Saturday, December 27, 2014

Now that Republicans control the Senate, President Obama can no longer hide behind Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). He is going to have to start vetoing some bills in order to protect his existing government expansions. But he can't veto everything.

There are at least six must pass items that Obama and Republicans must come to an agreement on in 2015. And there are at least three other fights the will be simmering through out year but are unlikely to reach any resolution. So, in chronological order, here are the nine biggest fights you can expect to see between Obama and Republicans in 2015:

1. Tax Extenders: On December 19th, Obama signed the Tax Increase Prevention Act, which retroactively extended more than 50 tax credit programs worth almost $42 billion from January 1, 2014 through December 2014. The credits will again expire on New Year's Day 2015, so there will be some pressure on Congress to renew them again right away.

However, Congress has routinely retroactively extended these tax breaks before, and the Internal Revenue Service continues to operate as though they will do so again for 2015, so there will not be a lot of pressure to get this done right away.

2. Department of Homeland Security: The CRomnibus, signed by Obama, on December 16th, funds every agency of the federal government, except the DHS, through September 30th, 2015. But the bill only funds the DHS through February 28th.

House Republican leaders have promised conservatives that they will attach a rider to the DHS funding bill, that will prevent the agency responsible for carrying out Obama's amnesty, the office of United States Citizenship and Immigrations Services, from issuing the work permits Obama promised illegal immigrants. Obama has promised to veto any DHS spending bill that has such a provision. Someone will have to cave.

3. Debt Limit: On February 15th, 2014, Obama signed the Temporary Debt Limit Extension Act, which raised the Treasury Department's borrowing limit through March 15, 2015. The Treasury Department is usually able to fudge some accounts and extend debt limit deadlines, and experts say they should be able to extend this deadline too, possibly all the way through August.

However, considering that Republicans got virtually nothing from Democrats when the debt limit was raised in February, it is highly unlikely Republicans will get anything from Obama in 2015.

4. Doc Fix: The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 created a cost saving mechanism for Medicare called the Sustainable Growth Rate. The law was designed to slow Medicare spending growth by cutting the payments doctor's receive from Medicare. But Congress has routinely undone these cuts and the latest Doc Fix prevented a 25 percent cut in doctor Medicare payments for 2014 at a cost of $21 billion. These cuts are scheduled to, again, take place starting March 31, 2015.

But just like the IRS ignores the expiration of certain tax extenders, the Health and Human Services Department has continued paying doctor's their expected rate despite inaction from Congress. But HHS can only do this for so long. Sometime around the end of March Republicans will have to find a way to pay for another Doc Fix. Since Congress and Obama would need to agree on a pay-for, either through a spending cut or a tax hike, a long-term fix to the problem is highly unlikely.

Pamela Geller, Breitbart: Terror President

pakistan 1Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

If you missed my column at Bretbart, read it here:

Obama Won’t Stand Firm Against the Taliban Even in Wake of Pakistan School Massacre
Pamela Geller, Breitbart, December 24, 2014
When Barack Obama condemned the Taliban’s horrific mass murder of children in a school in Peshawar last week, he referred to “terrorists” who, he said, “have once again shown their depravity.” But he did not name the terrorists. He never mentioned the Taliban. 

     

US gives Pakistan free pass and $1 billion, ignores its ties to jihad terror groups

Obama Contradicts Polls, Says Racial Divisions Reduced

By Cathy Burke / NEWSMAX

The nation is less racially divided today than it was six years ago, President Barack Obama says.

In an excerpt from a 40-minute interview the president gave National Public Radio on Dec. 18, which was made available Friday, Obama asserted that low morale about race relations is exaggerated by the reactions across the country to recent racially charged violence, including the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police and the revenge slayings of two New York City Police Department officers.

Asked whether there's more racial division now than when he took office in 2009, Obama replied, "No," NPR reports.

"I actually think that it's probably, in its day-to-day interactions, less racially divided," he declared.

The full interview will be made available Monday, NPR said.

The president's assertion, however, appears to contradict what recent polls have found.

Fifty-three percent of Americans think race relations have worsened under Obama, compared with 36 percent who say they have stayed the same and 9 percent who say they have improved, a Bloomberg Politics poll found earlier this month.

A more recent survey, by CNN/ORC, found white Americans more likely to believe the criminal justice system is colorblind than nonwhites, with 57 percent of whites saying there's little or no prejudice by police against blacks but only 25 percent of nonwhites holding that view.

The president's optimism on race relations came just a day after first lady Michelle Obama and the president detailed the racial prejudice they'd experienced in their lives.

"I think people forget that we've lived in the White House for six years," the first lady told People magazine.

"Before that, Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the south side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs."

Added the president: "There's no black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn't hand them their car keys."

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Op-ed:
Priorities Overlooked

By: Diane Sori 

Fact: 148 people with 132 of them children were massacred by the Tehreek-e-Taliban at a military-run school in Peshawar, Pakistan, yet in his public statement about the incident Barack HUSSEIN Obama refused to refer to these barbarians as islamic terrorists.

Fact: Al-Qaeda backed Syrian rebels are, even as I write this, beheading Christians then burning their bodies in ovens and Obama NOT only continues to send our taxpayer dollars to them but says nary a word in opposition of said actions.

Fact: Cuba is still an officially designated State Sponsor of Terrorism yet Obama has now said he will normalize relations with the communist country including the easing of economic sanctions as well as opening an American Embassy in Havana.

Fact: The lives of black thugs matter to Obama while white police officers lives apparently do NOT as NOT a word of substance has come out of his mouth about the targeted assassination of two NYC non-black officers by a fellow black muslim brethren thug.

Fact: Obama's true goal of his race-baiting and police-hating agenda appears to be the eventual implementing of a nationalized police force that would do away with NOT only county sheriffs but would consolidate all policing powers under the federal government...translation: under his personal control.

Fact: Obama traded five high-ranking Taliban commanders in exchange for the army deserter and traitor Bowe Bergdahl, whose very action in deserting directly led to the deaths of the eight U.S. military personnel who were sent out to look for him. Then upon his release Obama elevated him to the status of a returning POW so that he could resume his military career and receive more than $300k in back pay all while his parents...especially his Taliban sympathizing father...were given 'red carpet' treatment when invited to the White House.

Facts, facts...just a few of so many pesky little facts being ignored or given mere lip service to by the Obama-controlled media, but one fact that try as they might the media cannot hide is the fact that both their 'anointed one' himself and his administration are NOT friends nor supporters of our military. From cutting America's defense budget, to tying our brave warriors hands so as NOT to kill too many of the brethren, to constantly apologizing for our military's actions every chance he gets, now a new low has been sunk to as the U.S. Navy's Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) will start an official investigation into the actions of Robert O'Neill, the ex-Navy SEAL Team 6 member who took-out 9/11 mastermind Osama bin-Laden.

And we can safely assume that Barack HUSSEIN Obama is behind it all.

Chief Petty Officer Rob O'Neill...decorated 52 times, a man who served more than a dozen tours of duty in active combat in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and who participated in over 400 separate combat missions...is now being accused of talking too much about the classified operation against bin-Laden. Claiming his action violated the Navy SEAL Code of Silence...an unspoken military rule of sort that each SEAL agrees to regarding NOT discussing classified information in relation to their missions... this brave warrior...weeks after his having come forward to talk...is now all of a sudden NOT being heralded for taking out this islamic bast*rd but is being accused of revealing classified information to unauthorized persons...as in 'We the People.' But I must say that after having viewed the interviews he gave countless times...including the in-depth 2-hour FOX News special...I personally can find NO information that is critical to either our national defense or that might put those still in the war theater in danger especially when certain key details about the mission have been declassified after being leaked by high-level Obama administration officials right after the take-out was announced.

And while it's obvious to all that Navy officials are NOT happy with O'Neill for his speaking out about the raid conducted by 23 SEAL commandos and their interpreter just after midnight on the morning of May 2, 2011, there are now numerous rumors being circulated to the effect that O'Neill could face actual criminal prosecution for leaking secrets...but again...what secrets did he leak...as far as I can tell...none. And the only person throwing a wrench into O'Neill's story is another ex-SEAL by the name of Matt Bissonnette, a man who claims it was he who actually killed bin-Laden. In fact, Bissonnette wrote a book...NO Easy Day...about his personal exploits as a SEAL and who himself is currently under investigation for his 'supposed' revealing in his book the technical aspects of special operations.

But you know what...who really cares if it was O'Neill, Bissonnette, or some other SEAL...who actually pulled the trigger and took-out that filthy stain on humanity known as Osama bin-Laden as long as it's known that it was NOT Barack HUSSEIN Obama who killed bin-Laden NO matter how hard his narcissistic self wants the American public to credit him with the kill...for what should matter to all is that this stain was finally and permanently removed...period. And while we wonder if his death brings closure to the families knowing that their loved ones de-facto killer has been eliminated...that I do NOT know...but maybe for some it does, and I for one am more than happy that Osama bin-Laden is gone and can NEVER inflict anymore pain on America or Americans again.

But the bottom line in all this is what this administration focuses on...what this administration through media manipulation force-focuses our attention on...and that includes the Obama appointed military top-brass who he put in place after purging our military of its top officers. Wanting to bring charges against this brave Navy SEAL...bringing charges against one of own instead of focusing on those whose actions are acts of pure evil...this miserable excuse of a Commander-in-Chief and his equally miserable administration will do any and everything to throw those who wear our country's uniform to the wolves...wolves who are either his muslim blood brethren or who are his socialist, communist, liberal brothers-in-arms.

Either way America loses, but at least we can have a good laugh at the expense of both Barack HUSSEIN Obama and Sony Pictures losing focus and having a hissy fit over a hackers threat. First, and with much media fanfare, Obama butts in and forces Sony to acquiesces to said hackers cyber demands NOT to release a silly low-budget movie about the assassination of North Korea's loony dictator Kim Jong-un...or else. And then after the public's outcry over the stupidity of it all finally has Obama allowing Sony to release the film...The Interview...on Christmas Day as planned...once again proving that Obama's priorities are screwed up and that he has NO clue as to the real issues and threats that face our country today.

Or scariest of all when you really think about it...Obama does know but just does NOT care at all.

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Today, Saturday, December 27th on RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS on CPR Worldwide Media from 11am to 1pm EST, Craig and Diane will discuss the newest happenings with ObamaCare, the recent shooting of yet another black thug in Missouri, the psychology of thug culture, as well as other important issues of the day.