2010: The Year of the Tea Party

17 National Debt Statistics Which Prove That We Have Sold Our Children And Grandchildren Into Perpetual Debt Slavery
#6 On September 30th, 1980 the U.S. National Debt was 907 billion dollars.  Just thirty years later, the U.S. National Debt is over 14 times larger. #7 According to a recent U.S. Treasury report to Congress, the U.S. National Debt will reach 19.6 Trillion dollars in 2015. #8 It is being projected that the U.S. government will be paying 900 billion dollars just in interest on the National Debt by the year 2019. #9 A Trillion $10 bills, if they were taped end to end, would wrap around the...

Time Magazines Joe Klein Sums Up 2010 As Not Much A More Accurate Description Of His Own Opinions
My namesake Joe Klein wrote in his latest Time Magazine column that nothing much happened in 2010. If he meant to say that the Progressives did not achieve their agenda of fundamentally transforming America into a European-style democratic Socialist Welfare State, I think he is right. But in this case less is more. The Republicans played good defense and prevented the creeping government take-over of key parts of our economy under President Obama from becoming a catastrophic rout of our free m...

Forget the liberal hype about a comeback: 2010 was a stunningly bad year for Barack Obama, and 2011 could be even worse
Ignore the revisionist hype in sections of the liberal media about President Obama staging a (mythical) political comeback - this is a presidency with an Approval Rating of 45 percent (according to the RealClear Politics poll of polls), that presides over a nation where just 27 percent of voters think the country is moving in the right direction, and which just 29 percent of Americans think will be re-elected in 2012. The White House may be claiming a couple of political wins in the dying em...

111th Congress Most Expensive in History
The last two years of Congress have been the Most Expensive in history. The tenure of the 111th Congress spent more than the first 100 Congresses combined, adding more than $3 Trillion in Debt, according to official debt figures published by the U.S. Treasury. That adds up to more than $10,000 for every person in the U.S. The 111th Congress has surpassed its nearest competitor, the 110th Congress, by an astounding $1.262 Trillion in new debt. The news comes roughly three years after a newly ...

Tea Party, Scott Brown Good for GOP in 2010
Since Robert Schlesinger came up with reasons 2010 was good for Democrats, here are as many reasons why it was a great year for Republicans: [See a slide show of 7 reasons 2010 was good for Republicans.] Scott Brown : The election of Scott Brown to the United States Senate was the political “shot heard around the world.” His emergence was perceived as a sign that Democrats had overplayed their hand and that Americans were rebelling against Big Government. During a debate over the ...

FrontPages Person of the Year: The Tea Party
Over the past few years, while the atrophy of the Welfare State system has spurred violent Protests in Western Europe, the United States has been experiencing a parallel, but remarkably distinct phenomenon. In early 2009, desperate Greeks rioted in the streets to demand that their overextended government do more in the face of Financial Crisis. Americans, at the same time, rallied for their government to do less. More than anyone individual alone in 2010, this movement, the Tea Party movement, w...

The Highs and Lows of 2010
Year two of the Obama Administration began with the president riding high, at least among his supporters, for having managed to somehow ram a Healthcare Bill through Congress as 2009 drew to a close. The president signed the landmark bill into law on March 23, but that was hardly the end of the issue. Indeed, passage of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” seemed to be merely the end of the beginning. Multiple states filed suit to challenge provisions of the Act , with th...

The 2010 Jackass of the Year
Well, what can I say about Bob Etheridge that hasn’t already been said? I suppose I should think of something. After all, he is your choice as the Biggest Jackass of 2010, following in the luminous footsteps of two other stand-up guys: John Edwards (2008) and Mark Sanford (2009). While I think of something clever, mean, or both, let’s watch a video. Maybe this will inspire me: I wonder what he was thinking as he was walking away. Was he muttering under his breath about those meddling...

Movement Afoot To End Lame Duck Sessions Of Congress
The Lame Duck session of Congress is in the books, with many touts lauding the post-election period of congresspersons actually doing things as the most productive Lame Duck ever. This sort of glosses over the fact that a lot of the sexier things that passed -- the ratification of the START Treaty, health benefits for 9/11 First Responders, and the Repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell -- were wildly popular with the public and should have been considered "no-brainers." Plus, everyone got a Tax Cut,...

Obama Continues His Leftist Assault On The US
Obama uses red tape and agencies to support bills that were defeated. After an inspiring mid term election that saw Republicans recapturing many lost seats and gaining control in many states, everyone one assumed that the resulting Lame Duck session of the Democrats would be the last hurdle. However, that assumption would be proven wrong. Obama will continue his manner of shoving Legislation down the throats of the American People a different way. Many assumed, and rightly so, that Obama would r...

Who Will Challenge Obama in 2012
Dec. 30, 2010 Who will challenge Obama in 2012 from the democratic party of which half of the Liberal Democrats are highly displeased with his administration’s entire agenda.  Many Democrats believe Obama sold himself out to Corporate Interests making backroom deals with pharmaceuticals guaranteeing higher prices for drugs for a trade off on their support of the Health Care bill. Did Obama sell out to Corporate Interests when he caved to real Wall Street reform that would banish pon...

Two new rules will give Constitution a starring role in GOP-controlled House
WASHINGTON — When Republicans take over the House next week, they will do something that apparently never has been done in the 221-year history of the chamber. They will read the Constitution aloud. And then they will require that every new bill contain a statement by the legislator who wrote it citing the Constitutional Authority to enact the proposed law. Call it the Tea Party-ization of Congress. "It appears that the Republicans have been listening," said Jeff Luecke, a sales supervisor...

The Top 10 Top 10s
In August of this year we began a new ritual at NewsRealBlog: the daily list post. Since then it’s become our most popular feature, albeit not without a dash of Controversy. The emails don’t come all that often but one shows up every now and then: “I hate having to click next page! I don’t want to wait for the pages to load!” To which I reply without fail: “Click the ‘print this post’ link if you want it all on one page.” Depending on how a...

(You Should Be) Obsessed With The Deficit
Once a week--sometimes twice a week if I'm feeling frisky--I stop by the Sajak Pavillion and pay a visit to my allergy doctor for a scheduled dose of magic serum that will hopefully increase my tolerance to grass pollens and cats before 2012. Each visit involves a shot in both arms, followed by a 20 minute waiting period, after which I present my arms for inspection much like a dog presents itself after rolling over in the hopes of earning a treat. Since there isn't any cell phone reception, the...

Jamie Radtke: Dishonest or Disingenuous?
In the Faux "News" "interview" above (in quotes, because the guy doing the "news" "interview" admits he knows Radtke personally, "spoke for you guys in Richmond," and thinks she "run[s] and incredible operation, perhaps one of the best Tea Party operations in the country" - how unprofessional and un-journalistic can you possibly be?!?), Jamie Radtke claims that the Tea Party is "mainstream" not "Right Wing." Radtke references an op-ed she wrote, in which she argues that if the Tea Party is "righ...

Trade unions plan 'street mobilisations' against all cuts always and everywhere
It’s the time of year when Newspapers publish documents released under the Thirty Year Rule, and we all chuckle about the way we used to live. Today’s Guardian carries an absolute gem: a harangue from a trade union Dinosaur who believes that “direct action” and “street mobilisations” have more legitimacy than bourgeois Democracy. With a fine disregard for our national viability, he insists all proposed spending reductions, whatever their individual merits, must be resi

TEA Party Candidate Files for US Senate for Virginia
The former chairwoman of the Virginia Federation of Tea Party Patriots, Jamie Radtke, will challenge Democrat James Webb for his Virginia U.S. Senate seat in 2012.  She may also face high-profile Republican George Allen. The lame-duck, Deficit-building Congressional Legislation clinched her decision. Radtke is 36 years old. She is credited with tightening the structure of the Richmond Tea Party after taking the presidency in 2009. She holds a master’s degree in pubic policy from the C...

Congress, The Military, Corporations: The Collusive Alliance That Fuels America's Wars
As the bleeding continues to sap the economic strength of America and the future grows ever bleaker, we are hearing the voices of "Fiscal Responsibility" putting forth their negative messages of how to address and solve our problems. Just listen to this latest example of this type of thinking on what should be done to solve our fiscal problems. Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, generally referred to as "Dr. No", the spending hawk, warned recently that America would experience "apocalyptic pain" ...

2010: A year of seismic change for R.I. schools
Central Falls teachers stand as their names are called in February, as the School District’s Board of Trustees approved their termination. It’s hard to imagine a more eventful year for education. Any other year, the firing of every teacher at struggling Central Falls High School alone would have marked 2010 as extraordinary — a year that placed the tiniest city in the smallest state at the center of the national Education Reform stage. But there were other major events. The Ge...

THE LOU-NEWS 2010 PERSON OF THE YEAR
Time Magazine nominated the radical slumlord Feisal Rauf for man of the year because he intends to build Mecca on the graveyard of the vaporized bodies of proud, hardworking Americans slaughtered on 911 in the name of allah and Islamic Jihad. NBC has named waiter turned Ground Zero Mosque grifter/developer Sharif El-Gamal as their Person of the Year because of his role in trying  to erect a 15 story Middle Finger to American on the ground Zero cemetery. The is the enemedia and these are ...

Tea Party Dominates Google's Top 10 Politicians In 2010
Google released its list of the top 10 politicians who were most searched by Americans in 2010, and the results reflect the ups and downs of an important election year. “We aggregate billions of searches that were done over the year to try to get an indication to get what the United States was interested in the past 12 months,” said a spokesman for Google of the Zeitgeist 2010. “The lists help better identify what’s new, what’s interesting, what people are more cu...

EPA CO2 regs will haunt Democrats for years
Image via Wikipedia NY Times: With the Federal Government set to regulate climate-altering gases from factories and Power Plants for the first time, the Obama Administration and the new Congress are headed for a clash that carries substantial risks for both sides. While only the first phase of Regulation takes effect on Sunday, the administration is on notice that if it moves too far and too fast in trying to curtail the ubiquitous gases that are heating the planet it risks a Congressional ba...

The New Watchdogs
"My committee's lane is waste Fraud and abuse in government," Issa told reporters following a meeting at the White House November 30. "And certainly, with $700 billion in the stimulus, this is a great opportunity to see if we can track where the money has gone accurately." Issa will chair the Oversight and Government Reform Committee which is expected to play a key role in holding the administration accountable--not so much through investigations of wrongdoing, but rather in oversight of bad or ...

The Constitution is only 'confusing' to liberals
The Washington Post's Ezra Klein recently appeared on the left's favorite ultra-partisan Propaganda network, MSNBC, and informed all seven of its viewers that Republicans are merely employing a "gimmick" by planning to have the Constitution read at the opening of the next Congress.  Klein insists that Democrats haven't bankrupted this country to illegally take over the Auto Industry, the banks, Health Care, Wall Street, the Housing Market and beyond because the...

Medicare Bound to Bust as First Boomers Hit 65
Like this Story? Share it: Medicare is in big trouble. Starting Jan. 1, 10,000 Baby Boomers will turn 65 every day for the next 19 years. As Sharyl Attkisson reports, if things don't change, Medicare could be bankrupt by 2017. On New Year's Day, the first Baby Boomers will celebrate the big 6-5, and they're not just getting older. They're getting more costly. (CBS) (CBS) WASHINGTON - The coming year is a big one for President George W. Bush, President Clinton and for millions of others born in ...