SHHH...Don't Tell The Voters

As promised here is another example of your "transparent" bi-partisan government in action. Just don't tell anyone.

In January the debt limit hits the wall again and mandated spending cuts kick in; along with Taxmageddon.

The deals being struck behind closed doors will, in my opinion, guarantee that Obama's big spending policies continue unabated no matter what the outcome may be in November.

The Rinos are already secretly drafting many of their own expansionist / Statist proposals. Another round of Obama stimulus is being framed as a means to avert another "CRISIS" caused by the growing "storm clouds" in Europe.

No matter what the Supreme Court rules on Obamacare, we are still going to be stuck with the inherent costs for years to come while appeals are pushed forward and new regulations are enforced without any legislative action.

A growing number of lawmakers are alarmed that Congress’s do-nothing posture ahead of the year-end fiscal cliff could provoke a massive voter backlash and economic catastrophe if they don’t start laying the groundwork right now to cut a deal.
So behind the scenes, there’s a scramble taking shape.

A dozen senators ranging from Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn to Delaware Democrat Chris Coons have begun to organize closed-door briefings with leading economic experts to prod Congress into action. Some lawmakers like Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) are quietly pushing to have a major tax and budget package ready by September so a bill can be introduced immediately after the November elections and passed by Christmas.

Others like Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) have taken matters into their own hands by privately preparing bills they hope will shape the post-election debate.

“There’s a genuine concern that a downturn in Europe or another place will force our hand: It’s far better for us to start working on this earlier rather than later, and there’s a lot of work to be done,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told POLITICO. “If we can present something immediately after the election that is a good solid starting point, I think it’s going to restore confidence in the business community.”


Read more: Politico

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CHINESE AND RUSSIAN IPO'S TO COME HERE AND SELL COUNTERFEIT GOODS...

More examples of "Compromise and Bi-Partisanship to come...

Reach Across The Aisle...FOOL

Two senators leading the charge for an independent investigation into a flurry of recent intelligence leaks said that two U.S. Attorneys hand-picked by Attorney General Eric Holder aren’t independent enough to lead the probes.

“There has been appropriate, bipartisan criticism regarding the devastating and orchestrated leaks of classified information involving some of our most sensitive counter-terrorism operations,” Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in a statement late Friday night.

“These breaches of national security have compromised operations, strained relationships with allies, and put lives at risk. It is imperative that an independent investigation be conducted where the results could be accepted with a high degree of confidence and without a hint of political considerations.”...(snip)

“The investigation must be complete, fair and balanced,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) said. “These US attorneys will need to have the ability to follow the investigation wherever it may lead. I look forward to hearing how they will be independent from the chain of command.”...Read More at The PJ Tattler

I, for one, have complete faith in the "Special Investigators" Holder will hand pick for this "fair and balanced bipartisan approach"...Don't you?

Stay tuned for more bipartisan leaps of faith that you may not even realize are going on behind the scenes even as I speak.

Hitler finds out that Scott Walker won the Wisconsin recall election

H/T to Bunnikins

Biden Urges End To Traditional Farming

Cypress Bay High School (Fla.) that “it’s long past the time when Americans should be shifting away from traditional farming as a means of supplying food.”

“Let’s face it, farming is unnatural,” Biden pointed out. “Using sharp tools to cut into the earth, planting seeds in neat rows for efficient reaping (also done with sharp tools, I might add), piping in water from far away—these are all artificial methods that rape the land.”


Biden argued that “in a more primitive era such methods may have been unavoidable. But do we really need them today? Why can’t everyone just get their food from the supermarket? Jill and I have been doing that for as long as I can remember. Most of the stuff comes in boxes and cans. It’s all very clean. You don’t have to poke tools into the soil stirring up dust and polluting the air. If we can only convince more people to follow our example the environmental degradation being caused by farmers could be greatly reduced.”


The vice-president also hailed the doubling of the amount the government has spent on food stamps since 2008 as “further proof that there are other ways to feed our population without destroying the land.”

In support of Biden’s vision, the Environmental Protection Agency is deploying aerial drones to fly over agricultural areas “to gather evidence on those raping the land with these primitive farming techniques.”

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson declined to specify whether this evidence would be used to support prosecution of violators or whether the President would use it to select targets for drone-launched missile strikes. “I believe the President will choose the most appropriate enforcement mechanism on a case-by-case basis,” Jackson said...AZ Conservative
H/T to Mark Scott

Expect HONEST Answers From The Obama Regime?

House Republicans are demanding answers from President Obama on his alleged secret deal with Russia regarding plans for a U.S. missile defense shield.

Obama was caught on camera in March telling Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev he would have “more flexibility” after his re-election to pursue a deal with Russia.

Republicans have seized on the comments and have accused the president of acquiescing to Russia at the cost of U.S. security in secret negotiations.



“The issue of the president’s secret deal with the Russians is not really one that’s open to interpretation,” Rep. Michael Turner (R., Ohio) said on the floor of the House. “This is not some speculation. Do we know what the terms are? No. That’s a secret.”

“What is the president’s response when we ask, ‘What are the terms of this deal, Mr. President? The terms that you won’t let the American public see.’ He says nothing.”

The issue of missile defense has been a source of contention between the U.S. and Russia for several years, with the Russians claiming shields, placed in Europe, would be aimed at it. Obama has struck a softer line on the issue than former president George W. Bush. He pulled out of plans to construct missile defense installations in the Czech Republic.

Free Beacon

“This is my last election. … After my election I have more flexibility,” Obama told Medvedev in March.

“I will transmit this information to Vladimir,” Medvedev replied.

I will now honor the "The National Day of Blogger Silence"

Watch Those Sneaky Cows

Really Barack?… Really?

The Obama Environmental Protection Agency is using drones to spy on cattle farmers in Iowa and Nebraska.Infowars reported:

Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency is using aerial drones to spy on farmers in Nebraska and Iowa. The surveillance came under scrutiny last week when Nebraska’s congressional delegation sent a joint letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.

On Friday, EPA officialdom in “Region 7” responded to the letter.

“Courts, including the Supreme Court, have found similar types of flights to be legal (for example to take aerial photographs of a chemical manufacturing facility) and EPA would use such flights in appropriate instances to protect people and the environment from violations of the Clean Water Act,” the agency said in response to the letter.

“They are just way on the outer limits of any authority they’ve been granted,” said Mike Johanns, a Republican senator from Nebraska.

In fact, the EPA has absolutely zero authority and is an unconstitutional entity of an ever-expanding and rogue federal government. Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution does not authorize Congress to legislate in the area of the environment. Under the Tenth Amendment, this authority is granted to the states and their legislatures, not the federal government.

H/T to GP

Check this out for a break from the MADNESS...

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How The Mighty Have Fallen

The high-handed US emperor stands before the world this morning buck naked. And it was the political events he manipulated himself that painted his portrait...Canada Free Press

Governor Scott Walker’s handy defeat of Democratic opponent Tom Barrett, becoming the first governor in US history to survive a recall election, ending eight long months of bitter acrimony that kicked off all because he dared to scale back union rights, is Show and Tell Time 101 for spinmeister President Barack Hussein Obama.

For the first time a watching world can now view a puny Obama without the deliberate diversion of his props.

Talk about history being made!

Without the props and bling, Obama is not a pretty sight.

With 98 percent of the mainstream media eating out of his golf-calloused hand, with full control of communication, including personal hand-held devices, Obama’s union buddy thugs lost in the defeat of Democrat hopeful Tom Barrett...Read More

H/T to Mark Scott

Jimmy Hoffa Jr. said in Detroit: "President Obama, this is your army ... let's take these sons of bitches out."

So much for that.

While Occupiers and union protesters got the ink, the tea party dropped the placards and picked up clipboards, phones, and got out the vote. They petitioned, volunteered, they took out a number of RINOs, including Dick Lugar; they forced Orrin Hatch into a primary and got Ted Cruz into a runoff. We won the House for the GOP in 2010. We won MA for Scott Brown.

And now we've sent a message to the White House via Wisconsin: your class warfare rhetoric is rejected, your public sector construct voted down --again.

The stage is set. Obama was denied a campaign talking point in Wisconsin. The first generation of reform governors has been protected by voters. Debbie Wasserman Schultz called Wisconsin a "dry run" for November. Indeed it is. Get ready...Read More at Breitbart

Obuma And Hillary Selling US Out...AGAIN

Financial Post

TROMSO, Norway — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sailed on Saturday through a sliver of the Arctic Ocean, where the world’s big powers are vying for vast oil, gas and mineral deposits becoming available as polar ice recedes....SIC...

Clinton boarded a research ship in Tromso, a Norwegian town north of the Arctic Circle, to illustrate U.S. interests in a once inaccessible region where resources are up now for grabs and new sea routes between Europe and Asia are opening up.

“A lot of countries are looking at what will be the potential for exploration and extraction of natural resources as well as new sea lanes,” Clinton told reporters after taking a two-hour boat tour of the local fjord.

In the middle of an eight-day trip to Scandinavia, the Caucasus and Turkey, Clinton said it was important to agree on “rules of the road in the Arctic so new developments are economically sustainable and environmentally responsible.”

On a blustery morning under mostly grey skies, Clinton and Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere stood on the deck of the “Helmer Hanssen” research vessel and gazed at the fjord’s pristine waters and surrounding snow-covered mountains.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that, beneath its unspoilt natural scenery, the Arctic holds about 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered conventional oil and 30 percent of its undiscovered natural gas.

As ice melts with climate change, Arctic sea passages are also opening for longer periods each year, potentially cutting thousands of miles off trade routes between Europe and Asia.

Stoere described the Arctic as “a region which used to be frozen both politically and climatically, and now there is a thaw.”

Key policies governing the Arctic are enshrined in the UN Law of the Sea Treaty, which the United States has not ratified.


The Obama administration is making a fresh push to ratify the treaty, which gives the five coastal Arctic nations rights to exclusive economic zones 200 nautical miles from their coasts and lays out how they may claim areas beyond that limit.


Critics of the ratification say it would impinge on U.S. sovereignty.

Policies are also debated in the Arctic Council, an advisory body made up of the Arctic coastal states – Canada, Denmark, which handles foreign affairs for Greenland, Norway, Russia and the United States – along with Finland, Iceland and Sweden.

Other nations, including China, South Korea and Japan, want to become permanent observers to the council, illustrating the region’s importance because of its estimated energy resources and its potential as a new shipping route.

But here is the REAL STORY...

Shell Oil Rigs -- The First to Explore the Arctic Ocean in Decades -- Delayed by Sea Ice

“The heaviest polar ice in more than a decade could postpone the start of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean until the beginning of August,” says this article on phys.org.

“A high pressure zone over the coast of Alaska, low winter temperatures and certain ocean currents have combined to bring unusually large amounts of ice not only to Alaska’s northern coast, but farther south in the Bering Sea as well, National Weather Service officials said...Read More

Shell Drilling Rigs Ready to Leave for Chukchi Sea -- Greenpeace is Watching

June 02, 2012|By Dan Fiorucci | Channel 2 News

Seattle, Washington —

Rival Vessels are both sitting in the Port of Seattle tonight (Saturday).

And both are on the verge of an historic mission.

The first of those vessels consists of 2 unique drilling rigs -- refurbished by Shell Oil.

They are the Kuluk and the Noble Disocverer. If all goes as planned, then both vessels will enter the Chukchi Sea next month. They will beome the first rigs in more than 2 decades to conduct exploratory drilling there.

as planned, then both vessels will enter the Chukchi Sea next month. They will beome the first rigs in more than 2 decades to conduct exploratory drilling there.

So much oil is thought to be trapped beneath the seabed of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, that it's hoped that within the next decade or 2, it will add a million barrels a day to the flow of the Trans Alaska Pipeline.

The other vessel -- which is determined to rewrite science, if not history, is the Greanpeace Ship, Esperanza.

It's carrying 2 scientific research submarines. It's goal is to study the Chukchi -- even as shell's drilling there gets underway.

Greenpeace contends there is not enough baseline data in arctic seas. It is determined to record that data before those seas are fully drilled.

The environmental organization's concern is that much could be lost by what it calls the "industrialization of the Arctic".

Seductive Motion...AWWW...We Want More

WE ARE DOOMED!!!!

When Thugs Rule

The Great Mingo Junction Cat Rescue

This is "BOO"

...BREAKING NEWS...

Yesterday I arrived at the home of an old friend living just down river in Mingo Junction, OH. He has some physical disabilities and we have both helped each other through similar problems over the years.

He is an avid cat lover and has three beautiful purebred specimens which he cares for with utter devotion.

I arose this morning to the rumble of his cats leaping from floor to window, to table, to floor, to me, and back again. "BOO" the oldest and an extremely large critter indeed was not to be ignored.

BOO led me immediately to a window on the side of this two story duplex. I looked out and there, to my horror, I saw a black cat; which belonged to the next door neighbor: stuck in the crawlspace between the buildings almost at basement level. There was no possible egress for the poor kitteh other than the way he had fallen in...STRAIGHT UP.

The Mingo Junction Fire Department was called, and following an extremely difficult climb and extraction effort, the young cat was rescued from it's harrowing ordeal.

I have spent many years working my trade as a carpenter up and down this Ohio valley, and I enjoy visiting my old friends in these little towns of the rust belt.

As you may realize...if you follow me even on an even semi regular basis...I have a point to which I am attempting to arrive at here.

First...This story is entirely factual.

Second...I also want you to realize that our financial structure /// revenue stream /// is dwindling to a point of no return in this valley. Obama's war on coal and all heavy manufacturing is killing us here. Even a boost in our unemployment figures offered by the shale/gas/oil industry is not nearly enough to keep our public services afloat in the coming years. The Environmentalists are on the move now, hard and fast, trying to destroy this entrepreneurship and all new drilling as well.

HERE I will offer you the links to the latest economic bust to hit our little valley...

RG Steel Files For Bankruptcy...at...The Warrior Bard

At this point I wonder...Who will rescue us?
Of course we really know the answer...No one but ourselves. We have seen this too often in the past...

Maybe this will help...MORE UNION STIMULUS!!!