Barack Obama & Democrats Drop Millionaires Paying for Extending the Payroll Tax Cut (Update: $1 Trillion Spending Agreement Reached for 2012)

Big Obama and Democrat concession on payroll tax cuts …

What can only be described as a victory by Congressional Republicans and a blow to President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats, Obama and Democrats cave on charging millionaires to pay for extending the payroll tax cut. Controlling just the House, Republicans are dictating the narrative as Obama and Dems caved, some are not surprised and upset with Obama and his Democrat minions. However, what do you expect, the GOP has been saying this for 3 years, Obama is no leader.

In what would be a major concession, President Obama and Senate Democrats will drop their insistence that a surtax on millionaires pay for extending the payroll tax cut, a Democratic source tells CNN. This would be part of a new Democratic offer.

On another note, will the government shut down? Signs point to no, there will most likely be a last second deal avoiding a shutdown.

UPDATE I: Just as we predicted above, there will be no shut down of the government, Congressional leaders reach spending deal to avoid government shutdown. Does Obama now have his excuse to head to Hawaii?

One Trillion Dollars!!!

Congressional negotiators signed off Thursday evening on a $1 trillion spending agreement for 2012 for federal agencies, barely 27 hours before a deadline that could have led to a government shutdown.

After dropping minor policy prescriptions that President Obama opposed, members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees gave final approval to the plan after a four-day standoff related to Obama’s demands to extend the payroll tax holiday for 160 million workers.

I’m glad to see that Congress got the message from “we the people” in stop spending money, NOT! Like the Lonely Conservative, I am ill as well. This Congress just does not get it and the reason why I say, they and this President get no tax increases to seal with any deficit. They have shown that they are all incapable of reducing spending and the burden on the American people. The 2012 elections cannot come fast enough and do not be surprised if Democrats lose control of the presidency and the Senate … also, establishment Republicans lose as well and some in positions of power are not there after 2012. Enough is enough.

Despicable … OWS Protesters Target School Kids in Their Day of Outrage … OWS Protesters Chant “Follow Those Kids!”

Despicable … OWS Protesters Target School Kids in Their Day of Outrage … OWS Protesters Chant “Follow Those Kids!” So this is what Obama, Pelosi and Reid endorse, eh. The  OWS protesters have so crossed the line on acceptable behavior. This is not freedom of speech.

The Occupy Wall Street movement is officially over … you claimed to be protesting banks and economic inequality, code for redistribution of wealth. Yesterday OWS targeted and harassed school children. Stick a fork in OWS, they are done. What little support that remained for the OWS protesters just went out the window. On Thursday in NYC, OWS protesters harasses children and working folks alike as they caused chaos th the city. One question, what are you trying to accomplish, how hated a movement can become?

They were caught in the middle of madness.

Some grade school students were forced to walk a gauntlet of screaming “Occupy Wall Street” protesters just to get to school on Thursday.

It was a wild day in lower Manhattan for most everyone involved, including elementary school children who had to brave the mayhem just to get to class on the other side of Wall Street.

In the middle of thousands of protestors yelling and chanting — some kicking and screaming – CBS 2’s Emily Smith found little school kids trying to get to class. Nervous parents led them through the barriers on Wall Street. The NYPD helped funnel the children, anything to ease their fears while some protestors chanted “follow those kids!”

“These guys are terrorists, yelling at little kids,” one father said.

Follow those kids? Seriously? Weasel Zippers reminds us that the number of school kids stalked and terrorized by Tea Party member is ZERO! These protesters do not represent the 99%, they represent the worst of what American can be and mob rule. Who in their right mind would target children? President Obama, Pelosi and Reid … Where is your outrage or is this what the Democrat party in 2011 now stands behind? This endorsement from Democrats will come back to haunt them in the 2012 elections.

More pics and VIDEO at the Gateway Pundit.

The mood of most Americans is becoming the attitude shared by that of  Rep. Michael G. Grimm (R,C-NY) regarding the Occupy Wall Street mob … “it’s time for the OWS protesters to pack up their tents, buy a bar of soap, and head home.”

“These people have overstayed their welcome and it’s time they get the heck out of New York City. Between the filth, the smell, the incessant noise, and threat to public safety, they have done nothing but cause a nuisance to the people who work and live in Lower Manhattan. They’ve cost the city and surrounding businesses millions of dollars, and it’s time these people find a more productive use of their time. New Yorkers have had ENOUGH!

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Like the Tea Party, Eh … Man Deficates on NYC Police Car, Liberal Lies Part 274

So the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters are like the Tea Party, really? Not even close … Oh the hypocrisy.

President Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Democrats and the bias MSM have tried to compare the Leftist/Socialist/Anarchist “Occupy” protester crowd as being like the Tea Party”. Really? This coming after support of the anti-Wall Street crowd from President Obama and Nancy Pelosi. However, if the LEFT thinks that the “Occupy” protesters are like the Tea Party, wouldn’t that mean that the “Occupy Wall Street” folks would be “Nazi’s carrying swastikas”, “Brown Shirts”, “astro-turfers”, “Not-American” ,  “extremists” and “Evil Mongers”?

Pelosi: “they are independent, young, spontaneous and focused”

However, unlike the demonization that Democrats did when it came to the Tea Party, folks like Democrat House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi praised the Wall Street protesters … “God Bless them”. The LEFT claims that the “Occupy” protesters are the counter to the Tea Party, they got that right.

Pelosi said that the Wall Street protesters were young, spontaneous and focused. Huh? The protest has been co-oped by organized labor unions and as for focused, you cannot get a common answer from 5 different people, let alone if they even know why they are protesting. As aptly stated at the Jawa Report, Pelosi’s tag line should have been … “S#it Happens.”

Pic: Daily Mail - Raw sewer: An unidentified man seen defecates on a NYPD patrol car in downtown Manhattan

From the UK Mail comes the following incident and picture of a man defecating on a NYC police car amid the Occupy Wall Street protests.When was the last time you ever saw such a thing occur at a Tea Party rally? The answer, NEVER! Also being reported is the piles of trash and unsanitary conditions that are being created. Another thing you will never hear reported from a Tea Party rally.

This are the shocking scenes that have led some people to accuse the Occupy Wall Street protesters living rough in New York’s financial district of creating unsanitary and filthy conditions.

Exclusive pictures obtained by Mail Online show one demonstrator relieving himself on a police car.

Elsewhere we found piles of stinking refuse clogging Zucotti Park, despite the best efforts of many of the protesters to keep the area clean.

The shocking images demonstrate the extent to which conditions have deteriorated as demonstrations in downtown Manhattan enter their fourth week. Further pictures seen by Mail Online have been censored, as we deemed them too graphic to show.

As discussed at the Lonely Conservative via the New York Times, not all of the protesters are crapping on police cars, some of the protesters are actually using the restrooms of local businesses, after being told by organizers to “feel free to refresh yourself in the restrooms of neighboring businesses like Burger King and McDonald’s without feeling obligated to buy anything.” Huh, two questions, didn’t the LEFT say that because of one perceived racist incident at a Tea Party event, that meant all Tea Party go’ers were racist? Second, how ironic that Wall Street protesters would use bathrooms of the very evil capitalist business that they are supposedly protesting.

UPDATE I: Confirmed … at the Tea Party sponsored event yesterday in Nashville, TN to “Stand Up with Gibson Guitars, there were no reports of any deification incidents on police vehicles.

Barack Obama Wants His Jobs Bill Back … Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV-D) Blocks Jobs Bill, Obama Blames Republicans

US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blocks Barack Obama’s jobs bill from a vote, but Obama says its the GOP’s fault.

Just last week President Barack Obama stated in his Weekly Address that he wanted his jobs bill back and blamed Republicans for the fact that it has not passed. However, like most of what Obama says is just not true. Yesterday Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell tried to have a vote on the Presidents jobs bill, forcing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to block the vote.  Maybe some one may want to tell President Obama who is actually blocking his so-called jobs bill.

Senate Republicans tried to make Democrats hold a quick vote on President Obama’s jobs-stimulus bill Tuesday, but were blocked by Senate Majority Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who is sponsoring Mr. Obama’s bill but who said other matters take priority.

Mr. Obama has traveled the country calling for Congress to pass his plan immediately — including most recently Tuesday afternoon in Texas — but the tax increases included in his bill are opposed by Republicans and even many Democrats.

With that in mind, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, tried to force a vote, which presumably would have resulted in a humiliating defeat for the White House.

“I’d like to give him that vote,” Mr. McConnell said.

As reported at The Hill, McConnell was just trying to fulfill the request of Barack Obama by asking for a vote on the jobs bill and “to honor the request of the president of the United States that we vote on it now.” Reid blocked it an called it a political stunt. Really Senator Reid, a political stunt? Then what would you call what Obama is doing by asking for his jobs bill to be passed now, blaming the GOP to the American people and then having Democrats not support and block the vote? So who is blocking the passage of the bill?

“What I am trying to do here today by requesting this vote on the president’s jobs bill … is to honor the request of the president of the United States that we vote on it now,” McConnell said. “He has been asking us repeatedly over the last few weeks that we vote on it now.”

“I think the president of the United States, whose polices I generally do not support … is entitled to know where the Senate stands on his proposal that he has been out talking about … and suggesting that we are unwilling to vote on it,” he said.

However, that did not stop Obama from his divisive rhetoric in blaming the GOP for not passing the jobs bill. The fact of the matter is that there are many Democrats do not support the President’s bill. Let’s face it, Democrats are extremely hesitant to support anything that is purely Obama, they do not want to have to defend something else like the $787 stimulus and Obamacare in the 2012 elections.

Harry Reid Says the Tea Party will Fade Away … Politico’s Continue to Marginalize the Tea Party

So Democrat US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV-D) says that the Tea Party will fade away. I guess he also thought that the skate board was a passing fad as well? How do these people spew this nonsense and keep a straight face? Democrats have never understood that the Tea Party is the silent majority.

VIDEO Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit

But Reid doesn’t expect it to last.

“The Tea Party was the result of a terrible economy,” he said. “I’ve said that many times, and I believe that.”

“That (the Tea Party) will pass. They will lose a number of seats next year.”

Wanna bet? That same Tea Party that you continually speak ill of, will be the same movement who in 2012 will help make Reid the former Democrat Majority Leader. The desperation from the LEFT has as The OtherMcCain writes has become laughable. Does it get any worse than when one becomes nothing more than a joke?

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Will Anthony Weiner Survive Politically as Democrats Distance Themselves … Weiner Resignation Watch is On

From the beginning of the Weiner Tweet story, it was obvious what had occurred. Although Democrats remained silent and the liberal MSM did stories on hacking rather than ones that Weiner might be lying. In the end under the mounting evidence that Weiner did sent the explicit pics, Anthony Weiner admitted the pic was of himself and he sent it.

Anthony Weiner took the words to the Oscar Mayer Weiner jingle personally, literally. I guess he did wish he was an Oscar Mayer Weiner, because every one would be in love with him. Or so he thought. Oops, Congressman Weiner took this to the extreme.

Now that the cat is out of the bag and Weiner has admitted his wrong doings, well most of them … Democrats are distancing themselves and calls for resignation are abound. Democrats actually think they can win back the House in 2012, as delusional as that sounds. However, no such notion could ever even be possible when Weiner would be the face of the Democrat House. In other words, Democrats know Weiner must go.

Representative Anthony D. Weiner of New York, reeling from revelations of salacious online behavior that threaten his political career, moved rapidly on Tuesday to make amends as Republicans called for his resignation and leading members of his own Democratic Party distanced themselves from him.

Mr. Weiner spent much of the past 24 hours apologizing over and over to stunned Congressional colleagues and Democratic leaders angry at him for misleading them and the public. Even neighboring House Democrats seemed shaken, with many of them worrying that worse disclosures may still surface.

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Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Says It Would be Foolish for Democrats to Propose Their own Federal Budget

Far be it from US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Democrats to act in a responsible manner and actually conduct themselves in a way that would benefit “We the People”. Harry Reid stated that it would be “foolish” for Democrats to propose their own federal budget for 2012. Democrats did not propose a budget last year, why would anyone think they would this year?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said it would be “foolish” for Democrats to propose their own federal budget for 2012, despite continued attacks from Republicans that the party is ducking its responsibility to put forward a solution to the nation’s deficit problems.

“There’s no need to have a Democratic budget in my opinion,” Reid said in an interview Thursday. “It would be  foolish for us to do a budget at this stage.”

Reid got the foolish part right, he just did not realize it was his actions and the Democrats he was really referring to. Democrats have acted foolishly for many year now.

An 11th Hour Budget Deal Struck … There Will be no Government Shutdown

Budget deal made, government shut down averted …

GOP House Speaker John Boehner has done what previous Democrat controlled House Speaker Pelosi, Democrat Senate Majority Leader and Democrat President Barack Obama could not do last year. Boehner managed to get a budget passed in spite of Democrats. Sadly, Democrats last year thought it not in their interest to pass a budget when they controlled both the House Senate and Presidency.  As the Politico reports:

After a long day of trading offers, the White House and House Republicans reached agreement Friday night on a budget framework that would cap 2011 appropriations near or below $1.050 trillion while cutting domestic and foreign aid by more than $40 billion from the rate of spending at the beginning of this Congress.

Behind the closed doors of special meeting of the Republican Conference, Speaker John Boehner presented the package to his party as at least an agreement in principle and said at one point: “We have a deal.” The Senate should now feel confident enough to move ahead with a stop gap spending bill to avert—or at least shorten—any shutdown beginning at midnight.

Initially Reed and Democrats did not want $1 dollar of any spending cuts. In the end they wound up with a deal to cut about $38 billion in federal spending. In the end it appears that the Tea Party was victorious in the end. However, there needs to be serious action to take on the national debt. It would appear that Harry Reed and Barack Obama were handed their hat this evening. Now wait until the debt ceiling vote.

The only great news of the night for Barack Obama is … he gets to go on yet another vacation now.

Who is Extreme: 48% of Americans Say Views More Like Tea Party, Only 22% Say More Like Congress

Democrats have tried to smear the Tea Party since the outset of the grass roots, “We the People” movement, it has gotten them no where.

Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just last week was at it again knocking the Tea Party (VIDEO); however, he just like mostt Democrats just don’t get it. ‘We the People” do not think the Tea Party is extreme, we think that Congress is. He stated that the people does not care about the Tea Party, it is just a small percentage that identify with the Tea Party. Really Harry?

 In a recent Rasmussen poll, 48% of  of Likely U.S. Voters say when facing major issues, their views are closer to the average Tea Party member while only 23% favor the views of Congress.  Meanwhile, 54% of voters not affiliated with either major political party, say the movement is good for the country.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters say when it comes to the major issues facing the country, their views are closer to the average Tea Party member as opposed to the average member of Congress.  Just 22% say their views are closest to those of the average congressman. Even more (30%) aren’t sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

 A radical and unpopular faction? Really? Since when is it radical and unpopular to live within your means, bankrupt a ccountry and leave your children and grand children with a bill they cannot afford? This is what Democrats think is radical. Is is no wonder that Democrats were shellacked in the 2010 midterm elections.

Democrats Abandoning Ship Across the South … Switch to the GOP … Democrat Party Does not Represent Conservative Dems

It was the obvious handwriting on the wall following the shellacking the Democrats took in the 2010 midterm elections … They did not leave the Democrat party, the party left them.

Many Democrats in the South are reading the tea leaves and see that the Democrat party no longer represents the people, especially in the South. As reported at the LA Times, the latest Democrat to switch parties is  Ashley Bell from Georgia. The Pelosi-Reid-Obama lead Democrats made it obvious that conservatives are not welcome in the so-called “big tent” Democrat party. Add 29 state Democrat legislatures to the 680 that one election in 2010 … the shift is on to the GOP.

Reporting from Atlanta — For Democrats, Ashley Bell was the kind of comer that a party builds a future on: A young African American lawyer, he served as president of the College Democrats of America, advised presidential candidate John Edwards and spoke at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.

But after his party’s midterm beat-down in November, Bell, a commissioner in northern Georgia’s Hall County, jumped ship. He joined the Republicans.

Bell, 30, said he had serious issues with the healthcare law and believed that conservative “blue dog” Democrats in Congress who shared his values had been bullied into voting for it.

Democrats switching to the GOP has been a sign of the times since the 2010 midterm elections. The count to date, 24 state senators and representatives have made the switch in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Texas. This is added to the 680 seats that the GOP picked up in the state legislatures in the 2010 elections.

As stated at the Daily Caller, “because of the wave of defections, Republicans in Louisiana now hold a majority in the state House for the first time since Reconstruction”. Many in the South have come to realize that the liberals that are the power brokers in the Democrat party in no way represent Conservative Democrats and their is no reason to stay in a party that does not represent their beliefs or values.