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    Obama's Second Term

    Is Holder about to let go? Hillary too?
    1:51 PM 11/08/2012


    This just in from CBS DC: http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/...orney-general/

    Attorney General Eric Holder might not be sticking around for a second term.

    Holder told law school students at the University of Baltimore School of Law that he does not know if he will stay in his job.

    “That’s something that I’m in the process now of trying to determine,” Holder said. “I have to think about, can I contribute in a second term?”

    Holder says he needs to sit down with his family and President Obama to see if he wants to continue on the job.

    “[I have to] really ask myself the question about, do I think there are things that I still want to do? Do I have gas left in the tank? It’s been an interesting and tough four years, so I really just don’t know,” Holder told students.
    Poor guy. What a tough time he’s had. Hey, you know who doesn’t have any gas left in the tank? Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

    And then, of course:

    Holder has been under fire from congressional Republicans for what he knew about the botched “Fast and Furious” operation where the U.S. allowed guns to be sold illegally in hopes to track Mexican drug cartels. Holder was found in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents regarding the operation. President Obama has invoked executive privilege.
    When a Republican screws up, that’s the story. When a Democrat screws up, the story is that he’s “under fire by Republicans.” They never stop to ask why the Democrats don’t care.

    Holder played his role. He held on, he lied and deflected and stonewalled, and Obama got a second term. So now Holder can afford to take a well-deserved rest.

    Fast & Furious, Benghazi, whatever. Doesn’t matter now, right?

    Does it?

    http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/08/is...#ixzz2BfKDkFW3


    P.S. Hillary too? Coincidences are coincidental.
    http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/clin...on_662080.html


    Clinton to Step Down Probably 'Days' After Inauguration
    1:17 PM, Nov 8, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

    Hillary Clinton still intends to step down as secretary of state. That will take place likely "days" after President Barack Obama's second inauguration in January.

    "The Secretary has been honored to serve as President Obama's Secretary of State, and has loved every minute of leading this Department and being part of the State family," a Clintons spokesman says in an email. "But yes, you can confirm yet again that she's been clear about her intention to leave after the first term."

    When asked for clarification on what date Clinton would stepdown, the spokesman, Philippe Reines, says, "She has said that she wants to ensure continuity, and realizes the confirmation of her successor might take a period of days beyond that."

    Reines, a long time Clinton loyalist, did not immediately respond to a question concerning what role he might play in (a possible) Clinton 2016 presidential campaign.
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    P.P.S. Speaking of stuff that stopped mattering on Nov. 7, 2012:
    FEMA office on Staten Island closes “due to weather.”
    Hey, who cares about the ice, now that Obama has skated?

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/s...SlTbTxAkrjIHBM

    By JOE TACOPINO
    Last Updated: 10:29 AM, November 8, 2012
    Posted: 1:44 AM, November 8, 2012


    Looks as if FEMA is just a fair- weather friend.

    Yesterday’s nor’easter proved too much for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s aid location in Tottenville, SI — which hung a sign reading “Closed due to weather” as the wintery storm blew into town.

    Ten FEMA centers in the area reportedly suspended operations because of the storm, although the location with the sign at the Mount Loretto Community Center did open at noon.


    HUH? This sign on the door of a FEMA center in Tottenville, SI, yesterday speaks volumes about the conditions there.

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    This is the same government that will controlling your health care. Have a nice day.
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    Businesses in NJ that asked FEMA for financial help to rebuild were told no...FEMA told them they would have to rely on thier local banks for loans..Only problem is the banks will not give loans out, as reported by one business owner who was interviewed on the weather channel. Now that the election is over, these people are left out in the cold (no pun intended).

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    We all know that Government does not care about businesses, big or small (unless they are getting a nice sized piece of the pie). FEMA should be on a local level at the states so they will really step up to the plate and will be more motivated to do right by their state and as well as being held more accountable when they do a poor job... The way the system is set up now, the level of accountability depends on which party line the MEDIA is for or against...

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    well the photo op is over..what did u excpect? did anyone also notice the sign for the christmas party? is everyone invited?

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    Yeah, but if the local government and FEMA bungle their assistance after a natural disaster and no one reports it, did it really happen? Never heard much about Obama’s mishandling of the BP oil spill recovery (including his Sec. of Interior illegally shutting down all offshore drilling despite a court order, etc.).

    As long as the right people are comfortable (hint: like the ones who attended Bette Midler’s posh Halloween party) it’s all good. It’s amazing how freeing it is to have a lapdog press covering for you.

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    Suckers. They voted obama anyway.... "Only Big Government is able to help you …"
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    We Forget
    By: Erick Erickson November 8th, 2012 at 05:30 AM

    There is no permanence in politics. All is fleeting. All is cyclical. We find comfort in our cycle and distress when others rise to the top.

    Right now, conservatives are bitterly disappointed. Some choose to check out mentally. Some have decided to throw in the towel. A few blame the American people. Many think the gig is up, the show is over, and destiny is undone.

    Demography is not destiny and neither is the ever growing leviathan. Many think so now, but they forget the ebbs and flows of the tide of history. Conservatism is not done. The message of freedom and opportunity is not done.

    No immigrant comes to the United States wanting to be on welfare. They come for a better life of hard work and success. What conservatives forget is that people forget.

    And conservatives have done a terrible job reminding people.

    Since Ronald Reagan rose from the ashes of the Goldwater movement, Republicans have articulated a message of freedom and opportunity — a rugged individualism that says if you work hard you can be what you want and do what you want. But people forget.

    In the last decade or so, Republicans began to assume everyone just naturally agreed. They stopped explaining. They stopped being evangelists. Worse, conservatism morphed into Republicanism and instead of being about ideas, both became about the acquisition of power for the sake of power. Republicans no longer articulated a core set of principles through policy, but policies designed solely to keep them in power. The party leaders and many of its candidates began to do the same — freedom became a platitude, not a policy.

    During Barack Obama’s tenure, Republicans tried to blur every line, make every compromise, and often surrendered before a weapon was even pointed at them. They did not articulate a positive conservative vision, but a defensive position that Obama was bad and they were good with little to show for it. They cut deals that sold out their core to preserve their power. They do so even today.

    Republicans assumed Americans got it. They assumed Americans and Republicans were still speaking the same language. But they weren’t.

    Politics is cyclical and Americans are forgetful. Republicans forgot that. They failed to keep advancing. They failed to keep explaining. They relied on on the tried and true that became the tired and stale.

    Tax cuts? Yay!

    Pro-life? Yay!

    But what else? Under Republicans and Democrats alike, the tax code has grown more complex, the lobbyist class has grown richer, and the banks have gotten too big to fail.

    Moving forward, the conservative movement from within the GOP needs to advance new ideas, not just dust off and repackage old ideas. The principles remain the same. The principles are fixed. But the ideas that advance those principles must fit into the twenty-first century.

    The GOP should start with education reform. They should tackle tax reform. They should work the break up big banks by forcing big banks to capitalize further. They should not shy away from tackling social security and medicare reform — ideas that did not hurt them with senior citizens and will ultimately help them with younger voters. They should still fight to repeal Obamacare and explain to the American people why it is sucking the life out of the economy.

    But more importantly, conservatives must be able to show Americans in this age of a stagnant economy that conservatism has ideas not just to make one prosperous, but also to help the poor and needy. There are those who do depend on and deserve a helping hand. If the GOP cannot show how small government lifts people up and provides for those who cannot, the GOP will fail.

    Republicans should not be afraid to be obstructionist, but must be willing to explain that the obstruction prevents the passage of ideas that history once discarded before we all forgot.

    These are exciting times for the conservative movement. But the conservative movement must get up and lead now — lead with conservative ideas for the GOP, not a Republican agenda packaged as conservative. We must begin again anew talking conservatism as evangelists, not fellow travelers. We must remember we are not in a permanent decline, but a cycle of politics that is only permanent if we let it be.

    Our think tanks must stop producing white papers designed to woo donors and must produce ideas designed to persuade voters to limited government.

    In 2004, George W. Bush beat John Kerry, delivering a surprising defeat to the Democrats. Two years later, the Democrats took the House and two years after that took the White House.

    In 2014, like in 2010, Barack Obama’s base will not show up as it did in 2012 and 2008. In 2016, it will split between factions in a diminished field of a shallower bench with no guarantee that Barack Obama’s coalition is the Democrats’ coalition. The GOP will have a deep bench of articulate conservatives.

    We must lay the groundwork now with fresh ideas embedded with timeless principles sold by voices who understand people forget and must be reminded why America is great and why conservatism helped make it that way. We must continue, as a conservative movement, challenging and ending the political careers of Republicans who carry the banner of conservatism while selling it out.

    We must still be willing to fight against the implementation of Obamacare, a policy still opposed by a majority of Americans.

    Be of cheerful heart. The world spins on and I fight on. Join me. Let’s take the country back as happy warriors for a cause we know is right that too many on our own side have forgotten is right.

    In the words of William F. Buckley, Jr., RedState, the conservative movement, you, and I must stand athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

    http://www.redstate.com/2012/11/08/we-forget/
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    Layoff bomb detonates; Large corporations join small businesses in announcing mass cuts
    Posted at 7:14 pm on November 8, 2012 by Twitchy Staff


    Florence Jr.@stuffyhead9

    45 companies announce layoff's in the past 48 hours! This is what the people wanted! The people have spoken!

    8 Nov 12
    Earlier today, Twitchy related some heartbreaking stories of small business owners laying off workers to avoid the economic impact of the Obamacare tax that isn’t a tax. http://twitchy.com/2012/11/08/forwar...er-doing-same/ Comedian Jon Lovitz, a small business owner himself, was no barrel of laughs either as his timeline filled with stories of impending downsizing. http://twitchy.com/2012/11/08/jon-lo...nning-layoffs/ So, what about those big corporations? Boeing’s defense division announced yesterday it would cut 30 percent of management staff, http://twitchy.com/2012/11/07/boeing...fter-election/ and the company was not alone, we’re learning.

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    IN PAST 48 HRS, FOLLOWING COs ANNOUNCED LAYOFFS: Westinghouse, Research in Motion, Boeing, US Cellular, Commerzbank, Iberia, ING, (cont)

    8 Nov 12
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    IN PAST 48 HRS, FOLLOWING COs ANNOUNCED LAYOFFS (cont): Ericsson, Bristol-Myers, corning, Boston Scientific, Abbott Labs, St. Jude, (cont)

    8 Nov 12
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    IN PAST 48 HRS, FOLLOWING COs ANNOUNCED LAYOFFS (cont): Caterpillar, CVPH Medical Center, Lightyear Haqwker Beechcraft, Hawker Beechcraft

    8 Nov 12

    Just last week, Michelle Malkin warned in her column of “Obama’s Layoff Bomb,” and the headlines over the last two days seem to prove that this ticking time bomb was no dud. http://michellemalkin.com/2012/10/31...s-layoff-bomb/

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    Welcome to Obamaville: Pepsi looking to layoff 4,000 workers bit.ly/Z8ApDF #tcot #tlot

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    The Axe Falls: Bristol-Myers To Cut Nearly 500 Jobs j.mp/PHK5n8

    8 Nov 12
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    Research in Motion lays off workers at US HQ in TX bit.ly/WDjrjp | Welcome to BO's 2nd term and don't expect it to get better. #tlot

    8 Nov 12
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    Groupon lays off 80 sales employees chicagotribune.com/business/break… #groupon #layoff

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    Hawker Beechcraft closing facilites, laying off more than 400 employees in Arkansas, AZ & TX. bit.ly/T5y1dw #tcot #ObamaLayoffs

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    Energizer Holdings to lay off 1,500, close 3 plants bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2… via @GWeiderman

    8 Nov 12
    The newly reelected president blew off the traditional post-election press conference on Thursday, but word is he’ll deliver a statement on the economy tomorrow. http://twitchy.com/2012/11/08/priori...ss-conference/

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    I am terrified because I believe the desired end point is fiscal bankruptcy and chaos, resulting in a fascist Marxist takeover. EO's already put in place. Sounds like conspiracy theories but no one can be this stupid about basic economics; it has to be deliberate

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    *ding* *ding* *ding* We have a winner.

    (Ask someone you know who grew up in/near communist propaganda territory how they felt when they first saw the Obama ads with those children singing. It's terrifying to them.)

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    You got it right,Stew. That is why even though the stock market has dropped more than 400 points in the last two days, companies that manufacture firearms and ammunition have had their stock value shoot up (no pun intended).
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    Can it be the illegals they are letting go? Oh right, Obama won.

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    Utah company blames Pres. Obama for 102 workers laid off



    EAST CARBON, Carbon County — A Utah coal company owned by a vocal critic of President Barack Obama has laid off 102 miners. The layoffs at the West Ridge Mine are effective immediately, according to UtahAmerican Energy Inc., a subsidiary of Murray Energy Corp. They were announced in a short statement made public Thursday, two days after Obama won re-election.

    The layoffs are necessary because of the president's "war on coal," the statement said. The slogan is one used frequently during the election by Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray, who was an ardent supporter of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

    In its statement, UtahAmerican Energy blames the Obama administration for instituting policies that will close down "204 American coal-fired power plants by 2014" and for drastically reducing the market for coal.

    In its statement, UtahAmerican Energy blames the Obama administration for instituting policies that will close down "204 American coal-fired power plants by 2014."
    "There is nowhere to sell our coal, and when we can, the market prices are far lower," the statement said. "Without markets, there can be no coal mines and no coal jobs."

    Coal demand from U.S. power generation companies is down 17 percent this year, according to the federal Energy Information Administration's most recent figures. That's due in large part to low market prices for natural gas, and has the EIA forecasting the lowest coal consumption in at least two decades by the nation's electricity industry.

    Trends in power generation have also put coal-fired plants at a higher risk for retirement. In its annual Energy Outlook, the EIA reports that 49 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity will be retired in the next eight years. That represents about one-sixth of the existing coal capacity in the nation and less than 5 percent of total electricity generation in the U.S.

    "Lower natural gas prices, higher coal prices, slower economic growth, and the implementation of environmental rules all play a role in the retirements," the EIA report states.

    http://www.ksl.com/?sid=22890041&nid...cid=featured-4
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    CIA director submits his resignation to President Obama
    Nov 09, 2012 2:17 PM CST

    WASHINGTON (RNN) - Gen. David Petraeus, director of the CIA, has resigned from his post due to an extramarital affair.

    Petraeus submitted his resignation in a letter to President Barack Obama on Friday.

    The letter noted that Petraeus had exercised "extremely poor judgment" in conducting the affair. Petraeus and his wife have been married for almost four decades.

    "After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair," the letter stated. "Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours. This afternoon, the President graciously accepted my resignation."

    Obama will have to nominate a replacement for Petraeus, who has served as head of the CIA since September 2011. He was previously head of allied forces in Afghanistan.

    http://www.wafb.com/story/20055660/c...resident-obama
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    Harry Reid on possibly upping the debt ceiling another $2.4 trillion: We’ll raise it
    By Doug Powers • November 9, 2012 11:24 AM



    In August of last year the debt can was kicked until after this year’s election. Well, it’s after the election, which means DC’s answer to Groundhog Day is coming around yet again: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/harr...we-ll-raise-it

    “They tried it before – ‘We’re going to shut down the government, and we’re not going to raise the debt ceiling,’” he said. “If they want to go through that again, fine.”

    “But we’re not going to be held subject to something that was done as a matter of fact in all previous administrations,” Reid said.

    CNSNews.com then asked, “But will you support raising it by another $2.4 trillion?”

    “If it has to be raised, we’ll raise it,” he said.

    On Aug. 2, 2011, Congress and President Barack Obama reached a deal to raise the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion. Now, after only 15 months, almost all of that additional borrowing authority has been exhausted, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.

    Another $2.4 trillion increase would bring the debt limit to about $18.8 trillion, though we can stop referring to an continually increasing number as a limit. There’s not a ceiling or a limit to anything they’re doing. As Rod Serling used to say, the only boundaries are that of imagination — or nightmare if you’re on the paying end of it.

    In 2006 Harry Reid said this about raising the debt ceiling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELkbDdPeL7I

    “They should explain how more debt is good for our economy … how can they explain that they think it’s fair to force our children, our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren, to finance this debt through higher taxes? Why is it right to increase our dependence on foreign creditors?”

    Yes, those things should be explained. We’re waiting, Harry.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELkbD...layer_embedded

    **Written by Doug Powers http://michellemalkin.com/2012/11/09/reid-debt-ceiling/
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    CIA director submits his resignation to President Obama
    Nov 09, 2012 2:17 PM CST

    WASHINGTON (RNN) - Gen. David Petraeus, director of the CIA, has resigned from his post due to an extramarital affair.

    Petraeus submitted his resignation in a letter to President Barack Obama on Friday.

    The letter noted that Petraeus had exercised "extremely poor judgment" in conducting the affair. Petraeus and his wife have been married for almost four decades.

    "After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair," the letter stated. "Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours. This afternoon, the President graciously accepted my resignation."

    Obama will have to nominate a replacement for Petraeus, who has served as head of the CIA since September 2011. He was previously head of allied forces in Afghanistan.

    http://www.wafb.com/story/20055660/c...resident-obama
    The Senate Intelligence Committee now says Petraeus won’t testify at next week’s Benghazi hearings. CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell will testify in his place, according to Human Events. http://www.humanevents.com/2012/11/0...hout-petraeus/

    Petraeus Won't Testify on Benghazi Next Week
    4:04 PM, Nov 9, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

    Following his resignation from CIA director, David Petraeus won't testify at next week's Benghazi hearing on Capitol Hill. Mark Knoller reports:


    Senate Intelligence Committee says Petraeus will not testify at next week’s closed hearing on the events in Benghazi.
    — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) November 9, 2012
    Update: Some are of course questioning the timing.
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    The Wile E Coyote presidency
    November 9, 2012


    ZeroHedge, “The Next Four Years Won’t Be As Good As The Last”: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-1...od-last?page=1

    Obama has already laid the foundation for his next four years of Presidency – more green jobs, tackle global warming, raise taxes on the rich and create jobs for the poor. That will come at a hefty price of further government spending. In the first four years of his term Obama increased the Federal Debt by more than 45%, however, with more than $5 Trillion spent in promoting everything from solar panels to housing, the economy only grew by 7.1% during the same time frame (or a total of $905 Billion.) In other words it took more than $5.60 of debt to create $1 of economic growth.

    [...]

    The amount of debt required today to create a single dollars’ worth of GDP today is clearly unsustainable. However, the current Administration has been increasing Federal debt at a run rate of more than $1.2 Trillion annually to date. The understanding of the impact of increasing debt on economic growth is crucially important to understand.

    As we discussed recently in “Debt and Deficits: Killing Economic Prosperity” it is “the economic impact of spiraling debt levels that have eroded economic growth. Debt is, by its very nature, a cancer on economic growth. As debt levels rise it consumes more capital by diverting it from productive investments into debt service. As debt levels spread through the system it consumes greater amounts of capital until it eventually kills the host. The chart below shows the rise of federal debt and its impact on economic growth.”

    [...]

    The current Administration, however, is trapped into the belief that “big government” is the solution to the long term economic ills. However, a simple look at the impact of debt increases on economic growth tells us that this approach is misguided. Regardless, as stated above, further spending increases are going to rapidly run into an antagonistic House of Representatives who will push to block any additional spending programs.

    While political gridlock has been a positive for the economy during past Administrations – this cycle is different. Rising debt levels, weak employment, declining wage growth and rising inflationary pressures all act as a retardant to economic growth. Economic growth at sub-2% levels is not strong enough to promote the kind of employment growth needed to absorb increases in the natural working age population which continues to shove an ever larger portion of the population into the masses that have “given up looking for work.” In turn this increases the dependency on government support leading to further weakness in consumption and reduced demand which keeps employment weak.

    While Bernanke has been flooding the system with monetary policy focused at suppressing interest rates it is fiscal policy from Congress that ultimately begins to clear the way for job creation. However, with the burden of ObamaCare just on the horizon, the threat of rising taxes and increased regulations covering everything from the financial industry to oil and gas – businesses are remaining defensive to protect weakening profitability.

    While Obama will continue to increase the Federal Debt to well beyond 100% of GDP – the reality is that economic growth will continue to stall and muddle along at best. At the worst we are potentially facing another recession in the very near future. Either way the economy ahead will remain difficult and disappointing by almost any measure.

    [...]

    Overall, the set up going forward looks like it has in the past couple of years. It is unlikely that Obama will move to the center and be more of a politician with the best interest of the economy at heart. It is also just as unlikely that the Republicans will back down and begin to cooperate with the Senate. I could be wrong, of course, and if I am then I will chance my investment posture accordingly. However, the weight of evidence is stacked in favor of “more of the same” which means less for you and me.

    Evidently, the folks at Zero Hedge don’t know John Boehner like we do. He’ll capitulate, and we’ll see more failed stimulus and greater debt — all to feed the welfare state, which continues to expand even as it grows more and more unsustainable.

    The good news, though, is that businesses might soon have lots of available cheap labor, with the GOP already making noise about amnesty and comprehensive immigration reform in order to compete yet again with the Democrats at their own game of pandering identity politics.

    And that could create some economic movement in the short-term while politically setting the country up for a permanent welfare state majority.

    Were I not a liberty-loving defender of the Constitution and first principles — that is, an odious “purist” who keeps stupidly insisting that we reject the entire progressive paradigm as the false mapping of reality it is — I’d offer this advice to those libertarian capitalists who are trying to figure out how to negotiate these election results: sell your souls and become cronies. We are living in a state of liberal fascism. If profit is your driving force to the exception of all other motivators (be it an ideology or a simple and intuitive sense of justice), position yourselves to invest in what the Obama cronies are putting money into.

    After all, most of it is yours, anyway.

    Me, I’m resigned to being on the outside looking in. I haven’t the skill set to run with the manipulators and financial players looting the system and feathering their own nests. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop throwing rocks or sticks or mulch at the doors and windows, or crapping on the lawn. In fact, my dream, when the crash comes, is to set up my own personal Hooverville on Harry Reid’s estate.

    So that every day he wakes up and walks outside in his monogrammed slippers he’s met by the smells of sewage and flame-roasted coyote.

    I have my pride, sure. But I also have a sense of humor. Which can lead to moments of profound bemusement.

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    Eric Holder ‘in the process’ of deciding if he’ll step down as Attorney General
    By Doug Powers • November 8, 2012 04:46 PM

    If the GOP had taken the Senate in addition to keeping the House, Holder would probably have gone back to the office just long enough to throw his stuff in a cardboard box and run down the street to turn in his resignation before heading off to parts unknown. But now that the election has taken away that possibility, Holder is weighing the options: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...8A715H20121108

    Attorney General Eric Holder said on Thursday he has not decided whether to stay on as the chief U.S. law enforcement officer in President Barack Obama’s second term. Holder, speaking to law students at the University of Baltimore, said he still must speak with Obama and with his own family and ask himself, “Do I have some gas left in the tank?”

    “That’s something that I’m in the process now of trying to determine,” he said.
    [...]
    It is rare for an attorney general to serve more than four years, and Republicans have already tried to oust Holder after a botched operation called “Fast and Furious” that targeted gun trafficking along the United States-Mexico border.
    There will be many other cabinet members heading for the door soon: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83519.html

    Now, officials will start to cement their departure dates, and aides will sound out colleagues about possible new roles. Among the top current officials expected to go: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Lisa Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

    Attorney General Eric Holder and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood might not be far behind — or may even beat them out the door.
    [...]
    If not for the upcoming fiscal cliff negotiations, Geithner might have been ready to hand Obama his resignation letter as the president walked off stage at the McCormick Place Tuesday night. But once the negotiations are done — or done enough — he’s still expected to be the first to go.
    Of the people on that list, I’d expect Hillary and Holder to hang around the longest after inauguration due to various ongoing “cleanup” efforts. Hillary hadn’t ruled out staying on for a while, although today a spokesman said she’d likely step aside days after Obama’s inauguration in January.

    We might be tempted to think that Turbo Tim, Ken Salazar and Steven Chu, the Energy Secretary who has chosen so many winners and losers, hitting the trail is good news, but there’s this enormous buzzkill: They have to be replaced by somebody: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83519.html

    There’s also a growing list of people the administration is looking to find spots for: Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick most of all, as well as former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and outgoing North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad.
    Granholm didn’t put in this performance for nothing — and her economic expertise means she’s got “Secretary of Business” written all over her.

    Also, J-Nap is reportedly under consideration to replace Holder when and if he leaves.

    Which departing cabinet member will be the first to write a tell-all book? There’s always at least one.




    **Written by Doug Powers http://michellemalkin.com/2012/11/08...orney-general/

    Serious Question here… What if….

    Posted by doriangrey1 on November 8, 2012


















    3 Votes



    Nobody want’s to say it, hell nobody even want’s to think it, but… what if the Obama victory on Nov. 6th genuinely was a result of intentional Democrat voter Fraud? Why am I asking, is it just because I am a bitter clinger who can’t accept that Obama won reelection? Perhaps that’s true, but it’s also because, well the number really just do not add up. Ok, yea, I know I’m not a “Professional Blogger” or a member of the Fifth Column Treasonous Media, so yes I am daring to ask a question here no self respecting “Professional Blogger” or a member of the Fifth Column Treasonous Media would.

    Here is some facts about the udervote: http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2012/1...omment-1112251

    2012 Florida, Obama received 20,158 more votes than in 2008. Romney
    received 173,867 more than McCain did in 2008. No undervote for either.

    In
    2012 Virginia, Obama received 73,182 less votes than in 2008. Romney
    was plus 46,249. Undervote for Obama, overvote for Romney.

    In 2012 Ohio, Obama received 11,377 less votes than in 2008. Romney was plus 91,932. Undervote for Obama, overvote for Romney.

    In New Hampshire, Obama received 17,260 less votes than in 2008. Romney was plus 9,744.

    The under vote came from deep blue states. not swing states.
    I haven’t seen anyone ask this yet, so I will: did the Ron Paul Revolution stay home last night? http://hillbuzz.org/did-the-ron-paul...st-night-84239

    Mitt Romney won 3 million votes less than McCain while Obama lost 10 million votes of his own from 2008.

    Where did those 3 million McCain voters go?

    The main part of why I believed Romney would win this time because I knew the 10 million Obama supporters would sit home…but never in my worst nightmares did I imagine McCain voters would sit home. I counted on them to show up and bring friends this time to boot Obama out.
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