Monday, July 18, 2011

Rick Santelli's Chicago Tea Party

Rick Santelli's Chicago Tea Party

Front Yard Gardener Faces New Charges

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 06:57 AM PDT

By: Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com

Despite the fact that city authorities have temporarily dropped a case against Oak Park resident Julie Bass for growing a vegetable garden in her front yard after the story received nationwide attention, Bass has now been hit with a new criminal charge for owning unlicensed dogs, clear evidence says Bass that she's the victim of a vendetta.

After Oak Park City failed in its bid to charge Bass with violating a local ordinance for using her front garden to grow organic vegetables, no doubt put off by gargantuan media attention on the case, they are now pursuing Bass for a similarly ludicrous misdemeanor that carries an identical penalty, 93 days in jail, for owning unlicensed dogs.

However, Bass' dogs are fully licensed, the city is merely reinstating an earlier charge that Bass has already complied with.

This tells us two things – one that the city is blatantly pursuing a malicious vendetta against Bass for making a mockery of their petty ordinances, and two that enforcement officials must have been spying on her before the unlicensed dog charge was invented.

Having dropped the garden case because of the "heat of the spotlight," Bass' attorney Solomon Radner calls the newly reinstated dog charge "a very dirty move," adding that he wouldn't be surprised if both charges were pursued once media attention has waned.

"Charges are dropped for the time being," Radner said. "Based on the games the city has been playing, I would not put it past them to drop the charges just to get the media off their back."

To read more, visit:  http://www.infowars.com/front-yard-gardener-faces-new-charges/

Tea Party Congressman Asks Cokie Roberts: Why Does Compromise Always Mean Raising Taxes Now and Cutting Spending Later?

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 06:51 AM PDT

By: Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters.org

Cokie Roberts got quite a lesson Sunday on why compromise can be a dirty word in politics.

When she asked Congressman Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) why compromise isn’t a “message that you hear,” the Tea Partier responded, “Why is it that compromise always means increasing taxes today and doing cuts in ten years from now?”

COKIE ROBERTS: Congressman, I’m curious though: how does it work politically to say that we won’t raise taxes on billionaires, as the president keeps saying?

CONGRESSMAN RAUL LABRADOR (R-IDAHO): Let’s talk about this. The House majority, the House Republicans passed a budget that actually talked about reforming the tax system. We already agreed to that. We said that we want to make sure that we broaden the base which means getting rid of those loopholes and we want to lower the rates. The difference between the Republicans and Democrats is that the president wants to get rid of these loopholes just to increase spending. That’s all he's wanted to do. Everybody gives him credit right now for being the adult at the table. This is the man who came to congress and asked us to raise the debt ceiling without any spending cuts. This is the man who gave us a budget that didn’t even get a single vote in the Senate, and now she’s saying that he’s "serious," a serious deficit hawk. I think that’s a joke. He has never been a deficit hawk.

Moments later, Roberts pressed the issue:

ROBERTS: When Congressman Labrador says, "We were elected to do something," what I think the American people keep saying is, "You were elected to do something: to come together, to make compromises and make government work. And why isn’t that a message that you hear?

LABRADOR: Why is it that compromise always means increasing taxes today and doing cuts in ten years from now? I think that's the problem the problem with the American people. The American people will not stand for that. I think we can do something, we can come to the table and actually work together. But it is pretty clear that the president is unwilling to, to not increase taxes. He’s unwilling to do something serious. I want to know what his plan is. So far, we have no idea what his plan is. He has not put anything on the table. All he talks is, they have all used the same phrase: "grand compromise." Because that’s poll tested. Apparently the polls, people like that. But it doesn’t mean anything.

To read more, visit:  http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/07/17/tea-party-congressman-schools-cokie-roberts-why-does-compromise-alway

SEIU MEMBERS FOUND ‘NOT GUILTY’ IN BRUTAL BEATING OF TEA PARTY ACTIVIST

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 06:51 AM PDT

By: Tiffany Gabbay, TheBlaze.com

The blogosphere brings us a story, or rather, update about Kenneth Gladney. You might recall Gladney, the conservative Tea Party activist who, back in 2009, was called racial slurs, beaten and hospitalized by Rep. Russ Carnahan's SEIU supporters while handing out "Don't Tread on Me" flags at a health care town hall.

Although weakened from the beating, Gladney, a cancer survivor, attended the protest against SEIU violence following his attack in St. Louis.

In April 2010 the SEIU members accused of assaulting Gladney pleaded not guilty.

But as the case went to trial Monday — nearly two years after the incident — justice might not have been served for the Tea Party hero. CBS reports the two SEIU members charged with the crime were found "not guilty":

A Clayton jury acquits two union members of assault in an August 2009 brawl outside a town hall forum.

During the two day trial Kenneth Gladeny testified that SEIU member Elston McCowan through the first punch, and then another union member Perry Molens jumped in.

But the defense told the jury that Gladney threw the first blow and that video taken of the fight shows only the end of it, not the beginning.

To read more, visit:  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/seiu-members-found-not-guilty-in-brutal-beating-of-tea-party-activist/
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