After Calling them Nazis, Pelosi now claims to have Common Interests with Tea Party Movement

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has much in common with the Tea Party.   The speaker now says she shares views with movement she dismissed last summer as being “Astroturf” –  her suggestion that the grassroots of the Tea Party were a creation of the Republican Party. 

In a “This Week” interview with ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas, Pelosi said, “We share some of the views of the Tea Partiers in terms of the role of special interest in Washington, D.C., as — it just has to stop.  And that’s why I’ve fought the special interest, whether it’s on energy, whether it’s on health insurance, whether it’s on pharmaceuticals and the rest.”

Pelosi held to her skepticism about what is behind the movement.  “Some of it is orchestrated from the Republican headquarters,” Pelosi said.  She also added that, “Some of it is hijacking the good intentions of lots of people who share some of our concerns that we have about the role of special interests.”

For video and rest of the story: http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/02/pelosi-and-the-tea-party-share-views.html

Sunday Entertainment: O.T.P.:One Term President

Professor Obama sets stage for His 2012 Defeat

Often the foreign press gives a better glimpse at the reality of situations here in America. They show the view from the outside. That said, here is the UK’s “The Telegraph”‘s perspective on Thursday’s ObamaCare Summit:

The televised event, dreamt up by the White House to create the desired “atmospherics” for an attempt to push his health-care bill through Congress by Easter, underlined the reality that Obama is not a leader or even really a politician – he is a professor.

Professor Obama is convinced of his own intellectual superiority. When his pupils fail to realise that he knows what is good for them, he simply repeats himself in the expectation that the simpletons will eventually understand.

As the astute psephologist Michael Barone has pointed out, Obama can be understood in large part by reflecting on where he spent his adult life before arriving at the White House – Los Angeles, New York, Cambridge and Chicago.

For almost three decades, he lived in liberal campus communities where he was insulated from the real world by comfortable consensus and shared assumptions.

Now that Obama inhabits the self-reinforcing cocoon of the White House, this background has become a dangerous liability – and could spell disaster for Democrats in the November midterm elections.

for the full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/7332139/Teacher-Barack-Obama-could-be-a-one-term-President.html

Paul Ryan: Hiding Spending Does Not Reduce Spending

Bernanke sets stage for Greek Tragedy: I’m Stopping the Money Presses

With uncharacteristic bluntness, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned Congress on Wednesday that the United States could soon face a debt crisis like the one in Greece, and declared that the central bank will not help legislators by printing money to pay for the ballooning federal debt.

Recent events in Europe, where Greece and other nations with large, unsustainable deficits like the United States are having increasing trouble selling their debt to investors, show that the U.S. is vulnerable to a sudden reversal of fortunes that would force taxpayers to pay higher interest rates on the debt, Mr. Bernanke said.

“It’s not something that is 10 years away. It affects the markets currently,” he told the House Financial Services Committee. “It is possible that bond markets will become worried about the sustainability [of yearly deficits over $1 trillion], and we may find ourselves facing higher interest rates even today.

For full story: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/25/bernanke-delivers-warning-on-us-debt/

Sarah Palin’s Analysis of the ObamaCare Summit

Read what the Governor has to say and then chime on on what you think about the Administration’s Five Lies.

http://hillbuzz.org/2010/02/26/sarah-palin-throws-wonderful-ninja-stars-at-the-five-main-lies-of-the-rationing-summit/

“America’s Coming For You, Congress!!”

Interstate 75 near Lake City, FL

Britain’s “Tea Party” will actually serve…. Tea

     Daniel Hannan is a writer and journalist, and has been Conservative MEP for South East England since 1999. He speaks French and Spanish and loves Europe, but believes that the EU is making its constituent nations poorer, less democratic and less free. He is the winner of the Bastiat Award for online journalism. British Tea Party Movement to launch on Saturday:

The inaugural British Tea Party will take place on Saturday in my home town of Brighton, and I’ll be speaking. Do try to come: here are the details.

Labour has raised more than a trillion pounds in additional taxation since 1997. Yet, unbelievably, Gordon Brown has still managed to run up a deficit of 12.6 per cent of GDP (Greece’s is 12.7 per cent). A far lower level of taxation brought Americans out in spontaneous protest last year.

If you happen to be coming to the Conservative Spring Conference, do please pop in: the Tea Party is five minutes’ walk from the conference venue. It is, however, outside the security zone, and anyone is welcome to come. Oh, and this being England, we’ll be serving actual, you know, tea. I hope to see some of this blog’s readers there.

CNN Poll: Federal Government is Threat to Rights of Americans

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/26/cnn-poll-majority-says-government-a-threat-to-citizens-rights/?fbid=CvTGw8xH5p8

 

“Washington (CNN) – A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.”

Fla.’s Governor in “Crisis Mode”; Recent Attack on Opponent Fails; Now Considering Running as an Independent

By Jack Funari

Two highly placed and independent sources, speaking strictly on background, tell me that Gov. Charlie Crist is preparing to leave the Republican Party and run as an independent in the race for the U.S. Senate.

With Crist trailing Marco Rubio by 18 points in the latest polls, the Crist campaign has been in panic mode, launching attack after attack on the conservative Rubio.

Yesterday, the attacks reached a crescendo with the Crist campaign, and/or his disgraced Republican Party of Florida thug bootlickers, leaking Rubio’s credit card expenses from his time as speaker of the Florida House.

According to published reports, the former RPOF chair, the bovine bully-boy buffoon Jim Greer, spent more in a month than Rubio did in his entire two years as state House speaker. If all the Crist campaign has on Rubio is $53.49 at Winn-Dixie in Miami for “food” and a couple of plane tickets for his wife, then it’s game, set and match, as far as the Republican primary for Senate is concerned.

From what’s been made public, Rubio’s credit card expenses make him the most frugal of the Republican leaders with RPOF credit cards.

The attacks are not having the desired effect on the conservative Republican base because Crist, and the people who enable and support him, have lost all credibility with the majority of activists and Republican primary voters throughout the state.

Another well-placed source tells me the reason several Crist campaign staffers left recently is because, being committed Republicans, they refused to take part in an independent Senate run by Crist. That’s not confirmed by an independent second source, but it does ring true.

Now, reports from anonymous sources are sometimes wrong, so I have stopped short of reporting a Crist independent run as a verifiable fact, even though I believe my sources are accurate.

Here, in a minimalist nutshell, is why Crist will lose to Rubio in a Republican primary:
If someone told you that Sid Dinerstein, chairman of the Republican Party of Palm Beach County, was going to leave the Republican Party to become an independent, would you believe them? Would you believe it about Marco Rubio? No. If you knew anything at all about politics, or anything about Rubio and Dinerstein, you would dismiss out of hand such a ridiculous report as not being credible and just another silly political rumor.

So tell me, do you believe it is possible that Crist will leave the Republican Party to run as an independent?

You do, don’t you?

And that is why Crist will lose to Rubio.

 http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/theslant/blog/

Note: In “leaked” documents, Marco Rubio’s credit card records for an American Express he had from the Florida GOP while he was the Fla. Speaker of the House were released. They showed that in a 25 month period, Rubio charged $110,000 in expenses. Of that total, 11% were personal expenses, which included some groceries, car repair, and several plane tickets for his wife. What many of the news stories bury in the story is that Rubio reimbursed the Fla. GOP for all personal expenses when each bill came due, for a total of $13,000. As Rubio’s statement on the matter indicated, they make no comments on the $130,000 worth of expenses in ONE month for another GOP leader. There had been a story several months ago that indicated that other GOP leaders had not reimbursed the Fla. GOP until the matter was brought to public attention.