[NEWS.INVESTORS] President B.O., meanwhile, isn't benefiting much from the nation's more upbeat economic mood. At 43%, Obama's approval rating is virtually unchanged from last month, and 41% have a favorable view of his leadership, which is down two points from last month.
The IBD/TIPP Presidential Leadership Index rose for a third straight month, climbing 0.8 point to 44.5. But that's still well below the neutral 50 level.
More continue to think Obama is providing the country weak leadership (45%) than strong (33%). Those polled do give Obama slightly higher marks on his handling of the economy and federal budget.
But the public overwhelmingly believes Obama has failed to improve race relations. Fully 62% say they have gotten worse since he took office, with just 24% say they've improved. Even among Democrats, only a little more than a third say race relations have improved since 2009.
The poll also found widespread opposition to a boost in the gas tax, an idea that has suddenly started to gain traction among Washington politicians as gas prices tumble. Even Republicans aren't dismissing the idea.
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As his wind farms and alternative energy schemes crumble in ruin, Champ attempts to take credit for an economic upturn and increased oil production on private lands. You really can't make this stuff up.
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Back when gas topped $4 a gallon, Republicans chanted "drill, baby, drill" at rallies across the country -- arguing more domestic drilling would increase supplies, reduce dependence on foreign oil and boost the U.S. economy.
Democrats, almost universally, mocked the GOP plan. In 2012, President Obama called it "a slogan, a gimmick, and a bumper sticker ... not a strategy."
"They were waving their three-point plans for $2-a-gallon gas," Obama told a laughing audience during an energy speech in Washington. "You remember that? Drill, baby, drill. We were going through all that. And none of it was really going to do anything to solve the problem."
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[HOTAIR] If you thought the Democrats recently chased into the minority were going to sit by quietly while the GOP put all the proposals on the table, think again. Their agenda to fix America (at least in terms understood by your dog and your veterinarian) will still be on the table. The rallying cry of income inequality isnt going anywhere, and Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) is ready to lay out the next plan in what the Washington Post laughably calls a stark shift in messaging for 2015.
Okay, boys lets see what youve got.
Senior Democrats, dissatisfied with the partys tepid prescriptions for combating income inequality, are drafting an action plan that calls for a massive transfer of wealth from the super-rich and Wall Street traders to the heart of the middle class.
The centerpiece of the proposal, set to be unveiled Monday by Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), is a paycheck bonus credit that would shave $2,000 a year off the tax bills of couples earning less than $200,000. Other provisions would nearly triple the tax credit for child care and reward people who save at least $500 a year.
The windfall about $1.2 trillion over a decade would come directly from the pockets of Wall Street high rollers through a new fee on financial transactions, and from the top 1 percent of earners, who would lose billions of dollars in lucrative tax breaks.
So youre cooking up a populist plan to use the tax code to target the most wealthy and successful Americans and hand out the money to everyone else. Perhaps I missed part of the story, but exactly how does this work out as a stark shift in Democrat messaging?
The challenge is a big one. You have to think big, you have to think forward, and you have to think new. You have to think new and fresh, House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... (D-Calif.) said in an interview, endorsing Van Hollens proposal. Van Hollen said that he has briefed senior administration officials and that they were receptive.
For some reason the Washington Post is apparently going to allow both Pelosi and Van Hollen to describe this as fresh new thinking with a straight face, while failing to even note that this is the same playbook the Democrats have been working out of for most of our lifetimes. But they do at least acknowledge the one serious fly in the ointment; the GOP now controls which bills make it out of committee for a vote, and this plan is never even going to make its way out of the closet.
When the Dhimmicrats propose taxing Tom Steyer a full 25% of his current wealth give me a call. Until then they (and the Pubs) are hypocrites...
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The rich will simply move their excess funds -- and by definition it's pretty much all excess -- into the new sweet spot minimizing taxation while maximizing return on investment and security. They can afford the expensive accountants, lawyers, and financial advisors, and will make those changes quickly. The result, as France recently discovered, will be lowered tax receipts rather than the expected windfall... And possibly a permanent loss of those citizens, as France's current government is now fervently hoping not to discover.
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It appears to be a change in that in the past they wanted to steal from the rich and give to the poor but somehow the rich got richer and the middle class got crushed.
Now they want to rob from the rich and give to the middle class. Good luck with that. Without closing loopholes strategies for socking to the rich are just hot-air.
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Even the wealthy are starting to worry about wealth inequality, they just dont want to pay for it themselves. It has reached historic levels and is usually a harbinger of bad events.
I'm not saying we should pillage the rich and hand it to the Free Shit Army, but we are heading headlong towards social unrest and the issue of stagnant wages vs. skyrocketing wealth of the top .1% to top 5% is a serious issue.
[NY Times] Not long after Mayor Bill de Blasio sat beside the Rev. Al Sharpton at a July summit meeting on police reform, a political adviser gave the mayor a blunt assessment: You have a problem with the cops.
Rank-and-file officers felt disrespected by the mayor, the adviser explained, and were dismayed to see Mr. Sharpton, a longtime critic of the New York Police Department, embraced at City Hall.
But Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, rejected the notion that officers disliked him. His message, the adviser later recalled, was clear: Everything was under control.
That confidence would last until late last month, when the murders of two officers in Brooklyn prompted the department to adopt a stance of rebellion. Uniformed officers protested against the mayor in public, and low-level arrests virtually stopped. Mr. de Blasio, a liberal who had staked his mayoralty on re-educating the police force, is struggling to secure its basic trust.
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The mayor being a quintessential pol doesn't understand the very basics of the hunting group (in business for a couple hundred thousand years), you cover each others back. He/she who demonstratively doesn't finds themselves on the outside never to be trusted again except in actual demonstration of 'heroics', in deeds not words, that garner respect of the group.
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I read the other day that the official response to slowdown on issuing non-criminal citations is a block on all police vacations until quotas have been met. Gotta keep the funds flowing, donchaknow.
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..the problem with that approach is that 'vacation time' is probably written into union contracts while the income generation levels are not. The city management is going to lose that one somewhere on the appeal hierarchy in the judicial system (which by the way is enjoying the respite from overloaded dockets in the slow down).
Muriel Bowser @TeamMuriel
If you ain't got no job, you can't afford a house in the District.
[DAILYCALLER] Note to the students of the Washington, D.C. public school system:
The way your mayor wrote that sentence was not grammatically correct. When you write sentences, hopefully your teachers tell you to write them correctly so you can be among the 59 percent of D.C. students who graduate high school in four years, according to 2012 statistics, and you wont have to become a union card-carrying public school teacher who supports Muriel Bowser and her stilted faux-populist appeals.
Interestingly, Bowser just told the people of D.C. at a question-and-answer event, You have a mayor who hates guns, not You Has a mayor that hates guns.
But then she flubbed it at the end: If it was up to me, we wouldnt have any handguns in the District of Columbia. I swear to protect the Constitution and what the courts say, but I will do it in the most restrictive way as possible.
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Sort of like when the President and HRc both lapse into 'folksy' when they think it'll work.
Obama had to sit and listen to Jeremiah Wright for 20 years so he could learn to talk like that. He sure didn't learn it in Indonesia or rollin' with the Choom Gang.
[CNSNEWS] White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest announced in a written statement today that President B.O. will host a "Summit on Countering Violent Extremism"--not radical Moslem terrorrism--on Feb. 18 and that the event will be held "in light of recent, tragic attacks in Ottawa, Sydney and Gay Paree."
The statement said one "theme" of the summit would be "religious leader engagement," but made no mention of radical Islamic terrorism. It also made reference to "foreign terrorist fighter recruitment" generically, but made no specific mention of radical Islamic terrorist groups recruting fighters in Western nations.
Here is the text of the White House statement:
"On February 18, 2015, the White House will host a Summit on Countering Violent Extremism to highlight domestic and international efforts to prevent violent holy warriors and their supporters from radicalizing, recruiting, or inspiring individuals or groups in the United States and abroad to commit acts of violence, efforts made even more imperative in light of recent, tragic attacks in Ottawa, Sydney, and Gay Paree. This summit will build on the strategy the White House released in August of 2011, Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States, the first national strategy to prevent violent extremism domestically.
"Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) efforts rely heavily on well-informed and resilient local communities. Boston, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis-St. Paul have taken the lead in building pilot frameworks integrating a range of social service providers, including education administrators, mental health professionals, and religious leaders, with law enforcement agencies to address violent extremism as part of the broader mandate of community safety and crime prevention. The summit will highlight best practices and emerging efforts from these communities.
"At the same time, our partners around the world are actively implementing programs to prevent violent extremism and foreign terrorist fighter recruitment. The summit will include representatives from a number of partner nations, focusing on the themes of community engagement, religious leader engagement, and the role of the private sector and tech community.
"Through presentations, panel discussions, and small group interactions, participants will build on local, state, and federal government; community; and international efforts to better understand, identify, and prevent the cycle of radicalization to violence at home in the United States and abroad. Additional information regarding participants and the agenda will be provided at a future date."
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The man is going to get us all killed.
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More journalists have been beheaded, killed and now massacred by Islam than ever before.
Charlie Hebdo issuing another publication depicting Muhammad on the cover, depictions of the Islamic prophet which is forbidden in Islam is infuriating Muslims, extremist, moderate, etc. every where today.
Expect very serious fallout from around the world. Freedom of the Press is vital, but that freedom requires proper application that benefits peace and stability, not careless provocation of evil forces.
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These people in the regime are complete morons and because of this outlook are very dangerous. Could they be anymore out of touch with reality? Heard Jen Psaki this a.m. and she was parroting the narrative talking points. Being out of touch with reality defines severe mental illness. More than one rushing over the cliff defines an insane lemming behavior.
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The question is: Do they really believe this shit themselves or are they simply lying to us? I think there is a real possibility they are lying to us. For one thing, it's hard to believe anybody, even Biden or Kerry, could be that stupid. The other reason is that their Soddy masters wouldn't like it if they told us the truth.
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Good question Ebba. My own belief is that they [the ruling oligarchy] are globalists who know exactly what is taking place, and are financially positioned to educate their offspring at Cambridge or Luzern, and move their fortunes and residences elsewhere as needed.
Basically, Orwell's society in 1984 was made up of 3 classes: the Inner Party, the Outer Party, and the proles. The proles are kept "happy" by entitlement, the promise of hope and change, the cult of victimization, and lofty utopian dreams. Their only purpose in society is to work, breed, and vote. The prole is restricted to tasks, rules of conduct, and geography as dictated by the ruling oligarchy. The business of the ruling oligarchy is the unending acquisition of money and power, investing and divesting as they sees fit with no regard for national sovereignty or those laboring in the mines. The politics of the ruling oligarchy is little more than convenient theater designed to bewilder the prole. In the end, the masters of diverging beliefs [be they capitalists, monarchs, or communists] all 'follow the money' and meet at the cashiers window.
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"Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) efforts rely heavily on well-informed and resilient local communities. Boston, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis-St. Paul have taken the lead in building pilot frameworks integrating a range of social service providers, including education administrators, mental health professionals, and religious leaders, with law enforcement agencies to address violent extremism as part of the broader mandate of community safety and crime prevention. The summit will highlight best practices and emerging efforts from these communities.
notice who the focus is on - Community Organizing 101
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Soon to follow, all those that aren't democrats or agree totally with Obama will be violent extremists.
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"Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) efforts rely heavily on well-informed and resilient local communities. Boston, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis-St. Paul have taken the lead in building pilot frameworks integrating a range of social service providers, including education administrators, mental health professionals, and religious leaders, with law enforcement agencies to address violent extremism as part of the broader mandate of community safety and crime prevention. The summit will highlight best practices and emerging efforts from these communities.
Sounds like a Community Organizer class at Harvard.
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Interesting, interesting.
Will this include groups of people calling for the random assassination of police officers based upon drummed up or even false allegations?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Nancy 
Excuse me, stewardess..... 
[CNSNEWS] White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest announced in a written statement today that 
Recommended summit "theme." 
