Patterico reported over the weekend that lecherous child predator/director Roman Polanski’s Washington Post defender Anne Applebaum failed to mention in her latest pro-Polanski blog post that her husband is a Polish politician actively lobbying for Polanski’s freedom.
Applebaum now says she “had no idea that my husband, who is in Africa, would, or could do anything [...]

Something horrible happened to Bill Sparkman, who worked part-time as a Census worker in rural southeastern Kentucky.
He was found dead. Tied to a tree. Preliminary tests show he died of asphyxiation.
But the “cause of Sparkman’s death is under investigation, and authorities have not ruled out suicide, an accident or homicide, said Kentucky state police spokesman [...]

“The deciding factor is overtime, not security.”

Left high and dry.

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Channeling clueless Charlie Gibson and Nancy Pelosi, President Obama is playing dumb about ACORN. Here’s what he said on ABC’s This Week this morning:
STEPHANOPOULOS: But have your — have some of your allies made it easier for — handed your opponents some ammunition, like ACORN, for example…
OBAMA: Well, look, the — you [...]

This is absolutely horrifying for any parent to watch. STLToday.com reports that police say the black-on-white student beating was completely unprovoked and racially motivated. Watch as many students cheer the attack — and the bus driver is nowhere to be seen:
 
Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft wonders where Al Sharpton is.
I wonder where President Obama will be. [...]

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I can’t make it to Washington DC today for the national 9/12 march, but I’m with all the marchers in spirit.
It’s been an unprecedented year for limited government activism. It would never have been possible without the early initiative of grass-roots leaders in the #tcot community on [...]

How Obama cronyism threatens rail security
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
New Delhi. Mumbai. Chechnya. Madrid. London. The question isn’t whether America will suffer a jihadi attack on our passenger rail lines, but when. So, why has President Obama neutered the nation’s most highly-trained post-9/11 counterterrorism rail security team?
All signs point to business-as-usual cronyism and pandering to [...]