Tax Cheat Geithner Confirmed By US Senate, More Doom and Gloom From The President

Sen. Jim Inhofe 's (R-OK) statement on the floor in opposition to Geithner.

From Politico:
Timothy Geithner was sworn in as Treasury secretary Monday night, less than two hours after he was confirmed by the Senate.

“At this moment of challenge and crisis, Tim’s work and the work of the entire Treasury Department must begin at once,” President Barack Obama said during a brief ceremony at the Treasury Department. “We cannot lose a day because every day the economic picture is darkening here and across the globe.”

10 Republicans voted to cofirm:
Corker (TN), Cornyn (TX), Crapo (ID), Ensign (NV), Graham (SC), Gregg (NH), Hatch (UT), Shelby (AL), Snowe (ME), Voinovich (OH)

4 Democrats voted against:

Byrd (WV), Feingold (WI), Harkin (IA), Sanders (I-VT)

In addition to cheating on his taxes and mistakenly blaming TurboTax for his problems, Secretary Geithner was heavily involved in the failed TARP program that will be blamed on President Bush and Henry Paulson.

Malkin has more...

US Embassy Under Attack, More Graduates of The Betty Ford Clinic for Jihadists Arrested

The US Embassy in Yemen was subject to a series of gunfire today.

From Reuters:

• The embassy had earlier urged Americans to be cautious in the Arab country that has been the scene of al Qaeda attacks on Western interest.
  An embassy employee told Reuters by telephone earlier on Monday that the mission remained open.
  
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• "The U.S. Embassy has received a threat against the embassy compound regarding a possible attack which could take place in the foreseeable future," it said on its website.
  
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• "U.S. citizens in Yemen are advised to exercise caution and take prudent security measures in all areas frequented by Westerners, including maintaining a high level of vigilance, avoiding crowds and demonstrations, keeping a low profile..." it said in a warden's report.

The Times Online:

• Nine Saudi Islamic militants, including former Guantanamo inmates, have been rearrested in the Kingdom despite completing a controversial rehabilitation programme.
  
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• The arrests follow the embarrassing revelation last week that another Saudi Guantanamo Bay detainee who was released to the authorities in 2007 has emerged as the deputy leader of al-Qaeda’s Yemeni branch of the terrorist organisation.
  
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• Both incidents are a serious setback for the experimental regime in which Saudi terror suspects are "weaned off" Islamic militancy at the so-called "Betty Ford clinic" for jihadists.
  
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• The rearrest of nine Saudi militants has also underlined the dilemma now facing governments with nationals still being detained in Guantanamo Bay, following President Obama’s decision to close the camp. He has called on other countries to take detainees to help clear out the controversial prison.

President Obama issued an executive order last week to close Guantanamo Bay.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday he expected the repatriation soon of 94 Yemenis held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, adding that they would be living with their families at a center to undergo "rehabilitation ... to rid them of extremism" before being released.


We see how well the rehab works.


So lets see....release 94 Yemeni Jihadists back into Yemen, the birthplace of Osama Bin Laden and a place where Americans are advised to exercise caution and take prudent security measures.

Blago Impeachment Trial Begins! Governor Goes on New York Media Blitz, Senator Oprah?

"I'm an innocent man. For me to resign would be to admit I did something wrong, which I did not do," Blagojevich said.

If only Blago would have picked Oprah...

"She seemed to be someone who had helped Barack Obama in a significant way to become president," Blagojevich said. Blagojevich added that "she had a much broader bully pulpit than a lot of senators."

"Would she take the call of the governor of Illinois because Oprah is Oprah and I'm only the governor of Illinois."

Barbara Walters is obviously no supporter of Blago.

On ABC's "The View," an insistent Barbara Walters recounted a transcript of a covert recording of Blagojevich obtained by federal agents who allege he sought to sell Obama's Senate seat for personal or political profit."

"I've got this thing and it's (expletive) golden," Blagojevich is quoted in the transcript, "and I'm just not giving it up for (expletive) nothing. I'm not gonna do it."

Walters, appearing from Los Angeles, spoke to Blagojevich in the show's New York studio. She appeared frustrated in repeatedly asking Blagojevich about the comment but the governor dodged and weaved until he said, "I can't confirm or deny anything when I haven't had the chance to hear all the tapes."

"Whatever the tapes are, they will speak for themselves," he said. "I was working to try to make the right decision for the people of Illinois."

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet blogged about how the interview played out. Funny Stuff.

Sweet also has Oprah's response.

Oprah Winfrey said she was surprised to learn Wednesday from her best friend Gayle King that Governor Blagojevich was considering her for Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat.

Blagojevich confirmed on Good Morning America that he was considering Winfrey. She said she was meditating when she got the news.

"If I had been watching from the treadmill I probably would have fallen off the treadmill," Winfrey told King on King' Sirius satellite radio program.

So what have we learned? Blago feels his constitutional rights are being stepped on and Oprah meditates on a treadmill?

Both sound dangerous.

Obama and Censorship; Fairness Doctrine Taking Shape, President Wants to Silence Talk Radio In Order To Enact Radical Socialism

"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.” --President Obama

Rush Limbaugh responded swiftly.

From the Media Research Center President and News Busters Publisher Brent Bozell:

• “Now we know what Barack Obama means by ‘unity’ and a nation working ‘as one.’ It means it’s his far left way and no other way. If he had his way, the President would have us all reading the New York Times and listening to left-wing Air America. He knows his only opposition to enacting a radical left-wing agenda is conservative talk radio.
• “Further, there’s something eerie, Big Brother-like in Obama’s actions. He will deny it, of course, but this is an attack on Limbaugh’s and all conservatives’ right to free speech. He wants to set the stage for the Fairness Doctrine. And he’s doing it through character assassination.
• “I said the day after the election that Rush Limbaugh would become public enemy #1 if the Obama administration had its way. The attack on him personally and on all of conservative talk radio generally has officially begun.”

Sign the Petition to Stop The Fairness (Censorship) Doctrine

• I am signing this petition to urge members of Congress and government officials to reject any and all efforts to censor, limit, or restrain the right of conservatives to participate freely in the marketplace of ideas through the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” or other similar efforts.
• Additionally, I am joining with other American citizens who want their individual Free Speech Rights defended and protected from government intrusion! Our great nation was built upon free and open discourse, and to remain a great nation this ideal must be protected and preserved at all costs.
• Please note that I will be watching closely and taking action when necessary to directly combat the liberal bias of the media.

Conservatives unite! Bloggers unite! The "Hopenchange" is not good for America.

Pelosi's Bombshell: PELOSI SAYS BIRTH CONTROL WILL HELP ECONOMY

Uh.... what? Change you can infanticide? But wait, won't less kids mean less votes for the Totalitarianism Revolution?

From Drudge:

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic "stimulus" package, claiming "contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."

Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, "Nothing in my life will ever, ever compare to being a mom," seemed to imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury.

The revelation came during an exchange Sunday morning on ABC's THIS WEEK.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?

PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?

PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.

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