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Mental health experts say that mental illness runs in the family. And listening to the so-called Rev. Jesse Jackson, I am tempted to believe that his son was not just gaming the system to avoid a long prison sentence, after all. Today’s People’s Pundit Daily Dunce is the so-called Rev. Jesse Jackson, who is desperately and pathetically holding on to a bygone age when his role as an agitator was effective.

While being interviewed by Ed Schultz on October 8, he was asked, “Your take on what we’re facing right now in this country?”

Ignoring our $17 trillion national debt, black-on-black crime due to the dissolution of the traditional family in black neighborhoods, 70 percent-plus out-of-wedlock birth-rates among black children, skyrocketing unemployment within black communities who support him and a failed president breaking promises daily, Jesse Jackson chose instead to reply:

Looking at the resize of the Confederacy, the same group narrowly conceived — anti-labor, anti-racial justice, anti-gender equality, anti-the big American dream, that tried to take us down in 1860. It was the Fort Sumter tea party, its progenitor, and Lincoln had to fight a war to establish the Union from them and to end slavery. This is the resurrection of the Confederacy.

Whether you agree or disagree with the Tea Party on a host of issues, the Tea Party is none of the disgusting adjectives that Jesse Jackson pathetically used to describe them. Despite the leftists agitation mindset, America — the essence of which, Jesse Jackson can never comprehend — is a place where people can disagree with each other and still be respectful. But only simpleton dunces sink to this level of name-calling, because they are intellectually deficient and cannot make an actual argument, as I will now do in response to his names one-by-one.

But before I do, consider these three questions: Is it the Tea Party’s fault that this president — who happens to be a member of his party — is a failure as a leader? Is the Tea Party what is truly wrong with America when they simply stand against a law that a supermajority of Americans cannot accept? Or, perhaps, is it the culture of back-room back-slaps — the kind of back-room back-slaps that landed his son in prison — rather than the culture of the Constitution that is truly causing negative political discourse in America?

  • Opposing the labor-induced bankrupting of major American cities does not constitute being a proponent of worker enslavement.
  • Dreaming of an America where citizens are “judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin” — per Martin Luther King Jr. — does not mean white people with political leanings toward the right are attempting to reinstate Jim Crow.
  • Being a proponent of the traditional family — because you observe the alternative is none other than the 70 percent-plus out-of-wedlock birth-rate, which Jackson is too much of a coward to fight against in the black community — does not mean you want to slide a pair of flip-flops on all women and shove them back into the kitchen.
  • Favoring a limited government that does not pick winners and losers based upon political connections — as his son did when he was in office before he was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison — does not mean you are “anti-the big American Dream.”

Consequently, I have never even heard of that expression before. It sounded as if his big mouth almost slipped and said what he really meant to say; that if you oppose liberal policies, then you are “anti-big government.”

What he really meant to say is that the Tea Party is anti-some twisted liberal form of the American Dream, where an all-powerful government cares for your every need, because you are too weak to be self-reliant or, at least, ready and willing to learn the skills necessary to become so.

Nevertheless, Rev. Jesse Jackson is no man of God, because faithful leaders believe God gifted all of us with free will so that we might choose to follow His moral law and treat others with respect and dignity. They lead their people to freedom as Moses led the Jews out of Egypt, not into enslavement by a centralized progressive plantation. And certainly not for his 20 pieces of silver while his people suffer.

No, indeed, Jesse Jackson is no man of God, just our Daily Dunce.

Today's Daily Dunce is the so-called Rev.

News, Politics

WASHINGTON — President Obama has summoned congressional leaders to the White House, but he is bringing Democrats and Republicans from the House and Senate, in turn. The separate White House meeting will take place before week’s end to try to resolve the continuing impasse over funding the government and raising the nation’s debt ceiling.

On Wednesday afternoon, it is the turn of the House Democratic minority, for what some Democrats have described as a “likely pep rally in the East Room” for Mr. Obama’s hard-line position. Democrats are united behind the president’s stance of not negotiating with Republicans about Obamacare or anything else until House Republican leaders agree to fund and reopen the government, and increase the debt limit so the Treasury can keep paying the nation’s bills.

Mr. Obama has invited the Senate’s Democratic majority and the Republican minority, as well as the House Republicans. Times and dates were being worked out, but according to the American people, the date is late, nonetheless. A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner said Republicans will attend a meeting at the White House on Thursday. President Obama invited the full caucus, however, a Boehner spokesman said that they will only be sending a small group of negotiators.

“Nine days into a government shutdown and a week away from breaching the debt ceiling, a meeting is only worthwhile if it is focused on finding a solution,” Boehner’s office said. “It is our hope that this will be a constructive meeting and that the president finally recognizes Americans expect their leaders to be able to sit down and resolve their differences.”

Meanwhile, conservative Republicans in Congress are exploring the possibility of a short-term increase in the debt ceiling, in a possible attempt to seize the opening given by President Obama a day earlier when he said he would consider the option. Although many would not take the president’s comments at face value considering he said he’s “absolutely” willing to accept a short-term measure to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling, but he’s only willing to negotiate with Republicans after that.

The Republican Study Committee is the most conservative caucus-like committee in the House and they are the lawmakers considering this possibility, which flies in the face of the media narrative claiming them to be extremists. They are, in fact, inclined to consider a short-term increase, but only if there is an agreement on larger spending reforms.

The issue will no doubt be part of the discussion at the White House, even though the move to “summon” congressional leaders in turn seems to be more political sandbagging, then an actual good-faith attempt to come to an agreement.

Republicans, however, are doing themselves no favors by perpetuating the myth of default. “Clearly, Republicans want to avoid default,” Rep. Kevin Brady R-TX, said. But Moody’s Investor Services has released a memo stating that there is “no direct connection” between the debt ceiling and default.

Did Republicans – conservative and moderate – get that memo?

President Obama has summoned congressional leaders to

Economy, News, Politics

Moody’s rating agency, one of the top three credit-rating agencies in the nation, made comments in direct contradiction to Obama’s debt ceiling warnings, which claimed that the U.S. is in danger of default if Congress does not agree to raise the debt limit.

Moody’s said that even if Congress fails to lift the limit on borrowing next week the nation will not default, preserving the nation’s sterling AAA credit rating. In a memo being circulated on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Moody’s Investors Service offers “answers to frequently asked questions” about the government shutdown, which is now in its second week, and the controversy surrounding the debt ceiling and federal debt limit.

President Obama has repeatedly stated that unless Congress acts to raise the $16.7 trillion limit by next Thursday, then the nation will default and global financial armageddon will be upon us.

That is simply not the case, Moody’s said in the October 7 memo, which reads as follows:

We believe the government would continue to pay interest and principal on its debt even in the event that the debt limit is not raised, leaving its creditworthiness intact. The debt limit restricts government expenditures to the amount of its incoming revenues; it does not prohibit the government from servicing its debt. There is no direct connection between the debt limit (actually the exhaustion of the Treasury’s extraordinary measures to raise funds) and a default. The memo offers a starkly different view of the consequences of congressional inaction on the debt limit than is held by the White House, many policymakers and other financial analysts. During a press conference at the White House Tuesday, Obama said missing the Oct. 17 deadline would invite “economic chaos.

The memo from Moody’s continues by stating that the situation is actually much less serious than in 2011, when the nation last faced another manufactured crisis over the debt limit.

“The budget deficit was considerably larger in 2011 than it is currently, so the magnitude of the necessary spending cuts needed after 17 October is lower now than it was then,” the memo added.

Treasury Department officials did not respond to requests for comment made by the Washington Post.

Moody's rating agency, one of the top

News, Opinion, World

The Obama administration will suspend most aid to Egypt in response to the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi and the crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood by the military.

What will be maintain, however, is the support for border security operations in the Sinai. Israel views the aid as an essential element of its 1979 peace treaty with Egypt, and essential to the maintenance of stability in the region.

But one Israeli official, speaking to the New York Times, warned that the United States “is playing with fire,” adding, “you cannot disassemble the peace treaty and take out this part or that part,” the official said. “But there are other elements in this conundrum. This is not just about Israel. This is about America’s standing in the Arab world.”

The decision is the second made by the administration that has worried Israeli leadership, after Obama’s phone call with the new Iranian President Rouhani. The suspension of aid to Egypt will halt aid the Egyptian military has cherished from its relationship with the U.S. — tanks, fighter jets, and helicopters — but the administration will keep money flowing to support the government’s counter-terror operations.

In the aftermath of the Egyptian military ousting President Mohamed Morsi and a severe crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood — who is now outlawed — the White House refrained from formally designating the action of the military a coup d’etat, which would have legally required the Obama administration to suspend all aid to Egypt.

“The law does not require us to make a formal determination – that is a review that we have undergone – as to whether a coup took place, and it is not in our national interest to make such a determination,” said State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki. “We have determined we are not going to make a determination. Given that our legal team was an important part of this process, certainly, I would refute any notions that we were flouting the law,” Psaki added.

But the move lends credibility to the administration’s critics,who slammed Obama for foolishly providing an Islamist regime with some of the most effective operating systems in the world. It was only until the Egyptian military became hostile to the radical Muslim Brotherhood that the White House began to gradually restrict certain components of American aid. Earlier this year, the delivery of several F-16 fighter jets was delayed and a military exercise was cancelled, as well.

Now, the decision to halt aid to Egypt came only after more violence against the Muslim Brotherhood, who repeatedly break the law and threaten to oppose the military, not the single element of institutional stability in the country.

On Sunday, the 40th anniversary of Egypt’s 1973 attack on Israel, the Muslim Brotherhood ensued more violence in the streets of Egypt, when clashes broke out between opponents of the coup and security forces, leaving at least 51 dead and more than 200 injured.

The State Department announced the decision late Wednesday afternoon, after press reports emerged that an aid cut-off was imminent. The State Department said that the U.S. is “holding” a dozen F-16s; a similar number of AH-64 Apache helicopters; four M-1/A-1 tank kits (tanks that are shipped in pieces and assembled in the receiving country); and an unspecified number of Harpoon missiles (typically an anti-ship missile).

In addition, the U.S. is not proceeding with the planned transfer of $260 million in cash to the Egyptian government. However, these funds were already on hold pending the outcome of talks between the Egyptians and the International Monetary Fund.

The U.S. is also not proceeding with a $300 million loan guarantee slated as part of our foreign military financing programs. However, the administration is moving forward with an IMET program (International Military Education Traning), and aid to Egypt for education, health care, private-sector development and governance-strengthening funding.

Officials said the U.S. will not default on payments to U.S. military contractors and vendors whose services had been engaged for these purposes.

“My feeling is we should look and make a determination, is what took place a coup,” Sen. James Inhofe (Okla.), the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said after meeting with Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns. “In the event that it should be necessary, it would be very easy to pass a law to give a waiver.”

Senators, including Sen. Rand Paul R-KY, have called for President Obama to label Egypt a coup, but to seek a congressional waiver so the United States can continue providing foreign aid to the country. The State Department, at the moment, has no intention of revisiting the issue.

“Certainly, abiding by our legal obligations is always a priority to the United States and always something we’re focused on. But there is a greater context here in terms of our national security interests, in terms of the millions of people who’ve expressed their grievances in Egypt,” Psaki said.

The trial of ousted President Mohammed Morsi is slated to begin November 4.

The administration will suspend most aid to

News, Politics

The two New Jersey gubernatorial candidates, Democratic Senator Barbara Buono and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, had their first debate yesterday evening at William Paterson University. Although they were challenging each other for the governor mansion, the topic of a much higher office kept arising.

The debate began with an acknowledgment of the governors strong lead, with the moderator asking Buono why her campaign hasn’t gained “traction.”  The discussion of the governor’s personality ensued, both the humorous and tough talking sides.

Sen. Buono had much to say about Gov. Christie:

Don’t let the glossy magazine covers and the late night wise cracks fool you, there is nothing that’s funny about what is going in New Jersey and there is no amount of YouTube videos or late night shows that will erase that we have 400,000 people out of work. Politics is not supposed to be about entertainment. This is about you, your life and your children. People are just beginning to focus on the race.

When asked directly whether she would like President Obama to come to New Jersey to campaign? Buono took yet another jab at her opponent:

I’m focused on the people of New Jersey. There’s only one person up that’s running for governor here, and you’re looking at her.

When the Republican governor was questioned in regard to running for president, Christie first joked that he “didn’t anticipate” the question at all and then stated:

Listen my mother told me a long time ago, do the job you have at the moment the best you possibly can and the future will take care of itself. The fact is there have been people talking about me running for president since 2010 and they all said I would do it in 2012 and I said I wouldn’t and I didn’t. And the fact is after 2017 I’m going to be looking for another job anyway. I’m going to continue to do my job the best way I possibly can and I am not going to declare tonight. That I am or I am not running for president and you know what? People don’t expect me to, they expect me to do my job.

Buono responded to Christie:

Doesn’t bother me that you are running for president, it bothers me how you are running for president. Cater to the NRA and vetoing funding for Planned Parenthood because the national conservative base of the Republican Party has declared this war on Planned Parenthood. Compromising and sacrificing the dignity of our gay brothers and sisters by vetoing marriage equality because you know that would kill you with Republican presidential primary voters.

Gov. Christie retaliated:

The only person obsessed with 2016 on this stage is Sen. Buono. I can walk and chew gum at the same time. I can do this job and also deal with my future.

Christie was questioned about his history of calling both constituents and politicians names like “stupid” and “idiot,” is he “sapping the dignity out of the governor’s office.”

No, in fact quite the opposite. What the people of New Jersey want is someone who’s real, and will tell them the truth as he sees it, and that’s what I’ve done for four years. And that’s what I’ve done – told them the truth. Sometimes truth they didn’t necessarily want to hear, but that’s what leadership is about; it’s about telling the truth as you see it. At the end of the day from my perspective I think if people had a choice between pre-packaged, blow dried politicians or people who just say it the way it is I think they would take the latter. Sometimes folks have to know that people who act in a certain way, that they’re going to be called out on it. Here’s what the people of New Jersey all know — I am who I am and I’m not going to change.

Christie and Buono also took on the issue of same-sex marriage. A month ago, Mercer County Superior Court judge Mary Jacobson ruled New Jersey must begin same-sex marriages by October 21 and Gov. Christie states that he plans to appeal that decision.

Governor Chris Christie opposes gay marriage stating:

I believe that the institution of marriage for 2,000 years is between a man and a woman, and if they’re going to change that definition of marriage, I don’t think that should be decided by 121 politicians in Trenton or nine judges on the Supreme Court. If New Jersey residents vote in favor of gay marriage he would support the ruling.

Senator Buono’s disagreed with the governor stating that he is “wrong” and then delved into the matter:

It’s a human right. I mean governor, have a profile in courage and do the right thing for our sons and daughters and our brothers and our sisters. It is a human right, and this really should not be the one on the ballot. We should not have the majority of people deciding the minority’s rights.

It seems that Sen. Buono disagrees on how our country is designed to run. The majority yield to the minority, it is not how America works, and with that one statement Buono gives insight to the inner workings of her office. Buono nonchalantly admits she would ignore her constituents and pursue her own agendas. It seems that New Jersey can see what the senator has in store for them because the polling reflects boldly what New Jersey wants.

Quinnipiac has Christie leading Buono 58 to 30 percent. In Democratic urban areas, Christie 43 to 42 percent, and 30 percent of those who identified themselves as Democrats stated they would choose Christie. Buono leads 57 to 30 percent among Democrats, while Christie leads 91 to 4 percent among Republicans, 66 to 22 percent among independent voters, he leads 62 to 27 percent among men and 56 to 34 percent among women, according to the poll.

Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute said:

The big election is still the race between Gov. Christopher Christie and State Sen. Barbara Buono and the governor’s 2-1 lead remains un-dented after months of polling. Sen. Buono is down 3-1 among independent voters and even loses 30 percent of Democratic voters to Christie. There’s no point even counting Republicans.

After months of polling it seems that there is certainly no threat to the governor packing up the statehouse, since his lead has been unchanged throughout the months of polling.

The two New Jersey gubernatorial candidates, Democratic

News, Politics

President Obama won’t fund life-saving research for kids at the NIH during the shutdown, but funding PBS — who indoctrinates our kids — is just too vital.

According to the Daily Treasury Statement, the administration allocated $445 million to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) on the very first day of the shutdown, which funds PBS Newshour, NPR and “Sesame Street,” while cancer research has been scrapped.

“It’s more than irresponsible, it is reprehensible. It’s an ‘in-your-face’ move by the administration, blatantly picking winners and losers in this shutdown,” C. Edmund Wright, a columnist for Breitbart.com and American Thinker, told FOX411. “Public broadcasting is a staple of liberal propaganda.”

Director of Media Research Center of Media Analysis, Tim Graham, said that PBS has hosted two “very friendly” interviews with President Obama just in these recent weeks.

“It certainly looks like ‘you scratch my back, and I’ll scratch yours,” he continued. “Liberals see PBS and NPR as their own personal sandbox, as a supposed balance of the ‘capitalist bias’ of the commercial networks, as silly as that sounds.”

But the truth is far more sinister, and underscores the darker side to progressivism, the mantra championed by the Democratic Party. They are statists, and to statists brainwashing the public — particularly children — is far more important than life.

CPB defended the outrageous amount of money at a most inappropriate time, stating that their funding was “indispensable”and provide jobs for thousands of people.

“The United States Treasury sent public broadcasters their two-year advance appropriation — a sum, approved by Congress in 2012 for FY 2014, representing only 0.01% of the federal budget,” said rep Kelly Broadway. “Seventy percent of these indispensible dollars are promptly sent to locally-owned and operated stations in cities and rural communities all across the country, as they have been for most of the past 40 years.  There, they provide jobs for more than twenty thousand people who are working to support ‘America’s Largest Classroom’ as well as life-long learning for all Americans with our unique cultural, public affairs and news programs.”

Unbelievably, cancer treatment and trials for children were not the only areas to take a back seat to PBS, although the comparison is breathtaking. Juxtaposing the amount allocated to PBS with other high priority policy measures makes this revelation even more disturbing.

The October 1 statement also shows that the Treasury gave almost the same amount on the first day of the government shutdown — $471 million — to the Department of Health and Human Services, who presumably sits at top priority with the rollout of Obamacare. Comparatively, Social Security Benefits received just $171 million, $137 million went to the Postal Service Money Orders, and a lesser amount — $337 million — went toward Unemployment Benefits. The Veterans Affairs programs received $592 million.

Priorities are set in times of crisis, and the administration has clearly exposed their failure of values and twisted set of priorities. How else would it be that state-run propaganda received more money than the above public policies, all of which Obama and the Democrats have exploited at one time or another during the government shutdown?

The answer is a simple, yet sobering truth that liberal indoctrination takes priority over all other issues considered. The state reigns, period, and the law is used to protect and self-perpetuate itself.

“CPB is a nonprofit corporation that is technically separate from the government. So is NeighborWorks, a nonprofit that receives congressional appropriations, just as CPB does. NeighborWorks helped cause the housing bubble; CPB provides the propaganda that anesthetizes the public, preventing people from laying blame for failed policies at the door of the government,” said Matthew Vadum, senior editor at the Capital Research Center. “Keeping a distance by incorporating these entities affords the government plausible deniability when the two nonprofits mess up.”

You may not be too surprised to hear that not one single soul at the Office of Management and Budget could or would respond to a request for comment. Fox News did not receive a response, nor any other organization that we are aware of. Rest assure that we will continue to seek one out tomorrow, and follow-up with this story on People’s Pundit Daily.

President Obama won't fund life-saving research for

News, Politics

The group, Truckers Ride for the Constitution, will shutdown the Capital Beltway starting this Friday if President Obama is not removed from office. The truckers reportedly plan to clog the Beltway by driving “three lanes deep” for three days.

Zeeta Andrews, Truckers Ride for the Constitution organizer, told Greta Van Susteren that President Obama “is a threat to national security and our way of life.” Driving in to the Beltway with a laundry list of grievances, President Obama is not the groups only target, either.

“Truck drivers will not haul freight! … Truckers will lead the path to saving our country if every American rides with them!” the group’s Facebook page, which had more than 57,000 “likes” as of Tuesday morning, declares.

Among the grievances, the drivers are complaining about wages, gas prices, federal regulations on their industry, the debt and the National Security Agency’s anti-Fourth Amendment surveillance policies.

Earl Conlon, who claimed to speak for the group despite other truckers later challenging him, also told U.S. News & World Report that they seek the arrest of members of Congress who have “violated their oath of office.”

“We want these people arrested, and we’re coming in with the grand jury to do it,” he said.

Conlon said the drivers’ issues include supporting the arming Al Qaeda-tied members of the Syrian opposition. Conlon said commuters who want to pass must have a sticker on their window supporting the group.

“It’s going to be real fun for anyone who is not a supporter,” Conlon told U.S. News & World Report. “If cops decide to give us a hard time, we’re going to lock the brakes up, we’re going to stop right there, we’re going to be a three lane roadblock.”

However, trucker Greg Ellis, a supporter of the campaign, said Conlon does not speak for them and disputed the claim that anybody would try to arrest officials.

“Nobody is going to try to effect an arrest on congressmen or anything like that,” he told FoxNews.com, describing the plans as “peaceful.”

The Facebook page for the group, after the article was published, said Conlon “has no authority” to speak on behalf of RideForTheConstitution.org. Without specifying, the statement said the organization did not want to be associated “with anything that is unlawful.”

Asked to clarify the purpose of the event, spokesman Peter Santilli told FoxNews.com on Tuesday: “One of our demands is NON-NEGOTIABLE: President Obama must be removed from office for crimes against the United States and all unconstitutional executive orders nullified. How that is accomplished legally is for the legal and constitutional experts to determine.”

“If anyone can help save the country, it’s truckers,” said Andrews. “Just like the truckers, Americans are sick and tired of what’s going on in this country. It’s time to get up there and make a change. If something happens, it’s because we all let it. We have a right to address these issues and bring them to Washington, D.C. in a peaceful manner.”

The group, Truckers Ride for the Constitution,

News, Politics

The Obama administration has hit a new low during the government shutdown, withholding death benefits for families whose loved-ones died for our country.

Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen, a Defense Department spokesman confirmed Tuesday that as long as the partial government shutdown lasts, it will not be able to pay death benefits to the families of troops who’ve been killed in combat.

“Unfortunately, as a result of the shutdown, we do not have the legal authority to make death gratuity payments at this time,” he said. “However, we are keeping a close eye on those survivors who have lost loved ones serving in the Department of Defense.”

House lawmakers, however, are planning to vote Wednesday on a bill to restore death benefit funding, and Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday accused the Obama administration of needlessly withholding their money.

Boehner said a bill passed by Congress and signed by the president last week to pay America’s troops already gave the Pentagon the ability “to pay all kinds of bills, including this.”

“I think it’s disgraceful that they’re withholding these benefits,” Boehner said, urging Obama to sign the bill that the House will take up on Wednesday.

The bill would still have to pass the Harry Reid’s Senate before it can even make it on Obama’s desk. If that bill fails to pass because Harry Reid tables it, families will be reimbursed once Congress passes an appropriations bill.

The Pentagon says it has specific instructions from the Office of Management and Budget, or the OMB, to not make the payments for deaths that occurred after 11:59 p.m. on Sept. 30, 2013.

Over the weekend, four soldiers — two Army Rangers and one Marine — were killed while conducting combat operations in Afghanistan. The bodies of the four soldiers will be returned to Dover Air Force Base on Wednesday.

Due to the partial government shutdown, the families of 25-year-old 1st Lt. Jennifer M. Moreno; 24-year-old Pfc. Cody J. Patterson; 24-year-old Special Agent Joseph M. Peters; 25-year-old Sgt. Patrick C. Hawkins; and 19-year-old Lance Cpl. Jeremiah M. Collins, Jr. will not receive the $100,000 payment that they would have otherwise received within three days of the death, all because Obama has tyrannically chosen to make the pain of the partial shutdown unnecessarily severe.

Adding further insult, the families will have to pay for their own travel to Dover to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones, which is a bill the Pentagon also says it won’t pay because of the orders the OMB has given under the partial shutdown.

However, in private Defense Department officials say they wish they could pay the families and they admit it’s a disgrace that deserves national attention.

“If the department was allowed to make death gratuity payments at any point during shutdown, they would’ve been paid with great relief,” one official told Fox News.

Pentagon officials also say Congress was warned prior to the shutdown that these benefits would be stopped.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said during a press conference on Tuesday he would tell those families that their government “let them down.”

After the ceremony at Dover on Wednesday, the families will fly to their home states to conduct private funerals. That’s also an expense the Pentagon says it can no longer pay due to the stalemate.

The Obama administration has hit a new

Polls

If raising the debt limit were put up for a vote to the American public it would go down like Harry Reid’s approval ratings, because they would vote “nay.” A majority say the debt limit should only be raised after major spending cuts have been made.

A Fox News poll asks voters to imagine if they were a lawmaker and having to cast an up-or-down vote on raising the debt ceiling, and  37 percent would vote “Yea,” while 58 percent would vote “Nay.”

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew defended his scare tactics on Sunday, saying the country will be unable to meet its commitments starting October 17. However, 78 percent of Republicans and 57 percent of independents say they would vote against raising the debt limit. Almost all Tea Party Americans — 88 percent — say they would oppose the debt limit increase, although I have yet to meet a single Tea Party member who would be in the 12 percent who say otherwise.

Unsurprisingly, a majority of Democrats — 57 percent — would vote in favor of increasing the debt limit, while a still substantial 38 percent would vote against doing so.

However, 62 percent of American voters want Congress to raise the limit only after agreeing on “major cuts in government spending,” as only 27 percent say the limit must be increased and that is it “reckless” to even debate not doing so.

A bit of bad news for Obama, even Democrats, by a 48-42 percent margin, say spending cuts must accompany an increase in the debt limit.

Big margins of Republicans at 77-11 percent, and independents at 65-26 percent, would actually require cuts in government spending before agreeing to raise the debt limit.

Interestingly, voters think the automatic government spending cuts that went into effect March 1, or the sequestration Obama demanded then campaigned against, are more a good thing than a bad thing by a 48-39 percent margin. The number is essentially unchanged from the findings by Fox regarding how voters felt about the sequester cuts earlier this year.

Republicans —  by 63 percent — are nearly twice as likely as Democrats at 32 percent to say the cuts are a good thing. Independents by 53 percent agree with Republicans, as well as 76 percent of Tea Party members.

The Fox News poll is based on landline and cellphone interviews with 952 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from October 1-2, 2013.  The full poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.

If raising the debt limit were put

Polls

Dems lose lead in Generic Ballot.

As the federal government shutdown continues without an end in sight, Democrats have lost their lead of the last two weeks and are again running even with Republicans on the generic ballot. So much for Republicans taking the blame, or Politico’s ridiculous report claiming shutdown politics will cause the GOP the House.

The latest Rasmussen generic ballot tracking survey for the week ending Sunday, October 6, found that 40 percent of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for the Democrat in their district’s congressional race if the election were held today, while another 40 percent would choose the Republican instead.

As previously stated, Politico and Democratic polling firm PPP, or Public Polling Policy, released a ridiculous study concluding that the shutdown has caused a sufficient number of House Republicans to become vulnerable for the Democrats to take the House back in 2014.

As we have repeated over and over at People’s Pundit Daily, the reality is that the generic ballot doesn’t account for individual districts and the political landscape in 2014 — which favor Republican candidates — because the generic ballot is blind to districts due to its national measurements.

For a table of averages of Generic Ballot polling, click here. To view the People’s Pundit Daily interactive Senate Map with ratings and analysis, click here.

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