Must be a "swamp tiger"

Pelosi calls for ethics investigation of Rep. David Wu

 Pelosi has gotten so good at draining the swamp she has become an honorary member of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.

Nice outfit

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel (N.Y.) issued statements Sunday night calling for the House ethics committee to look into the conduct of Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.).

"I call on the Ethics Committee to initiate an investigation into the allegations against Congressman Wu," Pelosi said in the statement. "With deep disappointment and sadness about this situation, I hope that the Ethics Committee will take up this matter."

Wu is alleged to have had a sexual encounter with a woman against her will in late 2010, an episode first reported by the Portland Oregonian. The newspaper reported that Wu has acknowledged the encounter but insisted it was consensual.

One Democratic source said that Wu has decided not to seek reelection in 2012 and the Oregonian and Politico are reporting that he will not. But the congressman's office did not return an e-mail seeking comment Sunday night regarding his plans. He is not expected to resign.

Wu has said nothing specific about the incident with the woman, issuing a statement Saturday calling it "very serious" and adding: "I have absolutely no desire to bring unwanted publicity, attention, or stress to a young woman and her family."

This is the latest allegation of bizarre behavior by Wu at the end of last year — actions that include sending odd pictures to his staff and taking prescribed medication that had not been prescribed to him.

He has already drawn primary challenges from two Democrats — state Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian and state Rep. Brad Witt. Republicans hope to target the Democratic-leaning seat in the Portland area, but are likely to do so only if Wu is in the race.

Must be a "swamp tiger"

Easy come easy go

After almost one trillion dollars spent in stimulus he had this to say:

Why can't Americans see they've been had? After almost a trillion dollars wasted he has the balls to act cavalier, laughing about it like he dropped 20 bucks in a Vegas slot machine.

To make matters worse the idiots surrounding him  in this video seem to be caught up in the merriment!

I have come to the conclusion perhaps this country deserves what it gets. Stupid people make stupid decisions. And Obama is certainly one of them.

Easy come easy go

The Exploitation of Shared Sacrifice

On a tip from Ed Kilbane

Marxism

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

Sounds all warm and fuzzy like; doesn't it?

It's one of the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union. It doesn't work.

Lets clarify shared sacrifice. 53% of all Americans pay income tax. The other 47% pay nothing. As an American citizen living in this country and benefiting from all it has to offer, shouldn't every American contribute something no matter how small? Suppose you make $10,000 a year. Shouldn't you pay at least 100 bucks... 50 bucks...something? Is that to much to ask? Obama keeps reiterating the phrase invest in America, which actually means collecting more money from the 53% so he can spend it on the 47% who contribute nothing.

 We are over 14 trillion in debt and 47% of Americans do nothing to help out. At  some point the 53% are going to get sick of carrying the other 47 on their backs. The... he ain't heavy he's my brother concept...is starting to wear pretty thin.

The Exploitation of Shared Sacrifice

This should put an end to the debt ceiling debate once and for all

No mention of this from the MSM

On a tip from my brother Gary

-- Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising

America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, "the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve

better."


Isn't this exactly what Republicans have been saying all along?

Talk about a 180. For God's sake this is his own words! What do we need? A house to fall on us?

Folks this is not a BS story. Look it up. A prime example of following what he does, not what he says. Pure and simple he is a hypocrite and a liar. It is hard to believe he was elected president in 2008. It's absolutely mind blowing he took in 86 million in campaign contributions in the last three months! 

Has the country gone mad?

Facts are the enemy of lies.

I'm not asking you to pass judgement.  I am asking you to think.

I suppose an honest man shines more in politics then he does elsewhere, but shouldn't a senator keep his word or a president? 

Should't he set a high example? Is keeping one's word so extraordinary a thing, when the person achieving that feat is a person of a civilized nation?

Mark Twain

This should put an end to the debt ceiling debate once and for all

America can relax; the Casey Anthony show's over:

Are you relaxed?

Thanks for the heads up Connie. Casey Anthony got away with first degree murder now we can all relax.

The point to this story is what? To write something dripping in liberal goo?

See comment below

 By

Connie Schultz

Cleveland Plain Dealer

The FBI reports that 1,494 children under the age of 18 were killed in America in 2008.

Of these children, 221 died before their first birthday; 338 were murdered between the ages of 1 and 4. Most of us know the name of only one of these victims: Caylee Anthony.

The temptation is to use the next 600 words to decry America's obsession with the murder of one little girl in Orlando, Fla., while we ignore the violent deaths of 1,493 other children.

This is, after all, what columnists do when we're concerned that America is losing its way. We like to tell ourselves that it's just an issue of your being distracted, and that with a few carefully chosen words of outrage, we can redirect your attention to what really matters. What really matters to us, anyway.

This is arrogance on our part, to be sure.

In this case, it's also just as surely magical thinking.

My, how so many of us loved to hate Casey Anthony.

The 25-year-old mother, accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, almost single-handedly -- if you don't count the thousands of hours of media coverage -- gave millions of Americans permission to feel judgmental and superior. We like that. A lot.

Anthony's trial, covered gavel to gavel, also made it a whole lot easier not to think about all the other children whose lives are in peril, but invisibly so.

As the Annie E. Casey Foundation reports, for example, three times as many African-American children live in poverty, compared with white children. One in five rural children lives in poverty, too. And one-third of America's children are in families where no parent has a full-time job. None of these statistics makes for compelling television, I realize.

Which brings me back to Casey Anthony, who is young, white and photogenic. She lied. A lot. She also refused to meet our standards for a grieving mother. She was too aloof, too quick with a smile. Her hair, her clothes, her tattoo, her sex life: God, what a mess, we declared, riveted.

Day after day, hour after hour, we had at her.

Strangers traveled hundreds, sometimes thousands, of miles to stand in line for the chance to sit in the courtroom, and then offered their instant expertise to reporters waiting outside. Even the most local of news outlets posted breaking alerts about her trial.

After the jury acquitted her last week of first-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter and aggravated child abuse, Twitter and Facebook exploded with verdicts to the contrary. The judge and defense attorneys say they're concerned about death threats against Casey and the jurors. Because, by golly, that's how you honor a child who's been murdered.

Soon enough, we will forget about Casey Anthony, but not because we'll turn our collective concern to the 15 million children living in poverty, the 17 million who go hungry or the 8.1 million who are uninsured. We like to focus on one at a time.

In 2009, the year after Caylee Anthony was killed, 1,348 more children were murdered in America.

Here's a partial list of the FBI's breakdown:

Infants: 193

Ages 1 to 4: 298

Ages 5 to 8: 72

Ages 9 to 12: 71

Ages 13 to 16: 400

Who among us can name even one?

Great comment by Ed Kilbane

She conveniently forgot to mention the millions of children who are killed in the womb every year!

America can relax; the Casey Anthony show's over: