Barney the Liar Frank Rags Northern Trust

Where in the "H" does this liar get off passing judgement on Northern Trust for sponsoring a golf tournament? This idiot along with Kerry the baby killer, Dodd the loan wizard, and Obama the empty suit get off saying a word. These clowns by there inaction CAUSED this financial meltdown. They had a chance to stop or at the least slow down what Fannie and Freddie were doing. Hell, Obama's buddy made some $90,000,000.00 in bonus while sticking it to the public. Obama got campaign donations, from them to look the other way. The democrats screamed "Racists" at anyone who tried to stop the lending practices that have now cost us more then we will ever understand. I believe they knew what was going on and didn't give a damn what happened as their butts were safe. Heck, only the average American would suffer but they would be here to save us which would give them more power over ALL Americans. Simple, there goal is to have big (BIG BROTHER) government control ALL of us.

The idiot had the following quote, "We insist that you immediately return to the federal government the equivalent of what Northern Trust frittered away on these lavish events." If this jerk face would do some research rather then run his mouth off he might find Northern Trust did not want any government funds to begin with. Not only this bank, but many, many others didn't want it either but we forced to by Uncle Sam. By forcing banks to take money the government could exert some control over them and at the least, hound them in the papers and airwaves so the American public thinks they are doing something.

People wake up, these crooks are blowing smoke up our collective backside telling us how bad the banks are while claiming they didn't know what was happening. How stupid are we, they knew and accepted what was going one as they will never feel the effect of us losing our small business, our cars, our homes, filing bankruptcy. DO YOU UNDERSTAND, THEY DON'T GIVE A DAMN AND NEVER DID. If we the people don't stop them soon, you can kiss the American way of life Goodbye.

We have two years to realize what Obama and his buddies have done and are doing to this country, our children and grandchildren. They will have so much debt piled on them, it will kill the American Dream. Right now we are watching our country slowly die and our freedom taken by people like Pelosi and Reid all in the name of saving us. If they would get out of way we could save ourselves.

In 2010 36 Senators and 456 Representatives are up for reelection and WE MUST REMOVE ALL THAT DON'T SUPPORT, SMALLER GOVERNMENT AND LESS SPENDING. If we can get government out of our pockets, we can bring America back from the brink.

This is a Leader, Something America Has been Missing

Prime Minister John Howard Australia:
Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.

Separately, Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques.

Quote: 'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians'.

'This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom'. 'We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!'

'Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.'

'We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.'

'This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom,

'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'.'

'If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.'

Thank you Mr Howard for speaking the truth.

It's about time someone had the courage to say what most of us believe. Now we have a Muslim as president. Does anyone really believe he would put America First?????????????

Editorial Staff

What have the Democrats done for these Cities?

Interesting Data on Poverty in the Cities.

City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level
1. Detroit , MI
32.5%
2. Buffalo , NY
29.9%
3. Cincinnati , OH
27.8%
4. Cleveland , OH
27.0%
5. Miami , FL
26.9%
5. St. Louis , MO
26.8%
7. El Paso , TX
26.4%
8. Milwaukee , WI
26.2%
9. Philadelphia , PA
25.1%
10. Newark , NJ
24.2%
U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, August 2007

What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?
Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961; Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn't elected one since 1954;

Cincinnati , OH (3rd)...since 1984;

Cleveland , OH (4th)...since 1989;

Miami , FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;

St.. Louis , MO (6th)....since 1949;

El Paso , TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;

Milwaukee , WI (8th)...since 1908;

Philadelphia , PA (9th)...since 1952;

Newark , NJ (10th)...since 1907.

Einstein once said,

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'

It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats---yet they are still poor...



You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and
independence.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Voted the Best President of America

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Idiot Republican Speaks - Lindsey Graham

Now we have another idiot Lindsey Graham opening his mouth and talking about taking over the banking system. What, another empty minded senator thinks the banks may need to be taken over by the government. If this idiot had been watching Fannie/Freddie along with the other (Dodd, Kerry, Frank, Clinton, etc) jokes in Washington we wouldn't be in this mess now. Why do we need to take over ALL banks when only five or six should have been allowed to fail. There are over 5,000 Banks in the country that aren't in trouble which will also be taken over. Who would EVER go to a Government Bank that can't balance their own budget. Our country would have been able to survive if the failing banks and wall street companies folded that caused this. Yes, it would have been tough to watch but it would have been far better then letting our country be taken over by the GOVERNMENT.

This was a silent COUP and we the people stood by and watched. People who don't work, liberals, Government Workers, welfare recipient's run our country now. Just with their votes alone they control what happens. My grandfather, my father, my friends fought to protect this country and now it has died with freedom being lost. Big Brother rules America now.

Let me understand this, Senators/Representatives don't do their job and provide oversight as they are elected to do and we the American people get hosed with the bailout. Now this weak knee-ed senator mentions banks may need to be taken over and run by the government. This is the same government that screwed up Social Security, Medicaid, Prescription Card just to name a few. How many of you want to go the "Bank of the US" and try to get some pencil neck to loan you money?

We need the top 10% of income earners stop working for one year and that would stop the government cold. With no taxes coming in they would have to get the budget in order and learn to live within their means as "We the People" do. Government accountability is and will be a joke until they learn they don't have an unlimited budget with OUR money.

We the American People are so screwed and we allowd the idiots in Washington DC to do it. Remember, YOU voted them in, now what?

Hosed Again By Uncle Sammy

Bend over grab your ankles my fellow Americans as your uncle has hosed you again in the name of saving the economy. What crap this one is. The same idiots that caused the first branch to fall (Fannie/Freddie) are at it again in the name of saving the economy. These clowns have screwed this up as they did with the mortgage mess. They are spending money on everything but the important ones, JOBS/MORTGAGES. If I remember correctly didn't this all start with bad mortgages and mortgage packages?

These idiots made speeches about how wonderful the mortgage business is with Fannie/Freddie all the while it was stinking up the industry. Bad loans were being made and then packaged for Wall Street to purchase as investment vehicles only to fail when rates moved or the economy shook. Wall street should have know better and those that purchased these packages should have been FIRED not given a bonus. Congressman (Dodd/Kerry/Frank/Clinton/etc) pushed Fannie/Freddie to make loans for people that had no verifiable income or jobs because they were lower income citizens. OUR ELECTED OFFICALS PUSHED BAD LOANS AND THEN ACTED LIKE THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED, BULLSHIT. When questions came up about tightening the requirements for loans, those that did were accused of being "Racist". The idiots that called those "Racist" are now the same ones passing the stimulus package.

What the hell is wrong with the American people that they are too damn stupid to allow this to happen. Have we all become a bunch of sheep to be lead around and told what to do. This is our F--ing country and we let the select few control our lives. I'm sorry but people like Pelosi, Frank, Reid and the rest of the liars don't represent most Americans.

Only three weeks into Obama rein he has become the newest liar along with the rest. Yes, we know he didn't tell the truth during the campaign but what person does while running for office. Now he is just another empty suit letting Pelosi and Reid run the country.

In two years we can take back the conservative agenda that America needs and wipe out some of the damage done by this stimulus package. I can only hope it is not too late.

A Sensible Democrat that Republicans Can Support

Democratic congressman:

80% of 'stimulus' bill is waste, and only 30% will be spent by 2010

Here's just some of the news on the offensive and wasteful piece of legislation that is being called "the stimulus bill."Idaho's KLEW reports on first-term Idaho Congressman Walt Minnick, who was one of only 11 Democrats to vote against the House version of the bill. Minnick is part of the so-called "moderate" or "fiscally conservative" group of Democrats in the Blue Dog Coalition; remember that Democratic Congressman Dennis Moore claims to be a part of this group, even though Moore voted for the legislation. Minnick has introduced his own version of the bill, that is over 80% smaller than the bill discussed in the Senate:

"The biggest difference is that I've cut out everything that doesn't create jobs in this year and next," Minnick said Thursday. "It's only $174 billion, $650 billion less than what the House passed and probably $750 billion less than the trillion dollar bill the Senate is talking about. It focuses on infrastructure spending, there's $70 billion on bridges, roads and school construction and there's $100 billion on tax cuts to middle and low income people.

Minnick also says this:
Minnick said his proposal would spend all the money by the end of 2010, while the White House proposal would only spend 30 percent of the larger amount they're proposing.


Thank you to the Staff for locating a wonderful article to post.

"A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe."

President Obama, Feb. 4.

Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over fear." Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill.


And so much for the promise to banish the money changers and influence peddlers from the temple. An ostentatious executive order banning lobbyists was immediately followed by the nomination of at least a dozen current or former lobbyists to high position. Followed by a Treasury secretary who allegedly couldn't understand the payroll tax provisions in his 1040. Followed by Tom Daschle, who had to fall on his sword according to the new Washington rule that no Cabinet can have more than one tax delinquent.


The Daschle affair was more serious because his offense involved more than taxes. As Michael Kinsley once observed, in Washington the real scandal isn't what's illegal, but what's legal. Not paying taxes is one thing. But what made this case intolerable was the perfectly legal dealings that amassed Daschle $5.2 million in just two years.


He'd been getting $1 million per year from a law firm. But he's not a lawyer, nor a registered lobbyist. You don't get paid this kind of money to instruct partners on the Senate markup process. You get it for picking up the phone and peddling influence.


At least Tim Geithner, the tax-challenged Treasury secretary, had been working for years as a humble international civil servant earning non-stratospheric wages. Daschle, who had made another cool million a year (plus chauffeur and Caddy) for unspecified services to a pal's private equity firm, represented everything Obama said he'd come to Washington to upend.
And yet more damaging to Obama's image than all the hypocrisies in the appointment process is his signature bill: the stimulus package. He inexplicably delegated the writing to Nancy Pelosi and the barons of the House. The product, which inevitably carries Obama's name, was not just bad, not just flawed, but a legislative abomination.


It's not just pages and pages of special-interest tax breaks, giveaways and protections, one of which would set off a ruinous Smoot-Hawley trade war. It's not just the waste, such as the $88.6 million for new construction for Milwaukee Public Schools, which, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, have shrinking enrollment, 15 vacant schools and, quite logically, no plans for new construction.


It's the essential fraud of rushing through a bill in which the normal rules (committee hearings, finding revenue to pay for the programs) are suspended on the grounds that a national emergency requires an immediate job-creating stimulus -- and then throwing into it hundreds of billions that have nothing to do with stimulus, that Congress's own budget office says won't be spent until 2011 and beyond, and that are little more than the back-scratching, special-interest, lobby-driven parochialism that Obama came to Washington to abolish. He said.
Not just to abolish but to create something new -- a new politics where the moneyed pork-barreling and corrupt logrolling of the past would give way to a bottom-up, grass-roots participatory democracy. That is what made Obama so dazzling and new. Turns out the "fierce urgency of now" includes $150 million for livestock (and honeybee and farm-raised fish) insurance.


The Age of Obama begins with perhaps the greatest frenzy of old-politics influence peddling ever seen in Washington. By the time the stimulus bill reached the Senate, reports the Wall Street Journal, pharmaceutical and high-tech companies were lobbying furiously for a new plan to repatriate overseas profits that would yield major tax savings. California wine growers and Florida citrus producers were fighting to change a single phrase in one provision. Substituting "planted" for "ready to market" would mean a windfall garnered from a new "bonus depreciation" incentive.


After Obama's miraculous 2008 presidential campaign, it was clear that at some point the magical mystery tour would have to end. The nation would rub its eyes and begin to emerge from its reverie. The hallucinatory Obama would give way to the mere mortal. The great ethical transformations promised would be seen as a fairy tale that all presidents tell -- and that this president told better than anyone.


I thought the awakening would take six months. It took two and a half weeks. letters@charleskrauthammer.com



The Editorial Staff Thanks Mr. Krauthammer for his insight and truth.