Tabitha sits down with Brian Johnson of Americans for Tax Reform in the first half and is later joined by Dr. Melissa Clouthier and Ed Morrissey to discuss the State of the Union speech.

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A conservative activist who posed as a pimp to target the community-organizing group ACORN and the son of a federal prosecutor were among four people arrested by the FBI and accused of trying to interfere with phones at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office.

Activist James O’Keefe, 25, was already in Landrieu’s New Orleans office Monday when Robert Flanagan and Joseph Basel, both 24, showed up claiming to be telephone repairmen, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten’s office said Tuesday. Letten says O’Keefe recorded the two with his cell phone.

Flanagan, the son of acting U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan in Shreveport, and Basel asked for access to a phone at the reception desk. Then they asked for access to a phone closet so they could work on the phone system. The men were directed to another office in the building, where they again said they were telephone repairmen.

They were arrested later by the U.S. Marshal’s Service. Details of the arrest were not available. A fourth man, Stan Dai, 24, was also arrested, but Letten’s office said only that he assisted the others in planning, coordinating and preparing the operation.

Federal officials did not say why the men wanted to interfere with Landrieu’s phones or whether they were successful. Landrieu, a moderate Democrat, declined comment Tuesday. She has been in the news recently because she negotiated an increase in Medicaid funds for her state before announcing her support for Senate health care legislation.

Michelle Malkin writes:

But for now, let it be a lesson to aspiring young conservatives interested in investigative journalism:

Know your limits. Know the law. Don’t get carried away. And don’t become what you are targeting.

Good advice. Here’s the thing: The fact that O’Keefe screwed up doesn’t suddenly exhonerate ACORN. What O’Keefe exposed was still fact. We have seen it with our own eyes.

The long dormant ACORN Twitter account has resurrected itself to gloat, and ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis will be on the Ed Show to no doubt deemphasize the work that O’Keefe did. Unfortunately, the damage is done for ACORN.

I really think it’s irrelevant, overall. The guy did something really, really stupid. Yeah, he should be punished. But for the Left to celebrate as if all the wrongs of ACORN are now righted is just ridiculous. Get a grip. They’re not any less corrupt now than they were this morning. Sorry guys.

Jim Hoft found an inconvenient speech our President gave on the Senate floor in 2006…

Via Gateway Pundit:

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.

Over the past 5 years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion.That is “trillion” with a “T.” That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion.

Numbers that large are sometimes hard to understand. Some people may wonder why they matter. Here is why: This year, the Federal Government will spend $220 billion on interest. That is more money to pay interest on our national debt than we’ll spend on Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we will spend on education, homeland security, transportation, and veterans benefits combined. It is more money in one year than we are likely to spend to rebuild the devastated gulf coast in a way that honors the best of America.

And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.

Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities.

Senator Barack Obama
Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt
March 16, 2006

So, uh, how’s your leadership Obama? Good, solid B+. For sure.

Tabitha welcomes Stephen Kruiser of stephenkruiser.com and rfcradio.com for a lively discussion about bed warming and weight watchers among other topics. Stephen’s morning run was officially side railed for this show.

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Nothing is off limits this week. Newt Gingrich and Keith Olbermann both make the “toolbags” of the week. Stay tuned until the very end. We’ve got bloopers!

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“In short, in Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against woman and against politicians with whom he disagrees. In any other time in our history, this man would have been laughed off the stage as an unqualified and a disaster in the making by the most conservative of conservatives. Instead, the commonwealth of Massachusetts is close to sending this bad joke to the Senate of the United States.”

Olby is quickly making himself irrelevant… and I’m being generous by assuming that anyone gives him any credence as it stands right now.

Jon Stewart (I’m not gonna lie, the guy makes me laugh) dissected Olbermann’s comment in 6:54 of sheer brilliance.

Bachmann first laid out her agenda — cutting taxes and killing President Obama’s health reform bill — at considerable length.

When Specter tried to counter, Bachmann, darling of the Tea Party movement, kept on talking, which didn’t sit well with the one-time Philadelphia DA, who is a stickler for politeness and protocol.

“I’m going to treat you like a lady,” Mr. Specter shot back. “Now act like one.”

Ms. Bachmann replied, “I am a lady.”

Do we get to call misogyny on this one? Because really. His statement feels like it should continue with “and get back in the kitchen.”

Rebecca Wales joins Tabitha to talk about the MA election results. John Hawkins and Molly Teichman join in for additional thoughts and comments. Common sense conservatism you won’t find anywhere else.

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From Parcbench:

Earlier today, the Boston Globe posted online the results of the Massachusetts special election for U.S. Senate.  A screenshot of the posting reveals a razor-thin 1% victory for Martha Coakley over Scott Brown with 100% of precincts reporting.  The only problem with the post, however, is that it came at least seven hours before the polls in Massachusetts actually close at 8:00 p.m. tonight, leading some confused Massachusetts residents to wonder why the post, which was removed, ever went up in the first place.

Man, who said old media was dead? They know stuff even before it happens.

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