For decades Democrats have been saying that poverty causes crime in order to justify ever expanding welfare programs that reward stupidity and irresponsible behavior with free cash and to excuse criminal behavior among their most loyal voters.

It turns out that Democrats were lying again.

While unemployment rose during 2008, poverty rates rose as well.  It would make sense that the poverty rate would increase as unemployment increases.  However, while the poverty rate was increasing, crime across the United States was decreasing.

So if crime decreases as poverty increases, how does poverty cause crime like murder and rape?  Rape isn’t an economic crime, nor are most murders.

Census Statistics

• The official poverty rate in 2008 was 13.2 percent, up from 12.5 percent in 2007.
• In 2008, 39.8 million people were in poverty, up from 37.3 million in 2007 — the second consecutive annual increase in the number of people in poverty.

NY Times Article About Crime Drop In 2008

The 2008 violent crime rate was 454.5 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants (a 2.7 percent decrease from the 2007 rate), and the property crime rate was 3,212.5 per 100,000 persons (a 1.6 percent decrease from 2007).

Here’s an interesting passage from the NY Times article:

To put it another way, based on census figures for white and black men of all ages, a black man was roughly six times as likely to be a homicide victim as a white man in 2008.

Apparently, the liberals at the NY Times want us to feel sorry for blacks because they are more likely to be victims of murder.  What the NY Times doesn’t tell you is that blacks are more likely to be victims or murder because blacks are much more likely to commit murder.

FBI Homicide Statistics

In 2005, (homicide) offending rates for blacks were more than 7 times higher than the rates for whites.

It would be nice if the NY Times gave people all the facts.  Maybe there is something they don’t want people to know.

What kind of teacher would force her elementary school students to sing a song praising President Barack Hussein Obama for his accomplishments?  Here’s a video of one.

CBS News Obama Song Video And Article
Direct Link To Youtube Video

And what exactly has President Obama accomplished?  Other than to convince millions of brain-dead idiots to vote for him, that is?

Obama promised to create millions of jobs.  Did he accomplish that?  No.  Millions of jobs have been lost since he took office.  Job cuts soared in November 2008, the month he was elected.

Obama promised to create 5 million green jobs.  Has he accomplished that?  No.

Obama promised to end the wars.  Has he accomplished that?  No.  The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are going to hell under his leadership with more troop deaths now than a year ago.

I could go on and on about Obama’s failures.  There are no accomplishments to be found under his leadership.  Certainly nothing to justify indoctrinating little kids to sing a song praising him.

Just when you think that Barack Obama can’t get any dumber, he opens his mouth and proves otherwise.

Blowing off health insurers’ concerns that a government-run health insurance program would drive them out of business and destroy the private health insurance industry, Obama was quoted as saying the following:

If private insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality health care…then why is it that the government, which they say can’t run anything, suddenly is going to drive them out of business?  That’s not logical.

The government is going to drive them out of business, you stupid idiot, because you plan to borrow trillions of dollars to fund this program and have no intention of operating at anything but a huge loss.  Private businesses can’t operate at huge losses for long and they certainly cannot borrow trillions from future generations.  But all you have to do is borrow money and you can spend into oblivion without regard to financial soundness.  Idiot.

That statement by Obama could be the dumbest thing I have ever heard any politician say.  And the only thing that isn’t logical is the workings of the liberal brain.

I laugh when I think about NY Times writer David Brooks gushing on and on about how smart Barack Obama is.  Anyone who thinks that Obama is intelligent is himself an idiot.

National average gas prices are up a whopping 25% since Barack Hussein Obama took office in January, according to figures released by the Department of Energy.

The average national price for regular unleaded gasonline on report date January 26th, 2009, was $1.862.  As of May 18th, the average national price was $2.331.  That’s an increase of 47 cents per gallon in less than four months of Obama’s presidency.

On December 29th, the last report date for 2008, the national average price of unleaded gasoline was $1.642.

Democrats used to blame Republicans for the high cost of gasoline, even though DFLers did everything they could to prevent new sources of domestic petroleum from being developed all decade long.  One of the first things Obama did after taking office was to block drilling in Utah.  Now that the Democrats control Congress and the Presidency, who are they going to blame now?

I’ve been saying all along that this Democrat claim that banks aren’t lending money to people has been one big lie.  I was right.

Washington Post-AP Article

Kelly King, CEO of bank BB&T, said the following:

We have people in the street looking to give loans. This notion that people can not get loans is a myth. Banks are making all the good loans they can find.

No, it’s not a myth, it’s a lie.  A lie is a deliberate telling of a falsehood with the intent to mislead.  This is a Democrat lie intended to justify their goal of nationalizing banks by forcing them to accept government equity investments they don’t need.  Democrats want to control the banks.  Why?  Probably to justify their social engineering goals and for other nefarious reasons, I’m sure.  The Democrat desire to control everything comes into play, too.

Also in that article is discussion about some of the banks that got bailouts wanting to pay the money back as soon as possible.  They don’t want Obama meddling in their operations.  I can’t say I blame them.  I wouldn’t want a moron like Barack Obama interfering with my business, either.

This is unbelievable.  The latest plan involving failing automaker General Motors would give the auto workers union members nearly half the company in lieu of a $20 billion payment into a retiree health care trust.  The government would get ownership of 50% of the company.

Basically, this is what is happening:  the auto workers bankrupted the company with outlandish demands for wages and benefits for decades, then when the company is inevitably unable to pay those benefits, the auto workers end up owning a large chunk of the company they destroyed.

That’s extortion.

Almost as troubling is the fact that the government will be majority owner of GM.  The administration of Barack Obama will have direct control over the company.  How scary.

One of the biggest lies the Democratic Party has ever told–and they’ve told a lot–is that the American auto industry is failing because they didn’t make vehicles people wanted to buy.  This is completly false.  The auto industry built SUVs, minivans, and other non-tiny vehicles because people wanted them for the size, comfort, and utility they provide.

The fact is people don’t want tiny, deathtrap cars as Obama wants everyone to drive.  A man of six feet-three inches is not going to be comfortable in a small car.  Nevermind the fact that you can’t haul anything like tents, sports equipment, groceries, or much of anything else in the tiny trunks those vehicles have.

Not even Barack Obama wanted to drive a small, fuel-efficient car when he had the chance.  He purchased a roomy gas guzzler a few years back.

Barack Obama’s Gas Guzzler

In the end, this will serve to empower unions by showing that they can bankrupt companies and end up controlling them via their extortionary tactics.  The government will take majority ownership of a company that is failing and will fail even worse because the government will mandate they build cars nobody wants to buy.  And do you think a Democrat-controlled government is going to force their loyal union voters and political donors to take pay and benefit cuts to regain profitability?  No way.  The government will end up with a failing company and continue to subsidize the above-market union wages, benefits, and pensions at taxpayer expense.

If the executives at GM were smart, they would liquidate immediately.  Hundreds of thousands of workers at GM plants and GM dealerships around the country would find themselves out of work.  This is a better alternative than the government controlling a company they do not have the competence to run requiring never-ending subsidies of union workers.

AP GM Story

It seems there have been a rash of mass murders across the country since President Barack Obama took office less than three months ago.  I guess you could call this the Obama effect on society.  One might expect certain high-crime segments of our society to feel empowered by someone in the White House who looks like them, but Obama seems to have drawn out murderous kooks of all stripes.

AP Mass Murders Article

Mass murder is nothing new, and the invention of repeating guns only made it easier. But even experts who study the phenomenon have been stunned by the recent rash — seven in the past month, three in the past week alone.

“Boy, this is a lot,” said Safarik, now a partner with Forensic Behavioral Services International.

I find this passage from the article particularly interesting:

Most mass murderers, like most serial killers, are middle-aged, white males…

That may be true, but America is still majority white.  Based on population metrics, most mass murderers and serial killers should be white.  However, what this article doesn’t tell you is that blacks are over-represented among serial killers, as they are in all categories of violent crime, including assault and rape.  Blacks represent 12.5% of the American population, but commit over 50% of the murders and over 20% of serial murders.

Data

Serial killings by race of perpetrator:

• White:  72.82%
• Black:  21.33%
• Hispanic:  5.13%
• Asian:  0.72%

I found it interesting that the article would go out of its way to state that most mass murderers were white without mentioning the disproportionate killing by blacks.  You know how liberals are, they’ve always got to blame everything on white people.

It looks like they broke out the race of serial killers, giving Hispanics and Asians their own categories.  When the government publishes murder statistics, they lump Latinos in with Whites so as to skew the white murder rate upward.  Here are the murder offender by race statistics from 1976 to 2005.  If you notice, there are no categories for Latinos or Asians.

United States Homicide Offenders By Race

In a majority of the years in the report, blacks have committed over 50% of the murders.  But you will rarely see that reported in the media.

Since we are on the topic of racial crime due to the biased article, I’ll take the opportunity to expose a long-standing Democrat lie.

You know how Democrats have always blamed the high rate of crime among blacks on poverty?  Well, here’s the truth:  there are more whites in America in poverty than blacks.

US Poverty Statistics

According to government census statistics, in 2006 there were 16 million non-Hispanic whites living in poverty compared to about 9 million blacks.  If poverty was responsible for crime, and violent crime like murder in particular, then there should be more murders committed by whites than by blacks.  But that is not the case.  A majority of murders are not committed by whites, which represent the largest ethnic group living in poverty.

The Democratic Party has been using the “poverty causes crime” argument for decades to excuse disproportionate levels of crime among their beloved voting base and to further their agenda for more wealth redistribution.  It’s all been one big Democrat lie!

Do you want to know something interesting?  Crime correlates to intelligence as measured by IQ.  Those with lower IQ scores are several times more likely to commit crime.  Not only are dimwits more likely to commit crime, they are more likely to end up on welfare.  If you ever take the opportunity to talk to a police officer, he or she will tell you that most criminals are criminals because they are stupid, and that is why they get caught.  Criminals also vote Democrat, which is why the DFL is so hellbent on restoring voting rights to convicted felons.

No surprises.

Crime Statistics

Democrat Senator Christopher Dodd was caught in a lie.  He originally denied having anything to do with inserting language into the Obama stimulus bill exempting restrictions on bonuses of bailed-out companies prior to February 11, 2009.  Yesterday, Dodd admitted that he did insert that language into the bill at the urging of the Obama administration.

Dodd was quoted by ABC News as saying:

I did not want to make any changes to my original Senate passed amendment. But I did so at the request of administration officials who gave us no indication that this was in any way related to AIG.

Interestingly, Dodd is the single largest recipient of political contributions from AIG employees and their family members.  There also happens to be an AIG office in Connecticut, the state that Dodd represents, which houses the AIG Financial Products headquarters and has several people working in it who are recipients of the $163 million in bonus money.

You may remember Obama railing against executive bonuses in the past.  Do you really think that members of his administration would pressure Congress into inserting bonus exemption language into the stimulus bill without his knowledge or consent?  Absolutely not.  Obama had to have known about this before the news broke, which means that the outrage he expressed earlier this week was fake.

This past Monday (March 16th, 2009), President Obama expressed his anger at the AIG bonuses, saying the following:

I do want to comment on the news about executive bonuses at AIG. I think some of you have heard a little bit about this over the last few days. This is a corporation that finds itself in financial distress due to recklessness and greed. Under these circumstances, it’s hard to understand how derivative traders at AIG warranted any bonuses, much less $165 million in extra pay. I mean, how do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat?

In the last six months, AIG has received substantial sums from the U.S. Treasury. And I’ve asked Secretary Geithner to use that leverage and pursue every single legal avenue to block these bonuses and make the American taxpayers whole. I want everybody to be clear that Secretary Geithner has been on the case. He’s working to resolve this matter with the new CEO, Edward Liddy — who, by the way, everybody needs to understand came on board after the contracts that led to these bonuses were agreed to last year.

AIG can justify the outrage, idiot President, because it was you and your administration who pressured Chris Dodd to put language in your stimulus bill to exempt these bonuses from any restrictions.  Obama later added in his speech:

Excuse me, I’m choked up with anger here.

That Obama is a shameless liar.  He expresses outrage over something that he and his administration are responsible for.  Not only are they responsible for it, but they lobbied Congress to make it happen.  Congress was trying to prevent these types of bonuses from happening until the Obama administration stepped in.

Barack Obama is responsible for the bonuses at AIG.  He lied through his teeth when he acted shocked, surprised, and angry because he was the one behind it.

Barack Obama, President of the United States, is a liar.

As the fake Democrat anger over the $163 million in bonuses at AIG continues, it is becoming more evident that Democrats were the ones who enabled it to occur.

AIG claims that the government approved the bonuses.  The Obama administration originally pleaded ignorance.  The New York Times, however, said that the administration had known about the bonuses for months.  The Obama administration now admits that the President knew about the bonuses for several days before the news broke.  It’s interesting how Obama didn’t get upset about the bonuses until after the public got enraged, isn’t it?

There are lies and half-truths coming from all over the place.  Obviously, some people are not being completely truthful.  It looks like Democrat Senator Christopher Dodd (CT) has been caught red-handed in a lie.

Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, seems to have changed his story about the bonus language in the Democrat stimulus legislation he helped write.  Yesterday, he denied having anything to do with adding the legal language to allow the bonuses.  Today, he admits that he did.

CNN Christopher Dodd Article

Senate Banking committee Chairman Christopher Dodd told CNN Wednesday that he was responsible for language added to the federal stimulus bill to make sure that already-existing contracts for bonuses at companies receiving federal bailout money were honored.

On Tuesday, Dodd denied to CNN that he had anything to do with adding the language, which has been used by officials at bailed-out insurance giant AIG to justify paying millions of dollars in bonuses to executives after receiving federal money.

We now have concrete proof that Democrat Chris Dodd is a filthy, lying pig.  This isn’t surprising.  After all, he is a Democrat and DFLers have a seemingly genetic propensity to lie.

Not only did Dodd admit his role in the AIG bonuses, but he and an unnamed source say that the Obama administration pressured them into adding language into the Democrat stimulus bill to allow fulfillment of pre-existing bonus contracts for bailout recipients.

All the Democrat outrage about the AIG bonuses is fake.  It turns out that the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress allowed the bonuses to occur.  The Obama administration lobbied for the bonus language in the stimulus bill.  The Democrats put it in and passed it.

These Democrats are nothing but liars and frauds.

For all the outrage expressed by President Barack Obama and the Democrats regarding AIG’s payment of $163 million in bonuses, it turns out that the Obama administration knew about it for a long time.  Not only that, but these bonuses were approved by the government.

NY Times Article

President Obama and his top economic advisers scrambled to calm a nationwide furor on Monday over bonuses paid at the American International Group, even as administration officials acknowledged they had known about the issue for months.

AIG executives say they got approval from the government to award the bonuses.  Nobody in the Obama administration should act surprised.

But that won’t stop DFLers from engaging in phony political posturing.  Now Democrats are faking outrage over the bonuses and spewing venomous rhetoric.  They are promising to take away the money from the recipients via a special law targeting them with excessive taxation.

Democrat Charles “Chuck” Schumer said the following today about the bonuses:

They should voluntarily return them. If they don’t, we plan to tax virtually all of it.

Washington Post Article

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-NV) said Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) said they would unveil a proposal by tomorrow that would tax up to 98 percent of the bonus money.

How nice.  You are doing your job and expect compensation as contractually agreed beforehand and the Democrats come along and promise to steal everything you earned even though they knew about the bonuses months ago.

This is yet another example of the phoniness of the Obama administration and of Democrats in general.  They knew about the bonuses all along and now they pretend to be upset about it after news stories got the public all enraged.

Democrats keep telling the lie that banks are not lending money and that is the reason for the weak economy, dropping home values, and justification for nationalization of the banking sector.  But that just is not true.

Banks are still lending plenty of money to people with good credit.  They may not be originating loans to people with poor credit like they did in the past, which is a good thing, but people with good credit, such as myself, are still able to get loans. A few weeks ago, I called a car dealership and asked them if people with good credit could get financing.  I was told yes.

According to the Treasury, bank lending was up in December of 2008 from the prior month.  The Treasury said that loan activity was “resilient”.  Wells Fargo originated $48.2 billion in loans, Bank of America originated $44.6 billion, and JP Morgan Chase made $28.3 billion in loans.  These banks also extended in the neighborhood of $50 billion in loans or lines of credit to commercial businesses.

So why do Democrats keep lying about banks not lending money?  Is it because they are trying to justify nationalization of banks to further their socialist agenda?  That’s what I think.

Bloomberg Bank Lending Article

Those Democrats sure have a difficult time telling the truth, don’t they?

Senator Roland Burris, who was appointed to fill Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat, may not have been completely honest about his conversations regarding raising money for former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.  It turns out that he did indeed discuss raising money for the disgraced former governor, and had those discussions with the governor’s brother, Robert Blagojevich.

Burris recently revealed details about the conversations.  Some have speculated that Burris may have been captured on the FBI’s wiretaps of Blagojevich.  From the Chicago Sun Times:

After contact with federal agents, U.S. Sen. Roland Burris changed his sworn testimony to the Illinois House committee that moved to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

Burris acknowledged Sunday that federal investigators have contacted his lawyers.

Burris’ voice “might have been” on the tapes, said his lawyer Timothy Wright.

So, Burris may have been caught red-handed committing perjury.  Illinois Republicans are asking prosecutors to investigate him.

Burris has been revealed to be another Democrat liar after less than two months in office.  Is anyone surprised? 

Barack Obama has lied once again.  In announcing his cap on executive pay for companies that accept government bailouts, President Obama said the following:

NY Times Transcript

This is America. We don’t disparage wealth. We don’t begrudge anybody for achieving success. And we believe that success should be rewarded.

Obama sounds like a Republican.  He sounds like Ronald Regan.  Unfortunately, he doesn’t really mean this and has made statements to the contrary many times before.

Obama has spoken out against “income inequality” more times than one can count.  This flies in the face of what he said about not disparaging wealth.  If you constantly criticize the rich and demand higher taxes to redistribute wealth from the rich to those who did not earn it in the name of “fairness” and “equality”, then are you not punishing success and disparaging wealth?  If you take money away from people who achieve success, how can that be considered rewarding it?

In an interview with NBC on or about September, 17th, 2007, Obama said the following:

…the underlying economic factors that produced a very small number of extraordinary winners and there’s been enormous waste, stagnation for ordinary workers, which is why we’ve got the greatest income inequality since any time since the gilded age.

Obama is a flip-flopper, a hypocrite, and a liar.  I wonder if his liberal base is paying attention to what he is saying about not begrudging wealth.  He criticizes income inequality and argues for higher taxes to redress it one minute, then says that success should be rewarded the next.  Which is it?  Should success be rewarded or should success be punished by redistributing wealth?  You cannot have it both ways.

Hypocrite-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama today demanded higher fuel economy standards for automobiles.

NY Times Article

In a prior post (Barack Obama’s Gas Guzzler), we proved that President Obama is a lying hypocrite not willing to live under the same standards he wishes to impose on ordinary Americans.  When he had the choice to purchase a small, fuel-efficient car or a high-performance gas guzzler, he picked a gas guzzler.

The auto industry has been protesting higher fuel-economy standards for years because the technology to make more efficient vehicles that people also want to buy does not exist.  Obama didn’t want a small car, why would he demand that other people buy them?

Obama, King of the Morons, can arbitrarily decide any mileage standards he wants.  That doesn’t mean the technology to achieve them exists.  If the technology did exist, some automaker somewhere in the world would be using it.  There are plenty of other countries that have auto industries not under the control of Obama.

I predict this is all going to blow up in Obama’s face.  Obama is single-handedly working to destroy the American economy.  Obama’s standards won’t create jobs, they will destroy jobs by driving up the cost of vehicles and leaving a marketplace filled with vehicles nobody wants to buy.

This issue involves one of the Democratic Party’s biggest lies:  that auto sales are down because automakers aren’t building cars that people want to buy.

The fact is that Democrats blocked domestic oil drilling all decade.  Democrats were to blame for high gas prices last year and the high prices we will face in the future.  People bought big SUVs not because fuel-efficient cars were unavailable, but because they liked the size, comfort, safety, and utility that they provided.  People wanted big SUVs, and they bought them.  People did not want small cars then, and still do not.

Welcome to Obama’s world.  Freedom of choice no longer exists.  He can have a large, high-performance car, but you cannot.  Obama has spoken.  Be a good little peon and do exactly what he tells you to do.

The saga involving the Minnesota Senate Race continues.  Al Franken, the Democrat challenger to Republican incumbent Norm Coleman, is pleading to the Minnesota Supreme Court to force Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and Secretary of State Mark Ritchie to sign the election certificate certifying his victory before Coleman’s lawsuit can work its way through the Courts.

Coleman sued on several grounds following the conclusion of the recount process.  Inconsistent standards were applied to the recount in different counties.  Some precincts recounted more votes than were cast on election day.  Also, there is the issue that absentee ballots in Republican-leaning areas have not been counted while those in Democrat-leaning areas have.

Before the recount began, Al Franken demanded that all votes be counted.  Now, he is demonstrating his hypocrisy by demanding that all votes not be counted.  He wants to put an end to the challenge by Coleman before it even begins.  This shows Franken’s true character.

From Al Franken’s Blog:

We are determined to ensure that every Minnesotan who cast a vote — either in person or via absentee — ought to have that vote counted. And whether it is at the county level, at the canvass board, in the courts or before the United States Senate, we don’t know yet. But because we believe the principle that every vote cast ought to be counted is universal, we remain confident these votes will be counted.

No recount should be considered complete or accurate until all the ballots are counted — that includes the improperly rejected absentee ballots…

Fortunately, Minnesota law prevents the election certificate from being signed before the case is heard by the Courts.  Al Franken doesn’t have a leg to stand on in this issue, but it isn’t stopping him from trying to steal the election.

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What can we say about Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama’s pick for Secretary of State?  We can say a lot–and none of it is good.

Hillary Clinton is a hypocrite, a fraud, and a liar.  She is also a colossal idiot and a deadbeat.

To bolster her credentials during the 2008 presidential campaign, she told a bold-faced lie that she dodged sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia in 1996.  This was completely untrue.  The pilot who flew the plane she was on said that no such thing occurred and that a first lady would never be flown into a place where she would be under enemy fire.

Sniper Fire Story

Hillary Clinton has had to admit that she exaggerated her claim of coming under sniper fire during a visit to Bosnia in the 1990s, after video footage showed the then first lady walking calmly from her plane.

The Clinton campaign played down the episode as a “misstatement” and a “minor blip”.

Then, to deflect attention from her lie, Hillary Clinton lied again.  She said she misspoke about her trip to Bosnia.  When someone makes a misstatement, they say something like, “it’s nice to be here in Milwaukee, Minnesota.”  Milwaukee is actually in Wisconsin, not Minnesota.  That is a misstatement.  Fabricating events that did not occur and telling them in a dramatic way to make yourself look more qualified than you are is not misspeaking, that is lying.

CNN Clinton Misspoke Story

Sen. Hillary Clinton said she “misspoke” last week when she gave a dramatic description of her arrival in Bosnia 12 years ago, recounting a landing under sniper fire.

Clinton was responding to a question Monday from the Philadelphia Daily News’ editorial board about video footage of the event that contradicted her assertion that her group “ran with our heads down” from the plane to avoid sniper fire at the Tuzla Air Base.

“I say a lot of things–millions of words a day–so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement,” (Clinton said).

You have to be a big idiot to tell the lies that Hillary told knowing that there is ample video evidence to prove you a liar.

We all know what a fraud and hypocrite Hillary is, too.  Her and her husband had a net worth of between $35 million and $50 million in 2007.  The Clintons had $109 million in gross income from 2000 to 2007.  Despite having more money than she could possibly spend, Hillary Clinton demanded that taxpayers do more to help the poor while sitting on a huge pile of cash.  Hillary and Bill Clinton could have given their quickly accumulated money away to the poor they pretended to care about, but they didn’t.  They chose to use that money to live lavish lifestyles.

Not only is Hillary Clinton a multi-millionaire who doesn’t believe in using her own money to help the poor, she’s a deadbeat as well.  Paying her bills is as big of a priority with her as helping the poor, evidently.  At the end of the primary season last year, she owed almost $23 million, half of it to herself.  The other half she owed to vendors, consultants, and others.  She has since forgiven the debt she owes to herself, meaning that she had to pay it out of pocket (oh, poor girl!).  Reported a few weeks ago, as of the end of November 2008 Hillary still owed creditors $6.4 million.

Deadbeat Hillary Clinton Story

Hillary Clinton has cut the debt from her presidential campaign almost in half, but still owed $6.4 million at the end of last month.

Clinton also forgave the $13.2 million she lent her campaign.

So six months after dropping out of the race, she still owes people money.  It isn’t like she doesn’t have the money to pay these creditors–she does.  She just doesn’t want to pay it herself–which is typical of Democrats.  She wants other people to pay her debts.  As a matter of fact, she is still begging for contributions to pay off her campaign debt on her website.

From Hillary Clinton’s Website:

Working together, we can pay off Hillary’s campaign debt now! Your contribution now will make a big difference in cleaning up that last campaign debt.

What a disgusting deadbeat!

Besides being a hypocrite, a fraud, a liar, an idiot, and a deadbeat, Hillary is the world’s biggest doormat.  Her husband has cheated on her repeatedly during the years.  Throughout their marriage, Bill has cheated on Hillary with countless women.  From carrying on long-term affairs to soliciting oral sex from his employees to allegedly raping a woman, Bill has screwed around on Hillary almost constantly.  And rumor has it Bill is still cheating on her to this very day.

We have a woman nominated to be Secretary of State who has tolerated her husband’s non-stop cheating for over 30 years.   She has let her husband walk all over her during her marriage.  She is a doormat.

If Hillary lets her cheating husband walk all over her for 30 years, is she going to let rogue world leaders walk all over her, too?

This is the person that Barack Obama chose to be the United States’ ambassador to the world.  This is the woman who is going to represent the United States of America in international affairs.  She lies, she’s a hypocrite, she doesn’t pay her bills, she can’t stand up to her husband, and this is who we are going to send to represent our country.  Unbelievable!

Hillary Clinton is unfit to be Secretary of State.

The Minnesota election results for U.S. Senate have been certified by the Democrat-controlled canvassing board.  To no surprise, the Democrat challenger to Republican Norm Coleman, failed radio talk-show host, mediocre comedian, limousine liberal, and D-list celebrity Al Franken has been certified the winner as a result of numerous biased decisions all favoring the Democrat.

This race and the dirty, fraudulent tricks by the Democrats are getting national attention.  The Wall Street Journal ran an article about the race the other day highlighting some of the methods Democrats are using to steal this election.

Wall Street Journal Al Franken-Norm Coleman Senate Race Article

The article discusses how the canvassing board headed by Democrat Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and advised by Democrat Attorney General Lori Swanson has made contradictory rulings regarding the recounting of ballots, all favoring Al Franken.

In one instance, there were 133 ballots “missing” from a heavily Democrat-leaning district in Minneapolis.  How does one recount missing ballots?  You can’t.  But that didn’t stop the canvassing board from ruling that election night totals–which may be the result of double-counted ballots–be used in place of the physical ballots.  Franken was the beneficiary of this ruling, gaining a net 46 votes.

In a contradictory ruling, the canvassing board ruled that a Maplewood, MN, precinct that ended up with more recounted ballots than those cast on election night not use the election night totals and instead use the recounted totals.  This resulted in 177 more ballots than voters in the precinct, meaning that some of them must have been double-counted or that fraud has taken place.  Maplewood leans slightly Democratic.

Democrats initially demanded that all ballots be counted.  Nobody had a problem with that.  Counting all validly cast votes is what should be done in a Democratic society.  But some of the mistakenly rejected absentee ballots from Republican-leaning areas have not been counted, while those from Democrat-leaning areas have and factored into the vote totals.  Even though all votes have not been counted, as Democrats initially called for, the DFLers are now demanding that Coleman concede the race giving Franken the victory.

Can you see what dirty frauds and liars Democrats are?

Then, there is the issue of double-counted votes.  According to various news sources, there are a total of 25 precincts which provided higher vote totals than people who signed-in to vote.  In Minnesota, a voter must sign a roster next to his or her name prior to being given a ballot.  How can Democrats argue that more votes should be counted than were actually cast on election day?  Well, they are.  State canvassing board and Minnesota Supreme Court rulings have refused to acknowledge the Coleman camp’s allegation of double-counted votes.

The issue stems from ballots too damaged to be machine counted being duplicated.  The Coleman team insists that some of the duplicate ballots must have been counted.  Since the precincts report higher vote totals than sign-ins, there have to have been instances where ballots were double counted.  Perfectly logical, right?  Well, Democrats ruled against this sound logic, insisting that the inflated vote totals be used.

Higher vote totals than ballots cast from Democrat-leaning precincts, failure to count absentee ballots from Republican-leaning areas, missing ballots, all the decisions made in this recount have benefited the Democrat challenger.  All the decisions made have been made by Democrats.

Is anyone surprised that Democrats are trying to steal another election?  The only things that Democrats do well other than fail in school and in life are to lie, cheat, and steal.

Colman is fighting on.  He is ignoring calls by Democrat Senate majority leader Harry Reid and junior senator from Minnesota Amy Klobuchar (who looks like a transvestite) to concede the race.  Coleman has filed a lawsuit challenging the results of the canvassing board.  Given that Minnesota leans Democrat, I don’t expect him to have much luck finding justice in the courts.

As of this writing, the certified vote total for Franken gives him a 225 vote lead over Coleman.  On election night, Coleman lead by 215 votes.

Here is another article by journalist and Conservative radio talk-show host Joe Soucheray.  His show, Garage Logic, broadcasts locally on KSTP-AM 1500.

Joe Soucheray Article

As further proof of how rotten our economy isn’t, the concert industry posted a record year in 2008.

With the way Democrats are talking about everyone losing their jobs and their homes, how come people are paying record prices to attend concerts?

Maybe the economy isn’t as bad as the Democrats are saying it is.  Nobody can dispute that we are in a recession.  But economic contractions are a normal part of economic cycles.  They always have been and probably always will be.  The economy grows for a while, it contracts a little bit, then grows, and the cycle repeats every few years.  It’s called the business cycle.  Yet Democrats have no knowledge about it.  Every time the economy takes a downturn, Democrat idiots act like it has never happened before and then blame Republicans for it.

Democrat liars have been saying that the economy has been terrible for years, even when unemployment was at 4.4% in March of 2007.  I guess if you keep lying, eventually you will be right.

AP Concert Industry Article

Of particular interest is this one little nugget:  all three of the top-grossing concert tours are by Democrats.

Democrat Bon Jovi’s tour grossed an estimated $210.6 million between November 2007 and November 2008.

Bruce Springsteen, also a Democrat and a Barack Obama supporter, grossed $204.5 million.  Madonna, bleeding heart liberal Democrat that she is, had gross revenues of $162 million.

The hypocrisy of these Democrats is mind-blowing.  First off, they are already extremely rich.  They don’t need more money.  But, they go on concert tours and squeeze as much money out of their fans as possible while releasing tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Then they complain about global warming.

Nothing sickens me more than rich liberals like Madonna saying that American taxpayers must do more to help the poor around the world while sitting on a huge pile of money.  Her recent divorce from Guy Ritchie revealed the material girl to be worth between $450 million and $850 million.  Why doesn’t she give her own money away?  Just more fraud and hypocrisy from rich Democrats.

Madonna poverty in Africa article

Madonna net worth article

We all know how the Democratic Party tried to steal the 2000 presidential election.  (More on that below.)  This election cycle, the Democrats are trying to steal the Minnesota Senate election between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and multi-millionaire socialist hypocrite and failed radio talk-show host Democrat Al Franken.

What bothers me most of all in this race are the “missing” votes.  Since the race was so close, with an initial difference of just over 400 votes between the two candidates, a recount was mandated.  Coleman originally held the lead in the vote count and still does as of this writing by 328 votes.  But those dirty Democrats are trying to scrape up votes wherever they can, even out of thin air.

In the Democrat stronghold of Minneapolis, 133 ballots supposedly were lost.  How they got lost was never revealed.  Did they ever exist?  Who knows.  There is no proof since they cannot be found.  But that didn’t stop the Democrat-leaning canvassing board from insisting that those 133 missing ballots be factored into the vote total.  Those missing ballots gave Franken a net gain of 46 votes over Coleman.

I cannot understand out how anyone could rationally decide that ballots whose existence cannot be proven should be counted in a recount.  But, we are talking about Democrats…

133 Missing Ballots – Star Tribune Article

After what they said was an exhaustive search of the nooks and crannies of their Northeast warehouse, Minneapolis officials announced Monday that they were abandoning their hunt for 133 missing ballots in the U.S. Senate recount.

The Minneapolis precinct is heavily Democratic, and calculations indicate that leaving the missing ballots out of the count could cost Franken a net of 46 votes. That’s a potentially important number in a race where Coleman held a 192-vote edge…

Franken Benefits From Missing Votes – Pioneer Press Article

Democrat Al Franken had a good morning at the state canvassing board, not only winning two decisions that could be critical in determining the outcome of the 2008 U.S. Senate race but getting a surprise gift from the city of Duluth.

First, the board voted to count 133 missing ballots from a Minneapolis precinct, despite the objections of Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman. (Democrat) Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson told the board this morning that it could include the ballots, which otherwise would have cost Franken dozens of votes in his bid to unseat Coleman.

Democrats want to steal this senatorial election so badly they insist phantom votes be counted!

The Stolen 2000 Election

After the 2000 election, Republican George Bush held a margin of 1,784 votes over Democrat challenger Vice President Al Gore in the state of Florida.  That meant Bush would receive Florida’s electoral college votes and would win the presidential election.  A recount was automatically mandated due to the small margin between the candidates.  The recount revealed Bush to still be the winner, albeit by a smaller margin.  Al Gore sued.  He wanted to cherry-pick districts favorable to him in an effort to scrape up enough votes to defeat Bush in a manual recount, applying all sorts of goofy standards to ballots.  Gore took the case before the Florida Supreme Court, which extended the deadline for election returns.  The United States Supreme Court eventually ruled that no recount could be completely by the legally required deadline, causing Gore to drop the case and concede the election.

Despite the Democrats’ attempts to steal the 2000 election, Bush won it legitimately.

CNN 2000 Election Study

Florida recount study: Bush still wins

A comprehensive study of the 2000 presidential election in Florida suggests that if the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed a statewide vote recount to proceed, Republican candidate George W. Bush would still have been elected president.

Bush won the 2000 election fair and square.  Unfortunately, Democrats still haven’t stopped perpetuating the lie that Bush stole the election and was “selected, not elected.”

Democrat Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts was interviewed by CBS News’ Lesley Stahl on last night’s edition of “60 Minutes”.  Barney Frank demonstrated to the world that he is a true moron.  He exhibited the faulty logic typical of liberalism to a stomach-turning degree.  Not surprisingly, Lesley Stahl never pursued it.  A real journalist would have torn Frank to shreds with the ammunition he provided.

Rep. Frank is the head of the House Financial Services Committee which oversees the entire financial industry including the banking, securities, insurance, and housing industries.  The interview dealt mostly with the current subprime mortgage crisis and home foreclosures which, interestingly, Barney Frank is largely responsible for causing.  Lesley Stahl never really mentioned that.

60 Minutes Article And Video Of Barney Frank Interview

As the piece opened, it was very flattering of Rep. Frank.  It made me gag.  It started with:

Barney Frank has been called the “smartest guy in Congress,” which is lucky for us since he works on some of the thorniest issues around.

Frank has been called the “smartest guy in Congress” by whom?  Himself?  Other Democrat morons?  Nobody else could call a massive idiot like Barney Frank “smart” given what he has done.  Frank was one of the leaders who blocked Republican efforts to put stricter regulations on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the early 2000s to prevent Fannie and Freddie from collapsing–which they inevitably did.  First, a little history lesson.

In the late 1990s, the Clinton administration was pressuring Fannie Mae to make loans to people with poor credit and low incomes in an effort to increase minority home ownership.  Fannie Mae was run by a Democrat by the name of Franklin Raines.  He made a reported $100 million in a few years time while leading the government-backed corporation during a period when it committed massive accounting fraud.  Being a loyal Democrat, Raines was more than happy to oblige the requests of the puppet master, Bill Clinton.  Making high-risk loans was good for Raines, too, since it put a lot of money into his pocket.

Home ownership is a good goal for America.  Home ownership by means of giving loans to people who can’t pay the money back isn’t wise.  In the late 1990s, people were warning that Fannie was taking on too much risk by becoming such a large player in the subprime mortgage market.

NY Times Article From Sept. 30, 1999

In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.

The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets — including the New York metropolitan region — will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans.

Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people…

In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980’s.

In 1999–nine years before Fannie Mae collapsed–people were warning that the quasi-governmental agency was taking on too much risk and posed a huge financial danger to the taxpayers of this country (most of whom vote Republican).

So what did Barney Frank do?  Rep. Frank and his Democrat colleagues did everything they could to prevent the Bush administration and Republicans from imposing stricter regulations on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prevent a catastrophic failure from happening.  Let’s look at just how “smart” Barney Frank is, shall we?

NY Times Article From Sept. 11, 2003

New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae

The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.

Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry.

The new agency would have the authority, which now rests with Congress, to set one of the two capital-reserve requirements for the companies. It would exercise authority over any new lines of business. And it would determine whether the two are adequately managing the risks of their ballooning portfolios.

The plan is an acknowledgment by the administration that oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — which together have issued more than $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt — is broken.

In 2003, the Bush administration and Republicans were pushing for more regulations to prevent the collapse which occurred a few months ago.  What did “smart” Barney Frank think of this?  From the same article:

”These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ”The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”

Barney Frank said that there was no problem with Fannie and Freddie.  It turns out that there were big problems with those two taxpayer-backed corporations.  They failed, costing the hard-working taxpayers billions!

Obviously, Barney Frank was wrong.  He isn’t smart.  He’s an idiot.  And so is Lesley Stahl who opened her piece by saying that it is lucky for us that Rep. Frank has been called the “smartest guy in Congress”.

Is it lucky for us that Barney Frank blocked Republican efforts to prevent Fannie and Freddie from collapsing?  Is that Lesley Stahl’s idea of good fortune?

The Stahl piece went on to briefly mention Rep. Frank’s relationship with a male prostitute and the fact that a male prostitution ring was being run out of Frank’s home in 1989.  Amazing how he had no knowledge of that…

The entire interview with Barney Frank is a showcase of idiocy and the mental disorder of liberalism.  More to come in the next post.

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Another Democrat fraud exposed!  Former Democratic Party presidential candidate and former Senator from North Carolina John Edwards has admitted to cheating on his wife Elizabeth.

Rumors have circulated for many months about Edwards’ affair with Rielle Hunter, a campaign videographer.  The National Enquirer originally broke the story of the affair, which Edwards vehemently denied numerous times.

Edwards lied repeatedly about his affair.  But we expect lies from Democrats because they are nothing but liars and frauds.  Edwards has finally admitted his true character to the world, as if we couldn’t tell his true character from his ambulance-chasing lawyer days.  He betrayed his loyal wife, and lied about it over and over again.

Both Edwards and Hunter deny that he is the father of her baby.  So why was he seen in the same hotel she was staying in recently?  Was Edwards stopping in for a quickie?  Perhaps like his buddy Bill Clinton, he desired the same kind of services that Monica Lewinsky provided?

Edwards, like all Democrats, is a fraud.  A total and complete fraud.  He is extremely wealthy and lives in a mansion while pretending to care about the poor.  He lives a lifestyle of wealth and luxury and has a huge carbon footprint.  But he never gives his own money away to help the poor he pretends to care about.

All the political commentators say that Edwards’ political career is over.  There is no chance of him being Barack Obama’s vice presidential pick now.

Aw, how sad…

Democrats telling lies?  Say it isn’t so!

Republican candidate John McCain’s team says that there were no discussions between them and the Barack Obama camp about accepting public campaign funds.

According to CNN, laywers representing the two candidates met on June 6th to talk about joint townhall appearances, and nothing more, officially.  The McCain team vehemently denies that any negotiations about public financing took place at that meeting.  McCain’s counsel Trevor Potter was quoted as saying:

We then spoke in general terms about the public financing system, with Bob (Bauer, Obama’s counsel) outlining reasons it could be considered ‘broken’ or irrelevant in 2008, and I explaining why Sen. McCain remained committed to it and thought it was good for the country.

I cannot begin to explain how the Obama campaign could twist my reiteration of Sen. McCain’s support of the system, and hope the two candidates would participate in it, into what they said today.

There you have it.  McCain as of today is committed to eliminating private money from presidential campaigns while Barack Obama flip-flopped from his prior position and decided to indulge himself in all that tantalizing money from rich liberals and special interests.

Obama could reverse his position and walk away from private money and accept public financing.  But he won’t.  He says one thing and does the exact opposite. Barack Obama is a total and complete fraud.

If you read the dirty things Obama said about McCain when he announced he was turning down public financing, it also shows that Obama is not committed to running a clean campaign as he originally said he was.  So much for ending dirty politics Obama…

Barack Obama gave a speech today hammering John McCain and the Republicans for things which are the fault of Democrats. Let’s look at Obama’s comments and examine them with the truth.

Obama Hammers McCain

“[John McCain] also legitimately tout moments of independence from his party, and on some issues, such as earmark reform and climate change, he and I share goals, even if we may differ on how to get there.

It was Barack Obama who requested a $1 million earmark for his wife’s employer so they could build a new pavilion shortly after she got a raise in salary in excess of $200,000 per year. McCain says he has never requested an earmark, Obama has.

Interesting how Obama lies, isn’t it?

Chicago Tribune Article About Obama’s Earmarks

Among the pork-barrel spending requests Barack Obama has made since arriving in the U.S. Senate is $1 million for the hospital where his wife worked at the time and $8 million for weapons technology made by a big defense contractor with close ties to a major fundraiser.

In among them was a request for $1 million in federal funding in 2006 for a new pavilion at the University of Chicago Hospitals, where his wife, Michelle Obama, was a vice president at the time.

Now remember, shortly after Barack Obama got elected to the Senate, his wife was given a $200,000 raise in her annual salary. Does this sound like a payback? How can anyone argue that a pavilion is critical for the operation of a hospital?

Back to Obama’s criticism of McCain and Bush:

“President Bush told the American people he thought the biggest danger arising from this housing crisis was the temptation to do something about it. Now Senator McCain wants to turn Bush’s policy of ‘too little, too late’ into a policy of ‘even less, even later’. That’s not the change we need right now. That’s what got us into this mess in the first place.”

Um, we aren’t in a housing crisis. We are in a subprime crisis. Subprime means that the people are not credit worthy. What happens when you lend money to people who can’t pay it back? Well, they end up not paying it back and going into foreclosure.

If we look at this graph from the Mortgage Bankers Association, we can see that prime fixed rate foreclosures are lower than they were in the recent past. Prime adjustable rate foreclosures are a little bit higher, but they are still nowhere near as high as subprime foreclosure rates.

Try explaining that to the dimwitted Democrats.

Link to foreclosure graph

“And while John McCain wants to pick up where George Bush left off by trying again to privatize Social Security, I will never waver in my commitment to protect that basic promise as President. We will not privatize Social Security, we will not raise the retirement age, and we will save Social Security for future generations by asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share.”

Wealthy people are already paying much more than their fair share. When Social Security started, the retirement age was 65 and the average life expectancy was 67. Now, the average life expectancy is nearing 80. Social Security was never designed to provided sole income for a retired person; rather, it was designed to be part of a three-pronged stool which also includes personal savings and investment.

Social Security and Medicare–programs for the elderly–are bankrupting the nation. Medicare spending now tops $600 billion per year, and rising much faster than economic growth. They are not sustainable. But Democrats don’t care if they spend us into bankruptcy. And they are either not smart enough to see it, or are lying to appeal to their mindless voting base.

“As far as we can tell, John McCain doesn’t have a plan to make college more affordable. And that means he isn’t listening to the struggles facing a new generation of Americans.”

Now that’s just rich. You see, the truth of the matter is that tuition at the most liberal institutions of higher learning is the highest. The more liberal an institution, the higher the tuition. Look at Harvard, Yale, or any other liberal school. You’ll see tuitions in excess of $30,000 per year.

And a liberal like Barack Obama is going to tackle the high cost of education that liberals like him are responsible for?

These Democrats blocked oil drilling, then they blame Republicans for the high cost of gas. They jack up tuition at liberal universities, then they blame Republicans for the high cost of education.

You would have to be an idiot to believe anything these Democrats say.

It never ceases to amaze me just what kind of disgusting liars these Democrats are.

Barack Hussein Obama gave a speech today hammering Republicans for high gas prices and job losses. Let’s take a look at this for a moment.

It was Democrats who blocked domestic oil drilling every time it came up. Many–if not the majority–of these job losses are directly tied to high gas prices, which would not be as high as they are if American oil companies were allowed to drill back in 2001. The auto industry, airlines, and even smaller employers like taxi companies and restaurants are being severely harmed by high gas prices, which the Democrats are responsible for.

Are the American people dumb enough to believe the lies of the Democratic Party? And why aren’t these Republicans talking about how Democrats did nothing but block oil drilling all these years? Wake up, Republicans! Tell the truth about Democrats blocking oil drilling so the people can hear the honest truth instead of lies and spin from the Democrats. Pull those Democrat voting records and present them to the public.

Democrats are insisting that a “green economy” will generate 5 million jobs. Uh, no it won’t. And you want to know the truth? The truth is that once the “green” infrastructure is built, those jobs will be gone.

Remember the internet economy of the 1990s? Telecommunications companies spent billions laying fiber optic cable all over the country. What happened to those jobs after all the cable was laid in the ground? The jobs were cut.

The fact is Republicans know that high taxes and high energy prices retard economic activity. Less money to spend means less economic activity and less investment. Makes sense, right? Not to Democrats.

Ah, Hillary Clinton. So many qualifications to be Commander in Chief… Yes, she sure has a lot of experience–at doing nothing.

In order to portray herself as ready for the position of President, Hillary tends to exaggerate her experience. Unless, of course, it’s about something negative, then she had nothing to do with it.

Some people actually believe her.

Now Hillary has been caught red-faced in a lie. Not a little white lie, not an embellishment, an outright lie. Mrs. Clinton said last week during a speech that she came under sniper fire while on a diplomatic trip to Bosnia in March of 1996. Hillary was quoted as saying:

“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

Not only does that statement contradict what Hillary herself wrote in her own book, but it is the exact opposite of what really happened. Hillary didn’t have to run with her head down. She is seen in a Youtube video smiling and shaking hands as she and her party stood on the tarmac.

What a liar!

Here’s a video on Youtube of Hillary making the statements and video from the Bosnia trip.

Video

Who in their right mind could support a liar and fraud like Hillary Clinton?