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ACORN’s New Orleans Office Raided By Louisiana Attorney General
From Big Government:
In a fast-breaking development comes word that agents of the Attorney’s General office in Louisiana have raided ACORN’s offices in New Orleans. ACORN’s New Orleans was, for decades, the headquarters of the national community organizing association. News of the raid comes from Marcel Reid and her colleagues at ACORN 8, an association of former ACORN leaders and board members. Many of the individuals involved with ACORN 8 were fired from ACORN for demanding a forensic audit following an embezzlement scandal involving Dale Rathke, brother of ACORN co-founder Wade Rathke.
Keep checking back to Big Government for more details as this story unfolds. We’ll post the highlights here as well.
CBO Scores Republican Health Care Bill
The bottom line:
It lowers deficits, lowers insurance premiums, and requires NO new taxes.
(hat tip Big Government)
New Phony Racism Charge From The Left
Not a week goes by without the far-left leveling a fresh racism charge against anyone who opposes their odious policies.
The newest cry of phony racism comes from the left-wing gangsters at the AFL-CIO — and their target is the US Chamber of Commerce.
The AFL-CIO has declared a new anti-ObamaCare ad from The Chamber is…wait for it…RACIST!!!! If they don’t like it, that means it’s racist.
The Huffington Post is of course all over it:
A new Chamber of Commerce ad attacking Democratic-led efforts to pass health care legislation includes a storyline that union critics of the group say is rife with racial undertones.
In the new spot, titled “Millions,” the business lobby goes after health reform by arguing that it could “wipe out even more jobs” than those lost so far. But the group does so in a peculiar and perhaps controversial way.
The scenario of a distraught boss forced to fire an employee is illustrated by a white worker being summoned to the office as a black co-worker looks on.
An official with the AFL-CIO, who saw the ad air on Wednesday morning, argued that it was a perpetuation of the stereotype that minorities have a leg up on their colleagues because of affirmative-action policies. It gets at the heart of concerns raised by labor leaders like the AFL-CIO’s president, Richard Trumka, who fretted during the 2008 presidential campaign that Barack Obama’s candidacy would spur racial unrest within work forces.
“This is the same old right wing dog whistle politics,” said Eddie Vale, spokesman for the AFL-CIO. “They’re trying to use race and class to scare working people about a health care bill.”
The Chamber scoffed at the charge. “Really?” emailed spokesman Eric Wohlschlegel, in a succinct and dismissed response.
Here’s the incredibly offensive ad:
As Michelle Malkin rightly points out, had a white employer fired a black worker in the ad, big labor would have cried racism. If the ad had no blacks in it at all — that too would have been called racist.
Truly amazing.
GOP Captures New Jersey!
From The AP:
Chris Christie, an aggressive former prosecutor who racked up a perfect conviction rate in public corruption cases and became the darling of New Jersey’s Republican Party establishment, has unseated the deep-pocketed but unpopular Gov. Jon Corzine.
Christie, 47, on Tuesday became the first member of his party in a dozen years to win a statewide contest in heavily Democratic New Jersey. President Barack Obama invested heavily in the race, campaigning with Corzine five times on three separate visits.
Democrats can try and spin this all they want, but republicans kicked some liberal ass tonight. New Jersey is deep blue and far left so it’s a big deal that republicans were able to take it. That said, Corzine was a horrific governor who turned the state into a basket case.
Congratulations to Chris Christie for an amazing victory!
Fox Calling NJ For Republican Chris Christie
Fox News just called New Jersey for Republican Chris Christie.
…Developing
GOP Triple Sweep In Virginia
The GOP dominated in Virginia tonight winning the Governor’s race, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General. Congratulations to Bob McDonnell for his double digit victory.
10,000 Turn Out For Houston Tea Party
I’m proud to say more than 10,000 people turned out here in Houston for a tea party held at Sam Houston Raceway Park. One of the featured speakers was none other than Lord Christopher Monckton. Monckton is a former aide to Margaret Thatcher and a climate expert. He spoke about Al Gore’s phony global warming and the danger of America losing its freedom through global warming legislation, etc. Even better, he said it all while wearing a cowboy hat. It just doesn’t get any better than that.
Here’s a local media report:
Is The NRCC Conceding To Hoffman In NY-23?
RedState says the NRCC has all but given up NY-23. It looks like backing phony Republican Dede Scozzafava wasn’t such a bright idea. Take that, Newt.
The Marxist ‘Media Justice’ Mob
Michelle has a great post about the “media justice” mob that’s running wild right now in Washington. “Media justice” is a close relative of “social justice” and “eco-justice”. No matter what you call it, each of them is deeply rooted in Marxism. The goal is to redistribute wealth and fundamentally remake America into a Marxist/Socialist/Communist/Maoist country.
“Media justice” is a stealth way of destroying any type of conservative political speech under the guise of “diversity”. When liberals speak about “independence” and “diversity” in media they mean ending free speech and ushering in a new era of solid 100% left-wing speech.
Read The Latest 1,900 Page Health Care Bill
Since members of Congress can’t be bothered with reading the legislation they sign, it’s up to us to read it for them. Nancy “Stretch” Pelosi dropped a brand new 1,900 page health care bill on us this morning. Time to start reading!!
Download it HERE
(hat tip Michelle Malkin)
Michelle Obama Has 26 Paid Assistants, More Than Any First Lady In History
According to Canada Free Press, Michelle Obama has more paid assistants than any First Lady in U.S. history. The total combined salaries of her 26 assistants is $1,750,000 per year paid for by tax payers. That does not include the cost of the lavish benefits package each one also receives.
When compared to past First Ladies, Michelle Obama is so far out of the norm it’s actually stunning.
Hillary Clinton = 3 assistants
Laura Bush = 1 assistant
Jackie Kennedy = 1 assistant
Michelle Obama = 26 assistants
It sounds like Michelle is doing a hell of a lot behind the scenes that we don’t know about to need that many assistants. Congress should look into this and find out what she’s up to.
I know, I know, I’m racist for bringing this up. So be it.
George Soros Puts $50 Million Towards Attacking The Free Market
Commie Pinko George Soros has a brand new idea for destroying America and he’s putting $50 million behind it.
According to Newsweek, Soros aims to “purge” economics of its “free-market zeal”. In other words, Soros wants to dismantle free market capitalism as we know it.
Now financier George Soros is announcing a $50 million effort to speed things along. This week Soros is gathering some of the leading practitioners of the market-skeptic school, who were marginalized during the era of "free-market fundamentalism," among them Nobelists Joseph Stiglitz, George Akerlof, Michael Spence, and Sir James Mirrlees. He’s also creating an "Institute for New Economic Thinking" to make research grants, convene symposiums, and establish a journal, all in an effort to take back the economics profession from the champions of free-market zealotry who have dominated it for decades, and to correct the failures of decades of market deregulation. Soros hopes matching funds will bring the total endowment up to $200 million. "Economics has failed not only to predict and explain what happened but has also failed to protect society," says Robert Johnson, a former managing director at Soros Fund Management, who will direct the new institute. "That’s what the crisis revealed. The paradigm has failed. There is no guidance."
George Soros has spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars trying to destroy America — so this is nothing new. What is new is that for the first time we have a president who actually agrees with him.
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