Read My Lips … Barack Obama Says He is “agnostic” About Raising Taxes on Households Making Less than $250,000

Read my lips … don’t believe any thing I say.

Candidate Barack Hussein Obama said it over and over and over again during the Presidential election of 2008. Obama stated that he would not raise any form of taxes on any family making less than $250,000.

Let me be absolutely clear, if you are a family making less than $250,000 a year you will not see your taxes go up.

Much like the promises of transparency of televising the health care reform debate on C-SPAN, so go’s the promise of no taxes on the middle class. Hey America, has that “hopee, changee” thing work out for ya?

You were warned during the election that Obama’s pledge on not raising taxes on any family making below $250K was lip service. Suddenly all things are on the table as opposed to pandering for votes. As Michelle Malkin states, Read my lips, you can’t believe any thing that passes the.”

Barack Obama told reporters that he was “agnostic”

President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.

Obama, in a Feb. 9 Oval Office interview, said that a presidential commission on the budget needs to consider all options for reducing the deficit, including tax increases and cuts in spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

“The whole point of it is to make sure that all ideas are on the table,” the president said in the interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which will appear on newsstands Friday. “So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions.”

However, the reality is Obama has already raised taxes on the middle class.

Daily Commentary – Friday, February 12th, 2010 – Wrinkles in the Drew Peterson Case

• Some of the information coming out in the Peterson hearsay hearings is casting doubt on the investigation of the case, but also uncovering details about his relationships.

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Former President Bill Clinton Hospitalized, Receives Two Stents in Coronary Artery

Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized in Manhattan’s Columbia-Presbyterian hospital in New York City after undergoing a procedure to place two stents in a coronary artery. The 63 year old Clinton had previously had quadruple heart bypass operation in 2004.

VIDEO from Breibart TV.

Schwartz performed an angiography, finding no evidence of a heart attack or damage to Clinton’s heart.

Today’s procedure “makes him less susceptible to future heart attacks,” Schwartz said. “His prognosis is excellent.”

Pictures taken of Clinton’s arteries and of bypass grafts he received four years ago revealed that one of the grafts was blocked. Because of that problem, doctors placed two stents in his carotid artery. A stent is a wire mesh tube used to prop open an artery.

A statement was released for former President Clinton.

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53% of Democrats Have a Positive View of Socialism

And you wonder whats wrong with Americas economy …

A new Gallup Poll reports that 36% of Americans have a positive view of Socialism. However, that is not the big news in this poll. What should be shocking to all Americans is that 53% of Democrats had a positive view of socialism while only 47% did not.

More than one-third of Americans (36%) have a positive image of “socialism,” while 58% have a negative image. Views differ by party and ideology, with a majority of Democrats and liberals saying they have a positive view of socialism, compared to a minority of Republicans and conservatives.

Good grief, a political party where a majority of members have a favorable view of socialism. Voters might want to remember that the next time they are casting a ballot during an election. Is it no wonder why Democrats love Barack Obama.

As The Gateway Pundit reminds us of the Newsweek magazine cover from the state run media … ‘We are all Socialists Now’.

Beware Incumbents in Power: 75% of Americans Angry With Current Government Policies

Americans to Washington, DC … WE ARE MAD AS HELL AND NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE.

Just when Democrat incumbents thought things had died down as the Obamacare debate had been shelved for the time being, along comes the following Rasmussen poll that should scare the daylights out of them. 75% of Americans are angry with current government policies.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 75% of likely voters now say they are at least somewhat angry at the government’s current policies, up four points from late November and up nine points since September. The overall figures include 45% who are Very Angry, also a nine-point increase since September.

63% of Americans think that America would be better off if most Congressman were not reelected to office. Something that I cannot disagree with; however, that does not mean throw all the bums out. There are some politicians that are actually doing a good job. It is the voters job to determine which ones.  Although Americans blame both parties for being out of touch with America one has to remember two key points when it comes to the overall mood and possible voting tendencies come the midterm elections in November.

One, Democrats control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives. Their overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate make it possible for them to pass legislation that WE THE PEOPLE are upset about without Republican support.

Two, the Generic Congressional Ballot has Republicans ahead of  Democrats 44% to 36%.

Poll after poll, whether they be US Senate, US House or Governors races, Republicans have leads across the board mainly because the Independents have shifted to them and far away from Democrats. Barack Obama and the Donkey party appears to be in for a long midterm election night as WE THE PEOPLE are about to remind all politicians who works for who.

To piggyback on the 75% of Americans angry at the current government policies comes the WAPO/ABC poll where  2/3′s of Americans are “dissatisfied” or downright “angry” about the way the federal government is working.

The opening is clear: Public dissatisfaction with how Washington operates is at its highest level in Post-ABC polling in more than a decade — since the months after the Republican-led government shutdown in 1996 — and negative ratings of the two major parties hover near record highs.

But nearly two-thirds of those polled say they know just some, very little or nothing about what the tea party movement stands for. About one in eight says they know “a great deal” about the positions of tea party groups, but the lack of information does not erase the appeal: About 45 percent of all Americans say they agree at least somewhat with tea partiers on issues, including majorities of Republicans and independents.

It should be no shock that Americans are angry, pissed off even and they are about to take their wrath out on the party in power in 2010. Democrats, you can run, you can hide and you can deny … however, the midterm elections will occur and you will lose.

Obama Bipartisan Health Care Talks … Pelosi Aide Admits Summit is a Trick

And who doubted that Obama’s health care summit was nothing but a trick?

From the folks that brought you Obamacare … would they lie?

President Barack Obama has portrayed the health care summit with Republicans as a bipartisan meeting to come together with like ideas and to listen to one another with hostility. Republican leaders questioned why any one would want to debate and revive a health care bill that the President could not pass with his own party’s support. Then there was most common sense thinking people that just looked at the event as a political, photo-op stunt by Obama.

Now Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Aide admitted to the National Health Policy Conference hosted by Academy Health and Health Affairs that the Health Care Summit a Trick.

President Barack Obama has proposed a bipartisan health care summit for later this month that Republican detractors bill as a publicity stunt designed to generate more support for the flailing pro-abortion health care bill. Now, an aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi essentially admitted that’s the case.

In comments reported by Congress Daily, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s top health care aide Wendell Primus admitted top Democrats have already decided on the strategy to pass the Senate’s pro-abortion, government-run health care bill.

Primus explained that the Senate will use the controversial reconciliation strategy that will have the House approve the Senate bill and both the House and Senate okaying changes to the bill that the Senate will sign off on by preventing Republicans from filibustering.

“The trick in all of this is that the president would have to sign the Senate bill first, then the reconciliation bill second, and the reconciliation bill would trump the Senate bill,” Primus said at the National Health Policy Conference hosted by Academy Health and Health Affairs.

Did anyone really think Obama’s Health Care Summit was legit? After a year of denying access to the health care reform debate, after having House and Senate Democrats write a 2700 page government take over of health care that Obama’s Health Care Summit was nothing more than the “Beer” Summit with out the beer?

Natalee Holloway:Paulus van der Sloot, father of Joran van der Sloot, dead of cardiac arrest

Breaking news out of Aruba. Paulus van der sloot, father of prime suspect in the Natalee Holloway case Joran van der Sloot, died this evening while playing tennis of a cardiac arrest.

UPDATE I: Paulus Van der Sloot Dies at the age of 57 from a cardiac arrest

Paulus Van der Sloot, the father of Joran Van der Sloot and the last person reported to have ever seen Alabama teen Natalee Holloway alive has died of a cardiac arrest while playing tennis in Aruba at the Tierra del Sol estate.

Media on Aruba are reporting that Paul van der Sloot, the father of the main suspect in the Natalee Holloway disappearance case, has died.

Joran van der Sloot’s father collapsed on Wednesday evening when playing tennis at the Tierra del Sol estate on the Dutch Caribbean island. Emergency service staff were unable to resuscitate him. Paul van der Sloot was aged 57.

His son Joran is still suspected of involvement in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway on Aruba in May 2005. The case was brought back into the limelight when crime reporter Peter R. de Vries secretly filmed Joran van der Sloot claiming that he had dumped Natalee’s body in the ocean. The potentially incriminating statement was not accepted as evidence by the court.

In the end there is a Justice that outweighs man’s justice

In a Dutch article from HvNL, De Vries discusses the death of Paulus Van der Sloot and talks about it was always his opinion that Joran Van der Sloot was responsible for Natalee Holloway’s disappearance and that his father, the recently deceased Paulus Van der Sloot helped his son hide her body.

UPDATE II: I chatted with Jossy Mansur early this morning via email and he was gracious enough to provide Scared Monkeys with the follwoing translation from their front page Diario article on Paulas Van der Sloot.

Paul Van der Sloot died last night
He was playing tennis and fell to the ground.

ORANJESTAD (AAN) The well-known lawyer Paul van der Sloot died last night. He was playing tennis and at a certain moment collapsed. The information that DIARIO has says that the ambulance came immediately to the site and started to reanimate him. He was placed in the ambulance and was taken to the hospital, but not much could be done to save his life. Mr. Paul van der Sloot was a lot in the local and international news some time back after his son, Joran van der Sloot, became a suspect in the case of the disappearance of the young American girl Nathallee Holloway. This may have had an effect on  his health. Peace to his remains and strength to his family.

Jossy Mansur, the managing editor of Diario also provided us with the following:

“Justice has a strange way of correcting irregularities committed in its name. In this particular case, Paul had the necessary information we needed to solve the case, but decided to take it with him to his tomb. His version (the true one) we will never know. And we can never depend on Joran to come clean with what happened to Natalee.

Yes, Paul died playing tennis yesterday afternoon. God forgive him!“

To further discuss and provide your own opinions go to Scared Monkeys.net Forums: Natalee Holloway.

Daily Commentary – Thursday, February 11th, 2010 – Michael Jackson, Nuclear Ambitions, and Coyotes

• Dana contemplates the significance of an assortment of strange and disturbing headlines.

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Daily Commentary – Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 – Celebrity Trials

February 10th, 2010

* Do celebrities get off easy because of their social status? What impact do their trials have on public perception and government action?

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Obama Trainer Need Lessons from the Elephant In the Room … Health Care Reform Needs to Start from Scratch

After one year of keeping Republicans out of the health care debate President Barack Hussein Obama now says that he is willing to meet Republicans half way on Obamacare. Half way? Interesting as the President said his idea of bipartisanship was listening to Republicans suggestions. Hmm, wouldn’t that mean that he had not been for a year? Who is the Party of “NO”?

“I’m willing to move off some of the preferences of my party, in order to meet them halfway, Obama said. “But there’s got to be some give from their side as well.”

Vanderbilt – ’10

Elephants and Conservatives have long memories. ‘Progressive’
claims of “moving forward” must be tempered with logical debate
and historical fact. The ‘Nationalization’ of the best healthcare system
in the world is both unconstitutional and unreasonable. Obscure
plans fashioned behind closed doors by frenzied political zealots
must not be foisted upon We the People. Little “Hopee Changee”
trainers need lessons from the Elephant In the Room.

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