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Betty McCollum Omits "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance

While leading Congress in the Pledge of Allegiance, Minnesota Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D, MN04) appears to intentionally omit the words "Under God" from the Pledge.

As long as we can keep borrowing money, Harry Reid is not interested in passing a budget

Today marks the 1113th day that the Senate has gone without passing a budget.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid doesn't want to pass a budget, he'll just excessively spend, spend, spend without one.  What else can it be?  Reid complains to the media that Republicans keep blocking efforts to craft a budget but that's just not true.   A budget proposal only needs a simple majority vote to pass, the Democrats have the majority and Reid controls what goes to the floor for a vote! ~ Mike Thayer

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Obama facing net loss of jobs

By Mike Thayer

No president since Franklin D. Roosevelt has been elected to a second term with an unemployment rate over 7.2%.

About 13 million Americans are unemployed.  It would probably be hard to convince them that Obama is doing everything he can to solve the country's economic woes.

And despite White House rose-colored glasses claims of job creation, President Obama is on pace for a net job loss while in office.

During his watch, about 4.3 million jobs have been lost according to Bureau of Labor Statistics.  The number of jobs created has been 2.7 million.  That's a net job loss of 1.6 million jobs.

The Obama administration will need to see more than 170,000 jobs created each month for the remainder of 2012 to avoid net job loss during his presidency and nearly 270,000 jobs created each month going forward for net job loss not to be an argument used against him in his re-election bid.  As a matter of perspective, 115,000 new jobs were created last month.

Don't take what the liberals say about job creation at face value.

Where will the President play his next round of golf?

Another liberal-minded moment of idiocy

This liberal-minded moment of idiocy is brought to you by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the state of Maryland.

These states and others are banning Girl Scout cookie sales and bake sales in schools.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-03/when-cupcakes-are-the-enemy-of-schoolkids

This isn't about fighting obesity, this is about control freaks.

Obama's "Julia" is a character out of Orwell's 1984

By Mike Thayer

Heard this on Rush today, that the Obama campaign's "Life Of Julia" character is perhaps right out of George Orwell's Big Brother classic, 1984.

http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia

You might be a liberal if.....

You think it's wrong that corporations are allowed to spend money on politics, but it's OK for unions to do it!

You think the Koch brothers shouldn't be allowed to exercise their freedom of speech, but it's OK for George Soros to do it!

You claim Republicans are intolerant of opposing points of view, but you want to censor the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Fox News. 

 

The liberal mind vs. the conservative mind

By Mike Thayer

Here it is in a nutshell....

The liberal mindset:  I want free health care, free day care for my kids, free college, a guaranteed job, guaranteed retirement, free housing and food.

The conservative mindset:  Working hard, playing by the rules, making responsible decisions leads to success.