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Progressives to Impose Healthcare Takeover

by Phantom Ace ( 32 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Economy, Healthcare, Liberal Fascism, Media at August 4th, 2009 - 9:00 am

Realizing the tide is turning against them, the Progressive controlled Democratic Party has decided that they will ram though their reforms. There is discussion of using a procedure where they can bypass a filibuster and pass it with just 51 votes. This process is called reconciliation and no changes can be made to the legislation. If the GOP ever did this, The Progressive Attack Machine would be all over this. However, since this is being done in the name of Progress, any means is OK.

WASHINGTON — Frustrated with the pace of bipartisan talks, Democratic leaders on Monday promised to push a sweeping health care bill through the Senate whether they get Republican support or not.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the third-ranking Senate Democrat, raised the prospect of the leadership crafting a bill to Democratic specifications and using a rare legislative procedure to expedite legislation fulfilling President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.

“We will have contingencies in place. These plans will likely be considered as a last resort, but they are on the table,” Schumer told reporters on a conference call. He declined to elaborate.

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I warned that as the Progressive agenda loses popularity, they will become more desperate. The attack machine is on a full scale offensive. Keith Olbermann, who is a spokesman for this movement, has broken the GE-FOX truce and launched a vicious attack on Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats. Think Progress is attacking anyone who opposes the Health care takeover as hired goons.  Totalitarian movements are ruthless when they are in trouble and the Progressives Machine will not be different.

Just like The Dark Night, This Joker is dealy!


Obama as Joker

Tax Burden of Top 1% Now Exceeds That of Bottom 95%

by bar ( 43 Comments › )
Filed under Politics at August 4th, 2009 - 7:25 am

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From The Tax Foundation

Newly released data from the IRS clearly debunks the conventional Beltway rhetoric that the “rich” are not paying their fair share of taxes.

Indeed, the IRS data shows that in 2007—the most recent data available—the top 1 percent of taxpayers paid 40.4 percent of the total income taxes collected by the federal government. This is the highest percentage in modern history. By contrast, the top 1 percent paid 24.8 percent of the income tax burden in 1987, the year following the 1986 tax reform act.

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To put this in perspective, the top 1 percent is comprised of just 1.4 million taxpayers and they pay a larger share of the income tax burden now than the bottom 134 million taxpayers combined.

Progressive Thug Rahm Emanuel bullies the Networks

by Phantom Ace ( 27 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Free Speech, Liberal Fascism, Media at August 3rd, 2009 - 1:05 pm

Chicago Progressive wannabe thug: Rahm Emanuel pressures the TV Networks to give up time for Obama’s press conferences. These Prime Time Conferences are a money loser for the networks, so they have been reluctant to air them. Rahm Emanuel calls the heads of the Networks and strong arms them into broadcasting Obama. This is a Totalitarian tactic and shows how ruthless Progressives are.

In the days before President Obama’s last news conference, as the networks weighed whether to give up a chunk of their precious prime time, Rahm Emanuel went straight to the top.

Rather than calling ABC, the White House chief of staff phoned Bob Iger, chief executive of parent company Disney. Instead of contacting NBC, Emanuel went to Jeffrey Immelt, the chief executive of General Electric. He also spoke with Les Moonves, the chief executive of CBS Corp., the company spun off from Viacom.

Whether this amounted to undue pressure or plain old Chicago arm-twisting, Emanuel got results: the fourth hour of lucrative network time for his boss in six months. But network executives have been privately complaining to White House officials that they cannot afford to keep airing these sessions in the economic downturn.

The networks “absolutely” feel pressured, says Paul Friedman, CBS’s senior vice president: “It’s an enormous financial cost when the president replaces one of those prime-time hours. The news divisions also have mixed feelings about whether they are being used.”

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This is another example of the Fascict nature of Progressivism. It will get worse as the American public rebels against their agenda.

The Progressive Agenda of Equality destroys Prosperity

by Phantom Ace ( 49 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Economy, Liberal Fascism at August 3rd, 2009 - 7:11 am

The Progressive Movement which at this moment has a stranglehold on our Government, Media, Economy and Education system has in place the means to restructure America. They are doing this by implementing policies that will create “equality”. In reality this is a means to keep everyone poor and dependent on the government. By having people dependent on the government, they ensure they keep their power.

As our nation remakes itself into a European social democracy, bidding farewell to American Exceptionalism, we hear constant calls for “sacrifice.” Have you wondered exactly what it is that we’ve been asked to give up?

The radical idea that all men should be equal before the law, each free to pursue happiness using his own means, created a nation of innovators that transformed the world. American culture had little tolerance for hereditary privilege, instead celebrating the self-made man accepting unequal outcomes as the price society pays to motivate entrepreneurial risk. Our founding social contract gave almost everyone a shot at riches but guaranteed outcomes for none. The system lasted 200 years because the same market that rewarded innovation eventually spread its fruits to even life’s laggards. In the historical blink of an eye material luxuries became necessities became basic human “rights.”

Has there ever been a more rapid increase in living standards than that delivered by this unprecedented revolution in liberty? Millions flocked to our shores escaping political policies we now rush to embrace. They – we – lifted ourselves from poverty to prosperity in as quickly as a single generation.

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The net result is the Creation of a Neo Feudal system. The Progressive elites will have all the luxuries and economic power. They will become the lords and tell us how to live our lives. The rest of us will be Serfs dependent on the government to survive day to day. The Progressive goal is to have the masses as their slaves. This is Totalitarian and it must be stopped!