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		<title>Obama, Liberals, Pelosi accurate funnies for all!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The liberals are asking us to give Obama time.</p>
<p>We agree and think 25 to life would be appropriate.</p>
<p>**********************</p>
<p>America needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.</p>
<p>**********************</p>
<p>Q: Have you heard about McDonalds new Obama Value Meal?</p>
<p>A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it..</p>
<p>**********************</p>
<p>Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon?</p>
<p>A: A fund raiser.</p>
<p>**********************</p>
<p>Q: What&#8217;s the difference between Obama&#8217;s cabinet and a penitentiary?</p>
<p>A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers and threats to society.</p>
<p>The other is for housing prisoners.</p>
<p>**********************</p>
<p>If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and It</p>
<p>started to sink, who would be saved? &#8230;. America !</p>
<p>**********************</p>
<p>If Nancy Pelosi has her face lifted one more time she&#8217;ll have a beard!</p>
<p>**********************</p>
<p>Q: What&#8217;s the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?</p>
<p>A: Bo has papers</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The liberals are asking us to give Obama time.</p>
<p>We agree and think 25 to life would be appropriate.</p>
<p>**********************</p>
<p>America needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.</p>
<p>**********************</p>
<p>Q: Have you heard about McDonalds new Obama Value Meal?</p>
<p>A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it..</p>
<p>**********************</p>
<p>Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon?</p>
<p>A: A fund raiser.</p>
<p>**********************</p>
<p>Q: What&#8217;s the difference between Obama&#8217;s cabinet and a penitentiary?</p>
<p>A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers and threats to society.</p>
<p>The other is for housing prisoners.</p>
<p>**********************</p>
<p>If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and It</p>
<p>started to sink, who would be saved? &#8230;. America !</p>
<p>**********************</p>
<p>If Nancy Pelosi has her face lifted one more time she&#8217;ll have a beard!</p>
<p>**********************</p>
<p>Q: What&#8217;s the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?</p>
<p>A: Bo has papers</p>
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		<title>A Horse (Trojan) from Pueblo Chieftain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>SENATE DEMOCRATS ostensibly have reached a “compromise” on the massive health care bill currently under consideration, with the liberal wing agreeing with centrists to drop the so-called public option.</p>
<p>The details were sketchy when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced the deal Tuesday night, but on Wednesday President Barack Obama praised it. According to congressional and White House sources, the deal would jettison a full-blown government insurance plan in favor of expanding Medicare to people when they reach 55 and creating new private plans modeled on the federal employee program.</p>
<p>But those who oppose a government takeover of the entire health system should not get up and start dancing in the aisles, for this in reality is a bait-and-switch strategy. The liberals still want a single-payer socialized health system, and in the Senate they have made a tactical maneuver to buy time.</p>
<p>They realize they must buy time right now, because a growing majority of Americans simply do not want their government to take command of health care. So this week’s move is a holding action.</p>
<p>The bill still contains severe restrictions and mandates on private insurance, and if allowed to become law they would slowly but surely choke the private insurance industry out of existence. Then the only option would be the public option. It may be THE classic example of bait and switch.</p>
<p>Provisions in the legislation would assign a value to employer-provided benefits for each worker and report it on employees’ W-2 forms. That would make health insurance a taxable benefit.</p>
<p>What happened to the president’s promise that ObamaCare would not raise taxes?</p>
<p>The legislation has insurance companies squarely in the Democrats’ sights. Insurers will have to provide information on everybody they cover so bureaucrats in Washington can determine if an individual owes a penalty. And guess who is given enforcement power? Our friends at the IRS.</p>
<p>There still are mandates on how much coverage private insurers must offer and limits on how much they can charge, which makes private coverage actuarially impossible to stay in business.</p>
<p>When the private health insurance industry starts to fade away, the public will demand insurance, and guess who the Democrats in Congress want to offer that coverage? The tender ministrations of the federal government.</p>
<p>No, Tuesday’s “compromise” is a true Trojan Horse. The whole bill should be scrapped so that individual reforms can be debated, each on its own merit.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SENATE DEMOCRATS ostensibly have reached a “compromise” on the massive health care bill currently under consideration, with the liberal wing agreeing with centrists to drop the so-called public option.</p>
<p>The details were sketchy when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced the deal Tuesday night, but on Wednesday President Barack Obama praised it. According to congressional and White House sources, the deal would jettison a full-blown government insurance plan in favor of expanding Medicare to people when they reach 55 and creating new private plans modeled on the federal employee program.</p>
<p>But those who oppose a government takeover of the entire health system should not get up and start dancing in the aisles, for this in reality is a bait-and-switch strategy. The liberals still want a single-payer socialized health system, and in the Senate they have made a tactical maneuver to buy time.</p>
<p>They realize they must buy time right now, because a growing majority of Americans simply do not want their government to take command of health care. So this week’s move is a holding action.</p>
<p>The bill still contains severe restrictions and mandates on private insurance, and if allowed to become law they would slowly but surely choke the private insurance industry out of existence. Then the only option would be the public option. It may be THE classic example of bait and switch.</p>
<p>Provisions in the legislation would assign a value to employer-provided benefits for each worker and report it on employees’ W-2 forms. That would make health insurance a taxable benefit.</p>
<p>What happened to the president’s promise that ObamaCare would not raise taxes?</p>
<p>The legislation has insurance companies squarely in the Democrats’ sights. Insurers will have to provide information on everybody they cover so bureaucrats in Washington can determine if an individual owes a penalty. And guess who is given enforcement power? Our friends at the IRS.</p>
<p>There still are mandates on how much coverage private insurers must offer and limits on how much they can charge, which makes private coverage actuarially impossible to stay in business.</p>
<p>When the private health insurance industry starts to fade away, the public will demand insurance, and guess who the Democrats in Congress want to offer that coverage? The tender ministrations of the federal government.</p>
<p>No, Tuesday’s “compromise” is a true Trojan Horse. The whole bill should be scrapped so that individual reforms can be debated, each on its own merit.</p>
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		<title>HARDEST HIT BY OBAMACARE! by Dick Morris &amp; Eileen McGann &#8211; Nov 30, 2009</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The &#8220;health-care reform&#8221; bills in Congress would hit 39 states hard with new expenses, by raising Medicaid eligibility above the current income cutoffs.</p>
<p>The only states that won&#8217;t have to raise eligibility because of the Senate bill are Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont and Wisconsin (plus the District of Columbia). And the House bill would force even Massachusetts and Vermont to pay more.</p>
<p>Hardest hit would be Texas ($2,750 million a year in extra state spending under the Senate bill), Pennsylvania ($1,450 million), California ($1,428 million) and Florida ($909 million). Who knows if Florida could avoid imposing an income tax if it has to meet so high an unfunded mandate?</p>
<p>The required increases in state spending are likely to be quite high in some states whose senators are swing votes on ObamaCare:</p>
<p>* In Arkansas, home to swing Sens. Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln, the annual increased state spending would come to $402 million (not counting the federal share) &#8212; about a 10 percent increase in the state budget, which is now $4 billion a year.</p>
<p>* In Louisiana, whose Sen. Marie Landrieu sold her vote on a key procedural motion in return for more Medicaid funding, the increase would come to $432 million (a 5 percent hike in state spending) &#8212; more than wiping out the extra funds she got in return for her vote.</p>
<p>* In Sen. Evan Bayh&#8217;s Indiana, spending would go up by $586 million a year, a rise of 4 percent.</p>
<p>* In Sen. Ben Nelson&#8217;s Nebraska, the added state spending would be $81 million a year, a 2 percent increase.</p>
<p>The Sebate ObamaCare bill would cost North Dakota, home of Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, $14 million. South Dakota, represented by Sen. Tim Johnson, would have to boost Medicaid spending by $33 million.</p>
<p>The Medicaid-expansion provisions of the Senate bill are complex. In the first year of the program (2013), states must enroll anyone who earns less than 133 percent of the poverty level in their programs. For a family of four, the national average poverty level in 2009 is $22,000 a year. So any family that size that makes less than $29,000 would be eligible for Medicaid.</p>
<p>Many states, particularly in the South, actually have Medicaid cutoffs below the poverty level. Arkansas, for example, cuts off its Medicaid eligibility at only 17 percent of poverty level, and in Louisiana it goes up to only 26 percent. For these states, the spending increase required by the new bill is huge.</p>
<p>For the first three years of the program (2013-15) the federal government would pay for all of the costs of the Medicaid expansion. But, starting in the fourth year of operation &#8212; 2016 &#8212; the average state would be obliged to pay 10 percent of the extra cost.</p>
<p>For Democratic governors, this provision means sudden death. Particularly in states with limited Medicaid coverage, it would require huge tax increases.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The &#8220;health-care reform&#8221; bills in Congress would hit 39 states hard with new expenses, by raising Medicaid eligibility above the current income cutoffs.</p>
<p>The only states that won&#8217;t have to raise eligibility because of the Senate bill are Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont and Wisconsin (plus the District of Columbia). And the House bill would force even Massachusetts and Vermont to pay more.</p>
<p>Hardest hit would be Texas ($2,750 million a year in extra state spending under the Senate bill), Pennsylvania ($1,450 million), California ($1,428 million) and Florida ($909 million). Who knows if Florida could avoid imposing an income tax if it has to meet so high an unfunded mandate?</p>
<p>The required increases in state spending are likely to be quite high in some states whose senators are swing votes on ObamaCare:</p>
<p>* In Arkansas, home to swing Sens. Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln, the annual increased state spending would come to $402 million (not counting the federal share) &#8212; about a 10 percent increase in the state budget, which is now $4 billion a year.</p>
<p>* In Louisiana, whose Sen. Marie Landrieu sold her vote on a key procedural motion in return for more Medicaid funding, the increase would come to $432 million (a 5 percent hike in state spending) &#8212; more than wiping out the extra funds she got in return for her vote.</p>
<p>* In Sen. Evan Bayh&#8217;s Indiana, spending would go up by $586 million a year, a rise of 4 percent.</p>
<p>* In Sen. Ben Nelson&#8217;s Nebraska, the added state spending would be $81 million a year, a 2 percent increase.</p>
<p>The Sebate ObamaCare bill would cost North Dakota, home of Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, $14 million. South Dakota, represented by Sen. Tim Johnson, would have to boost Medicaid spending by $33 million.</p>
<p>The Medicaid-expansion provisions of the Senate bill are complex. In the first year of the program (2013), states must enroll anyone who earns less than 133 percent of the poverty level in their programs. For a family of four, the national average poverty level in 2009 is $22,000 a year. So any family that size that makes less than $29,000 would be eligible for Medicaid.</p>
<p>Many states, particularly in the South, actually have Medicaid cutoffs below the poverty level. Arkansas, for example, cuts off its Medicaid eligibility at only 17 percent of poverty level, and in Louisiana it goes up to only 26 percent. For these states, the spending increase required by the new bill is huge.</p>
<p>For the first three years of the program (2013-15) the federal government would pay for all of the costs of the Medicaid expansion. But, starting in the fourth year of operation &#8212; 2016 &#8212; the average state would be obliged to pay 10 percent of the extra cost.</p>
<p>For Democratic governors, this provision means sudden death. Particularly in states with limited Medicaid coverage, it would require huge tax increases.</p>
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		<title>Unhealthy HealthCare- from Pueblo Chieftain</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Unhealthy HealthCare</strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, Arial; line-height: normal; font-size: small; color: #333333;"> </span></p>
<div id="storytext" style="padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;"><strong>THE DEMOCRATIC</strong> leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives is pressing for an early vote on their <strong>draconian takeover of health care</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Draconian takeover? Stay tuned.</strong></p>
<p>In their attempt to provide “universal” coverage to all Americans, the liberals are proposing the biggest Ponzi scheme ever tried in this country. They say they are going to provide more health coverage to more people for less money.</p>
<p>Don’t believe it. They propose to wring billions of dollars of “savings” from Medicare, but Medicare already is paying far less to providers &#8211; doctors, hospitals and others &#8211; than what are their costs of giving care.</p>
<p>In the long run, seniors will be forced to accept less care. Money doesn’t grow on trees. The same goes for the so-called “public option” that Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to foist on people. It is purported to be an alternative for providing insurance to millions of Americans. But the same federal government that has been ratcheting down payments for medical services under Medicare will also dictate how much providers must accept to treat the ill and infirm covered by the public option.</p>
<p>With new rules governing what private insurance carriers must do, their ability to stay in business will wilt and die. That leaves only the government &#8211; Big Brother &#8211; paying for health care.</p>
<p>The legislation proposes a vast array of new taxes on medical devices ($40 billion), pharmaceuticals ($23 billion), and insurance policies ($67 billion), which means the cost of private health insurance will have to be increased. Then those same Americans will have to pay $200 billion in taxes on their health benefits.</p>
<p>Then consider that this week numerous Democratic officials and congressional budget experts admitted the health bill pushed by Speaker Pelosi would cost $1.2 trillion or more over a decade. That’s a huge new addition to the public debt.</p>
<p>A Pelosi spokesman announced with a straight face that the bill would “<span style="text-decoration: underline;">not add one dime to the deficit</span>.” This must be the now-discredited <span style="text-decoration: underline;">“new math”</span> that was all the rage a quarter-century ago.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the liberals have <span style="text-decoration: underline;">resisted any attempt at tort reform</span> to help contain the cost of medical malpractice insurance. The tort bar is one of the congressional Democrats’ biggest donor group. Doctors and hospitals have to pass on their costs, including those for medical malpractice insurance, so in the end, the patient must bear the cost.</p>
<p>All of this means that the bill being pressed by Speaker Pelosi is by no stretch of the imagination “revenue-neutral.” Colorado’s 3rd District congressman, John Salazar, has said he would not vote for any bill that is not “revenue neutral.” As a congressman with strong Western values and high integrity, we know that he will live up to that pledge, despite the fact it would require a great deal of courage to do so.</p>
<p>In the longer term, this legislation is a substantial step toward a draconian takeover of medical care in the United States. It would head us down the path of socialized medicine &#8211; a path Great Britain and Canada already have trod.</p>
<p>Under socialized medicine, care is rationed. There are long waits for many kinds of treatments, and a substantial number of ill patients &#8211; particularly senior citizens &#8211; never get the care they need before their illness kills them.</p>
<p>There’s one word for this kind of health system: <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Unhealthy</span></strong>.</div>
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<p><strong>Draconian takeover? Stay tuned.</strong></p>
<p>In their attempt to provide “universal” coverage to all Americans, the liberals are proposing the biggest Ponzi scheme ever tried in this country. They say they are going to provide more health coverage to more people for less money.</p>
<p>Don’t believe it. They propose to wring billions of dollars of “savings” from Medicare, but Medicare already is paying far less to providers &#8211; doctors, hospitals and others &#8211; than what are their costs of giving care.</p>
<p>In the long run, seniors will be forced to accept less care. Money doesn’t grow on trees. The same goes for the so-called “public option” that Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to foist on people. It is purported to be an alternative for providing insurance to millions of Americans. But the same federal government that has been ratcheting down payments for medical services under Medicare will also dictate how much providers must accept to treat the ill and infirm covered by the public option.</p>
<p>With new rules governing what private insurance carriers must do, their ability to stay in business will wilt and die. That leaves only the government &#8211; Big Brother &#8211; paying for health care.</p>
<p>The legislation proposes a vast array of new taxes on medical devices ($40 billion), pharmaceuticals ($23 billion), and insurance policies ($67 billion), which means the cost of private health insurance will have to be increased. Then those same Americans will have to pay $200 billion in taxes on their health benefits.</p>
<p>Then consider that this week numerous Democratic officials and congressional budget experts admitted the health bill pushed by Speaker Pelosi would cost $1.2 trillion or more over a decade. That’s a huge new addition to the public debt.</p>
<p>A Pelosi spokesman announced with a straight face that the bill would “<span style="text-decoration: underline;">not add one dime to the deficit</span>.” This must be the now-discredited <span style="text-decoration: underline;">“new math”</span> that was all the rage a quarter-century ago.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the liberals have <span style="text-decoration: underline;">resisted any attempt at tort reform</span> to help contain the cost of medical malpractice insurance. The tort bar is one of the congressional Democrats’ biggest donor group. Doctors and hospitals have to pass on their costs, including those for medical malpractice insurance, so in the end, the patient must bear the cost.</p>
<p>All of this means that the bill being pressed by Speaker Pelosi is by no stretch of the imagination “revenue-neutral.” Colorado’s 3rd District congressman, John Salazar, has said he would not vote for any bill that is not “revenue neutral.” As a congressman with strong Western values and high integrity, we know that he will live up to that pledge, despite the fact it would require a great deal of courage to do so.</p>
<p>In the longer term, this legislation is a substantial step toward a draconian takeover of medical care in the United States. It would head us down the path of socialized medicine &#8211; a path Great Britain and Canada already have trod.</p>
<p>Under socialized medicine, care is rationed. There are long waits for many kinds of treatments, and a substantial number of ill patients &#8211; particularly senior citizens &#8211; never get the care they need before their illness kills them.</p>
<p>There’s one word for this kind of health system: <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Unhealthy</span></strong>.</div>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Extreme        liberals in Congress and in the Obama Administration are <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">RESURRECTING PLANS to silence Rush        Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and other conservative voices on        talk-radio</span></em> &#8211; and possibly even conservatives on the Internet.</p>
<p>According to recent news reports,        they&#8217;re <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">bringing back the        so-called <span style="color: #0000ff;">Fairness Doctrine</span> RIGHT NOW, through        the <span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;BACK-DOOR&#8221;</span> and right under your        nose</span></em>&#8230; by stealth&#8230; hopefully, before you are any the wiser.</p>
<p>Federal Communications Commissioner        (FCC) Robert McDowell recently said that he <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;fears        the new administration and a Democratic Congress may try to revive the        so-called Fairness Doctrine without the public realizing it.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>McDowell&#8217;s comments appear on the        front page and above the fold in this month&#8217;s edition of IT+Telecom News,        an insider-publication for elected officials, regulators and industry        experts, published by The Heartland Institute.</p>
<p>And this time around, they        <em>WON&#8217;T</em> call it the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Fairness        Doctrine</em></span>.</p>
<p>The same        Heartland Institute article, titled, <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;FCC        Commissioner Warns Against &#8216;Back-Door&#8217; Fairness Doctrine&#8221;</em></span> goes        on to state: <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;It may surface with another name and        with different justifications, McDowell said, adding the doctrine could be        expanded to threaten free speech on the Internet.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>And McDowell is not the only one        sounding the alarm. The same article quotes other experts in the        communications field:</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;&#8216;McDowell&#8217;s concerns        are legitimate,&#8217; said Jeff McCall, a professor of communications at DePauw        University in Greencastle, Indiana, &#8216;It&#8217;s hard to tell how [the Fairness        Doctrine] might come back. It would likely be called something different.        It&#8217;s a nuisance; it&#8217;s something that just won&#8217;t go away.&#8217;&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>Yes&#8230; we&#8217;ve fought this battle        before but <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">it is very clear the        extreme left is not going to give up</span></em>.</p>
<p>Thomas Jefferson warned us that the        price of freedom is eternal vigilance when he said; <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man        is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once        the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>That means we only have two        choices&#8230; <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">either we fight back        RIGHT NOW&#8230; or we concede the fight and take the chance that the First        Amendment will effectively become nothing more than a footnote in the        history books</span></em>.<br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">The far left counts on your lack of knowledge when they pass laws        and institute programs to curtail your God-given liberties. But when you        shine the light of day on their plans&#8230; when they know that you can        expose their intentions to the rest of the American people&#8230; they back        down. The extreme left attempts to grab and keep power through stealth and        deception&#8230; by controlling the media and passing legislation in        smoke-filled rooms in the dark of night. You can do something RIGHT HERE        AND RIGHT NOW TO TAKE THAT POWER BACK!</span></em></p>
<p><em>When you &#8211; and throngs of        other patriotic Americans &#8211; flood their fax machines, they will know they        cannot hide their designs and intentions from the American people. Let        them know that you know that the extreme left is still trying to trample        the First Amendment and SILENCE Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio and        all dissenting opinion on the airwaves and the Internet.<br />
</em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: small;">EXPOSED: Plan B To Hush        Rush And Silence Conservative Opinions On The Airwaves And The        Internet.</span></em></p>
<p>Not only is        it painfully obvious that <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">extreme leftists in Congress and in the        Obama administration are simply not going to give up when it comes to        shutting down conservative voices on the airwaves and the        Internet</span></em>&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">they&#8217;ve already put Plan B into        motion</span></em>.</p>
<p>Let me explain.</p>
<p>A short time ago, your calls struck tremendous fear into the hearts of our elected officials        in Washington. You made the term <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;Fairness        Doctrine&#8221;</em></span> such a pariah and a hot potato that on February 26,        the Senate voted 87-11 in favor of an amendment offered by Senator Jim        DeMint that would prevent the <em>FCC</em> from reinstating the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Fairness Doctrine</em></span>.</p>
<p>Only 11 hard-left Senators were        willing to go on the record as supporting the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Fairness Doctrine</em></span>&#8230; because patriotic        Americans like you made it clear that a vote in favor of the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Fairness Doctrine</em></span> was a vote in favor of        draconian attempts to trample on the First Amendment.</p>
<p>Essentially <em>YOU</em> defined the        issue and you beat them up so bad that 47 Democrats joined the entire        Republican delegation in the Senate and supported the DeMint Amendment!</p>
<p>But hold your horses&#8230; there&#8217;s        more to the story&#8230; and it isn&#8217;t pretty.</p>
<p><em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">Minutes BEFORE passing the DeMint        Amendment to kill the <span style="color: #0000ff;">Fairness Doctrine</span>, 57        Democrats passed another amendment, offered by Senator Dick Durbin,        designed to essentially do THE EXACT SAME THING the so-called <span style="color: #0000ff;">Fairness Doctrine</span> was designed to do</span></em>.</p>
<p>You read that right, <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">57 Democrats voted for an amendment        designed to do the same thing as the <span style="color: #0000ff;">Fairness        Doctrine</span></span></em> minutes before voting against the <em><span style="color: #0000ff;">Fairness Doctrine</span></em> so they could slyly and        sanctimoniously tell the folks back home; <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;Hey&#8230; I        voted AGAINST the Fairness Doctrine.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>Yes&#8230; the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Fairness Doctrine</em></span> is gone &#8211; but in name only.        And <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">in its place, the hard left        is now pushing the adoption of policies that pose an EVEN GREATER THREAT        to free speech</span></em>.</p>
<p>Fortunately, the bill containing the Durbin and DeMint amendments is held        up in Congress for the time being, but <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">we can&#8217;t let these elected officials get        away with such sickening duplicity</span></em>.</p>
<p>With your help, we&#8217;re not going to        let them get away with it!</p>
<p>You can        help us expose them <em>RIGHT NOW</em>!</p>
<p><em><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
The far left counts on your lack of knowledge when they pass laws        and institute programs to curtail your God-given liberties. But when you        shine the light of day on their plans&#8230; when they know that you can        expose their intentions to the rest of the American people&#8230; they back        down. The extreme left attempts to grab and keep power through stealth and        deception&#8230; by controlling the media and passing legislation in        smoke-filled rooms in the dark of night. You can do something RIGHT HERE        AND RIGHT NOW TO TAKE THAT POWER BACK!</span></em></p>
<p><em>When you &#8211; and throngs of        other patriotic Americans &#8211; flood their fax machines, they will know they        cannot hide their designs and intentions from the American people. Let        them know that you know that the extreme left is still trying to trample        the First Amendment and SILENCE Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio and        all dissenting opinion on the airwaves and the Internet.<br />
</em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: small;">A Back-Door        Mandate For The Fairness Doctrine&#8230;</span></em></p>
<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at the        aforementioned Durbin amendment which supposedly seeks to <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;encourage and promote diversity in communication media        ownership and to insure the public airwaves are used in the public        interest.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>Sounds        innocent enough&#8230; <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;promote diversity&#8221;</em></span> &#8230; <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;insure the public interest&#8221;</em></span> &#8230;        that&#8217;s wholesome stuff&#8230; right?</p>
<p>It        sounds almost as innocent as advocating a doctrine to promote <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;fairness&#8221;</em></span> on the public airwaves.</p>
<p>But make no mistake; this <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">latest incarnation of the <span style="color: #0000ff;">Fairness Doctrine</span> is even worse than the        first</span></em>.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s why.</p>
<p>Back when Barack Obama was a        candidate for President of the United States his campaign issued the        following statement regarding the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Fairness        Doctrine</em></span>:</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;Senator Obama does        not support re-imposing the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>The liberal media gleefully gave        Obama cover and only reported that Obama was against the Fairness        Doctrine&#8230; <em>PERIOD</em>.</p>
<p>But that        wasn&#8217;t the end of it.</p>
<p>What <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">the media did not report was the rest of        the statement</span></em>. And why should they?</p>
<p>Of course, the rest of the        statement probably was not meant for the general public. It was        essentially red meat for Obama&#8217;s extreme left wing supporters. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Essentially        it was a message to his base that <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">he does not support the <span style="color: #0000ff;">Fairness Doctrine</span> because IT DOES NOT GO FAR        ENOUGH</span></em>! </span></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the rest        of the statement, by the way:</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;He [Obama]        considers this debate to be a distraction from the conversation we should        be having&#8230; Sen. Obama supports media-ownership caps, network neutrality,        public broadcasting, as well as increasing minority ownership of        broadcasting and print outlets.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>In other words, why should the        government settle with merely attempting to enforce <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;fairness?&#8221;</em></span> <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">Why not just call the shots when it        comes to the ownership of radio stations</span></em>?</p>
<p>Bradley Smith, a law professor at        Capital University in Ohio, outlined the dangers when he said, <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;imposing the Fairness Doctrine through the back door by,        for instance, limiting radio station ownership would be a death blow to        nationally syndicated radio shows.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>The Heartland Institute quotes        Smith even further:</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;Smith notes another        back-door &#8216;fairness&#8217; strategy would be to mandate &#8216;community advisory        boards&#8217; empowered to determine radio programming &#8211; allowing bureaucrats to        overrule audience choices.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;Community        advisory boards&#8221;</em></span> &#8230; If that sounds familiar, it should.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s straight out of the Saul        Alinsky playbook and <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">if you&#8217;re        thinking that this strategy is eerily similar to the strategy the extreme        left used to cripple our economy, you&#8217;re probably right</span></em>.</p>
<p><em><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The far left counts on your lack of knowledge when they pass laws        and institute programs to curtail your God-given liberties.</span> But when you        shine the light of day on their plans&#8230; when they know that you can        expose their intentions to the rest of the American people&#8230; they back        down. The extreme left attempts to grab and keep power through stealth and        deception&#8230; by controlling the media and passing legislation in        smoke-filled rooms in the dark of night. You can do something RIGHT HERE        AND RIGHT NOW TO TAKE THAT POWER BACK!</span></em></p>
<p><em>When you &#8211; and throngs of        other patriotic Americans &#8211; flood their fax machines, they will know they        cannot hide their designs and intentions from the American people. Let        them know that you know that the extreme left is still trying to trample        the First Amendment and SILENCE Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio and        all dissenting opinion on the airwaves and the Internet.</em></p>
<p><em></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: small;">Here&#8217;s A        Nightmare Scenario.</span></em></p>
<p>Members of your so-called local community advisory board, <em>(possibly        your local chapter of ACORN)</em>, burst into a radio station that        broadcasts The Rush Limbaugh Show.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;We don&#8217;t think your        programming is diverse enough,&#8221;</span> they tell the station manager.        Handing him a list, they give him an ultimatum: <span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;Here        are the programs that you will broadcast. If you don&#8217;t like it, tough, we        put you out of business.&#8221;</span></span></em></span></p>
<p>Sound a little melodramatic?</p>
<p>Before you cast judgment, remember        that <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">our current economic        crisis can be traced back, in large part, to ACORN, and other so-called        community organizations, essentially doing the same thing to banks&#8230;        extorting them into giving billions of dollars in questionable        loans</span></em>.</p>
<p>Howard Husock of        Harvard&#8217;s Kennedy School of Government even predicted our current economic        crisis years before it happened in an article: entitled <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for        Cities.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>Husock wrote:</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;The National Community Reinvestment        Coalition, a foundation-funded umbrella group for community activist        groups that profit from the [Community Reinvestment Act] CRA, issued a        clarion call to its members in a leaflet entitled &#8216;The New CRA        Regulations: How Community Groups Can Get Involved.&#8217; &#8216;Timely comments,&#8217;        the NCRC observed with a certain understatement, &#8216;can have a strong        influence on a bank&#8217;s CRA rating.&#8217;&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>Husock went on and told us how        groups like <em>ACORN</em> essentially gained control of a huge segment of        our economy and ran it &#8211; and all of us &#8211; into the dirt:</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;&#8216;To avoid the possibility of a denied or delayed        application,&#8217; advises the NCRC in its deadpan tone, &#8216;lending institutions        have an incentive to make formal agreements with community organizations.&#8217;        By intervening, even just threatening to intervene, in the CRA review        process, left-wing nonprofit groups have been able to gain control over        eye-popping pools of bank capital, which they in turn parcel out to        individual low-income mortgage seekers. A radical group called ACORN        Housing has a $760 million commitment from the Bank of New York; the        Boston-based Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America has a        $3-billion agreement with the Bank of America; a coalition of groups        headed by New Jersey Citizen Action has a five-year, $13-billion agreement        with First Union Corporation. Similar deals operate in almost every major        U.S. city.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>Others have        written on how alleged <em>ACORN</em> extortion contributed to our current        economic woes.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what Michelle        Malkin wrote about <em>ACORN</em> thuggery:</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;These are the same activists that helped sow the seeds        of the subprime meltdown. They aggressively played the race card and        pressured banks to loosen standards, throw out down payments and lend to        some of the nation&#8217;s riskiest borrowers. Now, these mobs protest across        the country, disrupt foreclosure auctions, threaten bank executives and        accuse lenders of, yep, racism for lending to those riskiest of        borrowers.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>Groups like        <em>ACORN</em> got rich off your tax dollars&#8230; they operated under the        radar for years&#8230; and, even though you didn&#8217;t even know it, <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">you were paying them to trash our        economy</span></em>.</p>
<p>Today, we are        all suffering.</p>
<p>Do we want the same        thing to happen to conservative talk radio and possibly even conservative        voices such as those of <em>CFIF</em> and other conservative organizations        on the Internet?</p>
<p>If the answer is        no, then don&#8217;t wait &#8212; it&#8217;s up to you to stop them.</p>
<p><em><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
The far left counts on your lack of knowledge when they pass laws        and institute programs to curtail your God-given liberties. But when you        shine the light of day on their plans&#8230; when they know that you can        expose their intentions to the rest of the American people&#8230; they back        down. The extreme left attempts to grab and keep power through stealth and        deception&#8230; by controlling the media and passing legislation in        smoke-filled rooms in the dark of night. You can do something RIGHT HERE        AND RIGHT NOW TO TAKE THAT POWER BACK!</span></em></p>
<p><em>When you &#8211; and throngs of        other patriotic Americans &#8211; flood their fax machines, they will know they        cannot hide their designs and intentions from the American people. Let        them know that you know that the extreme left is still trying to trample        the First Amendment and SILENCE Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio and        all dissenting opinion on the airwaves and the Internet.</em></p>
<p><em></em></p>
<p>Yours In Freedom,</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><img src="http://www.humanevents.com/images/3p/200903/jeffsig.gif" border="0" alt="" width="140" height="150" /></span></p>
<p>Jeffrey Mazzella</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Extreme        liberals in Congress and in the Obama Administration are <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">RESURRECTING PLANS to silence Rush        Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and other conservative voices on        talk-radio</span></em> &#8211; and possibly even conservatives on the Internet.</p>
<p>According to recent news reports,        they&#8217;re <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">bringing back the        so-called <span style="color: #0000ff;">Fairness Doctrine</span> RIGHT NOW, through        the <span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;BACK-DOOR&#8221;</span> and right under your        nose</span></em>&#8230; by stealth&#8230; hopefully, before you are any the wiser.</p>
<p>Federal Communications Commissioner        (FCC) Robert McDowell recently said that he <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;fears        the new administration and a Democratic Congress may try to revive the        so-called Fairness Doctrine without the public realizing it.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>McDowell&#8217;s comments appear on the        front page and above the fold in this month&#8217;s edition of IT+Telecom News,        an insider-publication for elected officials, regulators and industry        experts, published by The Heartland Institute.</p>
<p>And this time around, they        <em>WON&#8217;T</em> call it the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Fairness        Doctrine</em></span>.</p>
<p>The same        Heartland Institute article, titled, <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;FCC        Commissioner Warns Against &#8216;Back-Door&#8217; Fairness Doctrine&#8221;</em></span> goes        on to state: <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;It may surface with another name and        with different justifications, McDowell said, adding the doctrine could be        expanded to threaten free speech on the Internet.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>And McDowell is not the only one        sounding the alarm. The same article quotes other experts in the        communications field:</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;&#8216;McDowell&#8217;s concerns        are legitimate,&#8217; said Jeff McCall, a professor of communications at DePauw        University in Greencastle, Indiana, &#8216;It&#8217;s hard to tell how [the Fairness        Doctrine] might come back. It would likely be called something different.        It&#8217;s a nuisance; it&#8217;s something that just won&#8217;t go away.&#8217;&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>Yes&#8230; we&#8217;ve fought this battle        before but <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">it is very clear the        extreme left is not going to give up</span></em>.</p>
<p>Thomas Jefferson warned us that the        price of freedom is eternal vigilance when he said; <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man        is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once        the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>That means we only have two        choices&#8230; <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">either we fight back        RIGHT NOW&#8230; or we concede the fight and take the chance that the First        Amendment will effectively become nothing more than a footnote in the        history books</span></em>.<br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">The far left counts on your lack of knowledge when they pass laws        and institute programs to curtail your God-given liberties. But when you        shine the light of day on their plans&#8230; when they know that you can        expose their intentions to the rest of the American people&#8230; they back        down. The extreme left attempts to grab and keep power through stealth and        deception&#8230; by controlling the media and passing legislation in        smoke-filled rooms in the dark of night. You can do something RIGHT HERE        AND RIGHT NOW TO TAKE THAT POWER BACK!</span></em></p>
<p><em>When you &#8211; and throngs of        other patriotic Americans &#8211; flood their fax machines, they will know they        cannot hide their designs and intentions from the American people. Let        them know that you know that the extreme left is still trying to trample        the First Amendment and SILENCE Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio and        all dissenting opinion on the airwaves and the Internet.<br />
</em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: small;">EXPOSED: Plan B To Hush        Rush And Silence Conservative Opinions On The Airwaves And The        Internet.</span></em></p>
<p>Not only is        it painfully obvious that <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">extreme leftists in Congress and in the        Obama administration are simply not going to give up when it comes to        shutting down conservative voices on the airwaves and the        Internet</span></em>&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">they&#8217;ve already put Plan B into        motion</span></em>.</p>
<p>Let me explain.</p>
<p>A short time ago, your calls struck tremendous fear into the hearts of our elected officials        in Washington. You made the term <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;Fairness        Doctrine&#8221;</em></span> such a pariah and a hot potato that on February 26,        the Senate voted 87-11 in favor of an amendment offered by Senator Jim        DeMint that would prevent the <em>FCC</em> from reinstating the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Fairness Doctrine</em></span>.</p>
<p>Only 11 hard-left Senators were        willing to go on the record as supporting the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Fairness Doctrine</em></span>&#8230; because patriotic        Americans like you made it clear that a vote in favor of the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Fairness Doctrine</em></span> was a vote in favor of        draconian attempts to trample on the First Amendment.</p>
<p>Essentially <em>YOU</em> defined the        issue and you beat them up so bad that 47 Democrats joined the entire        Republican delegation in the Senate and supported the DeMint Amendment!</p>
<p>But hold your horses&#8230; there&#8217;s        more to the story&#8230; and it isn&#8217;t pretty.</p>
<p><em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">Minutes BEFORE passing the DeMint        Amendment to kill the <span style="color: #0000ff;">Fairness Doctrine</span>, 57        Democrats passed another amendment, offered by Senator Dick Durbin,        designed to essentially do THE EXACT SAME THING the so-called <span style="color: #0000ff;">Fairness Doctrine</span> was designed to do</span></em>.</p>
<p>You read that right, <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">57 Democrats voted for an amendment        designed to do the same thing as the <span style="color: #0000ff;">Fairness        Doctrine</span></span></em> minutes before voting against the <em><span style="color: #0000ff;">Fairness Doctrine</span></em> so they could slyly and        sanctimoniously tell the folks back home; <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;Hey&#8230; I        voted AGAINST the Fairness Doctrine.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>Yes&#8230; the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Fairness Doctrine</em></span> is gone &#8211; but in name only.        And <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">in its place, the hard left        is now pushing the adoption of policies that pose an EVEN GREATER THREAT        to free speech</span></em>.</p>
<p>Fortunately, the bill containing the Durbin and DeMint amendments is held        up in Congress for the time being, but <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">we can&#8217;t let these elected officials get        away with such sickening duplicity</span></em>.</p>
<p>With your help, we&#8217;re not going to        let them get away with it!</p>
<p>You can        help us expose them <em>RIGHT NOW</em>!</p>
<p><em><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
The far left counts on your lack of knowledge when they pass laws        and institute programs to curtail your God-given liberties. But when you        shine the light of day on their plans&#8230; when they know that you can        expose their intentions to the rest of the American people&#8230; they back        down. The extreme left attempts to grab and keep power through stealth and        deception&#8230; by controlling the media and passing legislation in        smoke-filled rooms in the dark of night. You can do something RIGHT HERE        AND RIGHT NOW TO TAKE THAT POWER BACK!</span></em></p>
<p><em>When you &#8211; and throngs of        other patriotic Americans &#8211; flood their fax machines, they will know they        cannot hide their designs and intentions from the American people. Let        them know that you know that the extreme left is still trying to trample        the First Amendment and SILENCE Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio and        all dissenting opinion on the airwaves and the Internet.<br />
</em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: small;">A Back-Door        Mandate For The Fairness Doctrine&#8230;</span></em></p>
<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at the        aforementioned Durbin amendment which supposedly seeks to <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;encourage and promote diversity in communication media        ownership and to insure the public airwaves are used in the public        interest.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>Sounds        innocent enough&#8230; <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;promote diversity&#8221;</em></span> &#8230; <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;insure the public interest&#8221;</em></span> &#8230;        that&#8217;s wholesome stuff&#8230; right?</p>
<p>It        sounds almost as innocent as advocating a doctrine to promote <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;fairness&#8221;</em></span> on the public airwaves.</p>
<p>But make no mistake; this <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">latest incarnation of the <span style="color: #0000ff;">Fairness Doctrine</span> is even worse than the        first</span></em>.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s why.</p>
<p>Back when Barack Obama was a        candidate for President of the United States his campaign issued the        following statement regarding the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Fairness        Doctrine</em></span>:</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;Senator Obama does        not support re-imposing the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>The liberal media gleefully gave        Obama cover and only reported that Obama was against the Fairness        Doctrine&#8230; <em>PERIOD</em>.</p>
<p>But that        wasn&#8217;t the end of it.</p>
<p>What <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">the media did not report was the rest of        the statement</span></em>. And why should they?</p>
<p>Of course, the rest of the        statement probably was not meant for the general public. It was        essentially red meat for Obama&#8217;s extreme left wing supporters. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Essentially        it was a message to his base that <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">he does not support the <span style="color: #0000ff;">Fairness Doctrine</span> because IT DOES NOT GO FAR        ENOUGH</span></em>! </span></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the rest        of the statement, by the way:</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;He [Obama]        considers this debate to be a distraction from the conversation we should        be having&#8230; Sen. Obama supports media-ownership caps, network neutrality,        public broadcasting, as well as increasing minority ownership of        broadcasting and print outlets.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>In other words, why should the        government settle with merely attempting to enforce <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;fairness?&#8221;</em></span> <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">Why not just call the shots when it        comes to the ownership of radio stations</span></em>?</p>
<p>Bradley Smith, a law professor at        Capital University in Ohio, outlined the dangers when he said, <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;imposing the Fairness Doctrine through the back door by,        for instance, limiting radio station ownership would be a death blow to        nationally syndicated radio shows.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>The Heartland Institute quotes        Smith even further:</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;Smith notes another        back-door &#8216;fairness&#8217; strategy would be to mandate &#8216;community advisory        boards&#8217; empowered to determine radio programming &#8211; allowing bureaucrats to        overrule audience choices.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;Community        advisory boards&#8221;</em></span> &#8230; If that sounds familiar, it should.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s straight out of the Saul        Alinsky playbook and <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">if you&#8217;re        thinking that this strategy is eerily similar to the strategy the extreme        left used to cripple our economy, you&#8217;re probably right</span></em>.</p>
<p><em><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The far left counts on your lack of knowledge when they pass laws        and institute programs to curtail your God-given liberties.</span> But when you        shine the light of day on their plans&#8230; when they know that you can        expose their intentions to the rest of the American people&#8230; they back        down. The extreme left attempts to grab and keep power through stealth and        deception&#8230; by controlling the media and passing legislation in        smoke-filled rooms in the dark of night. You can do something RIGHT HERE        AND RIGHT NOW TO TAKE THAT POWER BACK!</span></em></p>
<p><em>When you &#8211; and throngs of        other patriotic Americans &#8211; flood their fax machines, they will know they        cannot hide their designs and intentions from the American people. Let        them know that you know that the extreme left is still trying to trample        the First Amendment and SILENCE Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio and        all dissenting opinion on the airwaves and the Internet.</em></p>
<p><em></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: small;">Here&#8217;s A        Nightmare Scenario.</span></em></p>
<p>Members of your so-called local community advisory board, <em>(possibly        your local chapter of ACORN)</em>, burst into a radio station that        broadcasts The Rush Limbaugh Show.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;We don&#8217;t think your        programming is diverse enough,&#8221;</span> they tell the station manager.        Handing him a list, they give him an ultimatum: <span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;Here        are the programs that you will broadcast. If you don&#8217;t like it, tough, we        put you out of business.&#8221;</span></span></em></span></p>
<p>Sound a little melodramatic?</p>
<p>Before you cast judgment, remember        that <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">our current economic        crisis can be traced back, in large part, to ACORN, and other so-called        community organizations, essentially doing the same thing to banks&#8230;        extorting them into giving billions of dollars in questionable        loans</span></em>.</p>
<p>Howard Husock of        Harvard&#8217;s Kennedy School of Government even predicted our current economic        crisis years before it happened in an article: entitled <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for        Cities.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>Husock wrote:</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;The National Community Reinvestment        Coalition, a foundation-funded umbrella group for community activist        groups that profit from the [Community Reinvestment Act] CRA, issued a        clarion call to its members in a leaflet entitled &#8216;The New CRA        Regulations: How Community Groups Can Get Involved.&#8217; &#8216;Timely comments,&#8217;        the NCRC observed with a certain understatement, &#8216;can have a strong        influence on a bank&#8217;s CRA rating.&#8217;&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>Husock went on and told us how        groups like <em>ACORN</em> essentially gained control of a huge segment of        our economy and ran it &#8211; and all of us &#8211; into the dirt:</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;&#8216;To avoid the possibility of a denied or delayed        application,&#8217; advises the NCRC in its deadpan tone, &#8216;lending institutions        have an incentive to make formal agreements with community organizations.&#8217;        By intervening, even just threatening to intervene, in the CRA review        process, left-wing nonprofit groups have been able to gain control over        eye-popping pools of bank capital, which they in turn parcel out to        individual low-income mortgage seekers. A radical group called ACORN        Housing has a $760 million commitment from the Bank of New York; the        Boston-based Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America has a        $3-billion agreement with the Bank of America; a coalition of groups        headed by New Jersey Citizen Action has a five-year, $13-billion agreement        with First Union Corporation. Similar deals operate in almost every major        U.S. city.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>Others have        written on how alleged <em>ACORN</em> extortion contributed to our current        economic woes.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what Michelle        Malkin wrote about <em>ACORN</em> thuggery:</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;These are the same activists that helped sow the seeds        of the subprime meltdown. They aggressively played the race card and        pressured banks to loosen standards, throw out down payments and lend to        some of the nation&#8217;s riskiest borrowers. Now, these mobs protest across        the country, disrupt foreclosure auctions, threaten bank executives and        accuse lenders of, yep, racism for lending to those riskiest of        borrowers.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>Groups like        <em>ACORN</em> got rich off your tax dollars&#8230; they operated under the        radar for years&#8230; and, even though you didn&#8217;t even know it, <em><span style="background-color: #ffffb0;">you were paying them to trash our        economy</span></em>.</p>
<p>Today, we are        all suffering.</p>
<p>Do we want the same        thing to happen to conservative talk radio and possibly even conservative        voices such as those of <em>CFIF</em> and other conservative organizations        on the Internet?</p>
<p>If the answer is        no, then don&#8217;t wait &#8212; it&#8217;s up to you to stop them.</p>
<p><em><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
The far left counts on your lack of knowledge when they pass laws        and institute programs to curtail your God-given liberties. But when you        shine the light of day on their plans&#8230; when they know that you can        expose their intentions to the rest of the American people&#8230; they back        down. The extreme left attempts to grab and keep power through stealth and        deception&#8230; by controlling the media and passing legislation in        smoke-filled rooms in the dark of night. You can do something RIGHT HERE        AND RIGHT NOW TO TAKE THAT POWER BACK!</span></em></p>
<p><em>When you &#8211; and throngs of        other patriotic Americans &#8211; flood their fax machines, they will know they        cannot hide their designs and intentions from the American people. Let        them know that you know that the extreme left is still trying to trample        the First Amendment and SILENCE Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio and        all dissenting opinion on the airwaves and the Internet.</em></p>
<p><em></em></p>
<p>Yours In Freedom,</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Are you sitting down? Obama plans to pay for his $3.6 trillion-dollar spending bill by raising taxes on &#8220;the rich.&#8221; I know, I know &#8230; I was pretty shocked, too.</p>
<p>The bad news is, by hiking taxes in a recession, Obama will turn a disaster into a catastrophe. But there&#8217;s good news, too. The &#8220;rich&#8221; include most of Obama&#8217;s biggest supporters.</p>
<p>While liberals love being praised for their looks, their style, their brilliance and their courage, the one quality they don&#8217;t want talked about is their money. To the contrary, Democrats or Liberals are constantly boasting about how poor they are &#8212; as if that&#8217;s a virtue in a capitalist society with no class barriers.</p>
<p>No matter how much money they have, liberals will be damned if they&#8217;re giving up the poor&#8217;s mantle of angry self-righteousness. This is especially true if their wealth came by inheritance, marriage or the taxpayer, the preferred sources of income for Liberalus Americanus.</p>
<p>Democrats&#8217; claims of poverty merely serve to show how out of touch elected Democrats are with actual incomes in America.</p>
<p>At the Democratic National Convention, for example, there were heartfelt tributes to the daunting self-sacrifice of both Barack and Michelle Obama for passing up lucrative jobs to work in &#8220;public service&#8221; &#8212; which apparently is now defined, such as in Michelle Obama&#8217;s case, as &#8220;working as a &#8216;diversity coordinator&#8217; at a big city hospital for $300,000 a year.&#8221;</p>
<p>Seriously, even with a company car, full medical benefits and six weeks&#8217; paid vacation thrown in, how do people live on that?</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the average salary for a lawyer with 20 years or more experience in the U.S. is a little more than $100,000. If Michelle Obama doesn&#8217;t lay off all this &#8220;giving back&#8221; stuff pretty soon, she&#8217;s going to find herself in Warren Buffett&#8217;s tax bracket.</p>
<p>During the campaign, Joe Biden was also praised by the Democrats for being the poorest U.S. senator &#8212; as if that were a major accomplishment.</p>
<p>Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, touted Biden as &#8220;a good example of a working-class kid,&#8221; adding that, to this day, Biden was &#8220;one of the least wealthy members of the U.S. Senate.&#8221; Only a Democrat would list &#8220;never really made anything of myself&#8221; on his resume.</p>
<p>On the Huffington Post, operated by a woman who acquired her wealth by marrying a rich gay guy connected to Big Oil, liberal blogger Steven Clemons gloated that, unlike John McCain, Biden wouldn&#8217;t &#8220;forget the number of houses he owns,&#8221; adding that, in 2006, Biden was ranked the poorest U.S. senator.</p>
<p>And at his high school reunion Biden was voted &#8220;most likely to try to bum a ride off of somebody.&#8221; Vote Biden!</p>
<p>According to tax returns for Biden and his public schoolteacher wife, in 2006, their total income was $248,459; in 2007, it was $319,853 &#8212; putting the couple in the top 1 percent of all earners in the U.S.</p>
<p>This, my friends, is the face of poverty in America. At least in the Democratic Party. It&#8217;s located just below that row of hair plugs. The Biden&#8217;s are yet another heart-rending example of America&#8217;s &#8220;hidden poor&#8221; &#8212; desperately needy families hidden behind annual incomes of a quarter million dollars or more paid by the taxpayer. My fellow Americans, we can do better.</p>
<p>The national median household income was $48,201 in 2006 and $50,233 in 2007. Working for the government pays well.</p>
<p>If liberals are going to show how in touch they are with normal Americans by demanding a Marxist revolution against the rich every time they control the government, how about taking a peek at the charitable giving of these champions of the little guy?</p>
<p>According to their tax returns, in 2006 and 2007, the Obamas gave 5.8 percent and 6.1 percent of their income to charity. I guess Michelle Obama has to draw the line someplace with all this &#8220;giving back&#8221; stuff. The Bidens gave 0.15 percent and 0.31 percent of the income to charity.</p>
<p>No wonder Obama doesn&#8217;t see what the big fuss is over his decision to limit tax deductions for charitable giving. At least that part of Obama&#8217;s tax plan won&#8217;t affect his supporters.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in 1991, 1992 and 1993, George W. Bush had incomes of $179,591, $212,313 and $610,772. His charitable contributions those years were $28,236, $31,914 and $31,292. During his presidency, Bush gave away more than 10 percent of his income each year.</p>
<p>For purposes of comparison, in 2005, Barack Obama made $1.7 million &#8212; more than twice President Bush&#8217;s 2005 income of $735,180 &#8212; but they both gave about the same amount to charity.</p>
<p>That same year, the heartless Halliburton employee Vice President Dick Cheney gave 77 percent of his income to charity. The following year, in 2006, Bush gave more to charity than Obama on an income one-third smaller than Obama&#8217;s. Maybe when Obama talks about &#8220;change&#8221; he&#8217;s referring to his charitable contributions.</p>
<p>Liberals have no intention of actually parting with any of their own wealth or lifting a finger to help the poor. That&#8217;s for other people to do with what&#8217;s left of their incomes after the government has taken its increasingly large cut.</p>
<p>As the great liberal intellectual Bertrand Russell explained while scoffing at the idea that he would give his money to charity: &#8220;I&#8217;m afraid you&#8217;ve got it wrong. (We) are socialists. We don&#8217;t pretend to be Christians.&#8221;</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you sitting down? Obama plans to pay for his $3.6 trillion-dollar spending bill by raising taxes on &#8220;the rich.&#8221; I know, I know &#8230; I was pretty shocked, too.</p>
<p>The bad news is, by hiking taxes in a recession, Obama will turn a disaster into a catastrophe. But there&#8217;s good news, too. The &#8220;rich&#8221; include most of Obama&#8217;s biggest supporters.</p>
<p>While liberals love being praised for their looks, their style, their brilliance and their courage, the one quality they don&#8217;t want talked about is their money. To the contrary, Democrats or Liberals are constantly boasting about how poor they are &#8212; as if that&#8217;s a virtue in a capitalist society with no class barriers.</p>
<p>No matter how much money they have, liberals will be damned if they&#8217;re giving up the poor&#8217;s mantle of angry self-righteousness. This is especially true if their wealth came by inheritance, marriage or the taxpayer, the preferred sources of income for Liberalus Americanus.</p>
<p>Democrats&#8217; claims of poverty merely serve to show how out of touch elected Democrats are with actual incomes in America.</p>
<p>At the Democratic National Convention, for example, there were heartfelt tributes to the daunting self-sacrifice of both Barack and Michelle Obama for passing up lucrative jobs to work in &#8220;public service&#8221; &#8212; which apparently is now defined, such as in Michelle Obama&#8217;s case, as &#8220;working as a &#8216;diversity coordinator&#8217; at a big city hospital for $300,000 a year.&#8221;</p>
<p>Seriously, even with a company car, full medical benefits and six weeks&#8217; paid vacation thrown in, how do people live on that?</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the average salary for a lawyer with 20 years or more experience in the U.S. is a little more than $100,000. If Michelle Obama doesn&#8217;t lay off all this &#8220;giving back&#8221; stuff pretty soon, she&#8217;s going to find herself in Warren Buffett&#8217;s tax bracket.</p>
<p>During the campaign, Joe Biden was also praised by the Democrats for being the poorest U.S. senator &#8212; as if that were a major accomplishment.</p>
<p>Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, touted Biden as &#8220;a good example of a working-class kid,&#8221; adding that, to this day, Biden was &#8220;one of the least wealthy members of the U.S. Senate.&#8221; Only a Democrat would list &#8220;never really made anything of myself&#8221; on his resume.</p>
<p>On the Huffington Post, operated by a woman who acquired her wealth by marrying a rich gay guy connected to Big Oil, liberal blogger Steven Clemons gloated that, unlike John McCain, Biden wouldn&#8217;t &#8220;forget the number of houses he owns,&#8221; adding that, in 2006, Biden was ranked the poorest U.S. senator.</p>
<p>And at his high school reunion Biden was voted &#8220;most likely to try to bum a ride off of somebody.&#8221; Vote Biden!</p>
<p>According to tax returns for Biden and his public schoolteacher wife, in 2006, their total income was $248,459; in 2007, it was $319,853 &#8212; putting the couple in the top 1 percent of all earners in the U.S.</p>
<p>This, my friends, is the face of poverty in America. At least in the Democratic Party. It&#8217;s located just below that row of hair plugs. The Biden&#8217;s are yet another heart-rending example of America&#8217;s &#8220;hidden poor&#8221; &#8212; desperately needy families hidden behind annual incomes of a quarter million dollars or more paid by the taxpayer. My fellow Americans, we can do better.</p>
<p>The national median household income was $48,201 in 2006 and $50,233 in 2007. Working for the government pays well.</p>
<p>If liberals are going to show how in touch they are with normal Americans by demanding a Marxist revolution against the rich every time they control the government, how about taking a peek at the charitable giving of these champions of the little guy?</p>
<p>According to their tax returns, in 2006 and 2007, the Obamas gave 5.8 percent and 6.1 percent of their income to charity. I guess Michelle Obama has to draw the line someplace with all this &#8220;giving back&#8221; stuff. The Bidens gave 0.15 percent and 0.31 percent of the income to charity.</p>
<p>No wonder Obama doesn&#8217;t see what the big fuss is over his decision to limit tax deductions for charitable giving. At least that part of Obama&#8217;s tax plan won&#8217;t affect his supporters.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in 1991, 1992 and 1993, George W. Bush had incomes of $179,591, $212,313 and $610,772. His charitable contributions those years were $28,236, $31,914 and $31,292. During his presidency, Bush gave away more than 10 percent of his income each year.</p>
<p>For purposes of comparison, in 2005, Barack Obama made $1.7 million &#8212; more than twice President Bush&#8217;s 2005 income of $735,180 &#8212; but they both gave about the same amount to charity.</p>
<p>That same year, the heartless Halliburton employee Vice President Dick Cheney gave 77 percent of his income to charity. The following year, in 2006, Bush gave more to charity than Obama on an income one-third smaller than Obama&#8217;s. Maybe when Obama talks about &#8220;change&#8221; he&#8217;s referring to his charitable contributions.</p>
<p>Liberals have no intention of actually parting with any of their own wealth or lifting a finger to help the poor. That&#8217;s for other people to do with what&#8217;s left of their incomes after the government has taken its increasingly large cut.</p>
<p>As the great liberal intellectual Bertrand Russell explained while scoffing at the idea that he would give his money to charity: &#8220;I&#8217;m afraid you&#8217;ve got it wrong. (We) are socialists. We don&#8217;t pretend to be Christians.&#8221;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Are you sitting down? Obama plans to pay for his $3.6 trillion-dollar spending bill by raising taxes on &#8220;the rich.&#8221; I know, I know &#8230; I was pretty shocked, too.</p>
<p>The bad news is, by hiking taxes in a recession, Obama will turn a disaster into a catastrophe. But there&#8217;s good news, too. The &#8220;rich&#8221; include most of Obama&#8217;s biggest supporters.</p>
<p>While liberals love being praised for their looks, their style, their brilliance and their courage, the one quality they don&#8217;t want talked about is their money. To the contrary, Democrats are constantly boasting about how poor they are &#8212; as if that&#8217;s a virtue in a capitalist society with no class barriers.</p>
<p>No matter how much money they have, liberals will be damned if they&#8217;re giving up the poor&#8217;s mantle of angry self-righteousness. This is especially true if their wealth came by inheritance, marriage or the taxpayer, the preferred sources of income for Liberalus Americanus.</p>
<p>Democrats&#8217; claims of poverty merely serve to show how out of touch elected Democrats are with actual incomes in America.</p>
<p>At the Democratic National Convention, for example, there were heartfelt tributes to the daunting self-sacrifice of both Barack and Michelle Obama for passing up lucrative jobs to work in &#8220;public service&#8221; &#8212; which apparently is now defined, such as in Michelle Obama&#8217;s case, as &#8220;working as a &#8216;diversity coordinator&#8217; at a big city hospital for $300,000 a year.&#8221;</p>
<p>Seriously, even with a company car, full medical benefits and six weeks&#8217; paid vacation thrown in, how do people live on that?</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the average salary for a lawyer with 20 years or more experience in the U.S. is a little more than $100,000. If Michelle Obama doesn&#8217;t lay off all this &#8220;giving back&#8221; stuff pretty soon, she&#8217;s going to find herself in Warren Buffett&#8217;s tax bracket.</p>
<p>During the campaign, Joe Biden was also praised by the Democrats for being the poorest U.S. senator &#8212; as if that were a major accomplishment.</p>
<p>Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, touted Biden as &#8220;a good example of a working-class kid,&#8221; adding that, to this day, Biden was &#8220;one of the least wealthy members of the U.S. Senate.&#8221; Only a Democrat would list &#8220;never really made anything of myself&#8221; on his resume.</p>
<p>On the Huffington Post, operated by a woman who acquired her wealth by marrying a rich gay guy connected to Big Oil, liberal blogger Steven Clemons gloated that, unlike John McCain, Biden wouldn&#8217;t &#8220;forget the number of houses he owns,&#8221; adding that, in 2006, Biden was ranked the poorest U.S. senator.</p>
<p>And at his high school reunion Biden was voted &#8220;most likely to try to bum a ride off of somebody.&#8221; Vote Biden!</p>
<p>According to tax returns for Biden and his public schoolteacher wife, in 2006, their total income was $248,459; in 2007, it was $319,853 &#8212; putting the couple in the top 1 percent of all earners in the U.S.</p>
<p>This, my friends, is the face of poverty in America. At least in the Democratic Party. It&#8217;s located just below that row of hair plugs. The Bidens are yet another heart-rending example of America&#8217;s &#8220;hidden poor&#8221; &#8212; desperately needy families hidden behind annual incomes of a quarter million dollars or more paid by the taxpayer. My fellow Americans, we can do better.</p>
<p>The national median household income was $48,201 in 2006 and $50,233 in 2007. Working for the government pays well.</p>
<p>If liberals are going to show how in touch they are with normal Americans by demanding a Marxist revolution against the rich every time they control the government, how about taking a peek at the charitable giving of these champions of the little guy?</p>
<p>According to their tax returns, in 2006 and 2007, the Obamas gave 5.8 percent and 6.1 percent of their income to charity. I guess Michelle Obama has to draw the line someplace with all this &#8220;giving back&#8221; stuff. The Bidens gave 0.15 percent and 0.31 percent of the income to charity.</p>
<p>No wonder Obama doesn&#8217;t see what the big fuss is over his decision to limit tax deductions for charitable giving. At least that part of Obama&#8217;s tax plan won&#8217;t affect his supporters.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in 1991, 1992 and 1993, George W. Bush had incomes of $179,591, $212,313 and $610,772. His charitable contributions those years were $28,236, $31,914 and $31,292. During his presidency, Bush gave away more than 10 percent of his income each year.</p>
<p>For purposes of comparison, in 2005, Barack Obama made $1.7 million &#8212; more than twice President Bush&#8217;s 2005 income of $735,180 &#8212; but they both gave about the same amount to charity.</p>
<p>That same year, the heartless Halliburton employee Vice President Dick Cheney gave 77 percent of his income to charity. The following year, in 2006, Bush gave more to charity than Obama on an income one-third smaller than Obama&#8217;s. Maybe when Obama talks about &#8220;change&#8221; he&#8217;s referring to his charitable contributions.</p>
<p>Liberals have no intention of actually parting with any of their own wealth or lifting a finger to help the poor. That&#8217;s for other people to do with what&#8217;s left of their incomes after the government has taken its increasingly large cut.</p>
<p>As the great liberal intellectual Bertrand Russell explained while scoffing at the idea that he would give his money to charity: &#8220;I&#8217;m afraid you&#8217;ve got it wrong. (We) are socialists. We don&#8217;t pretend to be Christians.&#8221;</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you sitting down? Obama plans to pay for his $3.6 trillion-dollar spending bill by raising taxes on &#8220;the rich.&#8221; I know, I know &#8230; I was pretty shocked, too.</p>
<p>The bad news is, by hiking taxes in a recession, Obama will turn a disaster into a catastrophe. But there&#8217;s good news, too. The &#8220;rich&#8221; include most of Obama&#8217;s biggest supporters.</p>
<p>While liberals love being praised for their looks, their style, their brilliance and their courage, the one quality they don&#8217;t want talked about is their money. To the contrary, Democrats are constantly boasting about how poor they are &#8212; as if that&#8217;s a virtue in a capitalist society with no class barriers.</p>
<p>No matter how much money they have, liberals will be damned if they&#8217;re giving up the poor&#8217;s mantle of angry self-righteousness. This is especially true if their wealth came by inheritance, marriage or the taxpayer, the preferred sources of income for Liberalus Americanus.</p>
<p>Democrats&#8217; claims of poverty merely serve to show how out of touch elected Democrats are with actual incomes in America.</p>
<p>At the Democratic National Convention, for example, there were heartfelt tributes to the daunting self-sacrifice of both Barack and Michelle Obama for passing up lucrative jobs to work in &#8220;public service&#8221; &#8212; which apparently is now defined, such as in Michelle Obama&#8217;s case, as &#8220;working as a &#8216;diversity coordinator&#8217; at a big city hospital for $300,000 a year.&#8221;</p>
<p>Seriously, even with a company car, full medical benefits and six weeks&#8217; paid vacation thrown in, how do people live on that?</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the average salary for a lawyer with 20 years or more experience in the U.S. is a little more than $100,000. If Michelle Obama doesn&#8217;t lay off all this &#8220;giving back&#8221; stuff pretty soon, she&#8217;s going to find herself in Warren Buffett&#8217;s tax bracket.</p>
<p>During the campaign, Joe Biden was also praised by the Democrats for being the poorest U.S. senator &#8212; as if that were a major accomplishment.</p>
<p>Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, touted Biden as &#8220;a good example of a working-class kid,&#8221; adding that, to this day, Biden was &#8220;one of the least wealthy members of the U.S. Senate.&#8221; Only a Democrat would list &#8220;never really made anything of myself&#8221; on his resume.</p>
<p>On the Huffington Post, operated by a woman who acquired her wealth by marrying a rich gay guy connected to Big Oil, liberal blogger Steven Clemons gloated that, unlike John McCain, Biden wouldn&#8217;t &#8220;forget the number of houses he owns,&#8221; adding that, in 2006, Biden was ranked the poorest U.S. senator.</p>
<p>And at his high school reunion Biden was voted &#8220;most likely to try to bum a ride off of somebody.&#8221; Vote Biden!</p>
<p>According to tax returns for Biden and his public schoolteacher wife, in 2006, their total income was $248,459; in 2007, it was $319,853 &#8212; putting the couple in the top 1 percent of all earners in the U.S.</p>
<p>This, my friends, is the face of poverty in America. At least in the Democratic Party. It&#8217;s located just below that row of hair plugs. The Bidens are yet another heart-rending example of America&#8217;s &#8220;hidden poor&#8221; &#8212; desperately needy families hidden behind annual incomes of a quarter million dollars or more paid by the taxpayer. My fellow Americans, we can do better.</p>
<p>The national median household income was $48,201 in 2006 and $50,233 in 2007. Working for the government pays well.</p>
<p>If liberals are going to show how in touch they are with normal Americans by demanding a Marxist revolution against the rich every time they control the government, how about taking a peek at the charitable giving of these champions of the little guy?</p>
<p>According to their tax returns, in 2006 and 2007, the Obamas gave 5.8 percent and 6.1 percent of their income to charity. I guess Michelle Obama has to draw the line someplace with all this &#8220;giving back&#8221; stuff. The Bidens gave 0.15 percent and 0.31 percent of the income to charity.</p>
<p>No wonder Obama doesn&#8217;t see what the big fuss is over his decision to limit tax deductions for charitable giving. At least that part of Obama&#8217;s tax plan won&#8217;t affect his supporters.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in 1991, 1992 and 1993, George W. Bush had incomes of $179,591, $212,313 and $610,772. His charitable contributions those years were $28,236, $31,914 and $31,292. During his presidency, Bush gave away more than 10 percent of his income each year.</p>
<p>For purposes of comparison, in 2005, Barack Obama made $1.7 million &#8212; more than twice President Bush&#8217;s 2005 income of $735,180 &#8212; but they both gave about the same amount to charity.</p>
<p>That same year, the heartless Halliburton employee Vice President Dick Cheney gave 77 percent of his income to charity. The following year, in 2006, Bush gave more to charity than Obama on an income one-third smaller than Obama&#8217;s. Maybe when Obama talks about &#8220;change&#8221; he&#8217;s referring to his charitable contributions.</p>
<p>Liberals have no intention of actually parting with any of their own wealth or lifting a finger to help the poor. That&#8217;s for other people to do with what&#8217;s left of their incomes after the government has taken its increasingly large cut.</p>
<p>As the great liberal intellectual Bertrand Russell explained while scoffing at the idea that he would give his money to charity: &#8220;I&#8217;m afraid you&#8217;ve got it wrong. (We) are socialists. We don&#8217;t pretend to be Christians.&#8221;</p>
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