Blagojevich Review: Rahm Emanuel Clean as a Boiled Whistle

Mr. Christopher,

For all of the people that incessantly whine about the corruption in Chicago politics (forgetting, of course that our current drama centers around Springfield), none of them can recognize the classic political hit job.

"I will (expletive) END YOU!"

Blago got greedy. Blago got hit. Usually happens to punks, "who don't show the (in my best Tony Soprano voice) proper respect."

Watch out Washington.

I hope we can join together to support the new administration...united we stand ...devided we fall. The econimy will require we all take part in the "fix'.

The country may not be able to endure another finger-wagging Presidential scandal. Let’s hope the current Chicago mess does not turn into a blight on B.O.’s Presidency. And, let’s hope the incoming administration will work as hard to keep us safe, here at home in America, as the Bush administration did during the past seven.

According to CNNMoney.com, Wall Street securities and investment firms gave over $35 million to Democratic candidates this election cycle. And the amount they gave to the Obama campaign was nearly five times the amount they gave to McCain.

If you've been wondering why the financial industry is in meltdown -- and taking your 401(k) or investment portfolio down with it -- now you know.

Let's face it: The former frat boys who populate Wall Street today understand economics about as well as the pinko professors whose courses they snored through.

That's why betting their entire industry on "subprime" loans to people with no jobs and no collateral made sense to them -- and why betting the entire U.S. economy on the likes of Obama makes sense to them now.

These jokers don't even know what's in their own self-interest, much less yours. Trusting them with your money is like trusting Bill Clinton to babysit your underage niece.

WHAT'S NEXT SHARIA LAW? POLITICAL CORRECT VOTERS NEED TO WAKE THE F@#% UP!



Rep. Ellison Makes a Pilgrimage to Mecca

Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress, has also become the first sitting member to make a pilgrimage to Islam’s holy city of Mecca.

The Minnesota Democrat had been planning the weeklong trip for almost a year, according to his spokesman, Rick Jauert, and hadn’t expected the battle in Congress over the bailout of U.S. carmakers that was waged during his absence.

“The plans were made not anticipating there would be a lame-duck session at all, and if there was, it wouldn’t be this late,” Jauert told the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune.

“He had let the speaker and majority leader know that he was going, and they were OK with that.” Ellison told the St. Paul Pioneer Press about his pilgrimage: "It was transformative. It was a wonderful experience. I learned a lot about myself, about my faith."

Ellison, who converted from Catholicism to Islam at age 19, was first elected to Congress in 2006. He created controversy when he placed his hand on a Quran, not a Bible, during the photo-op re-enactment of his swearing-in ceremony.

WHAT'S NEXT SHARIA LAW? POLITICAL CORRECT VOTERS NEED TO WAKE THE F@#% UP!



Rep. Ellison Makes a Pilgrimage to Mecca

Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress, has also become the first sitting member to make a pilgrimage to Islam’s holy city of Mecca.

The Minnesota Democrat had been planning the weeklong trip for almost a year, according to his spokesman, Rick Jauert, and hadn’t expected the battle in Congress over the bailout of U.S. carmakers that was waged during his absence.

“The plans were made not anticipating there would be a lame-duck session at all, and if there was, it wouldn’t be this late,” Jauert told the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune.

“He had let the speaker and majority leader know that he was going, and they were OK with that.” Ellison told the St. Paul Pioneer Press about his pilgrimage: "It was transformative. It was a wonderful experience. I learned a lot about myself, about my faith."

Ellison, who converted from Catholicism to Islam at age 19, was first elected to Congress in 2006. He created controversy when he placed his hand on a Quran, not a Bible, during the photo-op re-enactment of his swearing-in ceremony.

"Now, all that remains is for those who questioned, without basis, Obama's accounting to this point to abjectly and humbly apologize."
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Tommy -

I am sure that as soon as you O-bots apologize for questioning, without basis, Palin's accounting for trooper-gate that resulted in complete exoneration, Republicans will give you "all that remains".



"If someone who's been around it tells you it's round, and all of the available facts are consistent with it being round, your questions aren't really a story."
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Remember, Tommy, that it was your own liberal press that made this into a story, hounding one of their own with relatively simple questions.

You don't like how YOUR medicine tastes?

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* Strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis



First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

Inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles (which erupted after police had used batons to subdue a black man suspected of drunk driving), Cloward and Piven published an article titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty" in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation. Following its publication, The Nation sold an unprecedented 30,000 reprints. Activists were abuzz over the so-called "crisis strategy" or "Cloward-Piven Strategy," as it came to be called. Many were eager to put it into effect.

In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people can advance only when "the rest of society is afraid of them," Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would "the rest of society" accept their demands.

The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inadequacy of the welfare state. Cloward-Piven's early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. "Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1972 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one.

The authors noted that the number of Americans subsisting on welfare -- about 8 million, at the time -- probably represented less than half the number who were technically eligible for full benefits. They proposed a "massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls." Cloward and Piven calculated that persuading even a fraction of potential welfare recipients to demand their entitlements would bankrupt the system. The result, they predicted, would be "a profound financial and political crisis" that would unleash "powerful forces … for major economic reform at the national level."

Their article called for "cadres of aggressive organizers" to use "demonstrations to create a climate of militancy." Intimidated by threats of black violence, politicians would appeal to the federal government for help. Carefully orchestrated media campaigns, carried out by friendly, leftwing journalists, would float the idea of "a federal program of income redistribution," in the form of a guaranteed living income for all -- working and non-working people alike. Local officials would clutch at this idea like drowning men to a lifeline. They would apply pressure on Washington to implement it. With every major city erupting into chaos, Washington would have to act. This was an example of what are commonly called Trojan Horse movements -- mass movements whose outward purpose seems to be providing material help to the downtrodden, but whose real objective is to draft poor people into service as revolutionary foot soldiers; to mobilize poor people en masse to overwhelm government agencies with a flood of demands beyond the capacity of those agencies to meet. The flood of demands was calculated to break the budget, jam the bureaucratic gears into gridlock, and bring the system crashing down. Fear, turmoil, violence and economic collapse would accompany such a breakdown -- providing perfect conditions for fostering radical change. That was the theory.

Cloward and Piven recruited a militant black organizer named George Wiley to lead their new movement. In the summer of 1967, Wiley founded the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). His tactics closely followed the recommendations set out in Cloward and Piven's article. His followers invaded welfare offices across the United States -- often violently -- bullying social workers and loudly demanding every penny to which the law "entitled" them. By 1969, NWRO claimed a dues-paying membership of 22,500 families, with 523 chapters across the nation.

Regarding Wiley's tactics, The New York Times commented on September 27, 1970, "There have been sit-ins in legislative chambers, including a United States Senate committee hearing, mass demonstrations of several thousand welfare recipients, school boycotts, picket lines, mounted police, tear gas, arrests - and, on occasion, rock-throwing, smashed glass doors, overturned desks, scattered papers and ripped-out phones."These methods proved effective. "The flooding succeeded beyond Wiley's wildest dreams," writes Sol Stern in the City Journal. "From 1965 to 1974, the number of single-parent households on welfare soared from 4.3 million to 10.8 million, despite mostly flush economic times. By the early 1970s, one person was on the welfare rolls in New York City for every two working in the city's private economy."As a direct result of its massive welfare spending, New York City was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1975. The entire state of New York nearly went down with it. The Cloward-Piven strategy had proved its effectiveness.

The Cloward-Piven strategy depended on surprise. Once society recovered from the initial shock, the backlash began. New York's welfare crisis horrified America, giving rise to a reform movement which culminated in "the end of welfare as we know it" -- the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which imposed time limits on federal welfare, along with strict eligibility and work requirements. Both Cloward and Piven attended the White House signing of the bill as guests of President Clinton.

Most Americans to this day have never heard of Cloward and Piven. But New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani attempted to expose them in the late 1990s. As his drive for welfare reform gained momentum, Giuliani accused the militant scholars by name, citing their 1966 manifesto as evidence that they had engaged in deliberate economic sabotage. "This wasn't an accident," Giuliani charged in a 1997 speech. "It wasn't an atmospheric thing, it wasn't supernatural. This is the result of policies and programs designed to have the maximum number of people get on welfare."

Cloward and Piven never again revealed their intentions as candidly as they had in their 1966 article. Even so, their activism in subsequent years continued to rely on the tactic of overloading the system. When the public caught on to their welfare scheme, Cloward and Piven simply moved on, applying pressure to other sectors of the bureaucracy, wherever they detected weakness.

In 1982, partisans of the Cloward-Piven strategy founded a new "voting rights movement," which purported to take up the unfinished work of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Like ACORN, the organization that spear-headed this campaign, the new "voting rights" movement was led by veterans of George Wiley's welfare rights crusade. Its flagship organizations were Project Vote and Human SERVE, both founded in 1982. Project Vote is an ACORN front group, launched by former NWRO organizer and ACORN co-founder Zach Polett. Human SERVE was founded by Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, along with a former NWRO organizer named Hulbert James.

All three of these organizations -- ACORN, Project Vote and Human SERVE -- set to work lobbying energetically for the so-called Motor-Voter law, which Bill Clinton ultimately signed in 1993. The Motor-Voter bill is largely responsible for swamping the voter rolls with "dead wood" -- invalid registrations signed in the name of deceased, ineligible or non-existent people -- thus opening the door to the unprecedented levels of voter fraud and "voter disenfranchisement" claims that followed in subsequent elections.

The new "voting rights" coalition combines mass voter registration drives -- typically featuring high levels of fraud -- with systematic intimidation of election officials in the form of frivolous lawsuits, unfounded charges of "racism" and "disenfranchisement," and "direct action" (street protests, violent or otherwise). Just as they swamped America's welfare offices in the 1960s, Cloward-Piven devotees now seek to overwhelm the nation's understaffed and poorly policed electoral system. Their tactics set the stage for the Florida recount crisis of 2000, and have introduced a level of fear, tension and foreboding to U.S. elections heretofore encountered mainly in Third World countries.

Both the Living Wage and Voting Rights movements depend heavily on financial support from George Soros's Open Society Institute and his "Shadow Party," through whose support the Cloward-Piven strategy continues to provide a blueprint for some of the Left's most ambitious campaigns.

Hey, Al stupid GORE TURN THE GLOBAL WARMING UP I'M UP TO MY ASS IN SNOW &#$@&!

Minnesotaborn18:49AMDec 22nd 2008

I hope we can join together to support the new administration...united we stand ...devided we fall. The econimy will require we all take part in the "fix'.
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Minnesotaborn -

Do you mean like all that unity that liberals gave the last administration? Are you saying that the vicious liberal opposition is the actual reason we are so divided today? Do you really think The Big O will change all that? Do you expect the liberals to become suddenly non-partisan with Queen Pelosi already laying down the law with Rahm and The Big O in her own party?

You are asking a lot for Republicans to just forgive and forget after the last 8 years (last 28, really). But don't worry. Congress is loaded with Moderate Republican pussies like McCain and they are likely to fold, I'm sorry, be bought, with relative ease.

The real scandal on this blog is Tommy's shameless lusting for Chelsea.
Now where is Splash's f....ng tax cut!?!?!?

Yeah, where is my fucking tax-cut. Thanks, Wish Belkin!

And, I am with Tommy. Chelsea grew up into a REAL hottie. I don't know about senator, but I have an opening for a personal internship.

sO, WHAT ELSE IS TOMMY CHRISTOPHER GOING TO SAY ABOUT HIS IDOL ?????. TURDS OF A BIGGER TURD FLOAT TOGETHER. ANYBODY, ESPECIALLY TOMMY C. THAT THINKS OTHERWISE IS STILL SOAKED WITH KOOL-AID. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WAS BORN IN THE SEWER OF CHICAGO POLITICS, BUT HE IS CLEAN ? HA HA HA ..... WANNA BUY A BRIDGE IN CHICAGO ? TOMMY C. AND OBLA BLAH GOT ONE TO SELL YOU. THESE "TURDS" AINT GOING FLUSH ANYTIME SOON.

i will fight

i will fight

i will fight

myself...(LOL)

i am dying to tell you, the folks of Illinois, how i have maligned myself

it's kinda' lonely now...i have lied on myself and the tapes will vindicate me from myself

all i ask is that you give me a chance to defend myself from myself...and i am not worried because i have one thing on my side ... the truth(y)ness

i look forward to the day i can prove to all of you my innocence (as i see it)

LOL

Merry Christmas

Happy Kwanzaa

Happy Hanuka

Happy Holidays

Happy Festivus

i'll be at the movies watchin' The Day the Earth Stood Still then going out for dinner with my Chinese in-laws

;-)

http://2005.themic921.com/cc-common/streaming_new/index.html?refreshed=yes

where America comes to talk...come on in...either side

oh yea...give Splash his f'n tax cut!

i know that i am off topic, but if News papers are having a hard time selling the dead trees

i would suggest printing something that folks want to read...maybe even a Pulitzer in it for the Journalist

Folks would love reading about where their hard earned and paid tax monies have gone after the Banks recieved it...it is unconcienable that People in the business of counting money can't account for the money...

ok...We only seem slow...LOL

it is Our country and Our tax money...We the Folks can demand Our elected officials start a Thrift to fund small business and let the Banks die on the vine...We own Fannie & Freddie anyway & AIG...We could do it ourselves

stories about where the taxpayers money went would sell out your dead tree versions...

unconscionable

for the word police...sorry...type to quickly when incensed

Rahm and Obama are crooked just like Blao, they are just covering it up.

I don't see a problem with Obama or Emmanuel contacting Blago to make suggestions on who they believe would be a good replacement for Obama. If there was no deal making who really cares. Rham was born looking over his shoulder, and if he has something to say ... it won't be on the telephone.

JJJr is the one who has the problem. He wanted to play let's make a deal ... now he's caught and wants to squeal. The public doesn't really like informants, and I think that JJJr future political career will be hurt with this information.

meadowmuffin11:55AMDec 22nd 2008 -

I cannot tell you how many ways I love your screen name!

Whassup, BonBon?

coymoy -

Let me guess. You like The Big O and rahm, but are not to fond of JJJr. Am I right?