Watching this video assembling the vehement pronouncements of prominent Democrats inveighing against circumvention of the filibuster, It would be easy for a citizen to become cynical about politics. It would be easy, but it would be right.

Naked Emperor News has compiled the wise words of Democratic worthies including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, Dianne Feinstein, Christopher Dodd (who is in especially good form) and Max Baucus denouncing the threat that Senate Republicans might abolish the use of the filibuster to obstruct judicial nominations.

The video leads off with Barack Obama worrying about “majoritarian absolute power” — you know, the kind the Founders warned against. And it continues with timely thoughts from relevant actors, most of whom have continued in the Senate and will have the opportunity to adapt their past wisdom to current needs. It’s a living Constitution, after all!

via Power Line – Speaking of reconciliation…

Founding Bloggers exposed CNN’s bias in there coverage of the tea party movement in Chicago last year. Now they have done it again! This original Founding Blogger’s video rips Chicago media coverage of Lech Walesa’s endorsement of tea party candidate Adam Andrzejewski.

Eye (Don’t) Witness News – The Lech Walesa Story : Founding Bloggers

Last week, Nobel Laureate, Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, and former president of Poland, Lech Walesa, traveled to Chicago to endorse a political candidate for governor of Illinois.

Who he endorsed doesn’t matter. The fact that he is here endorsing anyone at all should be considered newsworthy. … Read the rest of this extraordinary piece here.

Here is a new Naked Emperor News video that details sixteen things President Obama said in his State of the Union Address that are simply not true. It uses Obama’s own words from the speech, compared to his own words in previous statements to show him not telling the truth.

via Freedom’s Lighthouse and Naked Emperor News

YouTube – Sen. Inhofe on the Joe Kelley Show – State of the Union – KRMG Tulsa

Sen. Inhofe reacts to President Obama’s State of the Union address on KRMG Morning New with Jim Kelley. H/T Freedom’s Lighthouse.

This reminds me of our favorite MEP, Daniel Hannan.

Godfrey Bloom exposes more global warming tax scammers

via YouTube

by Garrett W. McIntyre

As a media man, Rush Limbaugh is a veritable Midas. He has at least five easily discernable revenue streams. In all, Limbaugh likely brings in close to $60 million each year. It’s a good thing the man lives in Florida where taxes are favorable. Limbaugh will likely earn more than $1 billion from 2000 to 2016. Get a look at where the dollars come from after the jump.

Limbaugh’s big breadwinner is “The Rush Limbaugh Show”. From 2000 through the year Limbaugh’s contract with Clear Channel’s Primere Radio Networks paid $285 million. In 2008 he entered into a new contract, this one paying him $400 million over an eight-year period. That amounts to $50 million dollars a year, or about $136,986 a day. Limbaugh’s is the biggest contract the radio business has seen since Howard Stern’s $500 million contract with Sirius Satellite Radio. It’s pretty fair if you consider that Limbaugh’s weekly audience of 20 million represents a bit shy of 10% of overall radio listeners.

For those that don’t get enough Limbaugh on the radio, visitors to his site can become members of Rush 24/7. Members get to listen to recorded broadcasts on the show whenever they like, and they pay for the privilege. Membership cost $6.95 per month. Assuming that 5% of visitors to Limbaugh’s website become members (maybe a conservative estimate given the loyalty of his following) this program pulls in around $417,000 per month, and a little over $5 million per year. Given all the members get is a free t-shirt and a screen saver, its safe to say that Limbaugh & Co keep most of that money.

Limbaugh put out two best-selling books in the early 90’s. In The Way Things Ought To Be, Limbaugh put down his thoughts on just about any subject he felt like, and over 2 million people wanted to read it. As a big- name author, Limbaugh might have kept around a third of the cover price. At that rate he brought in about $9.6 million. His second book, See I Told You So, sold 2.5 million copies. Assuming the same rate, Limbaugh brought in about $11.6 million from the books. Overall, Limbaugh’s foray into the literary world added over $20 million to his bank account.

Picking up on his success in authoring books, Limbaugh puts out a monthly letter. The letter is devoted to political commentary, and covers just about whatever is getting his goat in a given month. A subscription costs $34.95 a year. Based on the information we can find, the letter has 135,631 subscribers. That puts revenue from the newsletter at a little over $4.7 million. Given the number of subscribers postage for the year costs no more than $100,000. Even after paying and artist and editor this business conservatively keeps $4 million a year. Not bad for a little stream of consciousness.

RushLimbaugh.com gets roughly 1.2 million page views per month. Based on the ads that Limbaugh runs on the site, we estimate the site brings in about $500 in advertising revenue each day. That amounts to $182,500. It’s impossible to know what it costs to operate the site.

If the site take two people to run, Rush might bring in about $100,000 a year from the its operation.