Our guest columnist is Organizing For America, which has yet to send us this message. Last we heard from them was Thanksgiving, when President Obama told us “we know that you’ll be right there with us, ready to fight another day.”

A decade of irresponsible spending led to a projected $1.3 trillion deficit that President Obama inherited upon taking office — putting America on an unsustainable fiscal course.

From Day One, this administration’s top focus has been growing the economy and putting Americans back to work — and that will never change.

The economy is growing again, yet all across America families and businesses have been tightening their belts. The President knows their government must do the same.

Yesterday, he announced a proposal to freeze pay for non-military federal employees for two years — a plan that will lead to $60 billion in savings over 10 years. It’s one of many tough choices the President has made to cut costs in the upcoming budget to begin to put our nation’s fiscal house in order. And it follows directly from this administration’s dedication to stretching federal dollars and reining in the long-term deficit.

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“On his November 30 radio show, Beck said, as he’s prone to do, that ‘the storm is here,’ adding that ‘Wikipedia is just a part of it.’ One of Beck’s sidekicks quickly stepped in to correct it to WikiLeaks. Beck then asserted that Soros ‘helped develop software’ for Wikipedia. Sidekick Stu Burguiere responded, ‘I’ve read this before, but I don’t think it’s actually accurate.'” The free software is called MediaWiki, and — surprise! — we use it too. [Media Matters]

Tea Party Nation prez Judson Phillips plays Amendment-Repeal Bingo, fills his card:

The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.

Surprised? Oh, come now. It was only a matter of time.

Tea Party Nation President Says It ‘Makes A Lot Of Sense’ To Restrict Voting Only To Property Owners [ThinkProgress]

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The rhetoric from the right, which is all to often echoed by the maintream media, is that the Obama administration has moved policy so far to the left that it produced a backlash from a traditionally right-of-center populace. The latest object of right-wing scorn is the Federal Reserve’s program of Quantitative Easing, meant to fight the growing specter of deflation while hopefully promoting employment. This policy has been roundly criticized by right-wing luminaries as varied as Ron Paul, William Kristol and Sarah Palin. So how far to the left is this policy? It is so leftist that in 2000 the policy was promoted, in an almost identical economic circumstances, as a way of helping Japan out of its economic malaise by no less prominent and raging a leftist than Milton Friedman: Read more »

A Fourth Amendment tee is an appropriate start, but if metallic-ink screen printing is readily available, we can probably come up with a couple dozen more nekkid-scanner-friendly designs. Give us a weekend to brainstorm.

And yes, they offer printed shorts, too.

4th Amendment Wear [via Weigel]

“The Supreme Court has again cast aside an appeal that raised doubts about President Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship, a grass-roots legal issue that has gained little legal or political footing, but continues to persist in the courts.” [CNN]

Guy effectively loses joint custody of his kids because he’s not Christian – Alabama, maybe, but Indiana?

Cenk was all over this today on MSNBC.