Paul Ryan Can't Keep His Trap Shut!

Former vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan continues to say some pretty dumb shit!

"[I believe that] more people depend on government!" Says the former vice president, Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin).

So if you're still waiting on federal assistance of Hurricane Sandy relief, federal aid for college, or subsidies for agricultural disaster, don't look at the Republican Party as the saviors of your ills.

The former vice presidential nominee was the running mate of the perennial loser Mitt Romney.

Romney and Ryan both got their clocks clean President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.

In his first interview since fading into irrelevance, the Wisconsin congressman outlines his party's plan for dealing with the looming sequester and how to win back voters.

The Washington Post reports that Ryan was among the attendees at President Obama’s second inauguration Monday, which would have been his swearing-in as vice president had he and perennial loser Mitt Romney prevailed in November.

Ryan, who chairs the House Budget Committee and is the face of the GOP’s efforts to reform Social Security and Medicare, has responded to Obama’s comments on entitlement programs in his inaugural address. Ryan told radio host Laura Ingraham on Tuesday that Obama mischaracterized Republicans’ positions with his reference to a “nation of takers.”

On Wednesday, Ryan told reporters the GOP would insist on spending cuts to control the budget this year.
Ryan has given several taped interviews in Wisconsin since the election. “Meet the Press” said Ryan will weigh in on upcoming budget battles and assess the future of the Republican party in his interview with Gregory.

“I think the sequester is going to happen,” Ryan said on NBC News’s “Meet The Press.”

The sequester — which is the roughly $1.2 trillion worth of automatic spending cuts set to soon hit the Pentagon and other government agencies if lawmakers don’t act — is likely to happen, Ryan said, because of opposition from Democrats to Republican proposals for replacement cuts.

“We think these sequesters will happen because the Democrats have opposed our efforts to replace those cuts with others and they've offered no alternatives,” Ryan said.

Ryan also echoed other GOP leaders as he took a stern posture against Democratic calls to discuss the need for new revenue in the nation’s budget, arguing that the matter was addressed in the recent deal to avert the “fiscal cliff,” which raised tax rates for the wealthiest Americans.

“Well, we already offered that back in the fiscal cliff negotiations. The point is, though, the president got his additional revenues. So that’s behind us,” Ryan said.

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Obama Bucked By Federal Court On Appointments!

President Barack Obama renominates Richard Cordray as the Consumer Protection Board chief!

With the Republican minority putting legal limbo on the nominations of appointees to the president's cabinet, he made a couple of recess appointments. The federal courts concluded that the president's usage of recess appointments has come under fire.

The U.S. Federal Appeals Court in the District of Columbia ruled against the president on his recess appointments. They found the appointments were unconstitutional.

The Labor Relations Board was filled last year after the president made a recess appointment when the senate wasn't in session. But due to the fact that Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) trying to keep the senate running even during holidays, the president overstepped his bounds as an executive leader. According to the court, aided by a complaint from the Landmark Legal Foundation, a conservative front group sponsored by controversial talk radio agitator Mark Levin, they've managed to get a victory against the Consumer Protection Agency.

His shadow group battles the public sector unions and labor rights groups. Landmark co-sponsored with the National Right To Work Legal Foundation to protest the president's appointments. Noel Canning v. NLRB ruled in their favor. The White House will appeal this decision and it will fast track for the U.S. Supreme Court.

The brief was filed for four workers who are receiving free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys in cases pending before the Board.

Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation, issued the following statement in light of the court's decision:

"Today, the court agreed with Foundation attorneys: Barack Obama's so-called recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board clearly violate the U.S. Constitution. Because the U.S. Senate was not in recess the President could not make the appointments to the NLRB without Senate confirmation.

"As a result, the Board has lacked a quorum since January 3, 2012, and under a U.S. Supreme Court precedent established in 2010, the court's ruling invalidates the Board's biased and decidedly pro-Big Labor rulings since that time. The court's decision in Noel Canning is a victory for independent-minded workers who have received unjust treatment at the hands of the pro-Big Labor NLRB and will hopefully serve as a persuasive example to other federal courts deciding on the validity of Obama's purported recess appointments."

This battle is far from over! The president and his legal team will take this to the Supreme Court.

The ruling also raises questions about the recess appointment of former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray to head the fledgling Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and about the actions taken by the agency during his tenure, including major new rules governing the mortgage industry. Obama named Cordray at the same time as the NLRB nominees, and his appointment is the subject of a separate lawsuit in D.C. federal court.

The White House criticized the court ruling. “The decision is novel and unprecedented, and it contradicts 150 years of practice by Democratic and Republican administrations,” White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters Friday. “We respectfully but strongly disagree with the ruling.”

Presidents from both parties have made hundreds of recess appointments when the Senate has failed to act on nominations. Ronald Reagan holds the record with 243. Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, made 105, and it was during his term that Senate Democrats began holding pro-forma sessions, some lasting less than a minute, when the Senate went on break. They contended that that kept the Senate in session and did not allow Bush to make recess appointments.

Republicans took up the practice when Obama was elected. But Obama decided to challenge it in January 2012, when the Senate was on a 20-day holiday but holding pro-forma sessions every three business days to block presidential action.

Ye, Without Sin!

North Carolina politicians are proposing a ban on lottery sales to people who receive public assistance.

Don't you love it when Republicans say that the BIG BAD GOVERNMENT meddles in your life?

Yet these are the very same Republicans who want to meddle in the affairs of those who they claim to be "gubmint leeches". Republicans want to meddle in a minority voting precinct. They want to meddle between women's legs. And they want to push Christianity among those who don't follow. They want to meddle in a same sex couple's bedroom. These people want to see you piss in a cup to get unemployment, food and housing assistance if you lost your home in a natural disaster.

Another old, fat, ignorant, Republican who's out of touch with the rest of reality. Meet North Carolina's Paul Stam! Stam is the guy who wants to stop welfare recipients from playing the lottery! 

Yet these people continue to elect those who benefit from being "entitled" to punish the poor and needy!

This is the ongoing culture war in the United States. It's sponsored by the corporations that pollute our air, ground and water. It's sponsored by the religious leaders who chastise you for being a single parent, the family who is poor or the even that guy who's gay! It's sponsored by the media who allows the daily rambles of talk radio and online blogs to be divisive and downright racist towards fellow Americans. It's sponsored by the entitled who believe that the best way to help the poor is to drive them even poorer and help them wipe each other out with drugs, disease and gun violence.

They can't stand a Black president!

They can't stand a reasonable solution to curbing gun violence in America!

White conservatives spend most of their time collecting welfare, disability, social security and privileges based solely on race, economic and political standings as well. 

Most White conservative males are obsessed with firearms and kill in the name of a religion. 

When White conservative males see Blacks, Hispanics/Latinos, or even Muslims with firearms, welfare, a better job, or even running for politics: These people scream at the top of their lungs about how it's our faults for most of America's problems! They want control over us, but never control over them!

Mediaite has the goods on the next idiotic move by the culture warriors. A bill being introduced will ban any citizen in the state who receives financial assistance from playing the state lottery.

It was sponsored by North Carolina politician by Paul Stam.

Guess what party he represents?

Let's Play!

Raleigh-Durham’s ABC affiliate WTVD-TV is reporting that lawmakers in that state are proposing legislation that would bar people on welfare or in bankruptcy from purchasing lottery tickets.

As reporter Anna Laurel explains, “the lawmaker drafting this legislation told us today that the vendor selling the lottery ticket would be penalized if they know the person is on welfare or in bankruptcy, which has some questioning if this law really solves any problems.”

“We’re giving them welfare to help them live, and yet by selling them a ticket, we’re taking away their money that is there to provide them the barest of necessities.”

But as the Raleigh news team discovered, local lottery vendors have serious concerns. One clerk was quoted as saying, “I don't feel comfortable to ask my customers what their financial status is… it’s not my business.”

Meanwhile, North Carolina’s NAACP president Reverend William Barber said that while his organization doesn't “agree with the lottery to start with” he would prefer to have State representative Stam focus on larger issues “Rather than Mr. Stam having a side argument, ask him to stop blocking labor rights for poor people and working people. Ask him to have a real conversation about real wage.”

So once again, here's your government intervening in your lives. You don't want this right?

Republican Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal is right on one thing! The Republican Party has to stop being the "stupid" party! But this message continues to fall on deaf ears!
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A little factoid for those who aren't familiar with the Mega Millions and Powerball.

Did you know that the largest jackpot ever to be recorded came in April 2012 when Mega Millions had a jackpot for $657 million? It was won in three states and became one of the world's biggest jackpots, ever!

Mega Millions is a multi-state lottery that is played in 41 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The game cost $1 per unit. Add the Megaplier to the prize and you could multiply your winnings. The minimum amount of the prize is $12 million. The prize does rise upon no winners. Sometimes it will stay the same depending on lottery turnout. When the jackpot cross over $200 million, the prize will increase without notice.

Powerball last year broke a record too! It had a record jackpot of $594 million. It was won in three states!

Powerball is a multi-state lottery that is played in 41 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The game cost $2 per unit. Add the PowerPlay and you will have a set increase in your earnings. The minimum amount of the prize is $40 million. The prize does rise upon no winners. Sometimes it will stay the same depending on lottery turnout. When the jackpot cross over $175 million, the prize will increase without notice.

These tickets cannot be cancelled.

The times of a Mega Millions drawing comes at 10:59 pm EST (Tuesday and Friday).

The times of a Powerball drawing comes at 10:59 pm EST (Wednesday and Saturday).

Caribou Buh-Bye!

Former Alaskan governor and conservative agitator Sarah Palin has ended her dealings with Fox News. The conservative leaning network was hoping the former vice presidential nominee would run for president.

It didn't turn out that way. The Republicans were hoping for a miracle in the winds, but sadly they've gotten the perennial loser Mitt Romney as their nominee. The conservative media was hopelessly defending such a moron.

Sarah Palin, husband Todd, her daughter Bristol and her baby daddy Levi Johnston made the news rounds for the last few years.

Todd Palin was trying to build a name for himself. The former first dude endorsed Newt Gingrich in the presidential elections and was hoping that he would get some name recognition.

Bristol Palin became famous for being pregnant during the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. She gave birth to her son. Bristol became a spokesperson for teenage abstinence. She eventually landed on ABC's Dancing With The Stars. She competed with celebrities such as Kristie Alley, Apolo Anton Ohno, Kyle Massey, David Hasselhoff and Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino.

The father, Levi Johnston became a cultural figure for all proud rednecks! He gotten tired of the Palin family and decided to ditch them. He went on to somewhat "endorse" Barack Obama for president. He also broken up with Bristol. He went on to having another child with younger woman and married her last year.

Sarah Palin was close friends with Sean Hannity, Greta Van Susteren, Glenn Beck, reality star Kate Gosselin, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) and John Ziegler.

I guess she and Roger Ailes aren't friends anymore. To make it clear, Roger Ailes wanted to hire on Palin solely to groom her for a potential run for president. When she declined to run, the network was deflated of a viable candidate. Palin announced on conservative agitator Mark Levin's radio show to declare that she's not running for president, angering Roger Ailes.

The New York Magazine reports that Ailes was so frustrated he almost wanted to fire her on the spot. He later would tell the New York press that the former governor "had no chance" of becoming a president.

The Fox News chief wasn't angry about the decision itself. Rather, he was livid that Palin made the October 5 announcement on Mark Levin's conservative talk-radio program, robbing Fox News of an exclusive and a possible ratings bonanza. Fox was relegated to getting a follow-up interview with Palin on Greta Van Susteren's 10 p.m. show, after the news of Palin's decision had been drowned out by Steve Jobs's death.

After the announcement, he called Fox's executive vice-president Bill Shine into a meeting. Shine is the network's principal point of contact with Palin. Ailes told him she had made a big mistake. "I paid her for two years to make this announcement on my network," Ailes pointedly told Shine. Sources described the episode on condition of anonymity, given the sensitivity of the relationships.

Palin is said to have made her announcement on Levin's show because she's been upset that Fox News has given a platform to Karl Rove, one of her principal critics. "She isn't happy with Karl," one Palin adviser told me. "From day one, he hasn't been very nice." Levin had become Palin's biggest booster in the conservative commentariat, and Palin is known for rewarding loyalists, and punishing her detractors.

Roger Ailes had put his chips on seeing President Barack Obama being defeated. It didn't turn out that way. He fired Sarah Palin from Fox News. He's looking forward to firing Dick Morris. Karl Rove was rehired to Fox News this year. Rove is given limited speaking time on Fox News, though.

Shine was deputized to handle the matter. He spoke with Palin's agent, Bob Barnett, and told him that Ailes was furious with Palin's move and that she was at risk of being "benched." Fox still had to pay her, but they didn't have to give her airtime. Barnett spoke with Palin and told her about the problem. After she apologized, he called Shine back and told him that Palin recognized the misstep.

But tensions between Palin and Fox haven't subsided. Ailes, who told Newsweek that he hired Palin when she was "hot," clearly hoped she would boost ratings. But beyond her prime-time commentary, Palin hasn't turned into the television asset Ailes had hoped. Palin's contract is up in 2013 and it's became clear that the current fracas will mean the end of her future on Fox News. Part of her appeal as a pundit was that every appearance on the network was turbocharged by the "will-she-or-won't-she run" speculation. She's now given up that chip to play.

But Palin knows that she still has value as a gatekeeper to her grassroots base. A Palin adviser told me that she is planning to make an endorsement for a candidate in 2012. Palin, being Palin, is keeping it tightly held. "I have an idea of who it is," the adviser said, "but I'm not telling." What's clear is that Palin would be smart to make that announcement on Fox News.

Conservative agitator John Ziegler was Sarah Palin's closest friends and defenders. He went out of his way to help her. Ziegler was disappointed in the former governor. He made a controversial film in 2009 called Media Malpractice: How Obama Won The Election? The film claimed that supporters of the president were not informed and blinded by the "liberal media" bias against Senator John McCain (R-Arizona). McCain ran failed presidential campaign. Mitt Romney would later find himself as a failed presidential candidate.

Even her biggest defender John Ziegler turned sour on her. He wrote on The Huffington Post complaining about the former governor bubble bust. Ziegler complain that ever since her resignation, Palin has pretended to be a Tea Party Republican, endorsed three losing senate candidates in very winnable races, done a cheesy reality show, joined a partisan network, pretended to run for president for attention, and endorsed the corrupt Newt Gingrich for president as well as the absurd concept of a brokered convention.

He added that in a remotely rationally world, she has disqualified herself from ever holding legitimate elected office again. She is no longer a legitimate political figure. She is just a politically based and self-interested entertainer like Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and Bill Maher.

Unfortunately, far too few of my fellow conservatives seem to want to understand this obvious reality. Roger Ailes isn't always right, be he sure is here. Palin's Today Show stint made it clear that her Fox days may be numbered. Palin strayed away from Fox News numerous times. She appeared on NBC's Today show to compete with the rising Good Morning America. GMA was trying to muscle in Today's ratings when they've reintroduced Katie Couric on the program. NBC fired back with Sarah Palin being a feature on the network.

Ailes was so mad, he considered pulling her off the air entirely until her $1 million annual contract expires in 2013.

The Tea Party lost its queen.

I guess this time it's true. After three years as a paid contributor for the channel, FNC and the former Republican vice presidential nominee have decided to cut ties.

A source close to Palin told Real Clear Politics that it was [Roger Ailes'] the governor's decision not to renew their contract.

The Tea Party Queen is now joining perennial losers Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, and birther queen Orly Taitz as washed up politicians.

I guess Palin could blame President Barack Obama for all her failures. After all, they ran on this game until he won reelection.

The best of Sarah Palin will be explained in this video.

Red Sea!

The Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, The Raw Story, The Atlantic, Addicting Info, and Think Progress are concerned with Republican vote rigging and suppression strategies. The Republican governors signed off gerrymandering laws that give the Republicans a stronger district favor. The Democrat may have a strong disadvantage in the 2014 and 2016 U.S. Elections. 

Republicans control 32 of the states/territorial governorships. The Democrats control 21 of the state/territorial governorships. There are 2 independents who serve as governors and one independent who serve as the elected Washington, D.C. mayor.

The Republicans have a strong advantage in governorships. Most of the governors have stuck to their "principles" of union busting, not enacting Obamacare, fighting federal funds for infrastructure repairs to roads and bridges, high speed rail and shipping channels.

The Republicans had a strong opportunity to take back the White House with their shady redistricting. We could have said hello to President Mitt Romney. Thank god that perennial loser didn't win the election.

With Republicans being swept back into power in 2010, the consequences were a result of their hands on approach to congressional seating. 

Remember back in 2010 when the Tea Party got the phobia about the U.S. Census. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota), Congressman Trent Franks (R-Arizona) and former Texas Republican congressman Ron Paul were making such a fuss about the government's civic duty to count the nation's growing population.

The Republicans have a serious issue with minorities and women. So instead of the broad coalition of individuals (minorities and women), the Republicans will play to the social culture warriors (WHITE, OLD, MEN) who doomed them in the last two elections.

The Atlantic's David Graham reports that Republicans are green lighting the winner-takes-all strategy. GOP chairman Reince Priebus favors the idea is to get state legislatures to change the way they allocate electoral votes. Instead of a winner-take-all scheme, which most states use, they want to institute a system where votes could be split between candidates. Now, on face, that might not seem so bad. It would mean that very Republican areas in very Democratic states -- think Orange County, California -- and very Democratic areas in Republican states -- think Austin, Texas -- wouldn't be essentially throwing their presidential votes away. 

Certainly, there are longstanding critiques of the Electoral College. Recently they've mostly come from the left. The 2000 election, in which Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote, was a galvanizing moment. And there are plans to try to rectify the oddness of the Electoral College. For example, the National Popular Vote plan is a push to get states to sign on to a scheme in which they'd award all their electors to the winner of the most votes nationwide. The plan would only take effect once states representing at least half of the electoral votes have joined, guaranteeing its effectiveness.

Romney supporters packing it up!

So this GOP plan is a smart move, driven by politics but with a result that would better reflect the will of the majority, right? Not quite. Here's the twist: The proposal would award electoral votes based on who wins Congressional districts. (That's already how Maine and Nebraska work, but the two states only account for nine of the 538 total electoral votes.)

From a Republican perspective, this is genius, but it's evil genius. It would allow the party to gain electoral votes in swing states and near swing states like Ohio, Colorado, and Michigan that went for Obama in the last two elections but have large Republican constituencies. But you may also recall that the GOP maintained its majority in the House in November but actually won fewer votes than Democrats did in congressional elections overall. This is because the GOP has been extremely effective at gerrymandering House districts. One reason the 2010 election mattered so much is that the Tea Party wave handed control of redistricting after the 2010 Census to Republican-led legislatures in many states. And they didn't waste the opportunity. Now the lines won't be redrawn again until after the next census, in 2020. 

With Virginia playing the game so well, it's possible that many other states will go there soon. 

[So] clearly this isn't a plan that would solve the problem of an undemocratic Electoral College. But it is a plan that would forestall Republican demographic doom. Now, whether instituting these laws would be politically viable is a different question. Even if a few states adopted it, it could change the political landscape. 

And moreover, the plan would disenfranchise voters. Which ones? Mostly the minority ones in cities who helped Obama win this year. Most urban districts are going to vote Democratic, and most rural ones will go Republican. But if votes are quarantined in a single Congressional district, it doesn't matter if the turnout in a city is 50 percent, 70 percent, or 100 percent; there's only one electoral vote on the table, plus the two at-large electoral votes. This takes almost all the venom out of the formidable Democratic get-out-the-vote operation.

There's a certain nihilism here. One of the major storylines of the 2012 election was voter-ID laws and voting hours. While ostensibly formulated to stop voter fraud, there wasn't much voter fraud to stop, and the changed hours tended to affect mostly poorer and urban (and therefore Democratic) voters. In some cases, Republican officials put the changes in starkly honest ways. A Pennsylvania legislator said a voter-ID law would help Mitt Romney win the state (he was wrong), while an Ohio official said voting hours shouldn't be shaped to accommodate the "urban -- read African-American -- voter-turnout machine." For a variety of reasons, however, these pushes didn't work: courts struck down some laws, and voters were willing to wait in long lines to cast their ballots.

But hey, if disenfranchisement didn't work once, just try it again, right? It's not like the GOP's standing with minority and urban voters can get much worse.

So in David Graham's piece on Republicans trying to steal elections is basically simple: If we can't win by the votes of the American people, we'll win by the American governance!

Let's repeat the words of wisdom for the Republicans and their conservative allies:

Republicans continue nominating OLD, WHITE, TIRED LOOKING, IGNORANT, BIGOTS as their leaders. They continue to rally EXTREMISTS with coded language and inflammatory rhetoric!

Conservatives obsess with calling those who supported the president, low information voters and uninformed!

It seems like this last election informed millions of Americans to vote against the Republican nominee, the perennial loser Mitt Romney. It didn't help Republicans win the Senate. It only gave Republicans a small majority in the House of Representatives.

If you consider Americans low information voters and the like: 

Get use to losing because it's not us that's uninformed!

It's likely you! 

I will repeat this over and over again until people notice!

Boehner: Obama's A Bully!

Weeping speaker John Boehner smokes a square! The Ohio Republican Congressman thinks Obama going to advance his agenda and Republicans fear they can't stop it!

Now you tell me who's acting like a bully?

The Speaker Weeper of The House, Republican Congressman John Boehner of Ohio sobs up over the president aggressive campaign against them. The weeper believes that President Barack Obama wants to annihilate the Republican Party.

Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is the Minority Leader. McConnell stated that the president's inaugural speech brought back an era of liberalism. He vows to block any legislation in regards to gun control.

Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is the son of perennial loser Ron Paul, the former Texas congressman. Paul is a kookspiracy senator. He's already testing his presidential credentials. He's gone as far to call the president a "king", and saying that he would have fired Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over her handling of the Benghazi consulate attack.

Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) the former vice presidential nominee to perennial loser Mitt Romney was blaming the American people for them being easily swayed by the president. He also contributed the electoral loss due to poor communication from Mitt Romney and people weren't hip to their ideas.

Congressman Steve Stockman (R-Texas) threatens impeachment over the president's proposals to curbing gun violence. Using the same theme of Senator Paul, Stockman is calling the president a "king" and "dictator".

Congressman Paul Broun (R-Georgia) once had allowed a constituent say assassination in his presence now goes even further with the notion that the president swears to the Soviet Union. The congressman made a snark remark about the president's constitutional powers when it comes to

The conservative media was upset over the "rolling eyes" of First Lady Michelle Obama. She rolled her eyes at Weeper Boehner and it went viral. The Republicans think it was undignified for her to do something like this.

With comments from those in the Republican Party and its allies in the conservative movement, one could think they're doing a fine job of destroying themselves with such actions.

Progress is happening and Republicans fear it. They fear it with a passion.

The Republican leader argued that Obama’s ambitious second-term agenda could not be enacted unless Republicans suffer serious losses in the next mid-term elections.

“[G]iven what we heard yesterday about the president’s vision for his second term, it’s pretty clear to me and should be clear to all of you that he knows he can’t do any of that as long as the House is controlled by Republicans,” Boehner said. “So we’re expecting over the next 22 months to be the focus of this administration as they attempt to annihilate the Republican Party. And let me tell you, I do believe that is their goal. To just shove us in the dustbin of history.”

Republicans will need to defend themselves in a “very hostile environment,” Boehner said, by thinking strategically about when and how to confront the president.

“Where’s the ground that we fight on? Where’s the ground that we retreat on? Where are the smart fights?

Where are the dumb fights that we have to stay away from?” he asked. “We've got a lot of big decisions to make.”

His caucus just ducked a fight with President Obama and Democrats by suspending the debt limit for three months. But hours before that vote, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told reporters that the House GOP was still prepared to shut down the government if Democrats do not agree to new spending cuts.

Obama will have to confront the polarization on Capitol Hill in attempting to move forward with deficit reduction, immigration reform, climate change legislation and gun control. Boehner's comments suggest that Obama should not expect much support from his caucus in achieving those goals.

The speech was closed to press, but video and a transcript were put online. The comments come at about 9:55 in the above video.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in 2010 that “the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” (Democrats often inaccurately say that McConnell voiced that goal as soon as the president took office).

Give 'Em Hill....

Outgoing U.S. Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton gives a passionate response to the controversy ginned up by the Republicans over the terrorist attack in Libya. Sparked by the controversial online video that mocked Islam and the Prophet Mohammad, a group affiliated with al-Qaeda took an opportunity to attack the Libyan consulate embassy.

Those dolts Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) are pissed that Clinton handed their asses to them.

Facing expected scrutiny from Republicans during her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Clinton appeared to take exception to Johnson's pointed inquiry into the State Department's initial report that the attack had been mounted spontaneously as a reaction to an anti-Islam YouTube video.

"With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans," Clinton responded, raising her voice at Johnson, who continued to interrupt her. "Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk last night who decided to kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator."

Clinton continued, defending the State Department's efforts in the wake of the assault. "Honestly, I will do my best to answer your questions about this, but the fact is people were trying their best in real time to get to the best information," she said.

Earlier in the hearing, Clinton spoke about the aftermath of the attack, her voice cracking as she recalled meeting the families of the four Americans killed, including that of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) gets into a testy dispute with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Her testimony focused not only on the attack but the growing threat from extremists in northern Africa, pointing out that Libya was not an isolated incident.

"The Arab revolutions have scrambled power dynamics and shattered security forces across the region," she said. "And instability in Mali has created an expanding safe haven for terrorists who look to extend their influence and plot further attacks of the kind we saw just last week in Algeria."

She said the Obama administration is pressing for a greater understanding of the hostage-taking and rescue effort there that left three Americans dead.

In a packed hearing room, Clinton parried tough questions from Republicans, offering a detailed timeline of events on Sept. 11 and the Obama administration efforts to aid the Americans in Libya while simultaneously dealing with protests in Cairo and other countries.

She also took House Republicans to task for recently stripping $1 billion in security aid from the hurricane relief bill.

Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is the son of former presidential candidate and congressman Ron Paul. The kookspiracy senator wants to rally his presidential credentials. The Benghazi scandal has Republicans wanting heads to roll. Paul stated to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that he would of have "fired" her if he was the president.   

In something of a valedictory, Clinton noted her robust itinerary in four years and her work, nearly 1 million miles and 112 countries.

"My faith in our country and our future is stronger than ever. Every time that blue and white airplane carrying the words 'United States of America' touches down in some far-off capital, I feel again the honor it is to represent the world's indispensable nation. And I am confident that, with your help, we will continue to keep the United States safe, strong, and exceptional."

Clinton is the sole witness at back-to-back hearings before the Senate and House foreign policy panels on the September raid.

Clinton had been scheduled to testify before Congress last month, but an illness, a concussion and a blood clot near her brain forced her to postpone her appearance.

Absent from the hearing was Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts), the man tapped to succeed Clinton.

His swift Senate confirmation is widely expected. Kerry's confirmation hearing is scheduled for Thursday.

Clinton's testimony was focusing on the Libya attack after more than three months of Republican charges that the Obama administration ignored signs of a deteriorating security situation there and cast an act of terrorism as mere protests over an anti-Muslim video in the heat of a presidential election. Washington officials suspect that militants linked to al-Qaeda carried out the attack.

"It's been a cover-up from the beginning," Sen. John McCain, (R-Arizona), the newest member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Tuesday.

Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire), Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina). These three senators were pestering the UN Secretary Susan Rice over Benghazi. They've given Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a hostile testimony as well.

Politics play an outsized role in any appearance by Clinton, who sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 and is the subject of constant speculation about a possible bid in 2016. The former first lady and New York senator -- a polarizing figure dogged by controversy -- is about to end her four-year tenure at the State Department with high favorable ratings.

A poll early last month by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found 65 percent of Americans held a favorable impression of Clinton, compared with 29 percent unfavorable.

On the panel at the hearing were two possible 2016 Republican presidential candidates -- Florida's Marco Rubio and Kentucky's Rand Paul, also a new member of the committee.

Clinton did little to quiet the presidential chatter earlier this month when she returned to work at the State Department after her illness. On the subject of retirement, she said, "I don't know if that is a word I would use, but certainly stepping off the very fast track for a little while."

With respect to Benghazi, the State Department review singled out the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and the Bureau of Near East Affairs, saying there appeared to be a lack of cooperation and confusion over protection at the mission in Benghazi. The report described a security vacuum in Libya after rebel forces toppled the decades-long regime of strongman Moammar Gadhafi.

The report made 29 recommendations to improve diplomatic security, particularly at high-threat posts.

Asked for the number of State Department employees fired for their handling of Benghazi, State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said four people were put on administrative leave. They included Eric Boswell, who resigned from the position of assistant secretary of diplomatic security.

But Nuland declined to say if Boswell and the others still are working for the department in some capacity.

Don't Like A Gov't Policy: SCREAM HITLER!

Sean Hannity, the guy responsible for President Barack Obama winning reelection.

The agitators of the media are fighting the 20th Century yet again! Still stuck on memories of 80 years ago and not the present day! Wishing they could return to the days when all the presidents were of one color!

Once again the media is showing the world that it only takes a few rants to rake in the profits!

It's not news or informative talk! It's pure name calling and vindictive actions among a bunch of bitter losers.

The gun control debate is very contentious!

Those in the media are taking an advancement of payment for who could outcrazy one another.

Talking Points Memo, a liberal investigative blog put together a collection of Fox News personalities and the controversial agitator Sean Hannity running on the HITLER meme.

President Barack Obama issue executive orders to curbing gun violence post Sandy Hook. These orders have the National Rifle Association and Republicans in a frenzy. They're calling the president's actions treasonous, impeachable and downright tyrannical. Some of these people on these networks compare the president to Hitler, Mao, Stalin, and Hussein.

Say if I could say something three thousand times and generate a talk point, would have my own talk show on a cable news channel?

I've mention Sean Hannity and Matt Drudge frequently on this blog. These two are the most annoying members of the conservative media. They've played every card from the bottom of the deck.

I want them to continue to hurt the Republican Party. Because of these two men, the president won reelection and set the course for an aggressive agenda. President Barack Obama had enough of the Republican obstruction and he's willing to box them in with issues they've agreed on in the past.

Sean Hannity's ratings are falling. He's still a reigning in at 1.2 million viewers a night but the competitor from the rival network MSNBC is catching up. Rachel Maddow, the liberal agitator of the network is bring more informative talk and the partisan rancor.

I've stated this last year, that Rachel Maddow will surpass Sean Hannity in ratings by the late of 2013.

It's going to happen soon.

Sean Hannity's right wing carnival of agitation celebrates four years on the air now. Long past the days of him and liberal agitator Alan Colmes, the Hannity show allows Dick Morris, Michelle Malkin, Jesse Lee Peterson, Brent Bozell, Ann Coulter, Karl Rove, and numerous other right wing agitators go H.A.M. on the president and his allies in the progressive movement.

It's working in the network's favor. With a second term of President Barack Obama, Fox News is working harder to stay relevant. They're waiting for a controversy that could lead to impeachment. Fox News is considered conservative. Fox News will continue to create controversies when there's no need for them. They will give Republicans and conservative agitators a voice on their network. After all, some of these conservative agitators are banned from the mainstream news outlets for controversial statements.

The cable news racket is looking for success in the second term.

MSNBC is considered liberal by most viewers watching. The network will continue to find agitators who favor the president and hate the Republicans.

CNN is caught in the middle but most look upon it a liberal. Anderson Cooper, Piers Morgan, Don Lemon, Soledad O'Brien and other commentators make the case for rancor from both the left and the right.

Talking Points Memo reports that if you have been watching Fox News in recent weeks, you will have heard a lot of discussion about Hitler. Guests have been lining up to equate the gun legislation proposed by President Obama with Hitler, Nazis and 1930s Germany in general.

Since the Sandy Hook shooting, Fox guests have been among the loudest voices saying that any new restrictions will decimate the Second Amendment and lead to government oppression not seen since Hitler, Mao or Stalin.

If you seriously believe that President Barack Obama is Adolf Hitler, you're out of the mainstream.

Barack Obama was elected twice in two landslide elections. He is the first Black president and one of the world's favored leaders. Hitler's governance was compared by most Western nations as a dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology. He was a dictator who wanted a supremacy of Europe. Hitler's supremacist and racially motivated policies resulted in the deaths of an estimated 50 million people during World War II, including 6 million Jews and 5 million "non-Aryans" whose systematic extermination was ordered by him and his close subordinates. Hitler never took guns. He ordered his military to use them in a global wipeout.

Lip-Sync?

The B'sync Controversy!

President Barack Obama's second term controversies begins with the nation concerned about....

A pop singer!

Beyonce the wife of rapper/media mogul Jay-Z was performing the National Anthem. But the talk of the nation is, did she lip-sync our nation's pledge?

A person in the U.S. Marine band confirms that they've lowered the playing of their instruments for a voice over of the singer. Captain Eric Flanagan stated that the Presidential Inaugural Committee was asked to performed with the singer. They couldn't make the connection due to constraints with the singer and the plan was "ill-advised" for the major event.

Some members say that she didn't lip-sync.

Beyonce's representatives won't comment on the performance.

The singer and Jay-Z had an opportunity to be at the inaugural events. James Taylor and Kelly Clarkson were also in attendance and performed for President Barack Obama.

If the singer would have the nerve to lip-sync her own voice it's a embarrassment to the nation, says the conservative media.

Conservatives already pounced on the singer for the controversy. Of course, turd flipping agitators in the media went forth to a frenzy.

They've blasted the president for the "fawning praise" from the media!

Conservatives are losers!

They've can't even stomach his second term!

Fox News, the nation's most watched cable network ran the bottom of the barrel on inaugural coverage. CNN won the night for the coverage. It beat out both partisan Fox News and MSNBC.

Media Research Center (via Newsbusters), Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, Breitbart, and the hip-hop media were all on the lip-sync controversy.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden took the oath of office on Sunday, but had the formal event on Monday. The president used the bibles of Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for the swear in.

Man Shot At MLK Parade! This Cant Be Life!

I'm very saddened at the tragedy on the holiday that honor MLK.

Michelle Obama Rolls Her Eyes At Inaugural Lunch To House Speaker!

Michelle Obama stood up to that Republican bigot!

GOP Rage At Obama's Vision!

The era of Ronald Reagan is over! Get over it!

The future is now and Americans are looking forward.

President Barack Obama lays out the second term agenda. This agenda will face a stubborn Congress with many of the newest members affiliated with the extremist Tea Party. The Republicans are rebounding from a disastrous year.

The debt ceiling debate an often contentious issue has the United States hanging on a thread. The borrowing agencies are going to downgrade our nation's credit rating if Congress fails to pass bipartisan budgets.

The Republicans concede that it's possible for the three month extension of the debt ceiling. But they're also getting restless on the U.S. Senate inactive notion to pass a budget. They want domestic austerity cuts to social safety nets. They've harped on the Democratic controlled Senate not passing a budget in years. The Democrats are eager to have Republicans now put revenue (tax increases) on the table. That still has been a sticking point to them. The president has a backlog of nominees for his cabinet and federal courts held in limbo the first term. Republicans have filibustered most of the controversial nominees for the president.

The Republicans will continue to stall nominations in the U.S. Senate with cabinet replacements, federal judges and the potential nomination for a Supreme Court justice if one should retire or die.

The president will waste no time on the immigration reform debate. Seeing that the president carried an overwhelmingly amount of Hispanic/Latino votes, he vowed to make it possible for an immigrant to get a piece of the American Dream.

The president also recognized the needs of the African American voters. The president made note of the chaos in Florida and Ohio where long lines plagued early voters and on day voters. The Republican led legislatures in these states have brought forth rollbacks to early voting and ending same day registrations.

Republican state houses pushed restrictions on early voting, voter identification and removal of same day registration. They believe this was an advantage to helping President Barack Obama. They claim these created "voter fraud" and "voter intimidation". The president vows to keep Americans voting in the Midterm and 2016 presidential elections.

The president also recognized the LGBT community. From the mentions of Stonewall to the acceptance of our friends and family who are gay, the president vows to fight for equal rights for all Americans.

The president has invoked acceptance to gay marriage. Last year, the president went to ABC News with Robin Roberts and stated that he's realized that it's essential to accept a same sex family.

The president also recognized women's rights. Since the passing of the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay law, many American women are hoping the glass ceiling will be broken once and for all. The president vowed that reproductive rights via Roe v. Wade will sustain. The president vowed that he wants to bring family back into the fold. Understanding that American families are unmarried, the president urges Congress to keep safety nets in for families who suffered under the housing and banking crisis.

The president vowed to end the war in Afghanistan by the start of 2014. The president also vowed to capture those involved in the Algeria hostage situation at the BP oil wells. The threat of al-Qaeda isn't over until the president neutralizes top leadership and demands nations to cancel their sponsorship of this organization.

To many progressives, it's was a masterpiece. To conservatives, it's another speech filled with blame Bush, divisiveness, partisan rancor and the like.

The Republicans vow to fight the president at every step. The president vows to fight back even though he still has optimism that bipartisanship can occur.

The beginning of the second term starts. But we know ever since he won the election, his second term began on November 7, 2012 with Republicans are hating along the way!

The way the Republicans acted during the U.S. Election, is a reason for his second term victory.