A few days ago, sources inside Congress issued a quick heads up regarding a plan by the Obama White House and the Democratic leadership to once again use divide and conquer tactics to gain an advantage over conservatives during the 2014 Midterm Elections - a ploy that had already lined up promises of support from certain Mainstream Media. Today, as reported by the New York Times, Barack Obama, after fifteen days of a multi-million dollar Hawaii vacation,issues a demand that Congress “Restore Unemployment Benefits”. The Obama 2014 class warfare plan is now officially underway…
First, a quote from the update first published here two days ago:
We know it’s coming. The good news is it seems to be helping to unite Republicans around here, and a united party will be important if we get a real shot at taking back the Senate. Both Pelosi and Reid have sent staff out to go over the plan with other leading members within the Democratic Party. The first of these meetings started in November. Several more took place in the first and second weeks of December.
It’s why the president gave a public statement urging us to pass the unemployment extension last month, but then called off his attack dogs during the actual negotiations. The extension didn’t happen and that’s because he and the Democratic leadership didn’t want it to happen. They need the issue to ramp back up this month and get media play regarding how cruel and heartless Republicans are. This will be the first big push in what is supposed to be the big class warfare plan to try and save the Senate for the Democrats. LINK
Now the headline and an excerpt from just published New York Times story:
Obama Urges Congress to Restore Unemployment Benefits
President Obama, seeking the upper hand with Congress as he heads back from his Hawaiian vacation, insisted on Saturday that lawmakers make restoringunemployment benefits for 1.3 million Americans who are out of work their “first order of business” in the new year.
…Mr. Obama said the program helped parents trying to feed children while they looked for work. “And denying families that security is just plain cruel,” the president said in the address, which was taped before his scheduled departure for Washington on Saturday night after two weeks on Oahu. “We’re a better country than that. We don’t abandon our fellow Americans when times get tough; we keep the faith with them until they start that new job.”
Mr. Obama added, “Instead of punishing families who can least afford it, Republicans should make it their New Year’s resolution to do the right thing and restore this vital economic security for their constituents right now.” LINK
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2014 is no time for some conservatives to simply declare frustration and demand they are now unwilling to participate in the 2014 Midterm Elections. I assure you, Barack Obama and the far left progressive/socialists that infest the Democratic Party, and yes, some of the Republican Party, are counting on you to do just that. They are convinced you will act so stupidly, so selfishly, and with such self-serving weakness. They are convinced that your oft repeated “love America” declarations are silly, half-witted empty posturing, and that you are far more comfortable merely complaining, without actually doing, anything to change the political course of this country.
Your choice is to either prove them right, or prove them wrong. -UM
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“I knew it was something far too big for me to navigate alone. Doing that would get me killed.”
I closed the hotel room door slowly and looked down at the small breakfast cart.
Walt’s paperwork… A display screen showing my name and room number, the cost of the breakfast…
Though the desk was just a few paces from where I stood, the time it took to cover the distance inside of the small hotel room felt like forever as my mind raced to clamp down on what I believed was finally an explanation as to what Walt had uncovered.
I took out the stack of papers once again and withdrew the one with the pyramid graph and the names with the corresponding numbers that Walt had written in by hand. Each set of numbers next to each of the names was eight digits.
My hands shook slightly as I fumbled through the other papers trying to locate the two I believed to be some kind of bank statement. When I found them, I placed the bank statement alongside the pyramid graph, my eyes scanning carefully from left to right.
The numbers matched.
I located the name and then the multiple, and what I had initially thought were random numbers, Walt had assigned to the former United Nations Secretary General in the pyramid graph, and was able to match those exact numbers to the middle set of numbers in one of the rows contained in the bank statement. On the far right of that same row was an amount indicating just over nine million dollars, money that Walt’s pyramid graph clearly linked to Global Electric.
I repeated this process with every name contained in the pyramid graph, each time matching that name up with a deposit line on the bank statement pages. This was the puzzle Walt had figured out. How he did it I had no idea, nor why he did it, leading me back again to the question of who had hired him in the first place.
I looked down to see my hands were still shaking, and I could feel a thin layer of sweat covering my forehead. If this truly was what it appeared to be, this thing was big, and frankly, I knew it was something far too big for me to navigate alone. Doing that would get me killed.
And that’s why Walt came to me. He knew he needed help with this. Probably thought my political connections could give him an idea of who to hand all of this over to. That still doesn’t tell me who had him doing this work in the first place though.
My cell phone indicated it was nearly 10:00. I had another hour before the hotel check out time. Time enough to eat my breakfast, take a quick shower, and hopefully by then, figure out what the hell my next move would be.
I was halfway finished with breakfast when my cell phone rang again, the number indication simply stating “unknown caller”.
“This is Bennington – who’s this?”
A female voice responded immediately.
“Mr. Bennington, please listen carefully. You have no more than a minute to vacate your room before they arrive. Do not use the elevator. Do not leave through the lobby. One minute Mr. Bennington. Go. NOW.”
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