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source: Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies (GPS) http://www.crossroadsgps.org

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o'commissar - déjà vu: 1934 Chicago Tribune cartoon [redux]

It's good to be reminded from time to time about American history. -- rfh

From: piloto Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Subject: 1934 CARTOON - NOT FUNNY!

Is  this scary?  This cartoon was in the Chicago Tribune in 1934,
Look carefully at the 'plan of action' in the lower left hand corner.     

The signature is that of Pulitzer Prize (1961) winner Carey Cassius Orr (1890-1967), who was working for the Chicago Tribune in 1934.

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Quoted from http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/06/14/trib-reruns-1934-cartoon-planned-economy-or-planned-destruction

     "The man in the mortarboard flogging the Democratic donkey is Rex Tugwell, the leader of FDR's "Brain Trust", a character out of academica.  The Brain Trust was supposed to come up with new ideas to help America.  The two mortarboard-wearing kids in the wagon represent recent Ivy League college graduates hired to staff the New Deal.  The cartoonist from the conservative Chicago Tribune, Mr. Orr, is calling them socialist "pinkos" (term that wasn't then in use, "pinkies' is what Orr called them).  [...]

     The most prominently featured man shoveling money off the wagon is Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, who was known for his socialist leanings.  Most us are aware that FDR confiscated gold in 1934, but most people are not aware that the gold confiscation was a clause in the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1934.  It is also important to remember that 90% of the American population lived on farms during the Depression.

     The man behind Wallace is Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior and director of the Public Works Administration.  As head of the PWA, Ickes had a lot of say on what and where public works projects were built.  The biggest of course was the Tennessee Valley Authority.  Ickes was well-known for backing many other socialist endeavors.  Ickes was also the father of Harold M. Ickes, a key player in the Clinton administration.

     The other man behind Wallace was a mystery to me.  In fact, I had trouble reading the label on him in the cartoon.  That man is Donald Richberg, who was called "assistant president" in the FDR administration.  Both he and Ickes came through Chicago politics and were leaders of the Progressive movement there.  Both Ickes and Richberg were key players in pushing the National Industrial Recovery Act which imposed fascist codes of conduct on American industry which dictated how key industries in America were to be run.  The National Recovery Administration was ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court in 1935, which decision led to FDR's effort to "pack" the Supreme Court with more cooperative justices.

     The significance of this cartoon is that it depicts the visible signs of manipulation by the financial elite that runs America, which was in full control of the country back during the Depression, for decades before that and for the decades leading up to the present."

D. Dial  "Pretty amazing how history repeats itself, wouldn't you agree?"
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/06/14/trib-reruns-1934-cartoon-planned-economy-or-planned-destruction#ixzz1Pr5d3TwT

  cartoon color copy source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Careyorrchitrib34.jpg

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Obama is packing the government with Big Green ideologues
Read more at the Washington Examiner:  http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/06/obama-packing-government-big-green-ideologues

By: Ron Arnold, 16Jun11

     President Obama has packed his Cabinet agencies with left-wing ideologues, just like President Roosevelt tried with his 1937 "Supreme Court packing bill." Roosevelt failed, but Obama is still at it.

     Now it's Rebecca Wodder, former Wilderness Society official and current chief executive officer of Big Green's dam-killing, water-grabbing, natural gas enemy, American Rivers Inc. ($12.1 million 2010 revenue), who is Obama's nominee for assistant secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks for the Department of the Interior.

     The "assistant" in that job title doesn't mean just some office flunky, it's arguably the most powerful office in the Interior Department, second only to Secretary Ken Salazar.

     Wodder would be boss of the National Park Service ($2.9 billion budget, 21,000 employees, 84.4 million acres) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ($2.7 billion budget, 7,900 employees, 96.2 million acres).

     It's not a job, it's an empire. So it's not hard to see why Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, ranking Republican member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has serious reservations about her nomination.

     Last week, Inhofe said in a press release that Wodder campaigned for the so-called Clean Water Restoration Act, which would have imposed federal control over all bodies of water in the country, down to the fish pond in your neighbor's back yard.

     Internal Revenue Service records show that Wodder's group got millions, including $750,000 from the Hewlett Foundation, to remove hydropower dams, weakening America's power grid.

     She's also a rabid opponent of natural gas hydraulic fracturing, unlike her predecessor, Tom Strickland, who said we should actively and aggressively develop our energy resources.

     Wodder may be a one-woman double-dip recession, but Obama's other Big Green nominee awaiting Senate confirmation is worse: John E. Bryson, former head of Edison International, parent company of Southern California Edison.

     Bryson has been criticized for all the wrong reasons. He was co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council in 1970, and one of its first attorneys to file mountains of lawsuits against industry.

     He was just out of Yale Law School, filing suits over pesticides, smog and other fashionable issue-of-the-month cases. He got tired of that after six years, went into California Gov. Jerry Brown's first administration, and then into public utilities.

     Obama's brief nomination announcement late last month recited Bryson's electric utility credentials and said the former executive would "add a business outlook to his inner circle."

     But Bryson's resume neglected to mention that in August 2008, he joined the global private equities firm that pioneered Gordon Gekko-style leveraged buyouts, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, as a senior adviser.

     And we missed the press release from two months earlier -- coincidence, no doubt -- that said, "Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Environmental Defense Fund Announce First-of-Its-Kind 'Green Portfolio' Partnership."

     EDF earlier gave cover to KKR in the $45 billion acquisition of TXU, a Texas utility, the largest leveraged buyout in history, in return for promises to cut coal-fired plants out of the picture.

     In a Washington Examiner special report in 2010, I exposed EDF's virtual ownership of the Commerce Department agency, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), the long EDF ties of NOAA chief administrator Jane Lubchenco, and EDF's stranglehold on NOAA's disastrous "catch shares" regulation of America's fisheries.

     The catch-share program now haunts them. A Senate subcommittee has set a hearing on catch-share scandals for next Monday in Boston, but Lubchenco won't be there -- she refused to testify. Neither will Fred Krupp, EDF's $407,000-a-year president -- he, too, refused to testify.

     Now we have an EDF co-conspirator nominated as secretary of commerce. Best to let Bryson take the Lubchenco/Krupp way out and not testify -- but in his case, for lack of a confirmation hearing.

Examiner Columnist Ron Arnold is executive vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise.

Read more at the Washington Examiner:  http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/06/obama-packing-government-big-green-ideologues

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o'malaise - Economy failing...Nero fiddles.

     With millions of Americans worried about 9.1% unemployment and a sputtering economy, it is shameful that the Democrat leadership in Washington is more concerned about saving the jobs of disgraced Democrat members of Congress.
      The latest example of the Democrats' "jobs we saved" charade is Representative Anthony Weiner.  Just like with Congressmen William Jefferson ($80k in the freezer) and Charlie Rangel (failure to pay taxes) -- Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat leaders' only jobs plan is to save their own jobs.
     Congressman Weiner's actions and deception are unacceptable and he should resign.  We do not need an investigation to know he lied and acted inappropriately, we need a resignation.  Either Leader Pelosi and DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz believe members of Congress are held to a different set of standards or they believe these actions demand his resignation.

source: www.gop.com

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