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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Charles Rangel failed to report as much as $1.3 million in outside income -- including up to $1 million for a Harlem building sale -- on financial-disclosure forms he filed between 2002 and 2006, according to newly amended records. The documents also show the embattled chairman of the Ways and Means Committee -- who is being probed by the House Ethics Committee -- failed to reveal a staggering $3 million in various business transactions over the same period. This week, Rangel filed drastically revised financial-disclosure forms reflecting new, higher amounts of outside income and numerous additional business...

Here is video of Fox News' Contributor Charles Krauthammer commenting on Howard Dean's admission that there is no "Tort Reform" in their Health Care Bill because they did not want to take on the "Trial Lawyers." Krauthammer said Howard Dean "speaks the truth," and the fact is there is no frivolous lawsuit reform in ObamaCare legislation because "the trial lawyers own the Democratic Party." . . . . (Watch Video)

President Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee on Thursday joined the growing group of politicians and committees pledging to return or donate to charity campaign contributions from Democratic moneyman Hassan Nemazee, who was arrested and charged Tuesday with trying to defraud Citibank of $74 million by offering fake collateral for a loan. But a DNC official stopped short of promising that Obama would give back or give away contributions from other donors that came through Nemazee through a process known as bundling that brought in more than $500,000 for Obama’s campaign. Instead, Obama, his inaugural committee and the DNC...

Another Difference between Republicans and Democrats: This is Maria, SC Republican Governor Mark Sanford's mistress. This is Golan, NJ Democrat Governor Jim Mc Greevey's mistress.

President Obama and the Democratic National Committee will donate to charity more than $60,000 that came from a prominent financier arrested this week on bank fraud charges, officials said Thursday. New York investment banker Hassan Nemazee, who acted as a major fundraiser for Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats, was charged in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday with lying about his assets in order to secure a $74 million loan from Citibank. Nemazee is under house arrest after posting a $25 million bond. Prosecutors have not alleged any connection between Nemazee's alleged fraud and his political...

In an odd way, this is a perfect complement to today’s many, many, many sanitized tributes to Ted Kennedy. In both cases there’s an official progressive narrative and in both cases inconvenient facts are shunted aside in the interest of serving that narrative. What happens when a teachable moment about right-wing nuts driven mad by ObamaCare turns out to be a case of vandalism committed by a far leftist? Why, this:

I called out GOP fake hate crime perpetrator Ashley Todd last year and have documented a long list of hoax crimes across party, racial, and gender lines for nearly two decades.So, the latest case of so-called progressives vandalizing a Democrat headquarters in Denver comes as no surprise. And neither does the initial attempt by Colorado Democrats to blame “hate” by “the other side” and to shamelessly tie the crime to town hall protesters. Meet the hoaxer: A 24-year-old arrested this morning on suspicion of smashing 11 windows at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters tried to conceal his identity while allegedly...

The chairman of the Colorado Republican Party is calling on his Democratic counterpart to apologize for suggesting that an act of vandalism at Democratic Party headquarters was linked to opposition to President Obama's push for health care reform. State GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams told FOXNews.com he was "stunned" by comments made by Democratic Party Chairwoman Pat Waak following the smashing of 11 windows at the Democratic headquarters early Tuesday morning. Waak told the Associated Press it was "name calling on the other side" against health care reform that led to the "intentional" shattered windows, which will cost roughly $10,000 or...

Littwin: Bemused by the pane and the story By Mike LittwinDenver Post Columnist Posted: 08/26/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT Updated: 08/26/2009 01:01:53 AM MDT The story begins in the way that a true-to-life political thriller should begin: with a cop in chase, getaway bicycles, a couple of hammers and, of course, latex gloves. You know immediately the story has to lead somewhere intriguing. But if you were able to figure out the surprise twist at story's end — well, what may be the story's end — you ought to be working with John le Carre instead of wasting your time doing whatever it...

One of two people suspected of shattering 11 windows Tuesday morning at the state Democratic Party headquarters has an arrest record and a history of helping a Democratic political candidate, public records show. Police said that about 2:20 a.m., 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler, now in custody, and an at-large accomplice took a hammer to the picture windows displaying posters touting President Barack Obama and his health care reform efforts. Early Tuesday, Democratic Party chairwoman Pat Waak said the damage to her building in Denver's art district was a consequence of "an effort on the other side to stir up hate." She...

Hassan Nemazee, a multimillionaire Iranian-American investment banker and top Democratic Party fundraiser, was arrested today by federal law enforcement authorities in New York City and charged with engaging in criminal fraud for his role in arranging a $74 million dollar loan from Citibank, Bloomberg reported. U.S. Attorney Prett Bharara in New York City and FBI investigators told Dow Jones Newswires the 59-year-old Namazee applied for the Citibank loans for Nemazee Capital Corp. by giving Citibank "numerous documents that purported to establish the existence of accounts in Nemazee's name at various financial institutions containing many hundreds of millions of dollars." According...

Ariel Attack, a Denver-based anarchist, was arrested at 2:27am Tues, 24 here in Denver for allegedly smashing 11 windows of the Democratic Party headquaters at 777 Santa Fe Drive. Right now we are trying to raise the bail money for her to get out of jail; her bail hearing will be tomorrow at 10am Denver time. Several lawyers have told us to expect anywhere from between $3,000 to $10,000 in bail, and due to the high publicity of the case here in Denver, we are expecting higher (lead story for most all local news outlets, and being picked up by...

Sorry Dems-- What Looked Like a Partisan Attack Was an SEIU Setup The Colorado Democratic Headquarters in Denver was vandalized this morning. Eleven windows at the headquarters on Santa Fe Drive were shattered early this morning in a vandalism spree. CDP Office Vandalism The Dems blamed the vandalism on the health care rhetoric. But, later in the day authorities arrested a 24 year-old Maurice Schwenkler on suspicion of smashing 11 windows at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters. Shwenkler tried to conceal his identity while allegedly committing the crime, according to police descriptions.

A 24-year-old arrested this morning on suspicion of smashing 11 windows at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters tried to conceal his identity while allegedly committing the crime, according to police descriptions. Maurice Schwenkler wore a shirt over his face, a hooded sweat shirt and latex gloves before he and another man fled the scene on bicycles, police said. Schwenkler was apprehended after a short chase. The other suspect remains at large. While Schwenkler does not appear in the state's voter registration database, a person by that name in November 2008 received $500 from a political 527 committee called Colorado Citizens Coalition...

Democrats planning 1,000 health care reform events Posted: August 25th, 2009 10:18 AM ET WASHINGTON (CNN) - A Democratic official says the national party will hold more than 1,000 events over the next two weeks in its latest attempt to pressure Congress to embrace President Obama's call for health care reform. Organizing for America, Obama's campaign operation now housed at the Democratic National Committee, is coordinating the "Health Insurance Reform Now: Let's Get it Done" events that are scheduled to kick off on Wednesday. Health Care for America Now, an umbrella organization of unions and other progressive groups, will be...

...by stacking the deck in their favor, encouraging members (Obamabots) to come early, per this e-mail I received today from Brandyn Keating, Virginia State Director of the DNC front group "Astroturfing for Obama" (aka Organizing for America). "I wanted to send you an urgent invitation to an important town hall with Rep. Jim Moran this Tuesday, August 25th.He'll be talking to constituents and gathering feedback. Whether you ask a question or show your support with a sign, attending this town hall is a powerful way to show where you stand and thank those in Congress who are fighting for reform....

Eight people who were arrested on the second day of the Democratic National Convention during a mass protest filed a lawsuit against the City and County of Denver last night alleging wrongful arrest. The plaintiffs who filed their case in Denver District Court - are represented by lawyers for the ACLU of Colorado and include a legal observer for the People's Law Project, a journalist, students documenting the protest and onlookers along 15th Street and Cleveland Place on Aug. 25. In addition, the lawsuit is seeking class-action status for nearly 100 people who were held at a special jail, dubbed...

Negotiations on health care reform are starting to remind me of a scene from one of my favorite movies...it appears that the Democrats may be on the verge of taking their ball and going home to mother — or Obama, as the case may be. This piece in the New York Times breathlessly announced that the majority party is sick and tired of trying to get the GOP to abandon their first principles and bargain away their souls. The Democrats will now seek to pass reform legislation without the minority. Steve Benen looks upon this news as progress

Third parties on the left need to drop their individual agendas and work towards unity in order to create a real progressive party. Obama has been a corporatist through and through on all the major issues that matter. And most of the left in the US, from the labor movement to the environmentalist movement to the anti-war movement, has to date remained glumly quiescent as Obama has sold them out on each of their key issues. Bill Clinton was the worst thing to happen to the Democratic Party and to progressives since that racist warmonger Woodrow Wilson won the presidency...

In the political paraphernalia department, "Yes, we can" is becoming "No, he can't." Anti-Obama memorabilia -- from T-shirts to bumper stickers to buttons -- is increasingly emerging in the marketplace as the president's economic and health care policies polarize supporters and detractors. While "Mama for Obama" was a popular slogan during the 2008 election cycle, that design has been retooled with angry and fickle disenchantment: "To the Mama for Obama -- thanks for the tax hike." The "Audacity of Hope," the title of Mr. Obama's popular book, has been replaced by the "Audacity of Hype." "It really started peaking about...

No shortage of chutzpah on the part of the White House, Democrats, and mainstream media. Even after White House press fixture Helen Thomas criticized the planting of reporters at so-called press conferences, the manipulation of public events and sentiments continues. Now we see the president, Dem Party, and Machiavellian media revving up their propaganda engines to push an unsuspecting public into believing that town hall meetings are staged, rent-a-mobs are bullying congressional members, and insurance companies are choreographing the entire scenario. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and others who express concern about the socialization of our healthcare system are getting slimed. Those...

I am interested in attending the next local town hall meeting, and found that one way to do so is to register at my.barackobama.com to find out where the next one is. Yesterday, I posted an article stating that, as a result of registering, I received an email from the DNC asking me to schedule an office visit with my congressional representative to state my opinion about health reform. Here is a link to that thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312085/posts Today, I clicked on the link provided to schedule a visit with my Democratic congressman, Patrick Murphy, and was prompted to print out...

All throughout August, our members of Congress are back in town. Insurance companies and partisan attack groups are stirring up fear with false rumors about the President's plan, and it's extremely important that folks like you speak up now. So we've cooked up an easy, powerful way for you to make a big impression: Office Visits for Health Reform. All this week, OFA members like you will be stopping by local congressional offices to show our support for insurance reform. You can have a quick conversation with the local staff, tell your personal story, or even just drop off a...

Several DNC front groups are placing ads in multiple cities for protesters. All while calling any citizen who disagrees "un-American." Example ad from Sacramento Is there anything wrong with this? No. But it just goes to show that leftists are staying true to form of their political father... Lenin. "Always accuse your victim of what you yourself are doing." Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

I thought I'd have some fun with the DNC Rabid Attack Ad: [VIDEO AT SITE]Thanks to skye for use of her photos and apologizes to Dana Loesch for pillaging his photos like the uncouth, ill-mannered mobster, that I am. The ones who are "scripted" and "astroturfed" are the Democratic leaders out there following their "playbook". Any "community organizing" on the part of the vast rightwing conspiracy of an honest-to-goodness- grassroots movement should be described more like Miracle-Gro than the manure-fractured outrage which the term "astroturfing" suggests. How dare they condescend and dismiss the concerns of real ordinary Americans! The reason...

IBD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For Failure Discourse: At a town hall last week in Dallas, an elderly "mob" with "manufactured" outrage questioned AARP's support for nationalized health care, asking: "Do you work for us or do we work for you?"There were no swastika-wearing grannies at Tuesday's meeting, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi might claim. Nor were they "taking their cues from talk show hosts, Internet rumor-mongers . . . and insurance rackets," as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said. But they were mad as hell at the perception that AARP was selling them out in the...

As more Americans delve into the disturbing details of the nationalized health care plan that the current administration is rushing through Congress, our collective jaw is dropping, and we’re saying not just no, but hell no! The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know...

The Democrats just can’t get their talking points right on Eric Cantor (R-VA). It was only last year when Cantor’s name was mentioned as a possible Vice Presidential pick that the Democrats wanted everyone to know he’s a Jew. They didn’t mention the religion of any of the other potential candidates. Now, however, they are accusing Eric Cantor, who is Jewish, of fostering Nazism in the United States. Hari Sevugan of the Democratic National Committee sent out an email earlier today with this: It’s disgusting that rather than condemning this hate filled symbolism and mob activity, the highest echelons of...

From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:03:58 PM To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Subject: DNC Statement on Republican Mob Rule For Immediate Release Date: August 4, 2009 Contact: DNC Press Office Phone: 202-863-8148 Statement from DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse on the Republican Party and Allied Groups' Mob Rule The Republicans and their allied groups - desperate after losing two consecutive elections and every major policy fight on Capitol Hill - are inciting angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street Lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America taking...

Dissent, it turns out, is no longer patriotic. President Barack Obama’s White House and his Democratic National Committee have unleashed an all-out assault on what they call “angry,” “manufactured” and “lobbyist-funded” lies about health care reform. Look closely and you realize that’s how they classify all dissent. Obama, when speaking at Notre Dame University last spring amid anti-abortion protests, said, “When we open up our hearts and our minds to those who may not think precisely like we do or believe precisely what we believe, that’s when we discover at least the possibility of common ground.” But his record of...

As vicious as Bush (and then Palin) Derangement Syndrome is, there is a new target of the left that makes the former disorders seems mundane. Democrats and liberals have always been contemptuous of the average person, but their treatment of those citizens who disagree with the Obama administration's policies is unprecedented. Peaceful protesters are likened to rowdy hordes, individuals who question their representative at a roundtable discussion are deemed traitors, any person who holds traditional beliefs of any kind is branded a fanatic, and most disgracefully our brave war veterans are labeled as extremists. Such a disorder can only be...

BS NBC exposed for the DNC fraud it isBy now I'm sure you have probably seen or heard about the most recent DNC ad portraying ordinary Americans confronting their elected representatives as a MOB. According to the Democratic party, people that are upset with their government's handling of their own money and expressing their Constitutional rights as American citizens to express their grievances accordingly are nothing but a right-wing Republican, health care industry financed angry mob. And to make their point, the DNC highlights the spurious claim that this wide spread citizen action phenomenon is getting their marching orders from...

The all-time champion in HMO money is Barack Obama. Democrats have pulled in twice as much from the insurance industry this cycle as have the Republicans. And the top recipient of HMO money this cycle is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Jesse Griffin, the Alaska blogger who Saturday claimed in an "exclusive" report that Todd and Sarah Palin were divorcing, will no longer work as an Anchorage kindergarten teaching assistant, school officials confirmed Wednesday. Griffin's resignation followed revelations that the 49-year-old Griffin had posted (under the alias "Gryphen") sexually explicit advocacy of pornography and masturbation on his "Immoral Minority" blog. . . . Griffin blamed "the Palin team and their minions" for discovery of his "Gryphen" online alias, which he says resulted in death threats and harassment. . . .

DNC astro-turf mass-email received. Calling for counter protesters against actual concerned Citizens. My MSU Professor friend sent this to me today. Received it in his email this morning. Thought it would be noteworthy to all. Begin forwarded message: > From: President Barack Obama > Date: August 5, 2009 5:15:27 PM GMT-04:00 > Subject: This is the moment > Reply-To: info@barackobama.com > > This is the moment our movement was built for. > > For one month, the fight for health insurance reform leaves the > backrooms of Washington, D.C., and returns to communities across > America. Throughout August, members of...

[NOTE: Comments in italics by The Jawa Report, photos and other snark in bold by grey_whiskers...] There’s been a lot of media coverage about organized mobs intimidating lawmakers, disrupting town halls, and silencing real discussion about the need for real health insurance reform. As opposed to Democratic Underground bragging about disrupting Town hall Meetings on President Bush's Social Security Reform. The truth is, it’s a sham. These “grassroots protests” are being organized and largely paid for by Washington special interests and insurance companies (they decline to name any, because there aren't any -ed.) who are desperate to block reform. They’re...

How intolerant of them not to listen patiently while the Democrats’ own mob of irate liberal zombies calls in to tell them what Nazis they are.

The Democratic National Committee released a web video yesterday entitled "Enough of the Mob," which suggests that Republicans and their allies are "organizing angry mobs" to "destroy President Obama and stop the change Americans voted for." The video concludes by asking supporters to call the Republican Party and "tell them you've had enough of the mob." The phone number of the Republican National Committee then appears onscreen. Those who call the number are told to press one if they are calling in regard to the DNC video. When they do, they are told to call a different phone number "to...

Update: “The RNC is inciting angry mobs to shout out legitimate discussion at public events across the country and now they want to ignore people who deplore their tactics,” said DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse about the DNC’s failed effort to incite angry mobs to flood the RNC with phone calls. * * * This is clever: Republicans played a trick on Democrats today by redirecting angry telephone calls coming into their switchboard to the Democratic National Committee, CNN reports. Earlier this morning, the DNC released a web video accusing the GOP of inciting mob activity. “At the end of the...

Dear 'minnion' There's been a lot of media coverage about organized mobs intimidating lawmakers, disrupting town halls, and silencing real discussion about the need for real health insurance reform. The truth is, it's a sham. These "grassroots protests" are being organized and largely paid for by Washington special interests and insurance companies who are desperate to block reform. They're trying to use lies and fear to break the President and his agenda for change. Health insurance reform is about our lives, our jobs, and our families -- we can't let distortions and intimidation get in the way. We need to...

"Enough of the MOB" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtTBkxvBq88 Washington -- The Democratic National Committee today released a new web ad "Enough of the Mob" highlighting the angry mobs of a small number of GOP and special interest backed rabid right wing extremists who are disrupting thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America taking place in Congressional Districts across the country. "It's become clear that Republican leaders, having lost every major legislative battle on Capitol Hill, the confidence of the American people and two consecutive national elections, would rather incite angry, special interest funded mobs and disrupt and drown out legitimate...

Republicans played a trick on Democrats today by redirecting angry telephone calls coming into their switchboard to the Democratic National Committee, CNN reports. "The DNC released a Web video early in the morning accusing the GOP of inciting mob activity at town hall meetings. At the end of the video, the DNC instructs people to call the Republican National Committee to express outrage. Callers who dial the RNC's main number to voice their concern about the DNC's charges are told to press 1, which sends them to the DNC's main switchboard." Update: The Washington Independent reports RNC Chairman Michael Steele...

WASHINGTON (CNN) — National Republicans turned the tables on their political counterparts Wednesday by redirecting angry telephone calls coming into their switchboard to the Democratic National Committee. The DNC released a Web video early in the morning accusing the GOP of inciting mob activity at town hall meetings. At the end of the video, the DNC instructs people to call the Republican National Committee to express outrage. Callers who dial the RNC's main number to voice their concern about the DNC's charges are told to press 1, which sends them to the DNC's main switchboard. DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse described...

The statists in power in Washington can’t handle a citizenry that asks hard questions (when the media won’t), reads the Constitution (when federal judges won’t), and examines legislation (when members of Congress won’t). The statists in power, currently Democrats across the board in Washington but come in all parties and sizes, can’t deal with opposition that speaks its mind in public. They can’t deal with large number of citizens who band together to form a movement when the political parties fail to obey the law of the land. The statists in power cannot deal with dissent. So the Democratic National...

Libertarians call on Democrats to end their 'war on dissent'White House urges followers to report dissenters, Doggett claims LP organizing ‘mobs’ WASHINGTON -- Libertarian National Committee Communications Director Donny Ferguson released the following statement Wednesday, after Democratic National Committee Communications Director Brad Woodhouse released a statement Tuesday accusing private citizens opposed to proposed government takeover of health care of being part of a paid, organized conspiracy against the president: “Whether it’s having the Franking Commission censor congressional opponents’ outgoing mail, sliming private citizens who question their agenda or urging their followers to report critics directly to the White House, desperate...

Just got this email from the DNC. Still don't know how I ended up on their mailing list, but meh whatever. Here it is: There's been a lot of media coverage about organized mobs intimidating lawmakers, disrupting town halls, and silencing real discussion about the need for real health insurance reform. The truth is, it's a sham. These "grassroots protests" are being organized and largely paid for by Washington special interests and insurance companies who are desperate to block reform. They're trying to use lies and fear to break the President and his agenda for change. Health insurance reform is...

Clever RNC Staffer Turns Democrat-Incited Mob Outrage Back on its Source by Jeff Emanuel Wednesday, August 5th This is clever: Republicans played a trick on Democrats today by redirecting angry telephone calls coming into their switchboard to the Democratic National Committee, CNN reports. Earlier this morning, the DNC released a web video accusing the GOP of inciting mob activity. “At the end of the video, the DNC instructs people to call the Republican National Committee to express outrage. Callers who dial the RNC’s main number to voice their concern about the DNC’s charges are told to press 1, which sends...

There's been a lot of media coverage about organized mobs intimidating lawmakers, disrupting town halls, and silencing real discussion about the need for real health insurance reform. The truth is, it's a sham. These "grassroots protests" are being organized and largely paid for by Washington special interests and insurance companies who are desperate to block reform. They're trying to use lies and fear to break the President and his agenda for change. Health insurance reform is about our lives, our jobs, and our families -- we can't let distortions and intimidation get in the way. We need to expose these...

President Obama's political outfit, Organizing for America, is now trying to entice supporters to show up at health care events in order to make sure tea party protesters are outnumbered. Today, Vice President Joe Biden will be speaking in Michigan, and OFA wants to make sure he can. "Organized mobs across the country are intimidating lawmakers, disrupting events, and silencing discussions about the change our country needs," reads a letter from OFA's Michigan State Director to Obama allies. "The challenges our country faces are simply too great to let these debates be overrun by those angrily shouting down change" You...

Here is video of a new Democrat National Committee (DNC) ad attacking citizens who are opposing a Government-takeover of Health Care as an "angry mob" comprised of "right-wing extremists of the Republican base." The ad is designed to squelch dissent from the radical policies of President Obama by labeling those who disagree as "extremists." Of course, the ad uses the Democrats' favorite line, "They lost the election," as if Americans who voted for Obama in the midst of a frightening economic downturn really thought that when they voted for him, they were voting to become a European-style socialist nation. I...