This hasn't been a good week for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. First he gets a, "Happy Bailout Birthday Cake" from his GOP Primary opponent in Kentucky (because he supported the $700 Billion dollar bailout 5 years ago). Now, he's been, "unendorsed" by a major Tea Party Group. Tea Party Nation says they are withdrawing their endorsement after Glenn Beck reported that McConnell supposedly told GOP senators in a closed door meeting that anybody who supports Freedom Works or the Senate Conservative Fund are traitors to the Republican Party. Both Freedom Works and the SCF are both Tea-Party supporting groups. Tea Party Nation Founder Judson Phillips said the following: "While endorsing Mitch McConnell seemed like the right thing to do at the time, Mitch McConnell has proven he is not worthy of conservative support. Glenn Beck is right. It is time to defund the GOP until the GOP pushes people like Mitch McConnell out of leadership." There's...

Democrats Going Off Message on Shutdown Democratic Party Politics   US Politics   U.S. 4 hrs ago on  National Review Online Cracks in the monolithic wall Democrats have put up against reopening any individual part of government unless all of government is funded in one bill are starting to show. Today, Washington, D.C., mayor Vince Gray and D.C. House delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton crashed a news conference being held by Senate majority leader Harry Reid on the Capitol steps. Reid didn't appreciate the company. As Gray leaned into Reid and demanded federal money start flowing so the District can pay its bills, Reid responded, "I'm on your side. Don't screw this up." Reid was probably nervous because at the mayor's earlier news conference, Gray had stood next to Republican congressman Darrell Issa as he criticized the Democratic-led Senate for holding up the District spending bill, which has already passed the House. "Every worker and every citizen of the ...

Israel destroys Syrian cannon in response to mortar fire Military   Middle East Politics   Warfare and Conflicts   World Politics World News 1 hour ago on  Xinhua JERUSALEM, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) - The Israeli military confirmed that its forces destroyed a Syrian cannon post in the northern Golan Heights on Wednesday in response to mortar fire that earlier wounded two Israeli soldiers. The instruction to return fire was issued after mortars fired from across the northern border landed on an Israeli army post in the vicinity, lightly injuring two soldiers, the military said. Initial reports suggested the shells that struck the Israeli post were errantly fired during intense battles between Syrian government forces and insurgents in areas adjacent to the border, an army spokeswoman told Xinhua. She said the army lodged a complaint with the United Nations in the wake of the incident. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon has repeatedly declared ...

McCain Would Like To See House Vote On Clean CR talkingpointsmemo.com ,2005:article:204942   by Caitlin MacNeal 51 minutes ago Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that the House should vote on a clean continuing resolution to fund the government on CNN's 'The Situation Room.' Read More → View Original Article McCain Would Like To See House Vote On Clean CR http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tpm-news/~3/VTP6Vw40em0/mccain-would-like-to-see-house-vote-on-clean-cr John Hames

 NEWS BUSTERS 2 Hours Ago Jesse Jackson: Tea Party-Led GOP is 'Resurrection of the Confederacy' by  Jack Coleman The Vietnam War is beloved by liberals, Ann Coulter once observed, because it's the only war America lost. Looks like the Civil War could become the left's new fave, if it hasn't already. Not only have left wingers deluded themselves that Barack Obama is the second coming of the Great Emancipator (Steven Spielberg's unstated motive for filming "Lincoln"), they now view the partial government shutdown as comparable to the secessionist storm that preceded the Civil War.  (Audio after the jump) The latest iteration of this nonsense comes by way of Jesse Jackson, doing his part in a losing bid to remain relevant by appearing on Ed Schultz's radio show yesterday. Jackson's remarks were so pithy that it's hard to believe they weren't practiced repeatedly in front of a wall-sized mirror before he uttered them over the airwaves  (aud...

 THEBLAZE.COM 2 Hours Ago Pentagon Operating Hundreds of Golf Courses During Shutdown While Saying They Need to Borrow Money to Pay Death Benefits to Families of Fallen Soldiers by  Oliver Darcy The Pentagon is continuing to operate hundreds of golf courses around the world during the federal government shutdown, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed to TheBlaze on Wednesday. The confirmation comes on the heels of news that the Pentagon has stopped paying out death benefits — normally $100,000 — to the families of fallen soldiers, saying the shutdown means there is no authority to pay the money. Instead, it was  announced on Wednesday  that outside organization Fisher House Foundation will cover the costs. The Pentagon will then later reimburse the organization when the shutdown ends. According to a  December 2012 Salon.com article , the Pentagon operates 234 golf courses around the world at an undisclosed cost. The military is still operat...

 PJMEDIA.COM 1 Hour Ago El Paso TV Station Can't Find One Local Person Who Has Successfully Signed Up for Obamacare by  Bryan Preston It's too bad that  Chad Henderson  doesn't live in El Paso, Texas. The entire national mainstream media industrial complex lauded the Organizing for America volunteer last week when he claimed that he had successfully signed up for Obamacare. El Paso's KVIA-TV tried to duplicate the media's feat on the local level — it tried to find a single local person who had successfully signed up under President Obama's signature law. Failure ensued. Reporter Stephanie Valle, noting that Healthcare.gov was taken offline over the weekend to get a grip on its massive glitchfest, told her station's audience that the site still isn't really working. "ABC-7 got further in the process last week but then we got an error message and we haven't been able to find one person who's been able to shop for health insurance," Valle...

 MAJORITYLEADER.GOV 41 Minutes Ago Leader Cantor: Let's Not Waste Any More Time by  Eric Cantor Posted on October 9, 2013 WASHINGTON, D.C.  – House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) released the following statement ahead of tomorrow's meeting with the President at the White House: "For nine days, President Obama and Senate Democrats have refused to negotiate while the government has been shutdown. For nine days, the House has passed bipartisan bills to open critical parts of our government and provide relief to those being impacted. In divided government, the American people understand that no two sides will agree on everything, but they expect us to work together. It's time for the President to put partisan politics aside, sit down and start working with us. I look forward to meeting with President Obama tomorrow, and hope we can have a substantive discussion and find a meaningful way forward to ensure fairness for all Americans under ObamaCare and responsibly tackle...

What Happened to Mr. Civility from Tucson? October 09, 2013 Windows Media BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I had an idea yesterday.  That press conference that Obama did, it was juvenile. It was something that a spoiled rotten kid would do. It was petulant.  It certainly was not presidential.  He called that press conference for one reason:  to use the words "hostage," "bomb thrower," and "extremist" for an hour.  That's why he did the presser.  So I told Cookie, I said, "Will you put together a montage?  I want excerpts of Obama at the Gabby Giffords event, where he criticized this kind of behavior and where he urged everybody to stop this kind of talk, juxtaposed with what he himself said yesterday."  I want you to listen to it.  This is Barack Obama and our montage, Obama at the tribute for the shooting victims, January 8th, 2011, in Tucson, and yesterday. OBAMA:  (January 12, 2011 ) At a time when our discourse has become...

 THERIGHTSCOOP.COM 3 Hours Ago SHOCK VIDEO: College students blame Obama and Democrats for shutdown Posted by  The Right Scoop   on October 9th, 2013 in  Featured   Politics  | Leave a Comment Well I must say this one surprises me. Most of the people he interviewed all said Obama or the Democrats were to blame for the government shutdown. Watch: (h/t:  Campus Reform ) View Original Webpage SHOCK VIDEO: College students blame Obama and Democrats for shutdown http://therightscoop.com/shock-video-college-students-blame-obama-and-democrats-for-shutdown/ John Hames

 NRAILA.ORG 9 Hours Ago How Sen. Feinstein got her guns Washington Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier seems to think that gun control laws don't apply to the liberal elite. The police chief helped Sen. Dianne Feinstein acquire "assault weapons," which are illegal to possess in the District, for a news conference early this year to promote a ban on these firearms, then tried to cover up the police involvement. However, a recent response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveals Chief Lanier's shocking willingness to bend the rules for partisan and ideological purposes. Read the article:  The Washington Times View Original Webpage How Sen. Feinstein got her guns http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/in-the-news/2013/10/how-sen-feinstein-got-her-guns.aspx John Hames

 HOTAIR.COM 31 Minutes Ago Reality check: The United States has added two times more debt than wealth in the past two years by  Erika Johnsen posted at 4:41 pm on October 9, 2013 by Erika Johnsen It's mighty tempting to look at the current shutdown/debt-ceiling fight as some kind of perverse abstraction, and to dismiss all of the hijinks on Capitol Hill and in the White House as exhibitions happening merely for their own political sakes — i.e., to completely divorce it all from the  real  reason we're actually here right now. We are a stone's throw away from  $17 trillion in national debt , with absolutely zero plans to even just stop aggressively  adding  to that number, let alone come anywhere close to simply breaking even. So many liberals are so blithely convinced that 'we face no impending debt crisis' and that the simple legislative act of once again raising the debt ceiling has no substantive reason to devolve into such a circus — but here's a h...

 YOUTUBE 3 Hours Ago "What a train wreck" View Original Webpage "What a train wreck" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A9FV7vtYkY John Hames