Mel Reynolds, ex-congressman and jailbird, bids to replace Jesse Jackson Jr.

This story is unbelievable. People in this district are so damn stupid they deserve what they get. Their willingness to accept only one who is both black and a Democrat is testament to their own demise. Yet they'll defend this action to their last dying breath. Oh…and having a record is an added benefit. The last 3 all had their legal difficulties.

PS: Like to have been a fly on the wall as Rev Jackson was consoling Clinton on extramarital affairs. Talk about the pot...

Three strikes and you're out. 

Strike One

Rep. Gus Savage (D) 

In office
January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1993

 Condemned by the House Ethics Committee for sexual misconduct for having an affair with a Peace Corps volunteer while visiting Zaire on official business.

Strike Two

 Rep. Mel Reynolds (D) 

In office
January 3, 1993 – October 1, 1995

Convicted of statutory rape in October 1995 for having sex with a 16 year-old campaign staffer. He was also convicted of soliciting child pornography. He was subsequently convicted of federal financial and campaign finance fraud charges while in jail.





Strike 3






Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr (D)

In office
December 12, 1995 – November 21, 2012


Junior was forced to resign after the FBI had been looking at Jackson's alleged use of campaign funds to decorate his home and to buy a $40,000 Rolex watch for a female friend. The investigation into misused campaign funds has now expanded to include Jackson's wife, Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson, according to reports. Investigators are scrutinizing whether Mrs. Jackson was aware of or complicit in her husband's alleged misuse of campaign money. Investigators have not yet indicated whether they plan to charge Sandi Jackson. I am convinced he was more involved in the Blago situation then we were led to believe. Incredibly ... while all this was going on he was reelected!!!




The people in this district have a uncanny ability to pick losers. They're either incredibly unlucky or just plain stupid. I suspect there is a third possibility. You guess what it is. Hint. When was the last time the Illinois second congressional district had a white Republican representative? Try 1951 to 1953. Voters mantra...We see only black.

You would think with their track record the electorate may entertain the thought of  looking at some alternatives. My take from this? They pay strict adherence in conforming to Einstein's definition of insanity following it to the T.

Then again what do I know? For all these years I thought a "Hoe" was a garden tool.


Another farce in the making

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Don’t call it a comeback! Actually, I guess you can since he’s spent time in jail. Either way, former Rep. Mel Reynolds, D-Ill., was among the 22 people who have filed to run for Rep. Jesse Jackson’s, D-Ill., now-open House seat. Jackson resigned amid a federal ethics investigation, an adultery scandal and an admitted mental health problem.

Don’t remember Mel Reynolds? Well, he represented the Illinois second congressional district prior to Jackson, from 1993 to 1995. He had to take some time off after he was convicted of statutory rape in October 1995 for having sex with a 16 year-old campaign staffer. He was also convicted of soliciting child pornography. He was subsequently convicted of federal financial and campaign finance fraud charges while in jail.

Reynolds had a dodgy history even before the convictions. By 1993, he had been sued 16 times according to Cook County court records for writing bad checks. Seven of the lawsuits resulted in judgments of $53,552. He also defaulted on two Harvard University loans, totaling $18,000. When a magazine began researching his financial background, Reynolds tried to lure the reporter off his trail by saying should instead be investigating another unnamed black member of Congress who, he claimed, hadn’t paid child support in 10 years.

His sentence was commuted by President Clinton in 2001, an action that was arranged by … Jesse Jackson Sr. (Jackson and Clinton had become close after Jackson “mentored” Clinton after his sex scandal with intern Monica Lewinsky. Jackson Senior was undoubtedly sympathetic, having had his own problems in this regard.)

Reynolds has been aiming to regain his old seat for years. He lost a 2004 primary bid to Jackson junior 89-6 percent. Still he remains optimistic, telling the Chicago Tribune his campaign theme is “redemption” and that wants voters to allow him to “finish the work” he started. His signs say “Re-Elect Reynolds.” According to the Tribune:

Reynolds sought to downplay his previous convictions, contending “it was almost 18, 20 years ago” and that his past crimes “shouldn’t be a life sentence.”

“The fact of the matter is, nobody’s perfect,” Reynolds said, adding that voters should “look at the entire history of me,” including what people do “after they make mistakes.” Reynolds, however, stopped short of acknowledging guilt for any of his crimes.

Reynolds may indeed have a second chance. There is something about Illinois’s second district. Reynolds won his seat after defeating Rep. Gus Savage, who had been condemned by the House Ethics Committee for sexual misconduct for having an affair with a Peace Corps volunteer while visiting Zaire on official business.

Mel Reynolds, ex-congressman and jailbird, bids to replace Jesse Jackson Jr.

Benghazi..abandoned and left to die...and still nobody gives a damn

This is a interesting development. If it was Bush they (MSM) would have nailed him to the cross. On the other hand, with Barry, it's a different story. Think about this. Four dead Americans, and as far as I can tell, not one person is in American custody for this atrocity. Does anyone detect a complete lack of interest in getting to the bottom of this? The reason is Barry doesn't want anyone brought to justice in this case. Why? Because it will only collaborate and verify what FOX and others have been saying all along. This was botched from the word go, had absolutley nothing to do with a YouTube video, and nobody, and I mean nobody, payed a price. These men were simply abandoned, left to die, and their bodies swept under the rug like yesterdays dirt.

Blow to Obama as terror suspect linked to Benghazi consulate attack is freed 

A Tunisian man questioned by the F.B.I about the murderous attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi has been released by a Tunisian judge due to lack of evidence, according to his lawyer.

Ali Harzi, 26, was one of the few known suspects in custody the case, which has been beset by problems stemming from the weakness of the Libyan government and the power of militias in the country - some of whom may have even been involved in the attack.

Christopher Stevens, who died in the September 11 attack, was the first U.S. ambassador to be killed in the line of duty since 1979. Sean Smith, another diplomat, and Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, both C.I.A. contractors and former U.S. Navy SEALs, were also killed.

Justice: U.S ambassador Stevens and 4 others was killed in the attack on the consulate in Benghazi and four months on, none of his murderers have been charged.

Stalled: The investigation in Libya itself has been slow due to the weak central government in the face of the powerful militias, some of whom may have been involved in the attack.

Anwar Oued-Ali, Harzi's lawyer, said that the presiding judge had 'conditionally freed' his client on Monday night on the understanding that he would remain in the Tunis area in case the court needed to recall him. 

The lawyer described the release as 'correcting an irregular situation' because the Tunisian authorities lacked hard evidence. 

Harzi was detained in Turkey and in October he was extradited to Tunisia, where authorities had said he was 'strongly suspected' of being involved in the attack. 

His lawyer said he was officially charged with 'membership of a terrorist organisation' - a charge that left him facing six to 12 years in jail.

Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attend the transfer of remains for one of the four Americans killed in the attack. That's all they were good for.

 Both Obama and Clinton have faced criticism for the lack of security that led to the attack and the handling of the investigation 

Last month, FBI officers questioned Harzi for three hours in the presence of a Tunisian judge.

The FBI has not commented on the results of the questioning, but Harzi's lawyer said they just asked if his client had any information about the attacks on the Benghazi consulate as well as the assault on the U.S. embassy in Tunis three days later.

U.S. intelligence has blamed the Benghazi attack on terrorists linked to al-Qaeda - members of different groups ranging from local Libyan militia Ansar al-Shariah and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

The consulate's cameras captured many of the faces of armed men in a mob, and some have been questioned, but most remain free.

You ever wonder why that is?

Burnt out: Authorities in the region have not yet arrested many of the suspects the U.S. wants to question about the attack.

In a recent TV interview, Harzi's father, Tahar, said his son was just working in Libya in construction supporting his family.

Eight years ago, Ali harzi and his brother Brahim were sentenced to 30 months in prison for having contact with another brother, Tarek, who fought against US and allied forces in Iraq.

The father acknowledged that he had encouraged his sons to take up 'jihad in the cause of God'.

As well as Harzi, American officials said in December that Egypt had also arrested a member of the Islamic Jihad group in connection with the Benghazi attack.

I guess it's to much of a bother for us to interrogate the guy. They probably sent him home with a new Koran personally signed by Barry. 

Benghazi..abandoned and left to die...and still nobody gives a damn

Buchanan: The Depardieu revolution

Update:

Top French court overturns 75 percent tax rate for rich

http://www.emergencyemail.org/newsemergency/anmviewer.asp?a=2548

The Kremlin has cast Gerard Depardieu in one of the most surprising roles of his life — as a new Russian citizen.

I understand why Depardieu would leave France. 

But for Russia?

Another great tip from Ed Kilbane

Thomas Sowell 
An interesting observation: 

 "Why is it greedy to try to keep what you earn, but not greedy to try to take what someone else earns?"

 The utter simplicity of his statement hit me between the eyes like a baseball bat. First jealously set in... it's so obvious.. why didn't I think of that? Then the reality plopped down heavily... wish I had half the intelligence of Mr Sowell.

 Story By

Pat Buchanan

When Socialist President Francois Hollande took office, he swiftly made good on his pledge to raise the top tax rate on Frenchmen who earn a million euros a year — to 75 percent.

The regime would now confiscate three of four dollars that the most successful Frenchmen earned. Paris also imposes a wealth tax on assets worth more than $1.7 million.

This broke it for Gerard Depardieu, the famed actor and bon vivant who has performed in scores of films in such roles as Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables" and Cyrano de Bergerac.

Depardieu put his Paris mansion up for sale, crossed the border into the Belgian village of Nechin, gave up his French passport and is renouncing his French citizenship. A tiny community of French already reside in Nechin, a kilometer beyond the reach of Hollande's tax police.

Depardieu says that this past year 85 percent of all he earned went for taxes. Over a 45-year career, he contends, almost $200 million in income has been taxed away by the French government.

"I don't like the rich," Hollande has said. Does Barry have any French relatives?

The sentiment is reciprocated. One French radio station claims that 5,000 French citizens have fled since he took office.

Hollande's regime, writes Edward Cody of The Washington Post, has all but declared Depardieu a traitor. Labor Minister Michel Sapin calls him an example of "personal degradation." Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti charges him with "deserting the battlefield in a war against the economic crisis."

"When someone loves France, he should serve," says Hollande, calling Depardieu "pathetic" and "unpatriotic."

Which raises a question for Americans. For our revolution was born of a tax rebellion against the Stamp Act, the Townshend duties and the tea tax that led to the Boston Tea Party.

Purpose of these taxes: Have the colonies pay a fair share of the cost of the French and Indian War, in which British soldiers had driven the enemies of the colonies out of the Ohio Valley.

But when farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled against a whiskey tax to defray the cost of our Revolutionary War, President Washington marched out with 13,000 militia to crush that tax rebellion.

While the socialist left has come down hardest on Depardieu, he is well within a tradition of the cultural left.

As The Associated Press' Thomas Addison reports, when the British top tax rate was 95 percent in the 1960s, the Beatles' George Harrison wrote "Taxman" with the lyrics, "There's one for you, 19 for me."

In 2005, Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr moved to Monaco, where the income tax rate is zero.

Sean Connery, the first "James Bond," departed Britain in the 1960s for Spain and the Bahamas, writes Addison, "another spot with zero income tax." In the 1970s, his successor as 007, Roger Moore, also chose tax exile in Monaco. In those years of confiscatory tax rates in England, the Rolling Stones relocated to Southern France.

What does this teach us?

That socialism, the forced redistribution of income and wealth from those who produce it to those who do not, eventually forces a man to choose between himself and his family — and his government.

Socialism creates and exacerbates a conflict in loyalties. A regime that takes three of every four dollars a man earns is an enemy of what that man works to accomplish for himself and his family.

Mitt Romney was castigated for keeping bank accounts in the Caymans, Bermuda and Switzerland. Yet countless U.S. companies leave profits abroad to evade U.S. taxes.

Californians flee to Nevada, Arizona, Idaho and Colorado to escape Golden State taxes. Are they disloyal to their home state, or are they doing what is right by their families, their first responsibility?

With federal income taxes on America's most successful rising today to almost 40 percent, New York City residents will also pay a top rate of 12 percent to the state and city plus a 9 percent sales tax on their purchases, plus payroll taxes for Medicare and Social Security, plus property taxes, auto taxes, gas taxes and cigarette taxes.

For many successful Americans, over half of all they earn is now taken by government. And reading The New York Times' year-end editorial, these may soon be seen as the good old days.

The Times urges Obama to consider sweeping new taxes to "reduce income inequality." Among the revenue raisers for which it urges consideration: Almost tripling the capital tax rate to 40 percent, capping deductions for high earners, restoring the estate tax to confiscatory levels, higher tax rates or surcharges on multimillion-dollar incomes and raising the corporate tax rate — already the highest in the world.

"All that would be only a start," says the Times. A carbon tax, a value-added tax, a financial transactions tax should all be looked at.

Can a man love his country and hate its government? Of course. Ask Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Ask the patriots of '76.

This un-American and egalitarian fanaticism rearing its head today may one day force just such a question upon American patriots.

Buchanan: The Depardieu revolution

Coming Attractions-The Debt Ceiling

If you think the fiscal cliff was a disaster watch what happens as we approach the debt ceiling debate. If they raise the debt ceiling it will be the 80th time in our nations history. Both Republicans and Democrats are equally to blame. It makes you wonder why we even have a debt ceiling.

Boehner took it on the chin during the fiscal cliff debacle. Republicans caved in faster then a West Virginia coal mine after an explosion. It was supposed to be a compromise right? Spending cuts in exchange for a tax increase on the wealthy. So how did it pan out? Not $2 or $3 of new taxes for every dollar cut in spending. Try $41 to $1. 

$41 in additional taxes for every $1 of spending cuts. You call that a compromise!!! Barry got just about everything he wanted. The GOP nothing.

The next plight is already in the making.

Obama: Not raising debt ceiling could be "catastrophic"

(Everything is catastrophic with this guy. Why? He's the president)

This statement fired off the first salvo over the bow. Translation... If Republicans don't raise the debt ceiling it will be "catastrophic"...

He's already penciled them in to take the fall. Barry does have the uncanny ability to shift blame and responsibility from himself and cast it upon others with the full cooperation of the media. Some past presidents led by example. Barry has always lead from behind.  This worthless waste of skin has increased the national debt by almost $6 trillion already! When are the assholes in the media ever going to wake up?

 Now its Boehner's turn. Time to turn the tables. Time for a little payback. As the debt ceiling debate drags on (nothing happens until the last minute...leadership remember?) if I were Boehner I would show these videos on Capitol Hill, C-Span, etc... for all America to see.

Senator Obama 2006 

Not that I am a firm believer in Snopes but for those who require a stamp of approval.

verified by Snopes    http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/debtlimit.asp

I would pass out the transcript:

“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 U.S. Government can’t 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.” …….. Senator Barack Obama 2006

Here's another one for reinforcement removing any doubt:

You simply can't have it both ways.

Barry campaigning 2008, this is sooo rich. At the time the debt was $10.6 trillion now its almost $16.5... and he hasn't even been sworn in yet for his 2nd term!!!

The word hypocrisy doesn't even begin to cover this. This guy is nothing but a fraud. A celebrity sculpted with empty promises and deceptions, a lying worthless snake the liberal media helped perpetrate as the salvation for America.

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Pure and simple. The guy is a con artist. If you're not convinced by his owns words I really don't know what else I can say. 

Another downgrade is right around the corner. When we borrow 43 cents on every dollar we spend it's inevitable.

Coming Attractions-The Debt Ceiling

Demand a plan

 Hollywood celebrities are now lining up behind Barry in a show of support against gun violence; the same violence their very movies glorify! There are two reasons for this.

One is a convoluted "giddy" infatuation with Barry.

The other, which you may be unaware, Barry "donated" a portion of  your tax dollars in the fiscal cliff bill by extending film production company tax credits. Thereby continuing the tradition of payback for his friends in Hollywood. If the Bush tax cuts had to go for the rich, why isn't Barry's "fair share" bullshit applied to the Hollywood crowd? I'm sure Chris (Countrywide Scandal) Dodd's position as head of the Motion Picture Association of America had nothing to do with it. Wasn't the GOP the scapegoat for the rich not paying their fair share? How many people in the motion picture industry are middle income? 

I was especially amused by the appearance of  Beyoncé. Between her and her husband they probably have more guns then their local PD. The word hypocrisy can sometimes be "overworked".  Not this time. After watching the killing spree in this video think back and try to count  how many people  Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Willis, etc, have killed through the years, then tell me some of this gratuitous violence  from movies, video games, and rap music hasn't manifested itself in the psychopaths pulling off these atrocities.

The celebs participating in this are as believable as PITA doing a commercial for for KFC.

Collectively the death toll of these three...

Is probably only exceeded by him.

Demand a plan