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I don’t have a copy of the actual statement but from what I’ve heard, here is what I say:

1. The White House claims they couldn’t have offered Secretary of the Navy to Sestak as they already had a nominee. This is irrelevant – SecNav serves at the pleasure of the President and given a choice between placating someone out of Specter’s way and disappointing a hack already in the job its no contest.

2. The White House claims they just had little, old Bill Clinton offer Sestak, in return for getting out of the race, a continuation of his House position plus unspecified, unpaid White House advisory roles. Why offer someone some thing he already has (the House) and things which don’t matter (unpaid advisory roles)? This is complete nonsense – if you’re being a political wire puller, you either bring something to the table, or you don’t even bother.

3. The White House says they used Bill Clinton. Why? They’ve put out the story that Clinton and Sestak were close…funny, but during the 8 years of Bill, I don’t remember Sestak’s name cropping up as a close friend and adviser of the President. So, Sestak was promoted to Vice Admiral under Clinton…its not like he was the only person so promoted during that 8 years. Worked on the NSC? Lots of officers do – doesn’t mean they’re close, personal friends with the President. This just reeks of an attempt to put a third party in the middle…thus any future revelations about what was said can be blamed on mis-communication between three parties.

Fundamentally, this is nonsense – but very clever nonsense. It writes a plausible story and thus hopes to bury it quickly. Fine. All I want, now, is for Clinton, Sestak and Emanuel to be called before Congress and under oath – swearing so help them, God – that this is all true. Lets see how far they’ll go with this charade.

Just keeps getting worse and worse in the one-time Golden State:

Antioch’s leaders earlier this month said bankruptcy could be an option for the cash-strapped city of roughly 100,000 on the eastern fringe of the San Francisco Bay area.

Antioch’s fiscal woes are standard issue for local governments in California: weak revenue from retail sales and property taxes is forcing spending cuts, layoffs and furloughs.

But cost-cutting measures may not be enough to keep Antioch’s books balanced, so its city council is openly discussing bankruptcy.

“We just want to alert people to the possibility,” Antioch Mayor Pro Tem Mary Helen Rocha said.

Antioch is not even remotely alone – and California is not the only State with ailing municipalities. And this, my friends, is why even if there is a recovery, it is doomed – there is simply too much debt. It can’t be repaid – default in some form is inevitable and when it happens it takes down whatever remains of our financial system.

There are, of course, rumors out there that Uncle Sam might ride to the rescue. Having the ability to print endless amounts of money does give the federal government the ability to move State and local debt on to the federal books…but the price of that is both a weaker US dollar and a exceptionally strong risk of sovereign default on the part of the federal government. There simply is a limit to all this – when, exactly, it will be reached is unknown and unknowable…but eventually the money people figure there’s a chance they won’t get paid, and then they either stop buying US bonds, or start charging extortionate interest rates.

If Uncle Sam doesn’t bail them out, then it will be the cities and States which bring the house of cards down. This would actually be the less painful option for the country as a whole. It would force governments to cancel the absurdly generous public sector union contracts while also imposing fiscal discipline on profligate governments. The problem here, for Democrats, is that it means less union money for campaigns and, temporarily worse, a big spike in the unemployment numbers right before election day as government workers are let go.

Not a pretty picture – and there is no easy way out.

Great video:

Astounding poll:

Businessman Ron Johnson, endorsed at last weekend’s state Republican Convention, is now running virtually even against incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold in Wisconsin’s race for the U.S. Senate.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Wisconsin shows Feingold with 46% support to Johnson’s 44%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) remain undecided.

For someone as big a wheel as Feingold to be essentially tied with 5 months to go is big news. This is a very clear indicator of the overall weakness of the Democrat brand – not yet an indicator of GOP strength.

Democrats were taking seats like Feingold’s for granted – he was expected to cruise to easy victory in a moderately blue State. Now Democrats will have to pour it on – and still may come up short. This means, in turn, that Democrat challengers and weaker incumbents will have must less resources thus allowing the GOP even more chances to score victories.

How it will all come out in November remains to be seen, but so far its a good year to be a Republican.

Read it and weep, liberals:

Recent research at Harvard Business School began with the premise that as a state’s congressional delegation grew in stature and power in Washington, D.C., local businesses would benefit from the increased federal spending sure to come their way.

It turned out quite the opposite. In fact, professors Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval, and Christopher Malloy discovered to their surprise that companies experienced lower sales and retrenched by cutting payroll, R&D, and other expenses. Indeed, in the years that followed a congressman’s ascendancy to the chairmanship of a powerful committee, the average firm in his state cut back capital expenditures by roughly 15 percent, according to their working paper…

Easy to figure out – once a politician gains in stature, the corporate interests who raised him to power become complacent. They start to live off their connections in government rather than off of hard work and innovation. Why bother working hard when for a pittance (in comparison) you can just bribe a politician for sweat heart government contracts or tax breaks?

The larger government gets, the worse it gets for everyone for the simple reason that government can be swayed – it can be bribed. After a while, you get the situation we currently have – where Big Government and Big Corporation bribe each other for mutual benefit. The only people suffering in this are, well, the people. We don’t have the free market we need for growth nor do we have a government we can rely on to help us.

Only by breaking down the power of government will we be able to restore a sense of rationality and honesty in both American government and business. The liberal dream of a wise elite using government to ensure the good life for all has proven a nightmare – and it is time we woke up from it.

This noted at NRO’s The Corner:

Let’s see. The United States is broke. Our government has no choice but to cover the costs of our troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq and to pay out disaster relief before Memorial Day recess. So what do the President and the speaker of the House focus on? Cutting a deal to ram through $18 billion in energy pork while nobody’s looking.

Never mind that the $18 billion is for unnecessary federal energy loan guarantees ($9 billion for nuclear power and $9 billion for renewables) or that the latest analysis suggests that more than a quarter of the applicants for these loans are likely to default on them. Nor does it seem to matter that just last month at House hearings, both the chairman and the ranking member voiced skepticism about making these loans until they had much more information.

Last week, Republican senator Thad Cochran urged Senators to resist amendments to the War Supplemental Bill that are unrelated to the military or disaster relief. After hearing about this and other deals, Republican senator Tom Coburn was blunter: “The emergency designation of this bill,” he argued, “is a farce designed to evade the budget rules that require Congress to pay for new spending.” You’d like to think that the House Appropriations Committee would block this one when it comes up for a vote later this week…

But, of course, when push came to shove, Democrats decided to lavish (borrowed) taxpayer dollars on favored constituencies. As we head towards complete financial meltdown, we can count on our Democrats to pour a bit more gasoline on the bonfire of America. The moochers got their money; Democrats will get their political donations; the people got the shaft.

There is a nauseating stench of corruption emanating from Washington, DC. It grows worse and worse and I can only figure that the Democrats figure they’ve got a mortal lock on the Congress – that there is no way we can possibly defeat them in November.

Well, fellow Americans, let us work to disappoint them – and when we’ve got back in to power, let us not forget what they have done. This isn’t about revenge – there is no revenge in politics. There are, however, consequences…and the consequences of selling America down the river should be quite stern.

Once again, I really, really like this guy:

Teachers – the best of them – are worth their weight in gold…but the fact of the matter is that New Jersey is bankrupt and there simply isn’t enough money for everything. Christie only has control over the State budget – he doesn’t have control over just how a school board spends the money.

The teacher in the video should be applying herself to the school board – why is money not taken out of Administration and placed in the classroom? That is the unasked question – and the question the educrats don’t want asked.

Fun, fun, fun:

…the real civil war this year is going on in the Democratic Party — and it is going largely unreported.

One reason is that it is not a clear-cut battle between two easily identifiable forces, like Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and Grant’s Army of the Potomac. Rather, it resembles the guerrilla conflicts of the Civil War in Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, with local self-starters scurrying about in all directions…

Barone goes on to note the knock down, drag out fights which are killing the Democrats in Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Utah, New York and Illinois. All around the country, Democrats are getting at each others throats – some resolutely standing on the left, others desperate to disassociate themselves from it. Caught in the middle are rank-and-file Democrat voters who simply don’t know what to do – forbidden to even think of having a grass-roots effort like the TEA Party, Democrat faithful simply must wait until their masters hash it out. And if they don’t hash it out?

Its going to be an interesting political year – and very fun for a Republican.

He had the governorship of Washington State brazenly stolen from him by the Democrats in 2004 – that was then, this now. Now is time to remove a barnacle from the United States Senate:

Getting justice is very difficult under the Obama Administration – but people keep on trying:

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Obama Justice Department to obtain documents related to the agency’s decision to dismiss the claims against several members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense who were accused of engaging in voter intimidation during the 2008 presidential campaign (U.S. v. New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense)…

Obama’s Justice department has been stonewalling this for about a year now – they simply do not want to move against the New Black Panther Party. Why not? We can only surmise that either the members of the group know of illegal activities on the part of Obama’s team or that the Obama team wants to keep a corps of thugs around to use in future elections.

This is Obama’s America, boys and girls. The change we can believe in – Gestapo tactics and government corruption to cover it up.