SOMETHINGS, I THINK, I THINK EDITION

WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, BLAME THE YANKEES!

Politics is a dirty business. It can get nasty, dirty and when you are running scared, you say some of the dumbest things imaginable. Obama is scared, Clinton is scared, Harry Reid is scared and Martha Coakley is so scared, she said that former Boston Red Sox great Curt Schilling (who is supporting her opponent Scott Brown) she said that Curt Schilling is a Yankee fan!

Will you just shut up, pick up your commemorative T-shirt on the way out the door and leave?
Right now as I write this, it LOOKS like Scott Brown will be the next senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Obama and Clinton are both up there campaigning for Ms. Coakley, so anything is possible, but all indications right now, show that Scott Brown is winning.

It will be fun to see how the dems spin this one.

One thing that is scary. If Brown wins, the democrats are saying that they will use a procedural rule called reconciliation to pass the health care bill with only 51 votes.

Using reconciliation would likely force democrats to scale back their health-care plans. The procedure is designed to make deficit-cutting easier by reducing the number of votes needed to pass unpopular tax increases and spending cuts. Lawmakers can’t include policy changes that the parliamentarian deems have only an “incidental” connection to budget-cutting, and senators would need 60 votes to override those rulings.

If the dems use this, there will surely be a court battle.

CASS SUNSTEIN UPDATE

You remember Cass? He's Obama’s appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Well old Cass has come up with some"creative" ways to "regulate" what is being said about his boss, or if anyone says anything against his boss or his boss's policies.

From Prison Planet:

Cass Sunstein, president Obama’s appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and the man who outlined a plan for the government to infiltrate “conspiracy groups” in order to undermine them, is in direct line for a promotion to Supreme Court Justice.

Sunstein, already in an advanced position of power in the White House as Regulatory czar, has already called for strict restrictions on gun ownership, an internet “Fairness Doctrine”, and an effective ban on free speech where dissenting opinions to those of the government are expressed.

Suntein’s name was on various shortlists to replace Justice David Souter last year following his retirement, and prior to the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor. Sunstein’s name was also touted for the Supreme Court before Obama even took office in November 2008.

His close personal relationship with Obama should set alarm bells ringing for anyone who values the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, particularly as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, now aged 75, is likely to take retirement soon following illness, and with Justice John Paul Stevens now aged 90.

Sunstein and Obama go way back from their faculty days at the University of Chicago law school and are firm friends. Sunstein worked as an advisor to Obama during his presidential campaign and was drafted into the White House soon after Obama won the election.

As Obama’s “Information Czar”, Sunstein effectively interprets the law for the Executive. Sunstein operates in a similar, but much more elevated, role to that of former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo, who infamously re-interpreted the law to legally sanction torture under the Bush Administration.

As we highlighted in our article yesterday, Sunstein has outlined plans for the government to infiltrate “conspiracy groups”, including the 9/11 Truth Movement, in order to undermine them via postings on chat rooms and social networks, as well as real meetings.

Sunstein has effectively penned the blueprint for a Cointelpro “provocateur” style program to silence what have become the government’s most vociferous and influential critics.

The specifics of the plans must be read in full in order to gauge their extreme nature and the threat Sunstein poses to the freedom in America.

On page 14 of Sunstein’s January 2008 white paper entitled “Conspiracy Theories,” he proposed that “under imaginable conditions” the government “might ban conspiracy theorizing” and could “impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories.”

In effect, Obama’s information czar wants to tax or ban outright, as in make illegal, opinions and ideas that the government doesn’t approve of.

Sunstein’s definition of a “conspiracy theorist” encompasses those who question manmade global warming and, most bizarrely, anyone who believes that sunlight is healthy for their bodies.

Presumably if Sunstein had been in power in the latter middle ages he would have attempted to tax and then ban the work of Galileo Galilei for subscribing to the theory that the Earth was not the centre of the universe and that it actually revolved around the Sun.

When he’s not going after those evil sunlight lovers, Sunstein advocates Internet censorship via enforced and regulated links in news pieces to opposing opinions.

Sunstein himself later retracted that proposal, explaining that it would be “too difficult to regulate [the Internet] in a way that would respond to those concerns”, and admitting that it was “almost certainly unconstitutional.”

Sunstein has also called for the re-writing of the First Amendment, and has even proposed a mandatory celebration of tax day in America.

His views on the Second Amendment have also raised serious concerns. In his book “Radicals in Robes,” he wrote: “[A]lmost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine.”

See old Cass has the idea that if you disagree with the government and voice your opinion, you should pay a tax. If you believe in conspiracies and belong to a group, the government should infiltrate your group and of course, you should pay a tax. Since 70% of Americans believe that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone, are we going to be taxed?

On one hand this is so laughable, I couldn't make this stuff up! This is a comic's best material. On the other hand, this is so damn scary that people like this are in this administration.

I urge you to look up Cass Sunstein. Just Google him and read his "beliefs." If you don't believe a word I am telling you (and you shouldn't. you should always check and double check everything you read and hear.) check this guy out. Just Google him and see what this jackass is all about.