I really don't want to write about this, I don't want to think about this, and I don't want it to be true.

 Lee Rodgers, friend and mentor, is dead.

I owe everything that I have in my professional life to Lee Rodgers, who took me under his wing back in 1988 in the halycon days of KGO Radio.

Lee was a nighttime talk show host, a former rock and roll DJ, hired by my husband Jack Swanson. He hired him twice, in fact.

"Lee Rodgers was a real radio guy. He was remarkable. He worked very hard, didn't always play well with other children, but always made our industry proud," Swanson said.

Lee and I worked together at KSFO radio on the "Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan Show, with Officer Vic" (and Sheri Yee) for 14 years, but it was always the Lee Rodgers show, and we got to go along for the ride. Lee was demanding, brilliant, perfectionistic, generous, very very loyal and HUGELY entertaining. I learned my conservative principles from him. He helped mold and shape my politics and you can sometimes hear Lee speaking through me on the radio. I learned to capitalize entire words on paper from Lee, like HUGELY.

Lee Rodgers first and foremost was a devoted husband to Susan, his 'child bride' as he called her. They were married for 35 years, and were inescapably in love and twinned forever. I talked to Susie and she wants Lee's fans to know that he was completely dramatic until the very end.

"Lee had 110 people in the operating room, which he loved. He told the nurse before he went under that since he was naked, everyone else should be too."

Lee underwent a 13 hour operation for a heart by-pass, and Susie said he just couldn't pull through.

Lee used to say "when I leave this vale of tears, I want elephants, dancing women and marching bands." Instead, Lee's ashes will be spread among his favorite hills of Arizona, where he and Susie have lived for the past decade.

This is the part where I am supposed to write my final thoughts about Lee but there will always be a million unfinished thoughts about him. He will be with me and millions of radio fans forever. All I can do is cry and mourn the passing of a genius, a total professional and the damned funniest man I have ever known.

Lee would like the last comment the best.

Although the genius part is a close second.

Really close.

From Susie and Lee Rodgers here.

Update: if you wish to send condolences write me - [email protected] and I will pass them along to Susie. If you wish to make a donation in his name go here:

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Advice and Consent: Hagel's Confirmation Hearing a Test of Senate Independence

Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) faces his long-anticipated confirmation hearing today before the Senate Armed Services Committee for the position of Secretary of Defense. The hearing will not only be an examination of Hagel’s qualifications and views, but will test whether the Senate’s “advice and consent” process is a serious filter for potential Cabinet nominees, or merely a rubber stamp and a forum for political grandstanding.

THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT GUN CONFISCATION IS THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS ABOUT AS GOOD AT THAT AS IT IS AT EVERYTHING ELSE:  California unable to disarm 19,700 felons and mentally ill people.“California authorities are empowered to seize weapons owned by convicted felons and people with mental illness, but staff shortages and funding cuts have left a backlog of more than 19,700 people to disarm, a law enforcement official said Tuesday.”

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January 28, 1986.  On today’s date, the Space Shuttle Challenger (mission STS-51-L) exploded and broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster (SRB) failed at liftoff.  The explosion led to the deaths of all seven Challenger crew members.  The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of central Florida at 11:38 EST (16:38 UTC).

Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (mission STS-51-L)

Front row, from left to right: Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair

Back Row – Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik

The O-ring failure caused a breach in the SRB joint it sealed, allowing pressurized hot gas from within the solid rocket motor to reach the outside and impinge upon the adjacent SRB attachment hardware and external fuel tank. This led to the separation of the right-hand SRBs aft attachment and the structural failure of the external tank. Aerodynamic forces promptly broke up the orbiter.

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During a long day of testifying before House and Senate panels, outgoing Secretary of State - and presumptive Democratic Party candidate for the presidency in 2016 - Hillary Clinton batted away contentious questions from Republicans like Ted Williams at a Little League game. She also soaked up extreme adulation from Democrats (including a a not-so-coded call to run for president by Sen. Barbara Boxer, who said, "You will be missed, but I for one hope for not too long").

The scene reminded me of nothing so much as Oliver North's appearance before a joint Congressional committee investigating Iran-Contra back in the 1980s. Not because of anything Clinton said but the way that she carried herself and the ease with which she wrapped herself in the flag and tragedy to obscure the simple fact that she wasn't going to answer anything. North famously showed up to testify in a military uniform that had nothing to do with his day job of subverting the U.S. Constitution from the basement of the Reagan White House. Clinton couldn't repeat that fashion statement but she was able to pound the table and choke up at all the right moments to evade serious discussion not simply of major screw-ups, but major screw-ups that will go unaccounted for.

Three major evasions from her appearances yesterday include:

1. "I take responsiblity."

From a Fox News report of the Senate hearing:

During the opening of the hearing, Clinton said she has "no higher priority" than the security of her department's staff, and that she is committed to making the department "safer, stronger and more secure."

"As I have said many times, I take responsibility, and nobody is more committed to getting this right," Clinton said, later choking up when describing how she greeted the families of the victims when the caskets were returned.   

Taking responsibility is the classic dodge in Washington, where pols assume the mantle of leadership and them promptly do nothing to address the situation for which they are in hot water. What does it mean to take responsiblity for the absolute breakdown of security at a consulate where your ambassador gets murdered (along with three others)? Judging from Clinton's subsequent actions, nothing other than showing up when the dead are brought home. Worse still is Clinton's misting up over the tragedy. That makes her a little too much like the kid who kills his parents and then asks the court to take mercy on him because he's now an orphan.

2. "1.43 million cables come to my office."

ABC News reporting from the House hearings:

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, asked Clinton this afternoon why her office had not responded to a notification from Stevens about potential dangers in Libya.

"Congressman, that cable did not come to my attention," Clinton calmly told the House Foreign Affairs Committee hours after her Senate testimony this morning. "I'm not aware of anyone within my office, within the secretary's office having seen that cable."

She added that "1.43 million cables come to my office. They're all addressed to me."

Come on, already. The question is plainly not whether Clinton is reading every goddamned communication addressed to her but whether she's got the right people in charge of assessing risk and making sure resources are apportioned accordingly. Tragically, the answer was no, especially given the fact that State had cut security in Benghazi despite attacks prior to the deadly 9/11 one! This just ain't no way to run things.

3. "What difference at this point does it make?"

From a CBS News account of a confrontation between Secretary Clinton and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.):

“We were misled that there were supposedly protests and an assault spraying out of that and it was easily obtained that it was not the fact the American people could have known that within days and they didn’t know that,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said.

“The fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?” Clinton responded.

Clinton's statement may set a new standard for politically motivated evasions of basic truth and decency. Seriously: What difference does it make? Just for low-stakes starters, there's a guy in California who was put in jail basically because the Obama administration said his stupid, irrelevant video trailer for "The Innocence of Muslims" was to blame for anti-Americanism in Libya and beyond. President Obama went to the United Nations andbitch-slapped free expression in front of a global audience on the premise that "Innocence" was the cause of the attack on Benghazi. Our own U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice, took to the talk shows to peddle a line that was either wilfully misleading or simply totally wrong (Rice was the admin's point person in early appearances about Benghazi partly because, as Clinton explained yesterday, she doesn't like doing Sunday morning shows!).

Contra Clinton, it makes a great deal of difference because understanding how this all happened is the first step to making sure it doesn't happen over and over and over again.

Congressional grillings of outgoing cabinet members are not the best forum to seek truth and justice and too many of the GOP inquisitors seem determined merely to score partisan points. Then again, the Obama adminstration, at least when it comes to Benghazi, hasn't done much to be the transparent change it says it wants in all areas of government. After a blistering Senate report on the situation found "systematic failures," essentially nothing happened (at least that we know about). Two minor staffers have been booted as a result of Clinton's taking of "responsibility."

Worse still: As Hillary Clinton leaves the high-stakes world of international intrigue, she's set to be replaced by John Kerry, who somehow manages to be an interventionist and supposedly informed by the nation's experience in Vietnam at the same time.

So things can - and likely will - only get worse.

IT’S LIKE THE WHOLE THING IS ONE BIG PRETEXT:  Feinstein Falsely Politicizes Virginia Tech Massacre.“Given that she cited Virginia Tech, it’s worth asking whether or not Feinstein’s proposed legislation could’ve changed the outcome of the event. . . .  So what did Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech gunman, use to kill 32 of his fellow classmates? He used two sidearms, a .22 caliber Walther P22 and a 9mm Glock 19. You’ll notice that neither of these semi-automatic weapons are on the list above. Cho also used a number of 10 and 15 round magazines. Theoretically, Feinstein’s bill may have limited Cho to smaller magazines (8 or 9 rounds each). Would this have made a difference?”

Gallup Poll: Americans Most Negative On the Nation And Economy In 30 Years.

This iconic photo from the very first days of the Obama Era turns out to have been not merely iconic, but prescient.

THE GUN CONTROL MOVEMENT IS A MOVEMENT OF OLD WHITE PEOPLE:  Why Young Women Want AR-15s.“In fact, we wouldn’t want to be stuck at home without one. . . .  The AR-15 is lightweight and practical. As light as five pounds, it produces low levels of recoil, and it’s easy to shoot.”

WORSE THAN THE BEDBUGS?  Michael Bloomberg’s Worst Legacy:  The Debt Bomb.“When the mayor took office in 2002, the total outstanding debt of the city was $55.2 billion. This year, the Citizens Budget Commission estimates the total reached $110 billion. The increase: 100%! . . .  Now the bill is coming due.”

UPDATE:  Reader Steve Schubart writes:  “If at the beginning of his term the debt is represented by a 16oz cup of soda, the current debt would be a 32 oz cup of soda!”  Overindulgence comes in many forms.

And another reader reports:  “By the way, last weekend not only was there the usual armed sentry outside Mayor Bloomberg’s private home, but he was being warmed by not one but two 3 foot tall electric resistance space heaters. As you like to say, I don’t want to hear a word about my carbon footprint.”

MITT ROMNEY AS NOSTRADAMUS?

The last two weeks should go down as a period of vindication for former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and earn him the nickname, “soothsayer of the Western World” — a modern-age Nostradamus.

On Jan. 14, Chrysler’s CEO acknowledged that Jeeps would be built in China, confirming a statement that unfairly earned Romney the moniker “liar of the year.”

Score one.

Then, when forces linked to al-Qaida captured the government-held town of Konna, Mali, on Jan. 10, they drove home a statement Romney made during the second presidential debate in Boca Raton, nearly three months earlier.

“With the Arab Spring came a great deal of hope that there would be a change towards more moderation and opportunity for greater participation on the part of women and — and public life and in economic life in the Middle East,” he said then. “But instead we’ve seen in nation after nation a number of disturbing events.”

Describing violence in Syria and Libya, he added this kicker: “Mali has been taken over, the northern part of Mali, by al-Qaida-type individuals.”

This prompted, according to TheCommentator.com, a Bill Maher tweet: “Mitt, you do know that most of America thinks Mali is one of Obama’s daughters, right?” What far-left loon Maher doesn’t seem to understand is that it doesn’t matter if he knows what Mali is, so long as our president does.

Score two.

This week saw another Romney prediction come to pass — that a re-elected Obama would infringe on our Second Amendment rights.

Read the whole thing.

Sounding the same themes of class warfare that propelled his re-election campaign, President Barack Obama devoted his second inaugural address to laying out his second term agenda: a struggle to undo the seeming injustices of America's past, and to overcome the army of straw men that stand in opposition to progress.

In the process, President Obama attempted nothing less than an assault on the timeless notion of liberty itself:

Through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society's ills can be cured through government alone.

But we have always understood that when times change, so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.

After praising the "collective" and mocking the notion that America is a "nation of takers," President Obama targeted the political opposition. He targeted those who "deny" climate change, attacked those who allegedly refused to reward the elderly for their contributions, and defied critics whom he said wanted "perpetual war." He attacked the rich--as he has done so often over the past four years--and painted a caricature of an unjust nation: "...our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it....We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few."

President Obama's address failed to deliver on promises earlier in the day by senior political adviser David Axelrod that the speech would sound themes of national unity on a day of national "consecration." Instead, the president sounded combative themes familiar from his divisive first term, albeit wrapped occasionally in the lofty rhetoric of "hope" and "tolerance," and punctuated by the repeated refrain: "We, the People."

He acknowledged Americans have diverse concepts of liberty, but insisted that these could all fit together under the collective mission of the government to achieve its redistributive aims. Days after describing Republicans as determined to hurt the poor and elderly, he accused his opposition of intolerance: "We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate."

The president cited Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday is celebrated today, citing his "I Have a Dream" speech, implying that when Dr. King told America that "our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on earth," he was referring not to civil rights but to the mighty will of the state.

President Obama also spoke out in favor of gay rights and immigration reform, acknowledging groups of voters that were central to his re-election effort--yet for whom he did not fulfill many of his first-term pledges. He touched on three historic locations--"Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall"--critical to the history of the women's rights movement, the civil rights movement, and the gay rights movement, respectively.

Throughout his address, the President maintained his voice in a near-shout. This was not an historic address, a reflection on a moment in history; it was an exhortation to political action, in contrast to the political reality of a divided Washington, in defiance of the profound economic challenges still facing the American people.

It was a declaration of political war on individual liberty. It was a wasted opportunity--and a warning.

COVERAGE COVER-UP: OBAMA SPEECH IGNORES ECONOMY, MEDIA GUSHES ANYWAY

While middle class incomes drop, the cost of health insurance premiums explode, gas prices nearly double, and entitlements teeter on the edge of bankruptcy, our president pretended as though he's the one in an alternate reality entering a second term with an economy humming as well as George W. Bush's in 2005.

My friend Deidra Lieberman (GSM for Cumulus Radio cluster in SF) just FB'ed this and I ditto her sentiments!

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Hey D., can we go to the Super Bowl now? Please? Send me in Coach, I'm ready!

Despite the fact that the Chronicle KNEW we were going to have a Second Amendment Freedom rally in Pacifica this weekend, (they even wrote about it the day before) there was not ONE Chronicle reporter to cover over 1,000 people in attendance. AP reportered HUNDREDS of people across the country. Hell, Albany had 2,000 people alone. In the freezing cold. KRON coverage was halfway decent, but KPIX CBS 5 was shameful, quoting more from the half dozen counter protestors and tons of video from Newton, Ct. in order to marginalize the 2nd amendment supporters. Channel 7 was a complete no-show. Bias? What bias? Yesterday was yet another opportunity for the mainstream media to erase any counter point of view to their liberal world.

Pacifica California 2nd Amendment Celebration organized by KSFO Radio, San Francisco

Over one thousand proud, patriotic Americans from the San Francisco Bay Area turned out today in Pacifica to celebrate our 2nd Amendment Freedoms. It was a rally for our country and I thank-you and bless you. This event proved to me that even dispirited conservatives are beginning to coalesce again and fight the insanity coming from the Obama administration!

Go herefor the link to the day's great photos!

Please join Brian Sussman, Melanie Morgan and Katie Green from KSFO's Morning Show in Pacifica today. We are holding a Second Amendment Freedom Celebration at City Arms, 90 Eureka Plaza, at High Noon! Bring your pride, your patriotism and your copy of the 2nd amendment!

See you soon!

As their Florida brethren vow to dump the Tea Party label for a  more-effective "brand" after Democrats  made gains in the 2012 elections, the leaders of grassroots conservatives in  California say their movement is strong and is being revived by the controversy  over gun control.

"When someone says the Tea Party's dead, I don't think so," said Sal  Russo, the Sacramento GOP political consultant who founded Tea  Party Express, a network that since it began in early 2009 has connected  millions of conservative activists, raised millions of dollars, and used its  clout to back once-unknown political figures such as Sarah  Palin.

"Of course, the brand has been hammered," Russo said this week. "But the  ideas haven't been hammered - and that's why they will always  come back."

Conservative pundits who have long been active in the Tea Party say that  while many people in the movement were disheartened by President Obama's  re-election, more of them have been re-energized by his announcement this week  of his plans to curb gun violence.

"This going after and trying to mess with the Second Amendment really angers  a lot of Tea Party members and folks who support them," said Brian  Sussman, a KSFO radio talk show host.

To drive home that point, Sussman and talk show host Melanie  Morgan - also a Tea Party favorite - have invited hundreds of people from  California to a "Save Our Second Amendment" rally at the City Arms gun store in  Pacifica on Saturday. It's one of several such gun-rights rallies being held  around the state that day, Sussman said.

Tea Party members, many of whom are libertarian-leaning, care about issues  such as taxes and less government intervention in their lives, Sussman said, and  "they're saying the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be  infringed. They take the Constitution very seriously."

Last year's losses

The rallies in California come as the Tea Party movement faces questions  about its potency in the wake of the November election, when Obama handily beat  Republican Mitt Romney, and Tea Party candidates lost to Democrats in states  including Indiana and Missouri.

This week, the South  Florida Tea Party said it is dropping the Tea Party label, saying it has a  "negative" brand.

In a recent analysis on the Fox & Hounds website, which examines California business and  politics,GOP strategist Tony  Quinn received sharp criticism from Tea Party members after he suggested  that the group, with its support of fringe candidates such as U.S.  Senate hopeful Todd  Akin of Missouri - who went down after he used the term "legitimate rape"  during his campaign - helped prevent the GOP from taking control of the Senate  in 2012.

Stances that angered women, Latinos, independents and youth voters, Quinn  said, contributed to the movement's losses. This week, an NBC/Wall  Street Journal national poll found the Tea Party's popularity at its lowest  ever, with 47 percent of respondents giving it an unfavorable rating, while 23  percent gave it a favorable mark.

Tea Party vs. GOP

But California Tea Party leader Russo said that despite Romney's loss, the  Tea Party "again exhibited electoral strength while the GOP establishment  stumbled." He pointed to 27 new Tea Party conservatives in the House and three  new Tea Party conservatives in the Senate.

"Despite the wishful thinking of liberal Democrats and many in the Republican  establishment, the Tea Party is stronger than ever in Congress,"  Russo said.

Sally Zelikovsky of San Rafael, founder of the Tea Party group known as the Bay  Area Patriots, scoffed at the idea that the movement is dead - and is even  more passionate about the suggestion that the name should be dropped.

"Heck, no," she said. "Democrats did a really good job of misbranding us as  the extreme-radical, homophobic, racist group."

But efforts such as the one in Florida to rebrand the movement are  "misdirected energy," she said. "You don't see Occupy  Wall Street changing their name because of some people being called  tree huggers."

Carla  Marinucci is The San Francisco Chronicle's senior political writer. E-mail: [email protected]  Twitter:@cmarinucci

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/California-Tea-Party-sticks-with-brand-4207354.php#ixzz2IRUhkc9u

Are you feeling frustrated and afraid about the coming vortex of gun control legislation? You are not alone.

We are organizing a pushback against the Obama admininstration and other gun control advocates who will strip us of our 2nd Amendment rights.

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, Please join us, Brian Sussman, myself, and Katie Green this Saturday at City Arms in Pacifica (90 Eureka Square) at High Noon! While Obama is being inugurated, we while be celebrating our Second Amendment rights.

Please join us with your pride, your patriotism and a copy of your constitution!

WANT TO CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSMEMBERS ABOUT GUN CONTROL?  Ruger Makes It Easy.

VIOLENCE AND THE MENTALLY ILL:

While most of the gun violence in America is committed by the clinically sane, the most horrific massacres are often the work of deranged people whose problems had come to the attention of family, neighbors or work associates.

Strangely, America has regressed in its treatment of the mentally ill. In the 19th century, most of the nation’s disturbed were either on the street or in jail. In an effort to provide humane treatment, state institutions popped up across the country, confining most of the nation’s severely deranged. Yet by the 1960s, controversy erupted as stories of mistreatment and poor conditions (One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, anyone?) became rampant. Deinstitutionalization followed, in a movement that received strong bipartisan support. Liberals championed the fall of state psychiatric hospitals on the grounds of compassion and freedom; conservatives saw it as a way to save money and as a blow against the intrusive nanny state.

State institutions closed down in droves; of the one public psychiatric bed for every 300 Americans in 1955, only one for 7,000 remained in 2012. Community treatment centers (nursing homes, care homes, etc.) moved in as substitutes, but they received little funding and resources. A series of federal laws were then passed to make it nearly impossible to confine or treat someone against their will. Individuals had to be shown to pose an imminent threat to themselves or others. In America, you have a right to be mad.

Overall, available treatment not only became scarcer, but far more expensive. The mentally ill were either forced to live with their families, who weren’t prepared to deal with their condition, or were abandoned altogether.

Clayton Cramer has a book on this.

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Time Magazine reporter Mark Thompson thinks it is shameless for the organization that I helped co-found, Move America Forward, to criticize the choice of former Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. They seem to be shocked, SHOCKED that we might take issue with a man known for is anti-semitic pro-terrorist views.

"Move America Forward <http://www.moveamericaforward.org/>  is using
President Obama's nomination of former Republican senator Chuck Hagel to
forge hate and, its real aim, to raise money. A conservative San Francisco
radio talk-show host and a former California assemblyman created the outfit
in 2004.

"There is already substantial opposition to his nomination and he can be
stopped, but we have to act quickly if we are going to be successful," the
group told Battleland in an email that stunk up our inbox overnight. "We
urgently need to raise $50,000 to produce and begin to air our first ad in
opposition to President Obama's insulting nomination of Sen. Hagel."

It's strange how rancid our politics have become. It's shrill, vile and not
befitting this country. Groups like Move America Backward accelerate the
process."

Infuriating that this kind of tripe passes for commentary. If anyone should be called shrill, vile and not befitting this country it is CHUCK HAGEL.

His former colleague Senator Rick Santorum has published a list of the top 10 reasons not to nominate Hagel and every one of these are valid.

Senator Hagel has a disturbing policy history of pandering to Iran and not supporting our greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel.

Below are ten reasons to OPPOSE the Hagel nomination:

1) The Iranian regime has welcomed Senator Hagel’s nomination stating that his successful confirmation could help diplomatic relations. This is because Hagel has repeatedly supported policies that further the nuclear ambition of our top national security threat: the Iranian Regime and Radical Islam. In fact, Chuck Hagel has long-standing ties to the “pro-Terhan” lobby in Washington. Throughout the 2000s he was a frequent speaker for the American-Iranian Council, the regime’s lobby in the U.S.

2) In 2007, Senator Hagel voted against an important amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill that would label the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization. This came at a time when it was clear that the IRGC was providing weapons, training, and financing to those killing Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan.

3) Senator Hagel has urged the Bush administration to pursue “direct, unconditional and comprehensive talks with the Government of Iran” and has repeatedly voted against sanctions.  And in 2001, Hagel was one of just two U.S. senators to vote against sanctions for Iran.  And in 2002, he attend an American-Iranian Council conference, speaking out about the need to abandon sanctions

4) Senator Hagel has ruled out using military options against Iran. This is even to the left of President Obama who has not ruled out the use of military force.

5) When Palestinian suicide bombers were blasting Israelis to pieces in 2002, Hagel wrote in an op-ed article that this was the time for Israel to “take steps to show its commitment to peace.” At the beginning of the Palestinian uprising (Second Intifada), in which an estimated 4,000 people died, Hagel refused to sign a letter supporting Israel.

6) Senator Hagel’s comment to a reporter that supporters of Israel are a “Jewish lobby” indicate his insensitivity toward our ally Israel. It also undermines the fact that Americans of all ethnicities and varied faiths stand behind Israel as a true democracy that enhances our national security.

7) Senator Hagel has supported direct talks with Hamas, a designated terrorist organization in the U.S., and a group that pledges to destroy the state of Israel. During conflicts between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon, Hagel refused to write the EU asking them to declare Hezbollah a terrorist organization.

8) Senator Hagel opposed the “troop surge” in Iraq which turned the tide of the war at a critical time.

9) Senator Hagel strongly supports defense budget cuts and a “pared down Pentagon.” This is to the left of current Defense Secretary Leon Panetta who has said repeatedly that pending defense cuts supported by President Obama will have substantial negative effects on U.S. National Security.

10) In the Senate, Hagel supported a bill that would have removed sanctions on Cuba, telling a newspaper that Castro was nothing but “a toothless old dinosaur.”  The Castro regime has of course become an ally to some of our greatest enemy threats, Iran and Venezuela

Are you feeling frustrated and afraid about the coming vortex of gun control legislation? You are not alone.

We are organizing a pushback against the Obama admininstration and other gun control advocates who will strip us of our 2nd Amendment rights.

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, Please join us, Brian Sussman, myself, and Katie Green next Saturday at City Arms in Pacifica (90 Eureka Square) at High Noon! While Obama is being inugurated, we while be celebrating our Second Amendment rights.

Please join us with your pride, your patriotism and a copy of your constitution!

WANT TO CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSMEMBERS ABOUT GUN CONTROL?  Ruger Makes It Easy. 

Read more:  http://dailycaller.com/#ixzz2HZzVcPY0

THE ATLANTIC:‘Forsaken by the West’: Obama and the Betrayal of Democracy in Bahrain.“The use of torture by Bahraini security services against detainees has been widespread and systematic, aimed at punishing, humiliating, and breaking the spirit of the protest leaders. . . .  The AJ’s of Bahrain were our natural partners in the quest for freedom in the Arab world, and we have failed them. We expected something better of Barack Obama after he declared in Cairo in June 2009 that freedom, democracy and the rule of law ‘are not just American ideas; they are human rights. And that is why we will support them everywhere.’ In Bahrain, and in too much of the Arab world, those remain mere words.”

How’s that Nobel Peace Prize workin’ out for ya?

(Gabby Giffords and Husband Mark Kelly are lobbying for renewed gun control legislation even while admitting they both own guns. But it's not the Giffords and Kellys, law abiding citizens, that we are worried about - it's the rapists and murderers with their own weapons who we fear.)

CNN) -- Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly have launched what they hope will mark a new era in the battle over gun rights in America.

On the second anniversary of a mass shooting in Arizona that wounded Giffords and killed six others, the couple launched a political action committee, Americans for Responsible Solutions, along with a website calling for contributions to help "encourage elected officials to stand up for solutions to prevent gun violence and protect responsible gun ownership."

In an op-edin USA Today, the two make their goal clear: to counter the influence of the gun lobby.

"Special interests purporting to represent gun owners but really advancing the interests of an ideological fringe have used big money and influence to cow Congress into submission," they write.

 

 

Giffords pushes for tougher gun control

 

 

Kelly in 2012: Takes long time to recover

 

 

Gabby Giffords rouses convention

"Rather than working to find the balance between our rights and the regulation of a dangerous product, these groups have cast simple protections for our communities as existential threats to individual liberties. Rather than conducting a dialogue, they threaten those who divert from their orthodoxy with political extinction."

Emphasizing that they support the Second Amendment and own two guns themselves, Giffords and Kelly call for "laws to require responsible gun ownership and reduce gun violence."

"Until now, the gun lobby's political contributions, advertising and lobbying have dwarfed spending from anti-gun violence groups. No longer. With Americans for Responsible Solutions engaging millions of people about ways to reduce gun violence and funding political activity nationwide, legislators will no longer have reason to fear the gun lobby."

Bloomberg anti-gun ad marks anniversary of Arizona shooting

"America has seen an astounding 11 mass shootings since a madman used a semiautomatic pistol with an extended ammunition clip to shoot me and kill six others," Giffords writes.

"This country is known for using its determination and ingenuity to solve problems, big and small... But when it comes to protecting our communities from gun violence, we're not even trying -- and for the worst of reasons."

Giffords and Kelly have spoken out in the wake of last month's slaughter in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 27 people murdered, 26 of them at Sandy Hook Elementary School -- including 20 children.

Giffords wrote on Facebook at the time, "As we mourn, we must sound a call for our leaders to stand up and do what is right. This time our response must consist of more than regret, sorrow, and condolence. The children of Sandy Hook Elementary School and all victims of gun violence deserve leaders who have the courage to participate in a meaningful discussion about our gun laws -- and how they can be reformed and better enforced to prevent gun violence and death in America. This can no longer wait."

Giffords and Kelly visited Newtown last week. They met with local and state leaders to discuss gun control legislation, mental health identification and treatment, and "concerns for the erosion of our societal values such that we are increasingly desensitized to violence," according to Newtown First Selectman Pat Llodra.

Giffords told to 'stay out'

Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords hugs House Cloak Room attendant Ella Terry after resigning from Congress in January 2012

That visit also highlighted the intense political concerns surrounding such issues.

Connecticut State Rep. DebraLee Hovey, the state's assistant Republican leader, posted a noteon her Facebook page saying, "Gabby Gifford stay out of my towns!"

Hovey later issued a statement apologizing, saying, "Our community has struggled greatly through this tragedy, and we are all very sensitive to the potential for this event to be exploited for political purposes. This is what I wish to avoid." The statement added that Hovey has advocated for a dialogue on mental health issues, school safety and gun control.

Kelly, a former captain in the U.S. Navy and NASA astronaut, also responded publicly in the wake of the Newtown shootings.

On his Facebook page, he took on the National Rifle Association -- the central pro-gun rights lobby -- after a news conference by a top NRA official about the Newtown tragedy triggered widespread anger.

Kelly wrote that the NRA's response was "defiant and delayed," and that the organization "chose narrow partisan concerns over the safety of our families and communities."

The NRA has argued that it is committed to keeping people protected, and that a focus on stricter gun control is misguided.

"If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our schools to protect our children, then call me crazy," NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre said of the anger following his initial news conference.

NRA President David Keene later told CNN the group supports schools choosing whether they want armed guards.

Kelly: 'Good guys with guns' aren't the whole answer

LaPierre made clear his group believes that more guns, not fewer, are necessary for security.

"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," he said.

Mark Kelly and his wife Gabrielle Giffords are launching a PAC to battle gun lobby.

Kelly said he knows from personal experience that that's not the case.

The day Jared Loughner shot Giffords and 18 other people at a public event in Tucson, there was such a "good guy," Kelly argued in an interview with ABC.

A man came out "of the store next door and nearly shot the man who took down Jared Loughner," Kelly said. "The one who eventually wrestled (Loughner) to the ground was almost killed himself by a good guy with a gun, so I don't really buy that argument."

Giffords and Kelly want to require comprehensive background checks for private sales of firearms, ABC reported. And Kelly said he does not believe an extended magazine is needed for those who have guns for sport.

Gunmen have used high-capacity weapons in numerous shootings, including one at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and Newtown, where gunman Adam Lanza had four weapons.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, is pushing legislation to reinstate a ban on assault weapons.

(Originally printed in 2007, foreshadowing a problem that still exists today.)

This week Americans observed a national day of mourning (I’m speaking not of  President Ford’s funeral, but rather the day that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi  seized power in Congress).

The Weather Channel debuted in 1982 and went on to earn a reputation as a  well-known and respected cable network.  The explosive success of the cable  channel prompted the publication of a book marking the network’s 20th  anniversary.  That success has been based on the fact that weather forecasts are  sought after by a vast number of Americans on a near-daily basis.

What had been nice about The Weather Channel is that through most of its  history it stayed clear of political propaganda and focused on delivering  weather forecasts to the nation, supplemented with riveting live reports from  the front lines of hurricanes, winter blizzards and springtime floods.

But no more. The Weather Channel is now engaged in a con job on the American  people, attempting to scare the public that their actions are destroying the  planet by creating a global warming crisis.

The move away from scientific forecasting of the weather to sensationalized  leftist political advocacy is in part due to the influence of Wonya Lucas,  executive vice president and general manager of The Weather Channel  Networks.

Lucas admitted in a recent interview with Media Village that the  reprogramming of The Weather Channel was influenced by her tenure at CNN when  that network shifted from presenting straight news to personality-driven  programming.

Lucas decided that what was good for CNN was good for The Weather Channel,  and the objectivity and respectability of the network has now been thrown out  the window.  It doesn’t matter that CNN’s turn to the left has caused their  ratings to plummet; The Weather Channel’s embraced its model.

Media Village reported that the move by The Weather Channel “is intended to  establish a broader perspective on the weather category and, says Lucas, to move  the brand from functional to emotional.”

Emotional weather forecasting?

The Weather Channel is launching a new website and broadband channel  dedicated solely to global warming called “One Degree” and has a weekly program  called “The Climate Code,” devoted almost entirely to liberal advocacy on  climate matters.

The network is running advertisements showcasing scared and confused  Americans, including children and senior citizens, wondering about the coming  apocalypse caused by global warming.  (You  can view the ad for yourself here.)

The chief martyr for the new “emotional” approach to broadcasting at The  Weather Channel is Dr. Heidi Cullen, who serves as the network’s cheerleader for  global warming hysteria.  Cullen’s supposed expertise on climatology includes,  among other things, earning a bachelor’s degree in Near Eastern religions and  history from Juniata College.  One must indeed have to believe in the mystical  to accept anything Ms. Cullen has to say about climatology.

Writing for the One Degree blog, Ms. Cullen recently threw a hissy fit that  some meteorologists are openly questioning the conclusions drawn by the  Greenpeace crowd about the nature, extent, causes and even existence of global  warming.

Cullen’s diatribe, titled “Junk  Controversy Not Junk Science,” called on the American Meteorological Society  to start requiring all meteorologists to toe the line on liberal interpretation  of global warming, or else lose the organization’s certification.

George Orwell’s 1984 couldn’t have concocted a better form of thought  control.

The global warming crowd, led by arrogant hustlers such as Heidi Cullen at  The Weather Channel, has set up a no-lose situation for themselves.

Climatology is by definition the study of long-term climate trends, and it  will indeed be many decades or longer before any definitive conclusions about  even the existence of global warming – let alone its causes – can be determined  to be true or false. This means that Cullen and her cohorts can’t be held  accountable for their erroneous beliefs.

Even still, we can see how foolish it is to allow people like Heidi Cullen to  influence decision-makers to impose further restrictions and regulations on the  actions of human beings.  Global warming scaremongers jumped on the devastation  of Hurricane Katrina and the busy 2005 Atlantic hurricane season and went on to  predict that 2006 would be a potentially devastating year of tropical cyclones  in the Atlantic Ocean.

As it was, not one single hurricane made landfall in the U.S.

If forecasters can’t reliably tell us what will happen in two to three months  from now, why would anyone trust that they know what will happen with the  weather in 50 or 100 years from now and let them tell us how to live our lives  accordingly?

This is all about Big Brother do-gooders trying to control how you live your  life, and stripping away the freedoms and liberties of people to live their  lives as they see fit, engage in commerce and raise their families.

There’s a con job going on at The Weather Channel, and it’s time that viewers  let the network know it’s time to stop the liberal politicization of weather  reporting.

You can contact The Weather Channel’s vice president of public relations,  Kathy Lane, at [email protected] to let  her know what you think about the new direction of The Weather Channel and voice  your opinion.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2007/01/39560/#K2wsk6lbjqQh5aFb.99

Jihad means friendship according to the new advertising campaign (photo from MyJihad.org)

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is trying to rebrand the word jihad in an advertisement campaign launched last week on San Francisco buses.

The MyJihad campaign aims to educate Americans about what the group believes is the real meaning of the word jihad.

The slogans appearing on the buses include:

“My Jihad is to stay fit despite my busy schedule. What’s yours?”

“My Jihad is to build friendships across the aisle. What’s yours?”

“My Jihad is to not judge people by their cover. What’s yours?”

This poster touts fitness as a manifestation of jihad (photo from MyJihad.org)

According to its website, the campaign aims “to share the proper meaning of Jihad as believed and practiced by the majority of Muslims.” The group explains [Emphasis in original]:

Jihad is a central tenet of the Islamic creed which means “struggling in the way of God”. The way of God, being goodness, justice, passion, compassion, etc (not forcible conversion as wrongly claimed by some).

As Muslims, we are taught to put forth a concerted and noble effort against injustice, hate, misunderstanding, war, violence, poverty, hunger, abuse or whatever challenge big or small we face in daily life, with the purpose of getting to  a better place.

While the struggle for justice may be physical (as a last resort, and even then it ought to be a just struggle that goes above and beyond observing the universal code of conduct and rules of engagement), the greatest Jihad is that of the self, a fact often ignored by, or unknown to, many.  In more than one sense, Jihad is more about peace and education than anything else. […] Jihad is a personal commitment to service, patience, determination, and taking the higher road, as such, it tasks us with confronting our own weaknesses, vices, and shortcomings; it is about taking personal responsibility.

Campaign organizers say the word jihad has been “widely misrepresented” due to “first and foremost, the actions of Muslim extremists,” “public indoctrination by Islamophobes” and “a selective media.” They would now like to reclaim the word so that non-Muslims no longer associate jihad with “terrorism, blowing up things, and spilling innocent blood.”

The group claims that jihad is “often mistranslated” as holy war. It explains: “The simple, yet much ignored fact is that Jihad is a positive, peaceful, and constructive practice in the lives of everyday Muslims whose reality has long been excluded from the conversation on Islam – as if only the extremists count.”

They have their work cut out for them. Just on Sunday, Syrian President Bashar Assad used the word in its pejorative sense in his first public speech in six months. He said his “criminal,” al-Qaeda inspired opponents want to turn Syria into “jihad land.”

In a New York Post article examining the meaning of the word jihad, Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes in 2002 provided examples of terrorist groups that used the word in their name, including:

•    The International Islamic Front for the Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders: Osama bin Laden’s organization; •    Laskar Jihad: responsible for the murder of more than 10,000 Christians in Indonesia; •    Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami: a leading cause of violence in Kashmir; •    Palestinian Islamic Jihad: the most vicious anti-Israel terrorist group of them all; •    Egyptian Islamic Jihad: killed Anwar El-Sadat in 1981, many others since, and •    Yemeni Islamic Jihad: killed three American missionaries on Monday.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s logo

For Palestinian Islamic Jihad – which the State Department defines as a terrorist organization — the term also has a clear meaning.

Its logo shows two rifles emerging from the dome of Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque, and two fists extended in front. Between the rifles, the phrase “God is the greatest” is written in green – a clear intersection of religion and violence, evoking the concept of holy war. The map of the entire state of Israel is seen in red, making clear its ultimate jihad is to destroy Israel.

On Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s website here you can browse numerous photos glorifying the rockets and other weapons the group has used in their jihad against Israeli civilians.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad has waged its own bus campaign in Israeli cities that is, blowing up passenger buses.

Recognizing the long and bloody history associated with the word, will CAIR succeed in convincing Americans of the more innocent meaning by posting advertisements on city buses?

The PR push aims to counter Pamela Geller’s anti-jihad advertising campaign, about which TheBlaze reported last fall. Those ads, which ran in the New York subway system after a legal battle, read: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.” They also appeared on San Francisco buses and in the Washington, D.C. Metro.

The CAIR-sponsored MyJihad ads began appearing on buses in Chicago last month. The campaign website says it will soon be selling MyJihad t-shirts, baseball hats and mugs.

This lead photo on MyJihad.org’s photo gallery shows a bus passing a Virgin Megastore

The above photo was likely an unintentional oversight by the campaign’s strategists. It is the lead photo on the MyJihad website’s photo gallery showing the “to not judge people by their cover” poster on a bus driving past a Virgin Megastore. The photo might remind viewers that some hardline Islamists believe that suicide bombers – whom they call “martyrs” – are rewarded with 72 virgins in Paradise.

On Thursday, CAIR asked journalists to stop using the term Islamist when writing about Muslim militants, explaining it is “used in an almost exclusively pejorative context.”

File this under the "I told you so" folder. And I DO agree with my friend Joe curl that is a barrel of laughs watching the Democrats turn their ire on Uber Leader Obama.

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Sometimes, watching a Democrat learn something is wonderful, like seeing the  family dog finally sit and stay at your command.

With   President Obama back in office and his life-saving “fiscal cliff”   bill  jammed through Congress, the new  year has brought a surprising  turn  of  events for his sycophantic  supporters.

“What happened that  my Social  Security withholding’s in my paycheck just   went up?” a  poster wrote on  the liberal site DemocraticUnderground.com.  “My   paycheck just went  down by an amount that I don’t feel comfortable   with. I  guarantee this  decrease is gonna’ hurt me more than the  increase  in income  taxes will  hurt those making over 400 grand. What  happened?”

Shocker. Democrats  who supported the president’s  re-election just had NO   idea that his  steadfast pledge to raise taxes  meant that he was really  going  to raise  taxes. They thought he planned  to just hit those filthy  “1   percenters,” you know, the ones who  earned fortunes through their    inventiveness and hard work. They  thought the free ride would continue    forever.

So this week, as  taxes went up for millions of Americans —  which   Republicans predicted  throughout the campaign would happen — it  was fun  to  watch the  agoggery of the left.

“I know to expect between $93 and $94 less in my paycheck on the 15th,” wrote  the ironically named “RomneyLies.”

“My   boyfriend has had a lot of expenses and is feeling squeezed right    now,  and having his paycheck shrink really didn’t help,” wrote    “DemocratToTheEnd.”

“BlueIndyBlue” added: “Many of my friends didn’t   realize it, either. Our   payroll department didn’t do a good job of   explaining the coming   changes.”

So let’s explain something to our   ill-informed Democratic friends. In   2009, Mr. Obama enacted a “holiday”   on the payroll tax deduction from   employees’ paychecks, dropping the   rate from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent.  But  like the holidays, the drop   ended, and like New Year‘s, the  revelers woke up the next  morning with  a  massive hangover and a pounding  head.

“Bake,” who may have been   trolling the site, jumped into the thread  posted  Friday. “My paycheck   just went down. So did my wife’s. This hurts  us. But  everybody says   it’s a good thing, so I guess we just suck it up  and get used  to it. I   call it a tax increase on the middle class. I  wonder what they call   it.  Somebody on this thread called it a ‘premium.’  Nope. It’s a tax,  and  it  just went up.”

Some in the thread argued that the new tax —  or the  end of the  “holiday,” which makes it a new tax — wouldn’t  really  amount to much.  One calculated it  would cost about $86 a month for  most  people.  “Honeycombe8,” though, said  that amount is nothing to  sneeze  at.

“$86 a month is a lot. That would pay for … Groceries  for a  week, as   someone said. More than what I pay for parking every  month,  after my   employer’s contribution to that. A new computer after a  year. A  new  quality  pair of shoes … every month. Months of my copay  for my  hormones.  A new thick  coat (on sale or at discount place). It  would pay  for what I  spend on my dogs  every month … food, vitamins,  treats.”

The Twittersphere was even funnier.

“Really,  how am I  ever supposed to pay off my student loans if my  already  small  paycheck  keeps getting smaller? Help a sister out, Obama,”  wrote “Meet   Virginia.” “Nancy Thongkham” was much more furious.  “F***ing Obama!   F***  you! This taking out more taxes s*** better f***ing  help me out!!   Very upset  to see my paycheck less today!”

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/6/obama-supporters-shocked-angry-new-tax-increases/#ixzz2HFL3D4Mg Follow us:@washtimes on Twitter

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/03/Inside-Conservative-Rebellion-Boehner

I read this story on the Breitbart website and I was disheartened, to say the least.  I'm from Illinois and in this last election, we got our clocks cleaned.  I've heard all the versions of why we lost most of our seats here in Illinois, and the White House.  Election fraud, it's Romney's fault, he didn't make enough of a case, yada yada yada.  I still go back to the one fact nobody can dispute and that is the fact that 3 million Conservatives did not vote.  Romney just wasn't perfect enough for them so these co called "conservatives" didn't vote, the Dems won, WE LOST, and now we have 4 more years of Obama!   

It should be noted for those that haven't realized this yet, you don't get everything you want when you are not the majority party.  Period!  Grover Norquist, one of the favorites of the Tea party (which frankly has always boggled my mind considering all of Grover's nefarious radical Muslim connections!), even concedes this fact: 

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/01/03/audio-grover-norquist-declares-the-fiscal-cliff-deal-a-victory-for-tax-cutters/

“Well you have to look at where we started and what we could have ended up with,” Norquist answered. 

When I read the above story on Breitbart, I cringed. I read it a second time from the perspective of a Democrat and I must say, the "institutional left" really doesn't have to do a thing to win elections with this kind of reporting! If I was a Democrat, I would be smiling from ear to ear and I would hope this kind of "useful" reporting continues!      

I suggest Michelle Bachmann, and the "more than 20 House Republicans who were considering unseat Boehner" and that "bailed" and voted Speaker Boehner back in, better watch their backs. These so called Conservatives are not happy with these votes! Further, I read somewhere that Allen West was nominated as Speaker and that truly surprised me.  Remember this:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/07/29/rep_allen_west_slams_tea_party_schizophrenia.html

"I think what we have to ask ourselves is 'if you're telling me that I need to vote no against the Boehner plan' then what am I voting for?" Rep. Allen West (R-FL) said on The Laura Ingraham Show.

"I'm going to stand with this Boehner plan and once again, if the folks who one minute they're saying that I'm their 'tea party hero' and what, three or four days later 'I'm a tea party defector.' That kind of schizophrenia, I'm not going to get involved in it."

I send this email below again to remind people who invoke the name of Andrew Breitbart that Andrew Breitbart truly detested Conservatives turning on each other. He knew how it felt and how damaging it is. I'm also again including Andrew's UNITY speech again where he said:

 "This is my war cry for 2012. You need to join me in my war against the institutional left." 

and

"This is not your mother's Democratic Party... duh! John Podesta and George Soros? This is not your mother's Democratic Party You know whose party it is? ...I have a thesis about who we're fighting against on the hard left... [In college] I had no idea these [left-wing academics] people were actually serious  about the malarkey they were teaching. The post-structuralist, politically correct garbage."

"They try to portray you in the worst possible light... and when I travel around the United States meeting people in the Tea Party who care -- black, white, gay, straight -- anyone that's willing to stand next to me to fight the progressive left, I will be in that bunker, and if you're not in that bunker 'cause you're not satisfied with this candidate, more than shame on you. You're on the other side!"

You can watch the entire speech here:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbycMtTUDfE

There a great expression of immense wisdom:  If you don't like what you're getting, change what you're doing! 

It's time Conservatives stick together and do what Andrew asked, let's all get in that bunker and beat the institutional left!  We need to learn to do what the left does really well, stick together and support each other.  They NEVER turn on each other, NEVER! As we charge on the battlefield of 2013, let's point the arrows at the Democrats, not at each other.  If you truly feel you can no longer support the Republican Party then please, please, please, leave the Republican party and form your own party, and I wish you well.  Tearing up this party only leads to victory for the Democrats!

If you like the expression by Andrew, "Truth isn't mean, it's truth", then I suggest you read the email below.  Here's some real truth about Andrew Breitbart and it is clear, he "hated" backstabbing among Conservatives.

Beverly Perlson

The Band of Mothers

DECEMBER JOBS: +155,000... Lackluster... Rate for Blacks Rises Sharply...

The Speaker of the House will be elected today and some conservatives believe they have the votes necessary to oust John Boehner. In an appearance on CNBC, American Majority Action spokesman Ron Meyer said there are more than 20 House Republicans willing to vote for someone other than Boehner on Thursday when the 113th Congress convenes to elect a Speaker. Another source from a different organization has similarly confirmed that more than 20 have planned to oppose Boehner.

MUST SEE this picture, so stunning.

Tax hike deal: 
Obama’s first 
or GOP’s last?

President Obama and congressional Republicans have learned sharply different lessons from the deal to avert the “fiscal cliff” as they prepare to battle again over the next two months on a series of budget deadlines that carry risks such as crippling defense cuts and a government default.

The president is riding high now that many Republicans have joined in raising taxes on the wealthy. But Howard Kurtz says it could prove a pyrrhic victory that could threaten his second-term agenda.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/01/obama-fiscal-cliff-victory-could-invite-years-of-warfare-with-the-gop.html

This graphic is worth much more than 1000 words.

Prepare to scroll down a considerable distance to get the full impact of this image illustrating the difference between the annual tax increase from the Senate-approved Fiscal Cliff bill ($62 billion) and the actual 2011 U.S. Budget Deficit ($1.089 TRILLION).

Image: Zero Hedge

Any questions?

H/T – Zero Hedge