Dick Cheney’s lies about President Obama

by, Eugene Robinson

It’s pathetic to break a New Year’s resolution before we even get to New Year’s Day, but here I go. I had promised myself that I would do a better job of ignoring Dick Cheney’s corrosive and nonsensical outbursts — that I would treat them, more or less, like the pearls of wisdom one hears from homeless people sitting in bus shelters.

But he is a former vice president, which gives him a big stage for his histrionic Rottweiler-in-Winter act. It is never a good idea to let widely disseminated lies and distortions go unchallenged. And the shrill screed that Cheney unloosed Wednesday is so full of outright mendacity that, well, my resolution will have to wait.

In a statement to Politico, Cheney seemed to be trying to provide talking points for opponents of the Obama administration who — incredibly — would exploit the Christmas Day terrorist attack for political gain. Cheney’s broadside opens with a big lie, which he then repeats throughout. It is as if he believes that saying something over and over again, in a loud enough voice, magically makes it so.

“As I’ve watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war,” Cheney begins.

Flat-out untrue.

The fact is that Obama has said many times that we are at war against terrorists. He said it as a candidate. He said it in his inaugural address: “Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.” He has said it since.

As Cheney well knows, unless he has lost even the most tenuous grip on reality, Obama’s commitment to warfare as an instrument in the fight against terrorism has won the president nothing but grief from the liberal wing of his party, with more certainly to come. Hasn’t anyone told Cheney that Obama is sharply boosting troop levels in Afghanistan in an attempt to avoid losing a war that the Bush administration started but then practically abandoned?

Cheney knows this. But he goes on to use the big lie — that Obama is “trying to pretend we are not at war” — to bludgeon the administration on a host of specific issues. Here is the one that jumps out at me: The president, Cheney claims, “seems to think that if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core al Qaeda-trained terrorists still there, we won’t be at war.”

Interesting that Cheney should bring that up, because it now seems clear that the man accused of trying to blow up Northwest Flight 253, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was given training — and probably the bomb itself, which involved plastic explosives sewn into his underwear — by al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen. It happens that at least two men who were released from Guantanamo appear to have gone on to play major roles as al-Qaeda lieutenants in Yemen. Who let these dangerous people out of our custody? They were set free by the administration of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

The former vice president expresses his anger that the Obama administration is bringing Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to trial in New York. Cheney is also angry that Obama does not use the phrase “war on terror” all the time, the way the Bush administration used to. But Obama just specifies that we’re at war against a network of terrorists, on the sensible theory that it’s impossible to wage war against a tactic.

Toward the end of his two-paragraph statement, Cheney goes completely off the rails and starts fulminating about how Obama is seeking “social transformation — the restructuring of American society.” Somehow, this is supposed to be related to the president’s alleged disavowal of war — which, of course, isn’t real anyway. It makes you wonder whether Cheney is just feeding the fantasies of the paranoid right or has actually joined the tea-party fringe.

I can find reasons to criticize the administration’s response to the Christmas Day attack. Obama and his team were slow off the mark. Their initial statements were weak. Obama shouldn’t have waited three days to speak publicly, and when he did he should have shown some emotion.

But using a terrorist attack to seek political gain? I have a New Year’s resolution to suggest for Cheney: Ahead of your quest for personal vindication, put country first.

Now when the wingnuts and conservo-tards get their bedwetting panties in a twist, and screech their talking points they have this post to rebut or fail in the talking point idiocy they play with.

But that won’t stop them any more the the facts ever have.

Media On Palin’s ‘Banned List’ Ejected From Going Rogue Event

Sarah Palin’s war on the media continues?

The woman who once called on the press to “quit makin’ things up” took it a step further yesterday by allegedly banning four members of the media from a book event in Wasilla, Alaska.

On a four-person “banned list” — yes, that term was actually used by police — were a blogger, a videographer, a local radio host, and another person who hasn’t been identified.

Damn she can’t even allow an HONEST debate, she needs to HIDE from the truth and reality in her bizzaro world view where she is great not the worst governor ever and champion quitter of Alaska politics.

No wonder she cuts and runs from so much, she can’t stand an open and honest showing of her limitations, which is why she tries to hide from most of the people so much of the time keeping only the tea baggin’ kool aid junkies around her.

Wanna bet she screeches how mean the press is again after SHE allowed soviet style censorship in the state she used to run?

Not only does she lie blatantly most of the time, she now pisses on the graves of the brave Americans who died fighting for the US Constitution and a free and open press which the US Constitution guarantees,

What a fraud, how can anybody still be fooled by her open hypocrisy?

Oh right they thought the dry drunk moron was a great president didn’t they?

Democratic leaders in D.C. weren’t the only legislators frustrated by Republican party efforts to block health care reform last week. After watching his party promise to stonewall any Democratic reform efforts, Maine state Rep. Jim Campbell decided it was time to drop the (R) from his title.

I have been very frustrated with the Republican Party in Maine, and nationally, for their failure to address the health care crisis in a meaningful way. Nobody has all the answers, but the Republican Party has none when it comes to health care reform.

Well, well, well, after all their tea baggin’ lunacy, and assorted stupidity, they end up losing another person willing to be associated with them.

The party of NO ideas, NO morality, NO real concern for the middle class, seems to be the party of stupidity, cluelessness and ignorant racists.

Damn, they think they are gonna return to power while losing more and more people,

Oh yea they are the stupid backwash of the country ain’t they?

Well heck of a job guys,

Lost the cloture vote and another member of your party.

Keep up the good work, and maybe ya’ll can become even more irrelevant to the rest of us.

How about nominating that wasilla hillbilly fer 2012?

That’ll show the rest of us, yo’all haven’t a clue, and could find one if ya wanted.

PS if ya ever see him Kay, thank him for allowing his ethics to over rule the dogma of the GOPers of party uber alles.

and

Leaked documents reveal No 10 cover-up over Iraq invasion

• Inquiry to hear how Blair hid true intentions for war

• Military ‘ill-prepared’ for aftermath of invasion

coinky dink?

I think not, after all who wants a known liar;

Tony Blair, the former prime minister, misled MPs and the public to throughout 2002 when he claimed that Britain’s objective was “disarmament, not regime change” and that there had been no planning for military action. In fact, British military planning for a full invasion and regime change began in February 2002.

and possible war criminal;

They were so shocked by the lack of preparation for the aftermath of the invasion that they believe members of the British and US governments at the time could be prosecuted for war crimes by breaching the duty outlined in the Geneva convention to safeguard civilians in a conflict, the Guardian has been told.

to head the European Union?

Hmm if Tony Blair was lying to the British people cause he made a pack with Bush to illegally attack Iraq in early 2002,

Blair had in effect promised George Bush that he would join the US-led invasion when, as late as July 2002, he was denying to MPs that preparations were being made for military action. The leaked documents reveal that “from March 2002 or May at the latest there was a significant possibility of a large-scale British operation”.

does that mean Bush-Cheney lied to us all through 2002?

YA THINK?

That means they are war criminals also.

Illegal invasion;

No preparation for civilians post combat phase, …

Documents leaked in 2005 show that, almost a year before the invasion, Blair was privately preparing to commit Britain to war and topple Saddam Hussein, despite warnings from his closest advisers that it was unjustified. They also show how Blair was planning to justify regime change as an objective, despite warnings from Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general, that the “desire for regime change was not a legal base for military action.

Hmmmm …… regime change for the sake of regime change is a war crime,

Interesting;

Somebody better tell Gonzo, Condi, Dumsfeld, Powell, Feith, Wolfowitz, Franks, Hadley, Libby, Fleisher, Tenet, Perle, Cambone, Boykin, Ashcroft, Armitage, Bolton, Zoellick among others to call Henry Kissinger and ask how American War criminals can travel with out the inconvience of being sent to the Hague for a trial.

Oh yea Bush and Cheney too.

Nice to see the British actually investigating this, too bad we never will …. cause too many republicans (they were in charge of lying and committing war crimes remember) will go to prison then.

Wanna bet the corporate owned MSM entertainment-disinfo service here in America ignores this one also?

John N. Dalton, January 14, 1978, January 16, 1982, Republican, (Jimmy Carter had won the white house)

Chuck Robb, January 16, 1982, January 18, 1986, Democratic (Ronald Reagan had won the white house)

Gerald L. Baliles, January 18, 1986, January 14, 1990< , Democratic (Ronald Reagan had won the white house)

Douglas Wilder, January 14, 1990, January 15, 1994, Democratic, (George H W Bush had won the white house)

George Allen , January 15, 1994, January 17, 1998, Republican, (Bill Clinton had won the white house)

Jim Gilmore, January 17, 1998, January 12, 2002, Republican, (Bill Clinton had won the white house)

Mark Warner, January 12, 2002, January 14, 2006, Democratic, (George W Bush had won the white house)

Tim Kaine, January 14, 2006, Incumbent, Democratic, (George W Bush had won the white house)

Bob McDonnell, January 2010, Governor-Elect, Republican, (Barack Obama had won the white house)

and Deeds sucked as a campaigner.

In New Jersey, Corzine forgot he wasn’t still the head of Goldman Sachs. So you had a rich Democrat who thought he could buy what he wanted and a corrupt Republican, and the voters (who turned out) went with corruption over greed this time. BTW New Jersey has had a Republican Governor for 16 of the past 28 years, and has a similar trend to Virginia, picking an opposite party to the white house for their governor (Va nine election cycles, NJ six election cycles).. Wanna bet the GOPer corrupt crook don’t get reelected?

End of GOPer victory dance, plain and simple. PS both the GOPers, in Va and NJ didn’t want the fat drug addicted bloviater nor the wasilla hill billy campaignin’ fur them ….. (they both tried to MODERATE their positions to win votes)

The place the idiots brigade did stick their ignorant noses in?

In the 23rd congressional race, the democratic candidate won for the first time since 1871,

YES, I said 1871 … (138 years).

Way to go teabaggers, dumb Alaskan quitters, astroturf clowns ……..

Good try at retaking congress by handing a seat safe for well over a century to the democratic party.

Keep up the good work people, maybe you’ll eventually elect enough democrats with your brain dead screeching and lying, the democrats will finally realize the country in rejecting you time and time again.

In California, a progressive democrat won. A seat that used to be middle of the road, trading from centrist republican to centrist democrat, went to a openly progressive individual, so the blue dogs lost another one in the house, let alone the teabaggers wet dreams slippin’ away.

As for the ballot initiative #1 in Maine hard loss, but things weren’t all bad everywhere.

In Chapel Hill, North Carolina the people elected an openly gay mayor,

Yes, I said Chapel Hill, NORTH CAROLINA, in the heart of the supposed bible belt ……. doesn’t portent well for the hate mongers beating on their bibles does it?

As Grant has informed us, Houston, Texas saw an openly gay women come in first in their mayoral election (there will be a runoff).

In Canton, Ohio, a gay activist Eric Resnick won a seat on the Board of Education. (Oh my god, the fundies will go apeshit won’t they?)

Kalamazoo, Michigan passed an anti-discrimination measure that protects people from discrimination based on sexual orientation.

The biggest news, is Washington State voters approved their referendum 71, basically the opposite of the Maine decision. The fundie attempt to block the civil rights of American citizens lost in Washington.

So while the GOPers will be very shrill claiming they have turned things around their victories are hollow, and fleeting.

The governors races they are touting historically they should have won, (especially in VA) the congressional races in NY and CA are real loses for them. And openly gay candidates winning in North Carolina and Texas says the voters don’t always accept the hate filled fundies screeching ……

Because in referendums about taxes, w-e-l-l-l-l, the teabaggers got their asses handed to them;

In Maine they lost ;

Question 2 (Citizen Initiative): “Do you want to cut the rate of the municipal excise tax by an average of 55% on motor vehicles less than six years old and exempt hybrid and other alternative-energy and highly fuel-efficient motor vehicles from sales tax and three years of excise tax?” FAILED

Question 4 (Citizen Initiative): “Do you want to change the existing formulas that limit state and local government spending and require voter approval by referendum for spending over those limits and for increases in state taxes?” FAILED

Question 5 (Citizen Initiative): “Do you want to change the medical marijuana laws to allow treatment of more medical conditions and to create a regulated system of distribution?” PASSED

Question 6 (Bond Issue): “Do you favor a $71,250,000 bond issue for improvements to highways and bridges, airports, public transit facilities, ferry and port facilities, including port and harbor structures, as well as funds for the LifeFlight Foundation that will make the State eligible for over $148,000,000 in federal and other matching funds?” PASSED

No so good fur the tea baggers was it?

Washington State also roundly rejected I-1033 (This measure would limit growth in state revenues deposited in funds subject to the state expenditure limit, and limit growth in county and city revenues deposited into the county and city current expense funds. The limit would be adjusted based on annual growth in inflation and population. The limit also would apply to revenues transferred out of these funds. The limit would exclude voter-approved revenue increases. Revenues above the limit would reduce property tax levies. Should this measure be enacted into law?)

All in all not the defeat the corporate owned MSM or dumb as dirt teabaggers claim it is.

Here’s hopin’ the stupid reich wing teabaggers and their astroturf greedy manipulators keep rippin’ the republiscum party apart trying to get Real Republiscum, not RINO’s elected, it worked real good this time. (IE New York State has two republican members of congress, New England has NO members of Congress from the party of NO, and according to the clowns running the show fur the teabaggers, just two RINOs in the senate. Hope they keep a drivin’ the RINO’s out helps the rest of the country cause they keep losing when they do.

Death of ‘Soul of Capitalism:’ Bogle, Faber, Moor

About the “great stock market” they are hawking;

The Stock Market Has Never Been This (Intermediate-Term) Overbought

S & P too:

Pay No Attention to the 140 P/E Behind the Curtain

And as for the derivatives, w-e-l-l-l-l those supposed safe investments were never what the crooks claimed they were, were they?

Intractability of Financial Derivatives

(PS: which is why Micheal Moore couldn’t find one person on Wall Street to accurately explain derivatives.)

So it has always been a scam, pushed by the shysters who made out much better then Bernie Madoff, at least that crook is in jail.

Short and sweet, the economy is still DOA.

The system is far too broken to quickly recover, and if it does we aren’t gonna like the outcome, irregardless of who is sitting in the White House or who controls congress,

The laissez faire crowd, broke the economy, with their voodoo economics, exotic investment schemes, sliced and diced tranches of crapola loans sold as triple A investments, all promoted by the scam artists on CNBC  … that much is simple to understand.

We collectively have allowed the greediest people to scam the system based on lies and propaganda IE(that we all would get some trickle down), but that lie has been exposed and now we all have to pay the price,

Pay the price for 30 years of economic gross mis-management, and propaganda to push that LIE by the crooks (and their political lackeys, Reagan included) who set up bubble after bubble (Savings and loan, tech bubble, housing market) to enrich themselves and fleece the rest of us. It worked for those who pushed the crap they sold to the sheeple that trickle down and lassiz faire would enrich us all, but now we know they got rich, we got crap.

Just like the bust after the 1920’s go-go decade, we have to do the real necessary work to try to unwind this one, however the crooks want to inflate one more bubble to get even richer, based on keeping the system they have scammed for so long to get the government and FED to inflate a bubble based on essentially no interest money from the fed, kited through their scams and deceptions to inflate this bubble till the masses have no more to give.

Wall Street scam artists and shysters know how this game is played, they have done it for 30 years. Last fall they had Hank Paulson begin rigging it all up with the TARP, and now have Bernanke keeping interest rates at basically zero (shades of Greenspan 2003-2006 during the housing bubble inflation period) for them to borrow essentially interest free,while raising the interest rates WE pay on our mortgages, credit cards, and loans if you can get one. Now you know how Goldman made all that money they just reported, while millions of Americans lost their jobs.

Trust me Wall Street will push this one as far as they pushed the housing scam the pushed to get the bubble that just burst. They no longer are interested in capital formation or helping entrepreneurs to build new businesses, (which is why small business CAN’T get the loans they need now) just how they can scam people and smaller investors out of their money FAST, before this one pops.

However this bubble if they can inflate it is the last one, cause each bubble must be large enough to include the damage of the last one, and no bubble can over come the crash of wall street if the fleece all the money they can out of Treasury and the FED.

This one ain’t about politics, NO it is about the final economic acts of a group of people who have scammed us all for three decades and want to do it just one more time.

If the lies, distortions and propaganda pushed against the health care reform, to keep the Wall Street people happy (no matter how many suffer, face bankruptcy or die because of it), is any indication; they are gonna get away with it. Cause with all the oxygen in the room stole with tea baggers, birfers, astroturf and the MSM follow the crazies for ratings, IE (the balloon story) …the scam will be far enough along that it will be mostly set up with Wall Street raking it all in as fast as they can, before the expected pop, and next economic crunch. At which time the MSM will have some of the crooks on claiming nobody could see it coming. (Just like they did for the housing bubble.)

I feel 2012, is the farthest out this bubble can last.

After that, … well, things ain’t so rosey ……..

You know the insane clown posse of knee jerks, faux noise, Glenn Beck, Rush the addict, Hannity, O’Rielly, WND, the Cheney Criminal Enterprise, reich wing bloviating radio, Coulter, Malkin, and of course the cowardly reich wing troll brigade …………

Why you ask?

Wel-l-l-l-l-l-l …..

Saudi, Facing Oil Consumption Spike, Mulls Nuclear (behind a paywall, Rupert owns it now)

IE build a nu-kle-ar plant in Saudi Arabia

What?

They have LOTS of oil, they say so.

Saudi Arabia’s proven reserves stood at 264.10
billion barrels of oil at the beginning 2009 according to the 2009
BP Statistical Review of World Energy.

Although this amount has remained essentially the same from 1989, even with them producing a cumulative total of 64 billion barrels over that time frame.

Which lead to this:

Matthew Simmons, a highly respected oil expert, predicts in his book,
“Twilight in the Desert,” that most of Saudi Arabia’s giant oil fields, including the Ghawar field (the world’s largest oil field which has been producing about five million barrels of oil per day for more than 50 years) is now or will soon experience the same fate as Mexico’s Cantarell Field — inexorable decline.

So they can’t need a nuke plant can they?

Actually …. yes.

They have lots of oil, …….. for now.

Remember that Cantarell oil field in Mexico,

It was placed on nitrogen injection in 2000, and production peaked at 2.1 million barrels per day (330,000 m3/d) in 2003. Production declined rapidly after that, and by 2009 had fallen to 772,000 barrels per day

Well Ghawar in the Saudi desert;

The Ghawar Oil Field is by far the largest conventional oil field in the world and accounts for more than half of the cumulative oil production of Saudi Arabia.

The field’s copious production has had help in the form of water injection, which was initiated in 1965.

As wells mature, engineers must manage the pressure by pumping natural gas or water into the wells. This forces oil upward and maintains flow. As more water is pumped into a well, more is found mixed with the extracted oil (the “water-cut.”) High water-cuts imply that a field is running out of natural pressure and becoming more depleted. Ghawar is a rare example of an oilfield with extraordinary natural pressure, although there are some signs that more water is now necessary to help maintain pressure levels.

Water injection volumes are included in a number of publicly available articles about Ghawar, with one of the more recent ones pegging the injection rate at seven million barrels of seawater per day. Water cut, according to other sources, has been reduced from approximately 35 percent to roughly 30 percent since vertical well drilling was shelved in favor of horizontal wellbores.

Saudis eye CO2 injection at Ghawar

Remember the Mexicans used nitrogen injection to hold up production in Cantrell for a few extra years, but the eventual decline in production could not be avoided.

Seems the Saudis are trying a similar trick here; trying to hold up production, to continue their claims they have enormous amounts of oil. But they don’t seem to want to tell us all exactly how much oil they have, which is why they pump and pump (using what ever it takes) but claim they aren’t decreasing their reserves.

They have a rising population and ever rising demand of oil internally. This conflicts with the fact, everybody else on the planet also wants that oil, which is why in a recession, during the fall (when it normally drops some), the price of oil is actually going up: $75.08 at the time I am writing this. Much higher then last spring, when oil was in the $30’s area.

They have supplied oil to the world since before WW2, the and been the swing producer of oil since the US peaked in production in the early 1970’s.

However they are producing at almost full capacity, and either have to cut exports due to the ELM, IE less oil to sell to the rest of the world, which would cause another rise in world oil prices. Or the Saudis find a new source of energy to produce electricity from.

Since, from the WSJ article above:

With electric power using around 75% of Saudi Arabia’s domestic oil, the need for another source of energy has become acute. And as the kingdom rolls out a $400 billion spending plan over the next five years to build the infrastructure needed to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons, it will need all the money it can get from oil exports.

Hmmmm ya thunk may-be, just, may-be the Iranians which have a larger population … read that … more people using more oil, and a lower total reserve of oil left, are trying to do exactly that?

Save the oil which they are currently burning to produce electricity for their population and use nuke reactors to create electricity, which would allow them to make more money off the exports which would lower the cost of oil to the rest of us if even just for a little while. That would mean Bush, Cheney, Bolton, Kristol, the Israeli’s and the rest of the neo-con cabal was lying to us for years about the Iranian nuke program. Like they lied about Iraqi nukes, chemical weapons, and the rest of the crap they sold the sheeple to get their illegal invasion of Iraq.

So can we expect a new drum beat for oil against the country which originated 15 of the 19, 9-11 high-jackers, and funded the in Laden network more then any other country?

Funds most of the madrasas network in Pakistan, which both Al Qaeda and the Taliban draw recruits from.

Has the most extreme fundamental sect of politically approved sect of Islam, Wahhabism. The sect of Islam which Bin Laden and the Taliban drew from in formulating their extreme violent sect.

Could we expect the reich wing to go batshit crazy over this,

We l-l-l-l-l, …… no not exactly.

Cause the oil+banking sect which was behind the original PNAC neo-con cabal has too many lucrative ties to the House of Saud.

Like, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owning a large stake in Citigroup, who is currently requesting the US Government sell the shares the government got for saving Citigroup from bankruptcy.

Or the Carlyle Group, which both George H W Bush and Bin Laden family’s,  (until after9-11) among several other interesting individuals, held stakes in that is.

Or Arbusto Energy

Arbusto Energy (sometimes referred to as Arbusto Oil) was a petroleum and energy company formed in Midland, Texas, in 1977, for former US President George W. Bush by a group of investors which included Dorothy Bush, Lewis Lehrman, William Henry Draper III, Bill Gammell, and James R. Bath. The company’s chief financial officer was K. Michael Conaway, now a United States Congressman from Texas.

It was later revealed that Bath made an investment of $50,000 while representing Salem bin Laden of the Saudi Binladin Group. This fact became controversial after the September 11, 2001 attacks due to Salem bin Laden being an older, half-brother of Osama bin Laden, who planned and financed the attacks. Upon Salem bin Laden’s death in a 1988 airplane crash, in Texas, his interest in Arbusto (along with other Binladin Group assets), passed to Khalid bin Mahfouz (a wealthy Saudi Arabian businessman residing in Ireland, who was accused of supporting al-Qaeda.)

As for the Israelis, they won’t complain, cause even though the Saudis mouth the words, they never took the actions Saddam or Iran has in supporting Hezbollah or the Palestinians. The reason is simple the House of Saud has as much to fear from the Arab street as Israel ever has. Al Qaeda’s primary mission is actually to over throw the House of Saud, and replace the pro-western government there with one based on strict sharia rule.

Al-Qaeda ideologues envision a complete break from the foreign influences in Muslim countries and the creation of a new Islamic caliphate.

Naw, I can’t see the reich wing neo-con screeching for a war against the Saudis, nor their lunatic fringe in the MSM to push for it, in fact I bet this doesn’t really register on the US Main Stream entertainment Media at all.

Not in their interest of stirring up the rabble rousers, nor in the interest of the moneyed players (on both sides of the ocean) who pull their strings.

PS: I bet you don’t even hear either dipshit; Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann mention it.

Judge tosses birther suit, threatens lawyer with sanctions

A federal judge in Georgia has threatened Orly Taitz, de facto leader of the birther movement, with sanctions if she ever brings another “frivolous” case before him, news reports say.

Judge Clay Land of the US District Court in Columbus, Georgia, threw out a case brought by US Army Captain Connie Rhodes, who earlier this month sued for the right to refuse deployment orders to Iraq, on the argument that the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, President Barack Obama, was not born in the United States and is therefore not the legitimate head of the army.

According to the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Judge Clay stated in his ruling that the plaintiff “has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual allegations to support her unsubstantiated, conclusory allegations and conjecture that President Obama is ineligible to serve as president of the United States.”

The ruling continues: “Instead, she uses her complaint as a platform for spouting political rhetoric, such as her claims that the president is ‘an illegal usurper, an unlawful pretender, [and] an unqualified imposter.’”

As WTVM-TV in Columbus reported, the judge also stated that Rhodes’ attorney, birther leader Orly Taitz, “will be subject to counsel sanctions for bringing any future actions in his court which are similarly frivolous.”

The judge’s ruling represents a significant legal defeat for Taitz and the birther movement, which received a great deal of attention from the media this summer. Media watchdog groups specifically targeted CNN’s Lou Dobbs, who gave the discredited theory that Obama was not born in the United States a disproportionate amount of coverage, according to some observers.

Taitz was behind this summer’s release of a purported “Kenyan birth certificate” for President Obama, which was dated two years after the president’s 1961 birth date, and contradicted Hawaiian officials’ long-standing insistence that the president’s Hawaiian birth certificate is legitimate.

Judge Clay ruled that that document, which evidently formed the backbone of the plaintiff’s case, was illegitimate because Taitz’s organization paid money to acquire it, making it tantamount to bribery.

The plaintiff “has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual allegations to support her unsubstantiated, conclusory allegations and conjecture,

In other words she is full of shit.

QED

‘Bout sums it up don’-cha thunk?

BTW where the hell is the reich wing out-rage over her frivolous lawsuits?

Oh right, the hypocrisy of the reich wing is still operative here.

Update

Birther Orly Taitz Compares Self To Mandela, Wants Judge Tried For Treason

Even the writers at the onion aren’t half as whacked as she is.

Stay tuned, she obviously don’t know you do not piss off a sitting federal judge by attacking his jurisprudence, or his ethics.

Update Birther Orly Taitz Faces California Bar Complaint Over Attack On Judge

Oops she really don’t know how big a pile of cowshit she has stepped in does she?

Cause she can’t bullshit the bar association, they are real lawyers, not a mail order fraud.

Actions sometimes have consequences;

Opponent of ‘You Lie’ Rep. raises $96,000 overnight

However congresscritter you lie;

Exposed: Obama speech disrupter received $240,000 from healthcare industry; Largest industry donor

Me thinks the you lie outburst was connected to the payola he received from health care lobbyists more than the delusions he is under about the claim he made which is demonstratively false;

From FactCheck.org:

One Republican congressman issued a press release claiming that “5,600,000 Illegal Aliens May Be Covered Under Obamacare,” and we’ve been peppered with queries about similar claims. They’re not true. In fact, the House bill (the only bill to be formally introduced in its entirety) specifically says that no federal money would be spent on giving illegal immigrants health coverage:

H.R. 3200: Sec 246 — NO FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS

Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.

Also, under current law, those in the country illegally don’t qualify for federal health programs. Of interest: About half of illegal immigrants have health insurance now, according to the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center, which says those who lack insurance do so principally because their employers don’t offer it.

Which means when the idiot screeched you lie he wasn’t being honest as well as violating the decorum required of congresscritters when ever the president Of the united states addresses the joint sessions of congress.

But then again he is from the state where;

South Carolina, where the Nullification Crisis even predates their traitorous activity during the civil war.

South Carolina first shots fired to start the Civil War

South Carolina Rep Preston Brooks almost beats US Senator Charles Sumner to death on Senate floor after Sumner gives Speech against slavery.

South Carolina gave us Senator Strom Thurmond…need I say more?

South Carolina ranks 48 out of 50 on the Americas Health ranking IE it is near the bottom.

South Carolina, where Karl Rove used the untrue smear that John McCain fathered a African-American baby, so bush could recover from his loss in New Hampshire, to use the bigoted racists (like the congresscritter) to win there.

South Carolina Rep Joe Wilson first representative to call first black president of the untied states a liar from the floor of the house!

But then again South Carolina ranks 47th in the nation on both the ACT and SAT, can’t expect too much from them can we?

After all they have re-elected congresscritteryou lie more then once.

Too bad the republicans haven’t been honest or truthful through out the debate,

They hyped disinformation and out right lies,

Sent people to deny Americans their first amendment rights to speak, when their congress critter held town halls,

They spread lies through the corporate owned MSM all for the continued obscene profits of the same corporations which have created the health care mess we are currently facing ….

What a bunch of WATBs, but then again they have always been that also.

As an addendum,

Opponent of ‘You Lie’ Rep. raises $405,000 in a day

This seems to be congresscritter you lie(R-idiotville) macaca moment.

The donor page is available here.

Now it is $596,029 9:10 PM

Cut and ran before the job was finished ……..

Well before she quit here is how SHE ran the health care system of Alaska,

State programs intended to help disabled and elderly Alaskans with daily life — taking a bath, eating dinner, getting to the bathroom — are so poorly managed, the state cannot assure the health and well-being of the people they are supposed to serve, a new federal review found.

The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements. No other state in the nation is under such a moratorium, according to a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

In the meantime, frail and vulnerable Alaskans who desperately need the help are struggling. One elderly woman is stuck in a nursing home, for lack of care at home. Another woman, suffering from chronic pain and fatigue, said she’s so weak, she often can’t even pop dinner into the microwave.

A particularly alarming finding concerns deaths of adults in the programs. In one 2 1/2 year stretch, 227 adults already getting services died while waiting for a nurse to reassess their needs. Another 27 died waiting for their initial assessment, to see if they qualified for help.

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Well we know where she got the idea of death panels don’t we;

She had them but didn’t staff them so people just died with no help.

She didn’t do her fucking job, making sure the government services SHE was ultimately responsible for were working and people died as a result.

Talk about hypocrisy, she has none;

Her ethics are as lacking as the facts the scared bed wetting brigade uses at their temper tantrum routines at town halls.

Good thing she quit, other wise more people would be left to die while she kept the hill billy from wasilly routine to scare the ignorant reich wing panty waste crowd for her political benefit.

Why do reich wing crooks and liars always end up actually doing what they accuse others of thinking of doing?