This is why you have Leon Panetta as the head of the CIA…Leon Panetta…are you crapping me Obama?? Clinton’s ex OMB Director is going to run your CIA? The closest thing I can see that could remotely qualify him is work on the President’s Commission of Foreign Language and International Studies and was Lieutenant in the Army (hey, it’s from Wikipedia, so IT has to be true).

And yet, another brave Clinton pick from Hopey McChangey Pants.

Any dang way, from Drudge:

Coulter was set to unveil her new book, GUILTY. 

But one network insider claims it was the book’s theme — a brutal examination of liberal bias in the new era — that got executives to dis-invite the controversialist. 

“We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now,” a TODAY insider reveals. “It’s such a downer. It’s just not the time, and it’s not what our audience wants, either.”

If nothing else, this proves the media has as thin of a skin as Barack Obama does. It’s such a downer….give me a damn break.

Top candidates to replace Sanders:

1. Winston Moss- Current Assistant Head Coach of Packers
2. Sean McDermott- Defensive Backs Coach- Philadelphia Eagles
3. Mike Nolan- Recent 49ers Head Coach-Previous Defensive Coordinator experience
4. Sal Sunseri- Defensive Line Coach- Carolina Panthers
5. Jim Washburn- Defensive Line Coach- Tennessee Titans

Well, I think it’s becoming blase to blame Democrats or Republicans for the trouble coming out of Washington and I think the person who ought to be blamed is you.

That’s right, YOU. YOU are the one who keeps putting Ted Kennedy into office. YOU are the person who keeps voting Yes on referendums that keeps raising taxes on everything. YOU are the person that keeps corrupt and sleaze-bag politicians in power. YOU are the one keeps falling for every Harry Hardluck and Sally Sobstory that the media wants to present to you. 

I really wish YOU would get your act together. You know the trillion dollar “stimulus” they’re talking about in D.C? That’s aimed to help YOU. I didn’t realize you were so damn expensive.

Gov. Jim Doyle joined four other Democratic governors Friday in calling for a $1 trillion federal economic stimulus package that would include $250 billion for education.

Doyle and the others - Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, New York Gov. David Paterson and Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland - said in a conference call with reporters that federal assistance for education is essential to avoid deep cuts in cash-strapped states.

So they want to “give” the middle class a $150 billion tax cut (gosh, that’s so nice of them), but will spend the other $850 billion. Yep, such a great trade off.

TEXT messaging is a wonderful business to be in: about 2.5 trillion messages will have been sent from cellphones worldwide this year. The public assumes that the wireless carriers’ costs are far higher than they actually are, and profit margins are concealed by a heavy curtain.

Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin and the chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, wanted to look behind the curtain. He was curious about the doubling of prices for text messages charged by the major American carriers from 2005 to 2008, during a time when the industry consolidated from six major companies to four.

For a man who made his millions and then sold out the family business, I always chuckle when Herb Kohl talks about profit margins. Afterall his little basketball team, while not setting the world on fire (since the 80’s that is) is supposedly worth $260 million.

Now being a supporter of capitalism, I certainly don’t begrudge the man from making money and owning a basketball team, but the problem with Herb Kohl is this incessant haranguing on other’s “profit margins” all the while charging the people of Milwaukee exorbitant ticket prices for such an inferior product.

So Senator Kohl, what about the average profit margins for a game for your Milwaukee Bucks? It’s apparently $6.50 for a bottle of MGD…six dollars for a bottle of something you could get six of for the same price from the grocery store? On top of the hundreds of dollars it costs for a decent ticket?

No wonder basketball is third and falling..in my book anyway.

I’m sure in the brand spanking new 2009, people like Michael Newdow will be given a fair shake now. Afterall, the Messiah is about hope and change and maybe, just maybe, he will give hope to all the atheists out there who have been wandering the desert for so very long.

Maybe then they can be like a lot of people who just keep their beliefs about God or whatever they believe is happening in the universe to themselves.

But I suppose even that requires more faith…

That’s not to say that the old Soviets have not had an influence on the modern politial left. From the comments: 

Communist Goals (1963)

Documention below

Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35

January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:

[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

In 1958, after leading the Lions to 3 NFL Championships and providing Detroit nearly decade of Hall of Fame play, the Lions traded Bobby Layne. Bobby was injured during the last championship season and the Lions thought he was through and wanted to get what they could for him. According to Legend, as he was leaving for Pittsburgh Bobby said that Detroit “would not win for 50 years”.

This makes sense for a team who in their most recent past hired a guy who was just a color commentator and had no previous front office experience.

And here’s to them keeping things all mucked up in Delta City.

ZINAPECUARO, Mexico — Once again, the immigrants are returning to this town in their Cadillacs and Escalades with the Illinois license plates, trunks filled with Christmas presents.

Their annual December homecoming has always been a victory lap of sorts, a testimonial to the success they enjoy in the United States and want to share with relatives who welcome them back with open arms.

Rafael García is back too, but not for a vacation.

He’s back for good.

In a sign of how the American dream has lost its luster this Christmas season, the stream of Mexicans making holiday visits has been joined by a trickle of citizens returning permanently to towns like Zinapecuaro as jobs disappear in Chicago and other U.S. cities.

Dang, we’ve lost our luster with illegals now. Gosh, I hope the next President can do something to change all that. Maybe his super duper work with ACORN and housing will help keep people like Rafael around…

In some respects, García was pushed out of Chicago, where he was working illegally. All but six of the 18 laborers at his construction company lost their jobs with the real estate bust. García survived, but his hours were cut to the point that he and his wife barely covered rent and child care.

And he was in Chicago to boot. How on earth could Barack Obama let this happen to this illegal immigrant? A man who worked in his own city for crying out loud! How could he turn his back on a man just in search of the American dream who now has to slink back to Mexico with his Spiderman and bullfighting DVD’s and and half a bottle of whiskey?

What a shame Barack Obama has brought upon poor Rafael Garcia. But relax dear Americans, for you will probably be asked to fill in for the Rafael’s of the world by doing the jobs you were told you didn’t want to do to begin with. 

Originally heard and found at JayWeberShow.com