Obama's first 2012 campaign ad. Seriously. Check it out.

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Major About Face! Leavitt, Stuart and Boldt hold press conference, reverse position, and now demand a vote!

In a stunning turn of events which delighted those supporting true democracy and responsive government while confounding those who support sweetheart deals, corruption, bribery, wasting billions and ignoring the will of the people they would govern, the Three Liarteers suddenly switch positions today and have demanded a vote for the people!

Tim "The Liar" Leavitt led off with a prepared statement.

"Look, I know I screwed thousands of voters into believing me when I repeatedly lied to them about my toll position. Man, were they mad at me that I had fooled them so badly, or what?

"But I was JUUUUUST kidding! (Gene Wilder voice ON) Can't you people TAKE A JOKE?" (/Gene Wilder voice OFF)

"NOTHING is more important to me then the will of the people," Leavitt went on. "People, we need to forget all that campaign stuff and my efforts to silence the opposition to the bridge plan at city council meetings, or having my girlfriend get up and call the opposition a bunch of liars. We need to MOVE ON, and that's why I'm switching my position, because, well, God knows I have enough experience in switching positions.  Just ask what's-her-face."

Leavitt concluded, "the people MUST VOTE!"

Stuart was next up:

"I had been living in a dream world, actually believing that the people supported this endless, agonizing fiscal rape that would go on at least as long as *I* lived. But it's become clear over the past few weeks that I needed to adjust my dosage upwards in an effort to find something approaching reality."

Stuart went on, "As a wholly owned union hack, voluntarily enslaved by the downtown mafia, looking to curry their support over the needs, wants and desires of my constituency, I've come to find out that even I have my limits."

"When I found out that they'd wasted $400 million in Seattle without turning a shovel on the SR 520 plan, I was faced with a decision, and no, it wasn't, 'Gee, I wonder how we can do the same thing?'"

Steve concluded by saying "Look, I realized I took credit for setting up a required vote as if it was my idea as a part of my campaign last October, but dude... I HAD to come up with something. So what if I lied about having a vote this November? Lying is what I do, and besides, it worked, didn't it? And didn't it work for Leavitt?"

"In closing, the PEOPLE MUST VOTE!"

Boldt, who had told his brother in law to his face that he would make sure an advisory vote took place last November, just stood there and smiled, nodding and saying stuff we couldn't quite catch.

A mass drowning in a huge pool of lattes by Identity Vancouver members has been scheduled for 2:00 PM today in Chester Snort Park.

"How could they do this to us?" sobbed a distraught Ganger Metlife, head honcho of Identity Vancouver. "We had an agreement," Metlife whined. "We TOLD them we'd make sure they'd be 'taken care of' if they would just screw the electorate and bury us in billions of debt while enslaving the commuting public with a life-long toll," Metlife sniveled.

Don Wagonguy, who had told us years ago there was nothing wrong with the current bridge but who, nonetheless, found himself appointed to head this side of the effort, was distraught.

"Even though I know there's no reason to waste billions on this sorry effort to screw the people of Clark County, I will join them on a symbolic level. I, personally, will be sipping a Trenta with 6 extra shots while they drown themselves in lattes. It will be a thing of beauty."

A tear rolled down his cheek as he concluded, "guess I'd better go polish my resume'. There's no way this thing would ever be built if anyone outside of the downtown mafia ever voted on it."

I understand that local news outlets will be carrying this live, so I'll post videos as soon as I can get them.

KVAN heading back to conservative talk.

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  Portland Market's AM 1550 Going Talk

• PAMPLIN Adult Standards KKAD-A (SUNNY 1550)/VANCOUVER, OR-PORTLAND has changed its call letters to KKOV-A and is flipping to Talk as "AM 1550, VANCOUVER'S TALK STATION" on APRIL 4th. 
• The lineup will air SALEM RADIO NETWORK hosts BILL BENNETT, MIKE GALLAGHER, DENNIS PRAGER, MICHAEL MEDVED and HUGH HEWITT along with other syndicated programming.
• DENNIS GLASGOW, PD of the station and sister Talk KPAM-A, said, "We're elated to not only bring our new listeners a full complement of entertaining and compelling SALEM RADIO NETWORK programming to the weekly lineup, but to enhance our talk radio presence in this competitive market ... This is one of many phases that we have coming up that will bring outstanding national and local talk choices to PORTLAND and Southwest WASHINGTON, and positively separate us from our competition."

Nothing to see here, move along: Kitzhaber’s Columbia River Crossing adviser also works for the project’s biggest contractor.

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We already know of the obvious conflict of interest concerning now former Rep. Jim Jacks' employment with McKay and Sposito... and, of course, who is it that Tim "The Liar" Leavitt works for?

Now we can add this to the mix:

March 2nd, 2011 NIGEL JAQUISS | News

Serving Two Masters

Kitzhaber’s Columbia River Crossing adviser also works for the project’s biggest contractor.

The Columbia River Crossing has occupied much of Gov. John Kitzhaber’s attention since his election last fall.

Kitzhaber spoke to President Obama about federal funding for the multibillion-dollar project when Obama visited Oregon late last month. And Kitzhaber has met twice in Washington, D.C., with federal Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on the CRC, the first time in November after Kitzhaber’s election and again this past weekend during a National Governors Association meeting.

All of which makes two lines in a Kitzhaber press release last week all the more significant.

“The Governor has asked Patricia McCaig to be his lead advisor on the Columbia River Crossing Project,” read a Feb. 21 statement announcing the hiring of Clackamas County Chairwoman Lynn Peterson as the governor’s transportation adviser. “Ms. McCaig has been serving this role during the transition and will continue this work into the Administration.”

But unlike other Kitzhaber advisers, such as Peterson, McCaig is not—and will not—become a public employee, says Kitzhaber’s spokesman, Tim Raphael.

“The state will not be paying her,” Raphael says. 

Instead, McCaig, who earned $72,000 for managing Kitzhaber’s campaign and working with his transition team, will be drawing pay from another source for her bridge work.

Raphael says McCaig will continue to be a paid consultant to David Evans and Associates, a Portland engineering firm that is by far the largest beneficiary of the $118 million that CRC  records show project sponsors have spent so far. 

CRC figures show David Evans has earned nearly $27 million from the project, about 2 1/2 times more than the next largest private contractor, Parametrix.

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Now, this kind of corruption is, of course, par for the course. That's just one of many reasons why we, the People, should have a vote on this horrific program.
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Memo to Boehner: Don't you DARE fail to keep your promise.

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At the very first leadership academy I went to (3rd Brigade, 3rd ID)  back in at the ripe old age of 18, back in 73, one of the first tenets of leadership they taught me was this:

Never promise nuthin' you can't deliver.

Mr. Speaker, you and your merry band told us that you were going to whack $100 billion from the current budget.

We're waiting.

Now, I get that you're going to have to listen to gutless nay-sayers like Ridgefield Barbie, but that comes with the territory.

You, personally, promised us to whack the budget by $100 billion this year.

Being a democrat like Steve "The Liar" Stuart, Tim "The Liar" Leavitt or Marc "The Liar" Boldt is not the way to get it done.

The scumbags on the left are claiming that you'd be willing to "compromise" if it weren't for the Tea Party (Of course, leftist scum prefer to use a different, more derogatory term)  but there is no room for "compromise."

"Compromise" is what got us into this.  "Compromise" is just another term for "doing it the way the fringe left wants."

When the tombstone of this Nation is erected, it will say on it, "Well, at least they compromised."

Yeah.  But our Nation will be dead.  And there is little room to compromise about being dead.

Don't you dare democrat... I mean, lie... to us.  Don't you dare.
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