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UPDATED: Tea Party Protesters Show Up At Obama Speech

Update: Thanks to Jill at Pundit & Pundette and Fishersville Mike for linking. Thanks to Obi's Sister for linking too. Linked by Thomas Jefferson Club Blog who has more coverage of the event. Thanks to Chris at Wyblog who wonders, "Does anybody from Chicago really care about time?"
Be sure to read Michelle Malkin's post on the Slacker Mandate.
Kelly sent me h... read more

Kelly is a smart young woman and a proud conservative voice in a liberal college.
I loved when she said to me after it was all over, “I got some great shots of the SEIU people lining the first three rows on the floor beneath the podium.  Go Kelly!
There were a number there with signs ready and were “fired up and ready to go”
In the photo directly to the right the top sign reads: “ObamaCare Sick Joke” and “Hey Axelrod, We are not the Peanut Gallery.
featured guest speakers such as  former Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick who is currently running for the GOP nomination in the PA8th Congressional District
Here is Kelly’s picture of the SEIU people directly in front of the President.
This was the only group that was able to shake hands with Obama at the conclusion as well.
I had to laugh, however, when the President said he had to be honest the health care plan was not going to be free. You should have seen the students looking at each other.
slideshow of signs seen at the protest.  FoxPhilly news
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Here’s How Obamacare Is Going To Kill Free Trade

So Obama has not nudged Congress to pass long-stalled treaties with Colombia, Korea and Panama. Instead, the emphasis has been on get-tough actions such as slapping preliminary duties on tires from China and bricks from Mexico. Nor has he tried to energize the Doha trade talks, pushing Brazil to first litigate via the World Trade Organization and now retaliate. A... read more

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From Reuters:
James Pethokoukis
Mar. 10, 2010
Obama

Brazil’s threat of tariff retaliation over U.S. cotton subsidies is only the latest eruption of rising protectionism around the world. President Barack Obama isn’t doing much to quell protectionist sentiment in the U.S., either. His passivity could prove costly.

Not that Obama has a problem with trade. In his State of the Union speech to Congress last January, he stated an ambitious goal of doubling U.S exports by 2015. It is trade policy that he seems uncomfortable with. That bold declaration in the speech was a direct result of lobbying from Obama’s economic advisers. But the wonks aren’t driving U.S trade policy in the Obama administration. The political team is. Its priority is passing healthcare reform. To pass healthcare reform, Obama needs his core union support. And a push for new trade agreements would alienate Big Labor.

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Coffee Party’s Political Roots

Time will tell but it may too little too late to pull the Democrats out of their downward spiral.

Coffee Party’s Political Roots
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Obama Campaign Operative Creates an Astroturf Tea Party Alternative - ‘Coffee Party’

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March 9, 2010

Nearly one year after the first Tea Party started to shake up the political establishment the left has countered with the Coffee Party started by a fomer Obama campaign worker.

This was probably bound to happen as the Tea Party Movement has changed the political landscape and caught liberals off guard leading to dissension in the ranks and a possible loss of the Democrats control of Congress in November.

The Coffee Party will be doomed to fail though if all they do is offer up the same tired old liberal left ideas that Obama and the Democrats have tried only to see most of them crash and burn.  The founder’s political chops may give them some advantage but could just as easily be a liability versus the more home grown Tea Party that has brought in tens of thousands of people who weren’t presviously politically active.

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Eric Holder Who Are The Al Qaeda Seven? … Keep America Safe

Keep America Safe, Who Are The Al Qaeda Seven? Call Eric Holder, Department of Justice

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For more visit www.keepamericasafe.com.

Call Eric Holder today 202-514-2000 and tell him advocates for terrorist detainees do not Keep America Safe.
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“We The People” Reject Your Vision For America

to lower-income families to purchase insurance.

“Some of these disagreements we may be able to resolve. Some we may not,” Obama said. “And no final bill will include everything that everyone wants. That’s what compromise is.”

In the Republican radio address, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said the president and congressional Democrats were not listenin... read more

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President Obama presses case for health care reform

President Barack Obama pressed his case Saturday for health care reform, pledging to consider Republican ideas for overhauling the system but suggesting he would still press forward even if no GOP members support the legislation.

“I said at the end of Thursday’s summit that I am eager and willing to move forward with members of both parties on health care if the other side is serious about coming together to resolve our differences and get this done,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. “But I also believe that we cannot lose the opportunity to meet this challenge.”

Obama appeared to be laying the groundwork for moving ahead next week with a plan to circumvent Senate supermajority rules and pass modifications to the Senate bill. He highlighted policy areas in which Democrats found agreement with Republicans during Thursday’s health care summit, but said differences remained, such as providing subsidiesRead more at www.politico.com
 

Brain Dead And In A Persistent Vegetative State

-The intrepid Smitty risked all to visit his ‘magic URL’, which hurtles him into the future for a bit with no assurance of return, and brings back this news item from the soon-to-be:

Unprecedented Move: President Obama Accepts Own Healthcare Bill In Signing Statement

by Sissypuss, the Bailout Kitty

In an historic move, President Obama tod... read more

-As you might expect, Pundette provides us with great coverage here and here and here and here.  From the latter:

The Democrats came armed with sob stories (some of them, I hope, spurious), and the GOP came armed with facts. Just watch this six-minute tour de force by Rep. Paul Ryan and you’ll know who’s got a handle on the issues.

And by the way, what’s this about? It looks like Obama once purchased auto insurance with a high deductible and still holds a grudge against the company. Grow up and take some responsibility for your own bad decisions.

Its his [Chicago] way, or the highway.  Thanks, Smitty.

-Now a pictorial dispatch from the Summit…

President Obama walks in to the Summit.
‘Perhaps, if I throw one of my magical, mystical boogers at Paul Ryan, he’ll STFU’
‘Oh, man, I really gotta pass some gas — arugula and brie always do it to me.  I know: I’ll let go a ’silent killer’ and, when everybody looks this way, I’ll make like I smell it too, and blame in on that old f–k Biden.’Read more at thecampofthesaints.wordpress.com
 

Obama’s Bundlers Occupy Dozens of Key Positions

The Big Changers’ Club (0,000+)

Avant, Nicole (Los Angeles, CA)
Position: Ambassador to the Bahamas

Barzun, Matthew (Louisville, KY)
Position: Ambassador to Sweden

Beyer, Don (Alexandria, VA)
Position: Nominated to Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein

Bleich, Jeff (Piedmont, CA)
Position: Ambassador to Australia

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Barack Obama has long decried the corrupting influence of money in politics. As a candidate, he ran against lobbyists and the pay-for-play culture of Washington. As president, he has continued to hammer the theme, most recently in his impassioned attacks on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v Federal Election Commission.

Given this, it’s a little surprising to learn that Obama has not only embraced the sordid money-driven culture of DC, but actually outdone his predecessors. An analysis by the American Foreign Service Association, for example, found that Obama has stuffed the diplomatic corps with more political appointees (i.e., cronies) than any president in the past 40 years. Only a year into the administration, close of half of the president’s biggest donors already have federal jobs.

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POTUS, “My Kingdom For A Twitter Secretary”

Rut-roh Scooby. The urgent need for a full-time twittagandist becomes evident when Glenn Reynolds interviews young conservatives who are online, youthful and unafraid.

UPDATE: Welcome Pundit & Pundette and Big Journalism readers.
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Read more: http://nosheepleshere.blogspot.com/2010/02/potus-my-kingdom-for-twitter-secretary.html#ix... read more

February 13, 2010
Fearless Reader, the LA Times reports, is looking for a replacement to stand in as his Internet persona.
Mia Cambronero, who currently holds the job, will be stepping down from [her] infamous role as ‘Barack Obama’s twitterer,’” she said in an email message posted to a listserv. “We’re looking for someone who is available to start immediately.”
Doesn’t Mia mean he needs a “twittagandist”?

This past November the Twit-in-Chief was roundly criticized when he said, “I have never used Twitter. My thumbs are too clumsy to type in things on the phone.”
No sir, that’s not true. You rely on your teleprompter for everything. Everything you utter publicly is spoon-fed to you.

Taylor Marsh, who is staunchly in your camp, recently posted this: “Barack Obama is waiting for someone else to tell him his point of view, is trying to mediate his way into a direction, not getting anything done because he doesn’t know himself what he wants to do.”
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Obama’s First Year: By the Numbers

"Nothing special," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs when asked what President Obama is doing today to mark the end of his 1st year in office and the start of his 2nd.

(at left, President Obama takes the oath of office, Jan. 20, 2009.)

To hear Gibbs tell it, no one at the White House is much interested in noting the one year milestone.

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To hear Gibbs tell it, no one at the White House is much interested in noting the one year milestone.
But it is a milestone, the most important so far on Mr. Obama’s watch and a natural moment for taking stock – or in the case of this report: number crunching
SPEECHES, COMMENTS & REMARKS: 411
• Includes 52 addresses or statements specifically on his health care proposals.
• He used a TelePrompTer at least 178 times.
NEWS CONFERENCES: 42
• Of which 5 were formal, solo White House Q&A sessions. Four were in prime time
INTERVIEWS: 158.
• This is a striking number of interviews and far more than any of his recent predecessors
TOWN HALL MEETINGS: 23
FOREIGN TRAVEL: 10 foreign trips to 21 nations (4 of them twice)
FLIGHTS ON AIR FORCE ONE: 160
FLIGHTS ON MARINE ONE: 193
A Year After Obama, Republicans Take Stock
Grade Obama’s First Year in Office
Jeff Greenfield: Obama’s Decline in Popularity — What Caused It?
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The Nuclear Bluff

In his State of the Union Address, President Obama purported to reach across the aisle by endorsing a “new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants”…before pushing cap and trade.

The nearly trillion budget he released today exposes his nuclear lie.

President Barack Obama will propose eliminating funding for the Yucca Mountain project in a new... read more

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During his State of the Union, Barack Obama appeared to have become the first Democrat in years to wake up to the idea that safe, clean, cheap, abundant nuclear energy just might be worth considering as a more viable alternative to breeze, hemp, and rainbows as we grapple with the ostensible extinction-level threat of a world run on petroleum-based energy.

Sadly, the President’s newly released budget gives the lie to those pretty, teleprompted words.

There’s a certain sick poetry to the fact that the U.S. now joins Iran on the list of nations that pretend to pursue nuclear power generation.

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