Saturday, December 31, 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012 FROM POLITICO MAFIOSO!

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POLITICO MAFIOSO - 'THE WEEK IN REVIEW' - 2011 END OF THE YEAR!



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Friday, December 30, 2011




SEN. JOHN McCAIN'S 2011 YEAR END INTERVIEWS WITH LOCAL PHOENIX MEDIA!


11 Big Gov’t Busts of ’11: Find Out What Number One Is…from NetRightDaily


HOMERGOPRANO FOOTBALL PROGNOSTICATOR - NFL WEEK # 17!


REPUBLICANS HAND OBAMA BIG WIN! DICK MORRIS TV: LUNCH ALERT!


OBAMA APPROVAL BY WILLIAM WARREN






Thursday, December 29, 2011




HOW THAT'S GOING FOR YOU? Has Obama's 'let's talk' approach worked with US adversaries?




Newt Gingrich Presses Ron Paul to Explain Racist Newsletters By Jason M. Volack - ABC News


Christmas vs. Ramadan According to Obama


Cartooon of the Day: Obama is Not #4, He’s #2 By Eric Allie




Wednesday December 28, 2011




Solyndra & Barack Obama … Politics Dominated Obama Energy Programs Not Job Creation - By the Scared Monkeys Blog




Ron Paul- To the left of Obama! Dick Morris TV: Lunch ALERT!


Twitter: Jesus Was Born By Gary Varvel




Tuesday December 27, 2011




The Obama Christmas Carol




'Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?' By Gerald Seib, Wall Street Journal


The Best Scene from the Best Christmas Movie Ever!


Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus By William Warren

Cartoon: Happy New Normal! By William Warren

Obama’s New Year’s Promises

Friday, December 30, 2011

SEN. JOHN McCAIN'S 2011 YEAR END INTERVIEWS WITH LOCAL PHOENIX MEDIA!

Sen. John McCain: 'Very little' is going on in Congress - Channel 3


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McCain "outraged" over MCSO's alleged mishandling of sex crimes .


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Senator John McCain was intervied last night on Channel 12 by anchor Mark Curtis. 



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11 Big Gov’t Busts of ’11: Find Out What Number One Is…from NetRightDaily

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HOMERGOPRANO FOOTBALL PROGNOSTICATOR - NFL WEEK # 17!


LAST WEEK:  8 - 8

OVERALL SEASON:  146 - 93


For the Arizona Cardinals to have a chance at a .500 season after a 1 - 6 start is a miracle!  The Cardinals, who this week placed 3 players, WR Larry Fitzgerald, S Adrian Wilson, & Rookie PR Patrick Peterson in the 2012 Pro Bowl, can end this crazy season on a high note by defeating the Seattle SeaGulls on Sunday!




NFL Week 17






Sun. Jan. 01






Buccaneers 21 at Falcons 35


Cowboys 30 at Giants 31


Panthers 30 at Saints 45


49ers 31 at Rams 21


Colts 21 at Jaguars 24


Titans 24 at Texans 31


Lions 24 at Packers 45


Redskins 24 at Eagles 31


Bills 24 at Patriots 35


Bears 21 at Vikings 24
Jets 24 at Dolphins 31


Ravens 31 at Bengals 27
Steelers 35 at Browns 21
Chiefs 21 at Broncos 24
Seahawks 24 at Cardinals 31
Chargers 21 at Raiders 31

REPUBLICANS HAND OBAMA BIG WIN! DICK MORRIS TV: LUNCH ALERT!


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In this video commentary, I discuss how House Republicans are giving Obama his best poll numbers since July, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Tune in!



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OBAMA APPROVAL BY WILLIAM WARREN

Thursday, December 29, 2011

HOW THAT'S GOING FOR YOU? Has Obama's 'let's talk' approach worked with US adversaries?


From our great friend 'Dr. History':

A QUICK REVIEW AS WE APPROACH THE ELECTION – PLEASE FORWARD ESPECIALLY TO INDEPENDENTS AND FENCE-SITTERS!








By Howard LaFranchi

December 28, 2011

One of Obama's objectives entering the White House was to show that dialogue could be more effective than confrontation with US adversaries. From Iran to Burma, here's how it's going


WASHINGTON — (TCSM) When Barack Obama entered the White House in January 2009 on the heels of George W. Bush, one of his objectives was to demonstrate that engaging in a dialogue with America's adversaries could be more effective than confrontation in addressing such prickly foreign policy concerns as nuclear proliferation and authoritarian regimes.


Some three years later, the media salvos President Obama launched against Venezuelan strong man Hugo Chavez were a small but striking reminder that the "talking with the enemy" approach has had few successes.


Here's how Mr. Obama's "let's talk, not fight" policy has fared with five countries at the top of America's adversaries list:


IRAN


The administration insists it is still on the dual-track approach of dialogue and pressure when it comes to perhaps America's No. 1 adversary, Iran. But the halting stabs at dialogue the US made with Iran in Obama's first year have ceased, and these days key officials seem loath to utter the D word as they discuss toughened financial sanctions, oil-products embargoes, and other punitive measures aimed at halting Iran's nuclear program.


Iran's recent capture of an American reconnaissance drone that was operating over its territory laid bare a covert war between hardening adversaries that seems to leave little opportunity for dialogue. And the domestic political environments in both Iran and the US don't favor any amicable gestures, either. Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council and an expert in US-Iran relations, says the opportunity for dialogue still exists. But with Republican presidential candidates promising they'd be even tougher on Iran, the chances of Obama extending a hand to Tehran before November seem slight.




SYRIA



When Obama talked about a "comprehensive" Mideast peace upon taking office, one of the elements of such a peace was to be a Syria that no longer looked to Iran for support and guidance. Administration officials thought the young Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad could be coaxed down a different path through dialogue — and as a result the US ambassador's post that had sat vacant under George W. Bush was filled.


But that was before the Arab Spring and the bloody repression in Syria. The US still has its ambassador, Robert Ford, in Damascus, but his principle interlocutor is no longer President Assad but the Syrian people as they battle for Assad's departure.


Obama publicly called for Assad to "step aside" in August, and since then the tenor of the administration's statements on Syria has only hardened. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton held a high-profile meeting in November with a group of Syrian opposition leaders, but the door to dialogue with Assad appears to be closed shut.


NORTH KOREA



 Obama was greeted in his first year in office by a North Korean nuclear test and a long-range missile test — hardly friendly gestures towards a new president who said he wanted to give dialogue a chance. Those actions were followed by further slaps at a rhetorically extended hand in the form of belligerent acts toward US ally South Korea.


But this year the climate appeared to shift, as US and North Korean officials met for exploratory talks, first at the United Nations in New York and then in Beijing. North Korea wanted food aid for its hungry people, and the US wanted a verifiable suspension of the North's enrichment activities and a halt to nuclear and missile tests.


The two adversaries appeared to be on the verge of some agreement when North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il died suddenly Dec. 17, suspending if not outright scuttling any accord. As US officials and North Asia experts say, it will be at least several months before we know if there's any chance of dialogue blooming again, and this time bearing fruit.






VENEZUELA



President Chavez has rarely been at a loss for words in his 13-year rule over his oil-producing South American country, and he remained true to form this week after Obama told a Caracas newspaper that the US is "deeply concerned" about restrictions on personal freedoms and the erosion in the separation of powers in Venezuela.


"Leave us alone," Mr. Chavez shot back on state television. Calling Obama a "clown," the Latin leftist then advised the US president to "focus on governing your country, which you've turned into a disaster."


It was a sharp contrast from the days, early in the administration, when Venezuela was considered to be one of the easier adversaries to win over with dialogue. The two countries exchanged ambassadors again after having called them home at a breaking point in relations in 2008, and Obama and Chavez shook hands and smiled for cameras at a regional summit in 2009.


But the handshakes never transitioned to conversations, as each country accused the other of hegemonic actions in South America, and Chavez deepened his relations with other American antagonists including Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Chavez is up for reelection in October and Obama in November, but neither leader will look to the other for support.




BURMA


Ask an administration official if Obama's policy of dialogue with America's adversaries is dead, and the top piece of evidence offered to prove that it's not is likely to be Burma — or Myanmar, as the Southeast Asian country is also called.


Hillary Rodham Clinton's groundbreaking trip there in early December — the first visit by a US secretary of State since the 1950's — is held up as evidence that engagement can trump confrontation in coaxing adversarial regimes to change their ways.


But as dramatic as Secretary Clinton's visit was, a full thaw in US-Burma relations is still a ways off. The US has not had an ambassador in Burma (the US is represented by a charge d'affaires) since the military junta refused to accept the results of parliamentary elections in 1990. The US is looking for a further liberalization of basic rights, free elections, and release of political prisoners before sanctions are lifted, but US officials say dialogue will continue with Burma's leaders to see that reforms move forward.

Newt Gingrich Presses Ron Paul to Explain Racist Newsletters By Jason M. Volack - ABC News




Newt Gingrich on Friday challenged GOP rival Ron Paul to explain more than a decade’s worth of incendiary newsletters that he has disavowed.






The newsletters contain bigotry against black, Jews, and gays and an obsession with conspiracies.




“These things are really nasty, and he didn’t know about it, wasn’t aware of it,” said Gingrich adding “But he’s sufficiently ready to be president? It strikes me it raises some fundamental questions about him.”



Ron Paul has tried since 2001 to disassociate himself from the newsletters which starting in 1985 bore the name “Ron Paul Investment Letter”, “Ron Paul Survival Report,” and the “Ron Paul Political Report.”



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Paul this week told ABC News’ Jon Karl that he “disavowed those messages” and added that he was practicing medicine at the time and that other people wrote part of the letters for him.



He even walked out of an interview on CNN on Wednesday claiming that he didn’t write the newsletters.


But Paul has indicated that he knew of the newsletters as far back as 1995 and even vouched for the accuracy and admitted writing at least some of the passages in 1996.


During a bruising 1996 Congressional campaign, Paul’s Democratic opponent Charles “lefty” Morris surfaced a 1992 newsletter which stated that 95 percent of black men in Washington “are criminal or entirely criminal.”


Paul told the Dallas Morning News in 1996 that he was being taken out of context and the columns should be read in their entirety.






The 1992 newsletter also stated that “If you have ever been robbed by a black teenage male, you know how unbelievably fleet of foot they can be.”

Paul did not deny to Dallas paper that he made the statement about the swiftness of black men.


“If you try to catch someone that has stolen a purse from you, there is no chance to catch them,” Paul said.


Paul again vouched for a 1993 edition of the “Ron Paul Survival Report” addressed to “Dear Frightened American” warns of a “national emergency” when the government will close all banks and seize accounts to pay off debts, particularly for the war on drugs.”


According to The Austin American Statesman, the newsletter went on to urge readers to buy foreign passports to better hide their assets from the federal government.


Paul countered at the time to the San Antonio Express-News that he has given readers of his newsletters legal and investment and personal security advice for some time.


“For Lefty to question the right of Americans to provide for their safety from terrorists and for financial security through legal means tells you where Lefty is coming from,” Paul told the San Antonio Express-News.


Paul again in 1996 acknowledged that he wrote a 1992 newsletter that calls the late Barbara Jordan, the first black woman elected from the south to the U.S. House, a “fraud” and an “empress without clothes.”


Paul told the Austin American Statesman paper he was contrasting Jordan’s political views with his own.


“The causes she so strongly advocated were for more government, more and more regulations and more and more taxes,” said Paul.


It wasn’t until 2001 that Paul began to deny that the words in the newsletters weren’t his, telling the Texas Monthly that others had written it because it was “too confusing.”

“I could never say this in the campaign, but those words weren’t really written by me,” Paul said.


“It wasn’t my language at all. Other people help me with my newsletter as I travel around.”

Christmas vs. Ramadan According to Obama


The Reason for the Season, according to the Obama!



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Cartooon of the Day: Obama is Not #4, He’s #2 By Eric Allie

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Solyndra & Barack Obama … Politics Dominated Obama Energy Programs Not Job Creation - By the Scared Monkeys Blog


America, how’s that “Hopey, Changey” green jobs working out for you?




Obama’s partisan politics as the MSM covers up a damning story under the cloak of Christmas. As you were celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, opening presents, spending time with family … the Washington Post put out a story regarding Barack Obama, Solyndra and Obama’s energy program that was nothing more than politics. This brought to you from the President who promised every one “Hope & Change”. Obama promised America change, he gave us more of the same. Obama promised jobs and he gave us partisans politics. Solyndra was billed by Obama as the “shining green company on the hill” … it was nothing more than politics.





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There was only so much that government could do, the true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solydra

“It’s not about the people; it’s politics,” said Sterio, who remains jobless and at risk of losing her home. “We all feel betrayed.”


Since the failure of the company, Obama’s entire $80 billion clean- technology program has begun to look like a political liability for an administration about to enter a bruising reelection campaign.


Meant to create jobs and cut reliance on foreign oil, Obama’s green-technology program was infused with politics at every level, The Washington Post found in an analysis of thousands of memos, company records and internal ­e-mails. Political considerations were raised repeatedly by company investors, Energy Department bureaucrats and White House officials.


The records, some previously unreported, show that when warned that financial disaster might lie ahead, the administration remained steadfast in its support for Solyndra.




The documents reviewed by The Post, which began examining the clean-technology program a year ago, provide a detailed look inside the day-to-day workings of the upper levels of the Obama administration. They also give an unprecedented glimpse into high-level maneuvering by politically connected clean-technology investors.


They show that as Solyndra tottered, officials discussed the political fallout from its troubles, the “optics” in Washington and the impact that the company’s failure could have on the president’s prospects for a second term. Rarely, if ever, was there discussion of the impact that Solyndra’s collapse would have on laid-off workers or on the development of clean-energy technology.


BIG JOURNALISM reminds us of the liberal MSM bias and how they try to manipulate the narative of stories. So often the MSM bias is so obvious, we do not even pose the question anymore. What’s the point, we know they are bias, so why ask? It is like posing the question, is water wet? However, there are still some media outlets like the “Washington Post still like to pretend it’s a serious, objective, and responsible news outlet — which is why we got this dropped on us on Christmas Day.”


Something to understand about how bias works in the corrupt mainstream media is that it has less to do with what Obama’s Media Palace Guards cover than what you might think. Frequently, bias can be found in what isn‘t covered, but more often than not, bias comes from The Narrative. In order to destroy or build up something or someone, The News Narrative is used to drive and define whatever the MSM wants to drive and define.

$535 million tax payer dollars down the tubes as President Barack Obama played politics with green energy. America cannot afford to have another 4 years of Obama. As it is, how long will it take to undo the Obama years?

Ron Paul- To the left of Obama! Dick Morris TV: Lunch ALERT!


Dec 23, 2011

Compare the records, Ron Paul is the most liberal man ever to run for president in modern times ...
 


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Twitter: Jesus Was Born By Gary Varvel

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

The Obama Christmas Carol






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'Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?' By Gerald Seib, Wall Street Journal




President Barack Obama, who made history in 2008 by becoming the first African-American elected president, would like to notch another historic achievement next year.




He will try to win re-election while likely saddled with a higher unemployment rate than any other president seeking a second term in 76 years.

Mr. Obama undoubtedly would prefer to forgo that distinction, but there is no escaping the harsh economic backdrop that will mark the campaign of 2012. The economic malaise sets the stage for a presidential contest that analysts in both parties expect to be very close, and a much tougher haul for the president than his election in 2008, when he became the first Democrat in 32 years to win a majority of the national vote.




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The Best Scene from the Best Christmas Movie Ever!

No it's not 'It's A Wonderful Life'!  It's not 'White Christmas'!  No the best scene from the best Chritmas movie is the 'Cat Scene' from the 1989 Classic "Christmas Vacation"!     This clip is dedicated to friend my Rachel A.!

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus By William Warren

Saturday, December 24, 2011

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM POLITICO MAFIOSO!


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POLITICO MAFIOSO - 'THE WEEK IN REVIEW' - CHRISTMAS 2011 EDITION!


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Friday, December 23, 2011




Sen. John McCain: 'We Have Not Played This Well'


Gov. Jan Brewer: We Need Troops on the Ground


TOM HORNE ISSUES HOLIDAY CONSUMER ALERT ON PAYDAY LOAN AND COLLECTION CALL SCAMS


DRIVE HAMMERED…GET NAILED! GET A DESIGNATED DRIVER, NOT A DUI! - Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety


Cartoon of the Day: Peace on Earth, Some Assembly Required













Thursday, December 22, 2011


 
The New Border Signs for the Arizona Centennial Celebration!




WHO WILL WIN IOWA? DICK MORRIS TV: LUNCH ALERT!


HOMERGOPRANO FOOTBALL PROGNOSTICATOR - CHRISTMAS EDITION - NFL WEEK # 16!


How the Grinch stole Health Care By William Warren






WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 21, 2011




McCain: Payroll tax cut showdown 'harming' the GOP - CNN




You're Invited: January 6, 2012 Breakfast with the Judge


OBAMA'S NIGHTMARE - DICK MORRIS TV: LUNCH ALERT!


BARACK OBAMA'S BEEN DRINKING WAY TOO MUCH EGGNOG!


Santa: I’m Skipping That House By William Warren








TUESDAY DECEMBER 20, 2011




HAPPY HANUKKAH 2011!




Newt Gingrich super PAC unveils first ad - Kenneth P. Vogel - POLITICO.com


RYAN RESCUES THE GOP - DICK MORRIS TV: LUNCH ALERT!


Governor Jan Brewer's public schedule for week of December 19-25, 2011


Cartoon of the Day:An Occupy Wall Street Christmas








MONDAY DECEMBER 19, 2011


Payroll-tax gimmicks hinder serious reform By Congressman Jeff Flake



Governor Jan Brewer Announces Additional Funding to Promote Arizona Tourism


NEWT WON; PAUL LOST; MICHELE GAINED By DICK MORRIS


Heather Carter Fundraiser at Portland’s Restaurant and Wine Bar. Tuesday Dec 20th - 5:30PM


Lewis Won a Republican Primary By Tyler Montague


Cartoon of the Day: SantObama