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When asked whether the tree included any ornaments that mention or depict Christmas or the birth of Jesus, the office of the Architect of the Capitol, which is responsible for the tree,said that it “does not have a policy nor any restrictions concerning the themes for the ornaments” that go on the tree. The office could not say, however, whether or not this year’s Christmas tree does in fact include even a single ornament that directly references or depicts Christmas or Christ. The office of the Architect of the Capitol also did not directly respond to the question of whether any other elected official in addition to President Obama is mentioned on any ornament hung on the tree.

On another note

Obama has ordered Members of the U.S. House of Representatives to be censored by the congressional franking commission which monitors all official correspondence. The commission will not allow any outgoing letters which contain the phrase “Merry Christmas” to be mailed, in doing so, members of Congress are having their First Amendment rights trampled into the ground. This is yet another usurpation of freedom and liberty in the ongoing war between the left and Christians. A member of Congress wishing someone a Merry Christmas in no way establishes a national religion which is what the Constitution expressly prohibits.

I will take revenge and be satisfied. In due time their foot will slip, because their day of disaster is near. Their doom is coming quickly

Barack Obama and his cronies willfully concealed the true extent of the 2008-’09 bailouts from Congress and the public. We now have concrete evidence that Wall Street and Washington are running a secret government far removed from the democratic process. Through a freedom of information request by Bloomberg News, the public now has access to over 29,000 pages of Fed documents and 21,000 additional Fed transactions that were deliberately hidden, and for good reason.

These documents show how top government officials willfully concealed from Congress and the public the true extent of the 2008-’09 bailouts that enriched the few and enhanced the interests of giant Wall Streets firms. Here’s what we now know: The secret Wall Street bailouts totaled $7.77 trillion, 10 times more than the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) passed by Congress in 2008. Knowledge of the secret bailout funds was not shared with Congress even while it was drafting and debating legislation to break up the big banks.

While Timothy Geithner was head of the NY Federal Reserve, he argued against legislative efforts by Senator Ted Kaufman, D-Delaware, to limit the size of banks because the issue was “too complex for Congress and that people who know the markets should handle these decisions,” Kaufman recalls. Meanwhile, Geithner was fully aware of the enormous secret loans while Senator Kaufman was kept in the dark.

The government cover-up is mind boggling. The Average American is living check to check or is on food stamps and all the fat cats in Washington D.C and Wallstreet are getting bailed out by Obama.

1. The big banks and hedge funds were in much more trouble than we were led to believe.

2. Wall Street’s secret government made sure the largest banks would grow even larger, aided by the secret funding.

3. The bigger Wall Street becomes, the more government it can buy.

4. Wall Street’s secret government protects its own.

5. Wall Street is a clear and present danger to democracy.

The Obama Administration has abruptly sealed court records containing alarming details of how Mexican drug smugglers murdered a U.S. Border patrol agent with a gun connected to a failed federal experiment that allowed firearms to be smuggled into Mexico.

This means information will now be kept from the public as well as the media. Could this be a cover-up on the part of the “most transparent” administration in history? After all, the rifle used to kill the federal agent (Brian Terry) last December in Arizona’s Peck Canyon was part of the now infamous Operation Fast and Furious. Conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the disastrous scheme allowed guns to be smuggled into Mexico so they could eventually be traced to drug cartels.

The murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent is related to a Justice Department willingly turning over thousands of guns to Mexican criminal gangs, and Obama administration is hiding information about his death from the public.

 “We simply cannot allow the executive branch at its highest levels to pick and choose what they will produce, or whether they will produce anything at all,” said Rep. Cliff Stearns, the Florida Republican who runs the investigative panel. Thursday’s subpoena came just a day after the Judiciary Committee’s immigration subcommittee voted along party lines to authorize a subpoena for Homeland Security records related to illegal immigrants the department has declined to pursue deportation cases against.