HILLARY CLINTON: THE PROGRESSIVE SOCIALIST DEMOCRAT SHREW THAT WOULD BE PRESIDENT IN 2016? OBAMA: ANOTHER "HISTORIC" FIRST -- AMERICA'S FIRST 'SNAPCHAT' PRESIDENT

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• EARLY WARNING: CHRISTIE AS A VINDICTIVE PROGRESSIVE POL
• HILLARY CLINTON: THE PROGRESSIVE SOCIALIST DEMOCRAT SHREW THAT WOULD BE PRESIDENT IN 2016?
• OBAMA: ANOTHER "HISTORIC" FIRST -- AMERICA'S FIRST 'SNAPCHAT' PRESIDENT

EARLY WARNING: CHRISTIE AS A VINDICTIVE PROGRESSIVE POL Posted: 08 Jan 2014 03:22 PM PST While I admire Chris Christie for his no-nonsense style and pragmatism, I also recognize that he is pro-labor, anti-gun, and no matter what excuses he makes in a progressive democrat state, he is a progressive that is every bit a RINO as John McCain and Lindsey Graham. Touted by the media as the front-runner for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, I hope the party is smart enough to know that Christie will revert to being a social liberal once in office – and, even worse, will replace Chicago politics with New Jersey politics, both styles featuring dirty and reprehensible tactics by those of questionable character. Also, once Christie secures the nomination, I have little or no doubt that the progressive mainstream media will demonize him as they promote their favorite Marxist candidate, Hillary Clinton. . Top Christie Staff Sought to Disrupt Traffic as Revenge Newly released emails and text messages show that Gov. Chris Christie’s office was closely involved with lane closings on the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge in September, and that officials closed the lanes as retribution against the Democratic mayor whose town was gridlocked as a result. The growing scandal around the bridge threatens Mr. Christie at the moment he assumes an even larger position on the national stage, as chairman of the Republican Governors Association and a leading candidate for his party’s presidential nomination in 2016. In the documents, obtained by The New York Times and other news outlets on Wednesday morning, Bridget Anne Kelly, a deputy chief of staff in Mr. Christie’s office, gave a signal to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to close the lanes about two weeks before the closings occurred. “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” she emailed David Wildstein, Mr. Christie’s close friend from high school, and one of his appointees at the Port Authority, which controls the bridge. Mr. Christie and some officials at Port Authority have said the closings were done as part of a traffic study, but they caused havoc for days, backing up traffic for hours. Local access lanes to the George Washington Bridge on the New Jersey side were abruptly closed from Sept. 9-13, gridlocking Fort Lee. On the second day, Mayor Mark Sokolich sends a text message to Bill Baroni, the deputy executive director of the Port Authority, pleading for help with his gridlocked city. “The bigger problem is getting kids to school. Help please. It’s maddening,” Mr. Sokolich writes, according to the released documents. Read more at: Top Christie Staff Sought to Disrupt Traffic as Revenge - NYTimes.com Bottom line … ANOTHER POLITICAL CHAMELEON! -- steve Related articles Chris Christie following his pal Barack Obama in the "big lie" -- I'm a Conservative, Not a Moderate Chris Christie: ANOTHER "POST PARTISAN POLITICIAN" LIKE BARACK OBAMA AND THAT OTHER P-BRAIN ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Christie Aide: 'Time for Some Traffic Problems' Emails Tie Top Christie Aide to Lane Closings, Despite Denials New Jersey Nixon Emails link Chris Christie aides to bridge lane closures Chris Christie's Bridge Scandal Might Have Just Become a Very Big Problem Revelations connect Christie, bridge scandal Documents raise new questions in Christie bridge controversy Christie's top Port Authority official quits amid scandal

HILLARY CLINTON: THE PROGRESSIVE SOCIALIST DEMOCRAT SHREW THAT WOULD BE PRESIDENT IN 2016? Posted: 08 Jan 2014 02:19 PM PST The public face of Hillary Clinton is well-known. Unfortunately, so is her corruption, lying, and Marxist ideology … In my mind, Hillary Clinton represents all that is wrong with the progressive socialist democrat party – a fifth column that appears to believe that America is an evil force in the world and should be weakened in order to make America just another unexceptional member state of the United Nations. Plundered for its natural resources as reparations for 200+ years of colonialism. Overlooking the freedom and democracy that makes people of other, and more repressive regimes, commit crimes to enter the United States illegally. One can only imagine how living in Arkansas must have rankled the Marxist “Wellesley Girl” and her own growing sense of entitlement. Of course, all of the small-town corruption, conspiracies, and cronyism of Arkansas were immediately transferred to the larger stage of the White House – where the “most ethical Administration” blossomed into too numerous to count abuses of power, criminal activities, and unconstitutional edits. All to be laid low by the predatory sexual conquests of Bill Clinton – leading to his impeachment. And, there is no reason not to believe that the same people will be advising Hillary Clinton in her run-up for the 2016 progressive socialist democrat nomination. The very same people who treated everyone without a sworn loyalty to the Clintons – above and beyond their Constitutional duties and Oath of Office, as enemies to be demonized and destroyed. How can anyone honestly believe that Hillary Clinton, and her war on women rhetoric, stands for women’s rights in the light of fighting fiercely against those who accused her husband of multiple sexual attacks and who forever soiled the Office of the Presidency with his sexual antics is beyond belief. There are even credible quotes regarding Hillary’s sexuality that are attributed to Bill Clinton himself. Why anyone, other than a corrupt progressive socialist democrat party, would consider Hillary Clinton morally and psychologically qualified for the Presidency of the United States is an open question. THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE IN HER OWN WORDS!   Warning! These are her actual words and quite disgusting.. "Where is the Goddamn fucking flag! I want the Goddamn fucking flag up every morning at fucking sunrise." -From the book "Inside the White House" by Ronald Kessler, p.244- Hillary to staff at the Arkansas Governor's mansion on Labor Day 1991. Fuck off! It's enough I have to see you shit-kickers every day, I'm not going to talk to you too!! Just do your Goddamn job and keep your mouth shut." -From the book "America Evita" by Christopher Anderson, p.90-Hillary to her State Trooper body guards after one of them greeted her with "Good Morning" "If you want to remain on this detail, get your fucking ass over here and grab those bags!" _From the book "The First Partner" p.259- Hillary to a Secret Service Agent who was reluctant to carry her luggage because he wanted to keep his hands free in case of an incident. "Stay the fuck back, stay the fuck back away from me! Don't come within ten yards of me, or else! Just fucking do as I say, Okay!!?" -From the book "Unlimited Access" by Clinton FBI Agent in Charge, Gary Aldrige, p.139- Hillary screaming at her Secret Service detail. "Where's the miserable cock sucker!" -From the book "The Truth About Hillary" by Edward Klein, p.5- Hillary shouting at a Secret Service officer. "You fucking idiot" From the book "Crossfire" p.84-Hillary to a State Trooper who was driving her to an event. "Put this on the ground! I left my sunglasses in the limo. I need those sunglasses. We need to go back! From the book "Dereliction of Duty" p.71-72-- Hillary to Marine One helicopter pilot to turn back while en route to Air Force One. "Come on Bill, put your dick up! You can't fuck her here!!" From the book "Inside the White House" by Ronald Kessler, p.243-Hillary to Gov. Clinton when she spots him talking with an attractive female. This ill-tempered, violent, loud mouth, hateful and abusive woman wants to be your next president and have total control as commander and chief of our Military, the very Military for which she has shown incredible disdain  throughout her public life. Surely the people of the United States can easily do better than this. From Ed Schriber,Col. USMC (Ret.) In an attempt to independently verify some of these quotes, I turned to Snopes, a compendium of urban literature researched by Barbara and David Mikkelson. The link to the Snopes report can be foundhere. While some of the quotes are recollections of some who have been privately interviewed by authors and may be taken out of context, there is little or no doubt in my mind that Hillary Clinton is fundamentally dishonest, profane, and an accomplished liar. She has all of the credentials of a Marxist, if not a communist, and has a proven disdain for an exceptional America and her military. There is also doubt in my mind that Hillary Clinton may become the de facto leader of the progressive socialist democrat party in 2016, an organized fifth column seeking to enrich themselves and bring about the destruction of America, as we currently know it, from within. Bottom line … Here is a woman who stood before the American people and lied! To cover her actions leading up to the 9/11anniversary terrorist attack in Benghazi and her role in covert weapons transfers to militant Islamic terrorists. Here is a woman who stage-managed an investigation and managed to stonewall the inquiry and Congress. Here is a woman who has been “above the law” on so many matters as to make her America’s imperial Evita. Time to investigate the foreign money pouring into the Clinton foundation and hold her accountable for the four Americans, including the Libyan Ambassador, who died on her watch. Waiting for the help that was desperately requested and was never sent. Someone gave “stand down” orders to the military from the White House  – possibly someone like Valerie Jarrett – and America deserves to know exactly where the President was and who gave the order. -- steve Related articles Progressives Attempting to Inoculate Hillary Against Scandal, Incompetence and Lying Using the "It Doesn't Matter" Strategy Hillary Clinton: Tool of International Socialism exploiting Woman's Rights for Political Gain... Hillary Clinton: It's starting -- crony-socialism; revisionist history, politics of personal destruction -- complete with women bimbos? Mainstream Media: to Protect and Promote Progressive Socialist Democrats Elizabeth Warren: A challenge to a Hillary Clinton Presidency or a ploy to make her look moderate? Wake Up America: the Progressive Socialist Democrats Will Run Candidates to the Left of Hillary Clinton to Make Her Appear Moderate Hillary Clinton: Why should anyone take advice from a corrupt, lying, self-serving presidential wannabe? Clinton 2016: When You Can't Trust Your Government: Suspicion Falls on Government Employees or Contractors (?) for Hacking Whistleblower E-mail Account? Hillary Clinton's Unbeatable Advantage in 2016: the Stupidity of the Progressives and the Laziness of Americans Progressive Socialist Democrats: Positioning Hillary Clinton by Default

OBAMA: ANOTHER "HISTORIC" FIRST -- AMERICA'S FIRST 'SNAPCHAT' PRESIDENT Posted: 07 Jan 2014 05:39 PM PST Another historic moment in the Presidency of Barack Obama … Barack Obama has been so honored as almost every comment he speaks appears to disappear or be changed by progressive socialist democrat strategists within minutes! He is so wrapped-up in his own egomaniacal worldview that he appears to forget that the rest of us have videotape, YouTube, and the Internet, and that his words have both meaning and persistence, Period! -- steve

3 Things You Don't Need Robert Gates's Book to Know...

3 Things You Don't Need Robert Gates's Book to Know 01/09/2014 Excerpts from a new tell-all book made quite a splash in Washington yesterday. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates apparently blasts President Obama on foreign policy and the U.S. military in his upcoming book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War. But as Heritage’s James Jay Carafano said, "You don’t need a book from the former Secretary of Defense to know that many of the decisions Obama made during Gates's watch were a disaster." Gates started as Secretary of Defense during President George W. Bush’s second term, and Obama asked him to stay on during his first term. The revelations from Gates’s book come as no surprise to Heritage experts, who have been warning that Obama has made decisions based on his personal preference for domestic policy—at the expense of America’s standing in the world and our men and women in uniform. Here are three things you don’t need to read the book to know. >>> Click here to find out.  Quick Hits: It’s coming: Here’s what to expect from the trillion-dollar “omnibus” spending bill that could show up any day. Did you know about this marriage debate happening in Hawaii? The White House is reeling from Robert Gates’s new book. The Administration is funding Obamacare TV ads that will air during the Winter Olympics in February. Print  |  Comments  |  Forward  |  Donate

Dick Morris On Hillary...He knows her better than Bill, and doesn't fear her! Perhaps we should...

AN ANALYSIS WORTH READING:  

by Dick Morris , former political advisor to  President Bill Clinton

 

If you happen to see the Bill Clinton five minute TV ad for  Hillary in which

he introduces the commercial by saying ...

 

he wants to share some things we may not know about Hillary's  background . .

 

beware as I was there for most of their presidency and know  them better than

just about anyone, I offer a few corrections;

 

Bill says: "In law school Hillary worked on legal services for  the poor."  

The facts are: Hillary's main extra-curricular activity in law  school was

helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for  torturing and

killing a federal agent.

 

She went to court every day as part of a law student  monitoring committee

trying to spot civil rights violations and develop grounds for  appeal.

 

Bill says: "Hillary spent a year after graduation working on a  children's

rights project for poor kids."

 

The facts are: Hillary interned with Bob Truehaft, the head of  the

California Communist Party.

 

She met Bob when he represented the Panthers and traveled all  the way to San

Francisco to take an internship with him.

 

Bill says: "Hillary could have written her own job ticket, but  she turned

down all the lucrative job offers."  

The facts are: She flunked the DC bar exam, yes, flunked, it  is a matter of

record, and only passed the Arkansas bar.

 

She had no job offers in Arkansas , none, and only got hired  by the

University of Arkansas Law School at Fayetteville because Bill  was already

teaching there.

 

She did not join the prestigious Rose Law Firm until Bill  became Arkansas

Attorney General and was made a partner only after he was  elected Arkansas

Governor.

 

Bill says: "President Carter appointed Hillary to the Legal  Services Board

of Directors and she became its chairman."

 

The facts are: The appointment was in exchange for Bill's  support for

Carter in his 1980 primary against Ted Kennedy.

 

Hillary then became chairman in a coup in which she won a  majority away from

Carter's choice to be chairman.

 

Bill says: "She served on the board of the Arkansas Children's  Hospital."  

The facts are:  Yes she did. But her main board activity,  not mentioned by

Bill, was to sit on the Wal-Mart board of directors, for a  substantial fee.

 

She was silent about their labor and health care practices.

 

Bill says: "Hillary didn't succeed at getting health care for  all Americans

in 1994 but she kept working at it and helped to create the  Children's

Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that provides five million  children with

health insurance."

 

The facts are:  Hillary had nothing to do with creating  CHIP.

 

It was included in the budget deal between Clinton and  Republican Majority

Leader Senator Trent Lott.

 

I know; I helped to negotiate the deal.

 

The money came half from the budget deal and half from the  Attorney

Generals' tobacco settlement.

 

Hillary had nothing to do with either source of funds.

 

Bill says: "Hillary was the face of America all over the  world."  

The facts are: Her visits were part of a program to get her  out of town so

that Bill would not appear weak by feeding stories that  Hillary was running

the White House.

 

Her visits abroad were entirely touristic and symbolic and  there was no

substantive diplomacy on any of them.

 

Bill says: "Hillary was an excellent Senator who kept fighting  for

children's and women's issues."  

The facts are: Other than totally meaningless legislation like  changing the

names on courthouses and post offices, she has passed only  four substantive

pieces of legislation.

 

One set up a national park in Puerto Rico .

 

A second provided respite care for family members helping  their relatives

through Alzheimer's or other conditions.

 

And two were routine bills to aid 911 victims and responders  which were

sponsored by the entire NY delegation.

 

Presently she is trying to have the US memorialize the  Woodstock fiasco of

40 years ago.

 

Here is what bothers me more than anything else about Hillary  Clinton.

 

She has done everything possible to weaken the President and  our country

(that's you and me!) when it comes to the war on terror.

 

1. She wants to close GITMO and move the combatants to the USA  where they

would have access to our legal system.  

2. She wants to eliminate the monitoring of suspected Al Qaeda  phone calls

to/from the USA .  

3. She wants to grant constitutional rights to enemy  combatants captured on

the battlefield.

4. She wants to eliminate the monitoring of money transfers  between

suspected Al Qaeda c ells and supporters in the USA .

 

5. She wants to eliminate the type of interrogation tactics  used by the

military & CIA where coercion might be used when  questioning known

terrorists even though such tactics might save American lives.

 

One cannot think of a single bill Hillary has introduced or a  single comment

she has made that would tend to strengthen our country in the  War on Terror.

 

But, one can think of a lot of comments she has made that  weaken our country

and makes it a more dangerous situation for all of us.

 

Bottom line:   

 

She goes hand in hand with the ACLU on far too many issues  where common

sense is abandoned.

Share this with every female democrat you know ... ask them to  prove Dick

Morris wrong.  

 

Think about it - he's said all of this openly, thus if he were  not truthful

he'd be liable for defamation of character!

 

 

Fox News First -- Gates raises new trust questions for Obama | Al Qaeda resurgent | Thune offers ObamaCare opt-out for employers | Wait, 'white supremacy' did what? | But was it locally sourced, cage-free meth?

FOX News First: Jan. 8
By Chris Stirewalt
 
Buzz Cut:
·        Gates raises new trust questions for embattled Obama
·        Al Qaeda resurgent
·        Thune offers ObamaCare opt-out for employers
·        Wait, ‘white supremacy’ did what?
·        But was it locally sourced, cage-free meth?
 
GATES RAISES NEW TRUST QUESTIONS FOR EMBATTLED OBAMA 
Public confidence in the commander in chief and his team is taking another hit today in the wake of new allegations about President Obama’s political calculations on military strategy. Robert Gates, Obama’s first-term secretary of Defense, has rattled Washington and disrupted the president’s intended narrative for the midterm election year. As the president tries to shift the conversation to an attack on Republican resistance to expanded welfare spending, Gates’ bombshell memoir is raising new questions about the trustworthiness of a president still reeling from the revelation that he misled voters with a claim that Americans would be able to keep their health insurance and physicians under ObamaCare. On top of that, there is lingering public concern about Obama’s expansion of domestic surveillance programs. The timing for Gates’ claims could hardly be worse. The money line from the former secretary: “I felt that agreements with the Obama White House were good for only as long as they were politically convenient.”Fox News has more.
 
[WSJ shares the top 10 revelations from Gates’ memoir, read a longer excerpt here.]
 
Micromanaged by politicos - In his book, “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War,” set for release on Tuesday, Gates claims that Obama was skeptical of  his own policy toward the war in Afghanistan and was “outright convinced it would fail.” According to excerpts confirmed by Fox News, Gates never questioned Obama’s commitment to U.S. troops but rather “only his support of their mission.” A carry-over from President George W. Bush’s administration, Gates says he was often “seething” because he felt President Obama and his administration lacked trust or confidence in him. Gates wrotes: “With Obama, however, I joined a new, inexperienced president determined to change course—and equally determined from day one to win re-election. Domestic political considerations would therefore be a factor, though I believe never a decisive one, in virtually every major national security problem we tackled.”
 
[The Hill looks at what looming departures by seniors staffers will mean for the infamously insular Obama White House.] 
 
And Hillary, too - Gates offers a stinging critique of how former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made her decision to oppose the “Iraq surge,” a strategy from the Bush White House that turned the tide in a war Clinton initially supported: “Hillary told [Obama] that her opposition to the [2007] surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary. . . . The president conceded vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political. To hear the two of them making these admissions, and in front of me, was as surprising as it was dismaying.”
 
[Hill-itary industrial complex - The Clintonista political action committee, Ready for Hillary, is boasting a $4 million 2013 cash haul. The committee behind the 2016 Democratic frontrunner announced Tuesday it raised $2.75 million in the last half of the 2013 alone. WaPo has more.]
 
Oh no, Sheriff Joe! - Some of the more caustic criticisms in Gates’ memoir were directed at Vice President Joe Biden. While the former Pentagon chief called Biden “a man of integrity,” he also observed, “I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” The White House fired back that the president disagrees with Gates’ assessment in a statement saying, “Joe Biden has been one of the leading statesmen of his time, and has helped advance America’s leadership in the world. President Obama relies on his good counsel every day.”
 
[Photo illustration - In a rare move the White House is allowing photographers access to Biden’s regular lunch with the president today.]
 
Playing defense - On NBC’s “Today” show, former White House AdviserDavid Axelrod called Gates’ language “vague” and “confusing.” “[N]ot only did [Gates] praise [Obama] for the Bin Laden raid, but he thought [Obama] made the right decisions on Afghanistan, that he was a clear, thoughtful, decisive decision-maker. So his big complaint is that he thinks that [Obama] wasn’t sufficiently personally in his heart committed enough to his own strategy. I don’t think that’s true.” Axelrod claimed there had been “no Afghanistan strategy” prior to Obama taking office and that Obama focused on a limited mission against al Qaeda and bringing the troops home.
 
AL QAEDA RESURGENT
U.S. officials suspect Abu Sufian bin Qumu, a former inmate at Guantanamo Bay was involved in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on an American outpost in Benghazi, Libya. WaPo has more.  Chief Intelligence Correspondent Catherine Herridge notes the allegations undercut recent claims that al Qaeda was not involved in the raid.
 
Kelly File: Obama’s Abandonment - Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr., R-Calif., a Marine veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq, told Megyn Kelly that the surge by Islamist militants in Iraq are a consequence of President Obama’s withdrawal policy.  “What I see here is a political squandering of military victories and an abandonment by this administration of everything we did in Iraq.” Hunter said he believes the president abandoned the war in Iraq for “purely political reasons and that he’s “not surprised” that Obama, according to former Secretary of Defense Bob Gates, appeared to doubt his own strategy in Afghanistan. Watch the full interview from “The Kelly File.”
 
THUNE OFFERS OBAMACARE OPT-OUT FOR EMPLOYERS 
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., wants to offer businesses that hire new workers from the ranks of the long-term unemployed a break on ObamaCare costs. Thune’s proposed amendment to the administration-backed plan for another three-month extension of emergency benefits for those who have exhausted their state unemployment insurance would also give employers a six-month reprieve from their share of the payroll tax. It would also provide long-term unemployed individuals a low-interest loan, up to $10,000, to help them relocate in search of a new job. The $6.4 billion jobless benefits bill cleared its first procedural hurdle in the Senate Tuesday. Read more from Fox News here. 
 
WHAT DOES THAT COST?: OBAMACARE’S OLYMPIC SIZED PITCH
Team Obama is hoping to seize on Olympic sized audiences to promote ObamaCare during next month’s winter games in Sochi, Russia. The Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Tuesday it has purchased advertisements in markets with high rates of uninsured individuals to air Feb. 7-23 during the Winter Olympics. HHS declined to specify the size of the ad buy. Politico has the details.
 
[The House is set to vote Friday on a bill that would require weekly reporting on the status of ObamaCare. The proposal from Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb., would require Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to regularly report the number of paying ObamaCare enrollees, new Medicaid beneficiaries and other data. Breitbart has more.]
 
MARYLAND DEMS MIGHT BAIL ON STATE’S OBAMACARE SITE
The abysmal launch of Maryland’s ObamaCare Web site is causing some of the state’s top Democrats to consider abandoning it altogether and sending residents to the crash-prone federal site. Gov. Martin O’Malley, D-Md., had been initially opposed to the idea but with only 18,000 residents enrolled as of Dec. 27, he appears to be open to the option until his state’s Web site improves. Fox News has more.
 
ROLLBACK: WALMART PLANS BETTER DEALS THAN OBAMACARE
A Washington Examiner comparison has found health plans offered to Walmart employees are not only cheaper than those offered by ObamaCare, but they provide better access to high-quality medical care as well. Examiner reports “...a 30-year-old smoker would pay up to $428 per month, in contrast to roughly $70 each month for a Walmart employee. A family of four could pay a $962 premium, but the same Walmart family member would pay about $160.”
 
NOT-SO FINEST 
Eighty former members of the NYPD and FDNY were busted Tuesday for allegedly faking mental illness in a $400 million disability scam. Joseph Morrone of the NYPD netted $109,930 since 2009 claiming a fear of large crowds, only to be nabbed while serving cannoli at packed street festival in Little Italy.  Read more scams in the NY Post here.
 
[Watch Fox: Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., and former Bush administration drug czar John Walters debate marijuana legalization in the 1p.m. EThour.]
 
CASUALTIES OF A 50-YEAR WAR
On this date in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared a “War on Poverty,” going on to win passage of a host of new federal welfare programs aimed at eradicating what were then shrinking but stubborn pockets of poverty in the nation. As a new report shows, poverty is on the rise in America, with 15 percent of the nation living below the federal poverty line. National Public Radio looks at the continuing struggles of the Kentucky county that was central to Johnson’s sales pitch. U.S. News offers a remarkable photo essay on the topic. 
 
WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE...
John Stossel hits back at claims that the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor for Fox News Opinion. From Equality Versus Liberty: “It's true that today, the richest 1 percent of Americans own a third of America's wealth. One percent owns 35 percent! But I say, so what? Progressives in the media claim that the rich get richer at the expense of the poor. But that's a lie…Bill Gates took a huge slice of pie, but he didn't take it from me. By starting Microsoft, he baked millions of new pies. He made the rest of the world richer, too. Entrepreneurs create things…Inequality may seem unfair, but the alternative -- government-forced equality -- is worse. It leaves everyone poor.”
 
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POLL CHECK
Real Clear Politics Averages
Obama Job Approval: Approve – 42.8 percent//Disapprove – 53.7 percent
Direction of Country: Right Direction – 30.4 percent//Wrong Track – 63.3 percent 
Generic Congressional Ballot:  Democrats – 43.3 percent// Republicans 42.9 percent 
 
SENATE DEMS TAKING BROWN BID SERIOUSLY 
The Senate Majority PAC, run by former aides to Majority Leader Harry Reid, is launching a $150,000 ad buy in New Hampshire attacking former Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown. Brown, who seems to be leaning toward a run in his newly adopted home state, hasn’t declared yet. The script of the snarky ad: “When Scott Brown was the senator from Massachusetts… he delivered for Wall Street — saving big banks $19 billion in taxes. And Brown wrote legislation helping big banks make risky investments. Now he’s shopping for a Senate seat in New Hampshire. Really? That’s good for Wall Street and great for Scott Brown, but it doesn’t make sense for New Hampshire.”
 
CASSIDY CLOSING IN ON LANDRIEU IN CASH RACE
Louisiana Republican Senate hopeful Rep. Bill Cassidy raised more than $1 million during the last three months of 2013. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., raised slightly more, collecting $1.4 million during the fourth quarter of 2013. Still, in a sign Landrieu is fighting for her political life, the Democrat spent more to fend off attacks against her support of ObamaCare during the same period. The spending has increased Cassidy’s cash-on-hand by a larger margin. Landrieu’s war chest is $6.37 million compared to Cassidy’s $4.2 million. The Advocate of Baton Rouge has the details.
 
PICK SIX: SPOILER ALERT 
The 2014 midterm elections could tip the balance of power in the Senate to the Republicans if the GOP can pick up six seats. Fox News First wants to know which six blue seats you think are most likely to turn to red this year. The consensus among readers so far (in order of times picked by readers): Arkansas, Montana, Louisiana, West Virginia, South Dakota and North Carolina. But a reader notes the GOP path to victory in South Dakota is more complicated than it would appear. Reader Don Peckham of Aberdeen, S.D., says former Republican Sen. Larry Pressler’s run as an independent could complicate matters. Pressler, who subsequently left the GOP and twice backed President Obama, represented South Dakota in the Senate as a Republican from 1979 to 1997 and could still draw some GOP votes. Peckham wrote: “Pressler made the comment that he didn’t care if he would be the spoiler for South Dakota.”
 
Share your top six picks. Email them – just your top six, please – toFOXNEWSFIRST@FOXNEWS.CCOM or tweet @cstirewalt
 
BIPARTISAN SCRAMBLE TO FILL LATHAM SPOT
Operatives on both sides of the aisle tell Roll Call  the field of House hopefuls in 2014 is thin for one of the most competitive districts – the one currently held by retiring 10-term incumbent Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa. There’s another catch for Republicans if there is a crowded field of lesser-known candidates. Under current rules, the GOP must hold an additional nominating convention if no candidate receives more than 35 percent of the vote in a primary.
 
VIRGINIA DEMOCRAT COMPARES REPUBLICANS TO RAPISTS
Virginia Democratic state Senate candidate Jennifer Wexton is taking to the airwaves comparing Tea Party Republicans to violent rapists in her bid to replace Mark Herring¸the Democrat who won a cliffhanger race for Virginia attorney general last November. In the ad Wexton exclaims, “…as a prosecutor I put violent offenders in prison. In the Virginia Senate, I'll fight just as hard against Tea Party Republicans…”
 
CANTOR PUSHES SCHOOL CHOICE 
From The Hill: “House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Wednesday will hail the movement for greater school choice as ‘the surest way’ to end the cycle of poverty, lending his voice to a new conservative push for solutions to help the nation’s poorest families. The Virginia Republican will deliver a speech at the Brookings Institution, where he plans to tout a House-passed education bill and push for an expansion of charter schools and voucher programs. He also will call out the new liberal mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, for his plans to tighten restrictions on charter schools.”
 
[Watch Fox: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor will appear on “The Kelly File” tonight in the 9 p.m. ET hour] 
 
Midterm exam - Dave Brat, an economics professor, is launching a primary challenge to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Brat and Cantor will square off in a June 10 primary. The Richmond Times-Dispatch has more.
 
WAIT, ‘WHITE SUPREMECY’ DID WHAT?
Salon’s Brittney Cooper seems to believe that the problem with MSNBC host Melissa Harris Perry’s recent mocking of the Romney family for having adopted an African-American child was that Harris Perry and her guests did not treat it seriously and harshly enough. From Cooper’s column “White supremacy wins again: Melissa Harris Perry and the racial false equivalence”: “For good or ill, we care about the lives and livelihoods of little black boys. And we wonder what kind of man [the adopted child] will grow up to be. We know that the lie we are being asked to believe is that the Romneys, despite their politics and religious affiliations, have transcended race so much that [the child’s] blackness is just an accident of birth.” 

ANNOUNCING THE PASHMINA CAUCUS 
Will Washington’s emergence from the polar vortex mean the passing of Rep. Joe Garcia’s “fabulous” fashion fad? Buzzfeed notes the Florida Democrat’s deep commitment to big scarves.

BUT WAS IT LOCALLY SOURCED, CAGE-FREE METH?
An Oregon couple is facing drug-related charges for their creative tip. According to officials, Ryan Benson and Erica Manley used a gift card to pay their bill for dinner and drinks. For a tip, the couple offered the waitress an envelope with a question mark written on it. Once the server realized the envelope contained methamphetamine she immediately called police. Police arrived to find the couple still in the restaurant and discovered more than 17 ounces of meth in Manley’s purse. An investigation of the pair’s hotel room at a nearby Holiday Inn Express produced a small meth lab. KPTV has the story.
 
AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHARLES…
“And look, the problem isn't that a president makes mistakes.  Bush made horrible mistakes in Iraq.  Reagan made a terrible mistake in Lebanon. Lincoln made years of mistakes until he found his general.  But if you order something, if you order a mission, and your heart isn't in the mission, it’s a question of conscience here” –
Charles Krauthammer on “Special Report wit Bret Baier” Watch here.
 
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They started in our colleges, now President Obama and his federal bureaucrats want to brainwash America’s children...

Dear Fellow Patriot, President Obama and his federal bureaucrats want to brainwash America’s children. That’s why they’re pushing Common Core education standards. These standards eliminate parental rights and local control of schools. They force Progressive propaganda on America’s kids. And they need to be defeated. Sign the petition to Stop Common Core in 2014. Washington bureaucrats don’t know what’s best for America’s kids. Since DC decided to run America's schools, national test scores have actually gotten WORSE. You and I need to stand up for parents across our country and make sure Common Core is stopped in 2014. Make sure your legislators know where you stand – sign the petition and tell them to Stop Common Core in 2014. In Liberty, Matt Kibbe President and CEO, FreedomWorks

Robert Gates, former defense secretary, offers harsh critique of Obama’s leadership in ‘Duty’. MUST READ!

Robert Gates, former defense secretary, offers harsh critique of Obama’s leadership in ‘Duty’ - The Washington Post
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Betraying Our Own': Proof of an All-out Assault on Both Our Active Duty Military and Our Veterans...

     

Betraying Our Own': Proof of an All-out Assault on Both Our Active Duty Military and Our Veterans...

January 2, 2014

By Michael Connelly, Constitutional Attorney

They are extraordinary Americans. It is said that they sign a blank check to their country and their countrymen pledging that they will give their all, up to and including their lives, to defend the American way of life and their fellow Americans. They are the men and women who are currently serving or have previously served in the armed forces of the United States. They take an oath to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, both foreign and domestic” and they always live by that oath.This blank check is readily accepted by our government and by other Americans who send these selfless individuals off to fight and die for our nation and its freedoms. Many of them have made the ultimate sacrifice and died in battle while many others have returned home with shattered bodies and emotional scars. Unfortunately, they have often returned home to betrayal by some of their fellow Americans and particularly by their own government.

The Americans who fought in World War II returned home as heroes and rightfully so, yet just a few years later when members of the military fought in Korea and over 50,000 died, the survivors were virtually ignored when they came home to the point that Korea is often referred to as the forgotten war.

As for the Americans who served in Vietnam, they often were insulted, spat on and physical attacked by people in their own country that supposedly believed in peace. To make it worse, many in the mainstream media actively supported the enemy and lied about what was really happening in Vietnam. To this day, children are taught in school that the U.S. military lost the war in Vietnam.

That is a blatant lie; American soldiers never lost a battle during that war. The victory was given to the enemy by a vote of the U.S. Congress that cut off military support to the South Vietnamese army and allowed the communist to launch a new and successful invasion.

Fortunately, the American people as a whole are much more grateful to the men and women who are fighting the war on terrorism, but the same cannot be said about the mainstream news media and the government. The media ignores the sacrifices and victories of our soldiers and often seems to support our enemies with insane reporting in the name of political correctness.

As for our government, we have a President of the United States, an administration, and a Congress that seems intent on breaking the morale of our soldiers and destroying their capability of protecting our nation. Their actions support the fact that there is an all-out assault on both our active duty military and our veterans. The elements of this assault consist of:

1.     The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a bulletin to all police agencies in 2009 naming all military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan as potential domestic terrorists.

2.     Senator Diane Feinstein declares that all veterans have PTSD and are therefore mentally ill and should not be allowed to own firearms.

3.     The Veterans Administration in 2009 begins declaring veterans with physical disabilities, minor PTSD, past depression, or who even allow their spouses to pay the family bills as mental defectives incompetent to handle their own financial affairs and forbidding them from owning, purchasing, or possessing firearms. This process is accelerating.

4.     Obama unilaterally cuts billions of dollars from our military budget without approval of Congress.

5.     Congress passes legislation authorizing sequestration leading to massive cuts in the military readiness of the United States, and putting us in a position of being incapable of defending our national interests around the world.

6.     Our military capabilities are being cut in half and we have lost respect around the world. The ridiculous politically correct rules of engagement imposed on our fighting men and women in combat have cost countless American lives.

7.     High ranking officers in the military who disagree with these policies of the Administration are being purged, and enlisted personnel who utilize their right to free speech to express their concerns are being court martialed and dishonorably discharged.

8.     The Obama administration has also launched an attack on the very foundation of the success of our military, the profound religious beliefs of most of our troops.  Members of the military are being prohibited from practicing their religion even to the point of being denied the right to have bibles in their workplace, mentioning Christmas, or expressing their opposition to radical Islam. Chaplains are having their sermons and even prayers censored to make sure they are politically correct.

9.     The Veterans Administration that is supposed to represent the interests of our military heroes has slowed down the process of filing claims for benefits to the point where veterans are waiting for months and even years to have their claims processed. In addition, when veterans go to the VA they are being asked if they own firearms, if they have ever been depressed, and if their spouses handle the family finances. Then this information is being used to declare them incompetent and deny them their Constitutional rights under the 5th and 2nd Amendments.

10. During both the 2010 and 2012 election cycles the Obama administration through the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, actively encouraged Secretaries of State around the country to violate Federal law by failing to timely mail out absentee ballots to active duty military personnel. As a result, hundreds of thousands of military votes were never counted, denying our heroes a basic American right.

11. While civilian employees of the Obama administration get pay raises, members of the military and veterans are seeing their pay and benefits cut with the Secretary of Defense promising more cuts to come.

12. Military families are also being affected in other ways. Chuck Hagel wants to close commissaries at U. S. bases forcing military families to purchase their groceries from civilian stores where they will pay up to 30% more. In addition, thousands of military spouses work at these commissaries to supplement the family income. They will be losing their jobs.

I could go on with this list because it just scratches the surface. Our military members and our veterans are being hammered by the government they have fought for. They are being denied the medical care they were promised, the respect they are due, and ultimately the constitutional rights they have been defending. Enough is enough, if we allow our military and veterans to be treated this way, how can we expect the government not to turn on all of us.

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