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Dem lawmaker blasts "Prof. Obama" as arrogant, alienating By Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.) - 12/13/11 06:05 AM ET After observing President Obama for the last three years, it has become obvious to me that the President might prefer to be a university professor rather than do the job he holds today. While he may not realize that he feels this way, the evidence is very clear to those who work with or watch him closely. Let me be clear, I’m not trying to disparage professors. But anyone who wonders why the President is not crushing the weak Republican field only...

Obama: Water for Votes and Other Atrocities Obama has now joined the likes of all other despots who have ever walked and practiced their tyrannies upon planet Earth. Tyrants like Sadaam Hussein, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Robert Mugabe, Kim Jong-il and Fidel Castro are now unequivocally united with the US Usurper and Dictator-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama in their complete and total subjugation of their countries peoples.Obama turned off the spigots in California’s Central Valley in order to destroy crops, fruit trees, farmers’ livelihoods etc. in that once extremely fertile and productive area and to give him a large hammer to...

Outside the Speaker's office, Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D., Calif.) says there is "silent majority" in this country that wants Obamacare, and that's why he's voting "yes." He says he doesn't take "tea-bag" protesters seriously, because, to him, "they're being trained . . . and awfully loud. So loud."

Politics: The water spigots are back on, at least temporarily, in California's Central Valley. Turned off to protect a tiny fish, they happen to be in the districts of two congressmen "undecided" on health care reform. One could chalk it up to good fortune or just good constituent service. But in the middle of a contentious health care debate marked by Cornhusker Kickbacks and Louisiana Purchases, we may be forgiven if we find an announcement by the Department of the Interior regarding California's water supply a tad too coincidental. On Tuesday, the Department of the Interior announced it was increasing...

House Democrats passed the 2,032-page Pelosicare bill on a near party-line vote Saturday night 220-215 (roll call here). The only Republican voting in favor of the measure was New Orleans-based Joseph Cao who has long ago proven to be a tax and spend (and spend and spend) liberal. After a week of intense arm twisting, threats and promises from party leaders, more than half of the 52 so-called conservative Blue Dog Democrats voted in favor of the over $1.3 trillion measure. These are the 28 Blue Dogs voting in favor of Pelosicare (who apparently fear the wrath of House Speaker...

<p>Unless they all sit down and settle this thing soon, a case will go to trial Monday that pits a 41-year-old Sacramento woman against the state of California. On the surface, the case of Pamela "P.J." Harper vs. the California State Assembly is a discrimination lawsuit brought by the former director of the Legislative Travel Office, who says she was squeezed out of her $75,348-a-year job after returning to work from a 5 1/2 -month maternity leave.</p>