Obama to head out on bus tour

President Barack Obama will dust off his presidential bus and head to New York and Pennsylvania for a two day tour next week, the White House announced on Monday.

Obama, currently vacationing on Martha's Vineyard, will use the trip to "discuss another cornerstone of his vision for a better bargain for the middle class," a White House official said, without specifying any details of the president's speeches.

Since the beginning of August, Obama has used day trips to discuss jobs and the economy – launched in Illinois, the new initiative has also brought the president to Missouri, Florida, Tennessee and Arizona.

He's laid out plans for a new "grand bargain" on jobs, as well as a new push to bolster the nation's housing market.

Via: CNN

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Democrats Continue to Prove that It's All about Vote-Buying

Here's something I'll wager that we don't hear about from Al Sharpton, or Jesse Jackson, or Sheila Jackson Lee, or Jeremiah Wright, or Barack Hussein Obama, or the NAACP, or any Democrat for that matter.  Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ), a Democrat and civil rights icon, speaking while aboard Air Force One about his "Great Society" to two sympathetic governors, said, "I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years."

LBJ also said (emphasis mine):

These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness.  Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.

I know that LBJ's language was/is offensive, but hey -- LBJ was an offensive guy!

Civil rights, indeed!  LBJ had only one purpose in mind, was doing nothing more than out-and-out vote buying.  And what's worse is that blacks (and liberal whites) bought it.

Of black Americans, 44 percent consider themselves to have a moderate political viewpoint, and only 28 percent consider themselves liberals.  It was, along with LBJ's efforts, the association of civil rights legislation with John F. Kennedy (JFK) and LBJ that solidified black loyalty to the Democrat Party.  JFK proposed and LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  No Republican presidential candidate has gotten more than 15 percent of the black vote since.

So what has black voting loyalty yielded?  For perspective, consider this: the National Urban League released its annual State of Black America report on April 10, 2013, and concluded that equality between black and white Americans hasn't improved much since 1963, considered to be the height of the Civil Rights Movement.

Via: American Thinker

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Sen. Tim Scott Delivers Weekly GOP Address On American Energy Independence, Saturday Aug. 10, 2013

GOP: In the Weekly Republican Address, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina takes the Obama administration to task for blocking and delaying new American energy production, which would create thousands of jobs and go a long way towards reducing dependency on foreign energy sources. By contract, Republicans support an "all-of-the-above" approach that includes nuclear, wind, solar and other renewables along with oil and gas production.

"Opening access to responsible energy production will lower prices, create jobs, grow our economy, decrease dangerous dependence on foreign oil and lower the deficit by adding much needed revenue to the Treasury," Scott says.

Via: Real Clear Politics

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[VIDEO] The Five Hits Racial Hypocrisy: White Liberals Worse Than Heroin For Minorities?

The Five continued today to hammer away at racial hypocrisy, calling out Al Sharpton and President Obama for speaking out so vocally about Trayvon Martin but not uttering a word about the case of a white teenager gelling bullied by black teens on a school bus. Eric Bolling and Bob Beckel credited Jesse Jackson for publicly condemning it, while Greg Gutfeld suggested that white liberal hypocrisy may be worse for any community than hard drugs.

Kimberly Guilfoyle said this was a good time for “unbiased leadership” from Sharpton and others, while Gutfeld argued people like Sharpton only care about bullying “if it is a majority over a minority,” saying that people can’t “always point to race as the origin of everything.”

Bolling noted the White House responded to their request with “talking points” about bullying, which Dana Perino said was the right move, but also noted the White House is “vulnerable” on this issue specifically because they weighed in on the Martin case.

Gutfeld railed against the left for paying the race card no matter who’s the instigator in instances like this, declaring that “white liberals are worse for any community than heroin”

Watch the video below, via Fox News:

Via: Mediaite.com

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Flashback: Sebelius called for a ‘single payer system eventually’

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid isn’t the only high-profile Democrat who has suggested the United States will eventually transition to a single payer health care system.

The Nevada lawmaker generated headlines Friday for predicting that President Obama’s health care law is the first step to phasing out insurance-based health care.

In 2007, while governor of Kansas, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius stated flatly in a speech at Harvard: “I’m all for a single payer system eventually.”

What’s not clear is how Sebelius actually thinks about the issue today. As she transitioned from governor to leader of the agency that oversees the country’s health-care laws, Sebelius has argued the opposite.

Asked during a congressional hearing in June if she supports a single payer system, Sebelius responded: “No sir. I supported the concept that you build the gap in coverage based on private insurers.”

During the health care debate in 2009, Sebelius argued Obamacare was not a “trojan horse.”

“This is not a trick,” Sebelius said then. “This is not single-payer.”

Via: The Daily Caller

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Colorado Recall Election Update

As noted in my recent article about the history-making recall elections in Colorado, there was a risk that the difference between the (state) constitutional provision allowing candidates to access a ballot up to 15 days before an election and the statutory provision cutting off access to a recall election ballot 10 days after certification of the recall could result in a lawsuit by candidates trying to be on the ballot.

This has in fact happened, with Libertarian Party candidates in Pueblo and Colorado Springssuing the state so they can be allowed to try to gather enough signatures to have their names placed on the ballot. If they win, it would also give Democrats time to do the same thing. As it stands today, only Republicans have qualified to appear on the replacement ballot if Democrat Senators Angela Giron and/or John Morse are recalled.

The key issue is that this is a mail-in-only election, so there is no way to let someone submit petition signatures for access to the ballot with just 15 days to go before the election yet leave enough time for signature validation, statutorily-permitted challenges of the petition, and still be able to mail the ballots and get them returned by the election date.

Constitutional provisions generally should trump regulation or legislative law, and I expect it will in this case, but a remedy will not be easy to craft given the issues created by a mail-only election — a situation created by recent Democrat-sponsored (and Republican-opposed) legislation which not only ordered that all Colorado elections be only by mail but also allowed same-day registration, one of Democrats’/unions’ favorite methods of trying to steal close elections.

The hearing on the Libertarians’ claim was earlier today, and the judge is aware that a quick result is extremely important, so I would expect to be able to update you further within 48 hours.

Via: American Spectator

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Dem Congressman: Hey, I’m Beginning To Think Obamacare Employer Mandate Being Postponed Might Be Politically Motivated…

Democratic congressman Kurt Schrader of Oregon said on a local TV show over the weekend that he is suspicious that the employer mandate delay in Obamacare is politically motivated:

"Why are 'Obamacare' employer mandates held off until after the next election? Sounds like they want to retain Congress people before we get clobbered with much higher insurance rates," a viewer, Andre Stefansky, asks via Facebook.

"Well, I don't know. I mean, like Andre, I have my suspicions about the political motivations here, too," says Schrader. "I'd be less than honest if I [hadn't] said that."

Via: Weasel Zippers

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Fox’s Gregg Jarrett Accuses Obama: He ‘Doesn’t Even Understand His Own Health Care Law’

Fox News host Gregg Jarrett became exasperated with analyst Alan Colmes over the details of Obamacare implementation, accusing Colmes and President Barack Obama of either not understanding or intentionally misrepresenting the number of people covered under Obamacare.

“Maybe the president doesn’t even understand his own health care law,” Jarrett said, playing Obama’s remark, made during his Friday press conference, that the GOP’s “holy grail” is to prevent 30 million people from receiving health care. “It’s 48 million! You would think the president would understand a basic, fundamental, and important fact about his own signature law.”

“That was a little bit out of context,” Colmes said. “He was referring to the 30 million who will get health care under the Affordable Care Act. The other thing the media—”

“No, Alan, the CBO did a study and said that even after its fully implementation there will still be 30 million that are uninsured,” Jarrett said.

“That’s in dispute,” Colmes replied. “The 30 million of the president mentioned in that clip is about 30 million who will be covered under the Affordable Care Act—”

“It’s impossible!” Jarrett said. “Do the math! 48 million uninsured. You are still going to have 30 million uninsured.”

The two continued to dispute the meaning of the number up until the end of the segment.

Watch the whole clip here, via Fox News:

Via: Mediaite.com

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