by Erika LovleySource: Politico story by Erika Lovley — sounds like a good last name to report on a “pot” story.

A senior aide for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) was arrested Tuesday for attempting to bring marijuana into the Hart Senate Office Building, according to U.S. Capitol Police reports.

Marcus Stanley, who served as a senior economic adviser and at one time worked on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee — chaired by Boxer — was stopped by a police officer Tuesday morning when he allegedly tried to “remove and conceal” a leafy green substance from his pocket during a security screening at the Constitution Avenue door of the Hart building around noon, according to a Capitol Police report.

Police confiscated the substance, which later tested positive for marijuana, and Stanley quickly resigned.

“Marcus Stanley is no longer with this office,” Boxer spokesman Zachary Coile told POLITICO. “He submitted his resignation, and Sen. Boxer accepted it because his actions yesterday were wrong and unacceptable.”

Stanley has worked on Capitol Hill since 2007, according to financial disclosure records from Legistorm, and draws a six-figure salary. He has also worked for the Joint Economic Committee.

Marijuana possession has been an ongoing issue on the Capitol grounds, especially since the Capitol Visitor Center opened with additional screening facilities. In the past year and a half, more than a dozen people have been stopped for bringing marijuana into the Capitol complex, along with other drugs, including at least one instance involving cocaine, according to police records.

Comment by American Grand Jury:

Hey, what do you expect? This is California style politics hanging out at Capitol Hill — maybe Boxer takes a hit every now and then and the aide was bringing it in, what do we know?

By Jerome R. Corsi

Have you seen a “stimulus” sign in your neighborhood?

Take a photograph, and send the picture along with a description of the location to stimulussigns@gmail.com, urges Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Issa’s congressional staff plans to assemble a prominent display of what Issa believes are ubiquitous stimulus signs praising the Obama administration and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or ARRA, on transportation facilities across America.

Yesterday, Issa’s Washington office issued a statement charging that the Department of Transportation is continuing to push recipients of Obama administration stimulus money to display signs crediting President Obama and stimulus spending with “economic recovery,” even though DOT has responded to pressure and agreed to stop “requiring” that the signs be posted.

WND reported Monday that Issa’s office issued a scathing Republican oversight report charging the Obama White House has “used the machinery of the Obama campaign to tout the Administration’s agenda through inappropriate and sometimes unlawful public relations and propaganda initiatives.”

Issa is convinced that despite the objections voiced by his office, the report and the DOT’s apparent agreement to stop, the agency intends to plaster railroads, airports, highways and waterways throughout the country with Obama stimulus signs. The congressman says the signage campaign amounts to little more that a political message to re-elect the president “toad” living in the White House.

Comment by American Grand Jury:

This is hilarious — way to GO Darrell Issa — I like it.

Suggestion: If you see one of these signs, photograph it of course and attach the image to your email, **BUT** also look on the sign and see if there is a vendor’s name listed that printed the sign. Usually signs have copyrights on them so the vendor can sometimes get more business. Write down the vendor’s name and phone number and send a message to Issa and snitch on the vendor who is taking government money to print and distribute these signs..

by Kerry Picket

Speaker Pelosi has sent out a statement regarding her comments on investigating those who she believes may be funding the opposition to the mosque.

Pelosi: The freedom of religion is a Constitutional right. Where a place of worship is located is a local decision.

AGJ: Since when did Pelosi care about the Constitution?

Pelosi: I support the statement made by the Interfaith Alliance that ‘We agree with the ADL that there is a need for transparency about who is funding the effort to build this Islamic center. At the same time, we should also ask who is funding the attacks against the construction of the center.’

AGJ: Code words for, “were need to prosecute those that would fund organizations that oppose Islam.”

Pelosi: There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I join those who have called for looking into how … this opposition to the mosque is being funded…”

AGJ: There is no question that this woman is a Marxist Socialist who has a blood-thirst for power — she is more dangerous than any other person in Congress — her and Obama have literally ruined this Country.

By Russell Berman

Democrats who reluctantly slashed a food stamp program to fund a state aid bill may have to do so again to pay for a top priority of first lady Michelle Obama.

The House will soon consider an $8 billion child nutrition bill that’s at the center of the first lady’s usurper’s “Let’s Move” initiative. Before leaving for the summer recess, the Senate passed a smaller version of the legislation that is paid for by trimming the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps.

The proposed cuts would come on top of a 13.6 percent food stamp reduction in the $26 billion Medicaid and education state funding bill that President Obama signed this week.

Food stamps have made multiple appearances on the fiscal chopping block because Democrats have few other places to turn to offset the cost of legislation.

Democrats have turned to the food stamp program because funding increases enacted in the stimulus package last year were already scheduled to phase out over time. The changes proposed in the state aid and nutrition bills would simply cut off that increase early, in March 2014. Because the cuts would not take effect for more than three years, Democratic leaders have voiced the hope that they will be able to stop them in future legislation.

But House liberals are balking now, saying that while they swallowed the food stamp cuts to pay for urgent funding for Medicaid and teachers, they will not vote for more cuts in the child nutrition bill. In a letter sent this week to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), 106 House Democrats urged the speaker to take the House version of the child nutrition bill, which does not slash food stamps, rather than the Senate version.

“This is one of the more egregious cases of robbing Peter to pay Paul, and is a vote we do not take lightly,” the lawmakers, led by Reps. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said of their vote on the state aid bill.

Comment by American Grand Jury:

Oh horse-sh** — these DemoCRAPS will vote quickly on this bill and give you lip-service while acting like they are “soooo concerned.” They don’t give a crap about this country — they simply are sucking up to the Usurpers in the White House and the Unions — let’s call a spade a spade!

by Rick Moran

Just six months ago, it looked like the GOP might take as few as 4 and perhaps as many as 7 senate seats in November.

Those numbers were based on several factors including incumbency, history, and fundraising. But here we are 6 months later and the board has suddenly gotten crowded. Several more Democratically held senate seats have been put in play, and the open seats have also trended toward the GOP.

The latest confirmation of this comes from the Karl Rove-Ed Gillespie group American Crossroads. Alexander Burns of Politico dismisses the poll as meaningless since the state by state sample was small - only 100 - but reads the tea leaves correctly:

But taken together, the results suggest Republicans have an opening to make substantial gains this fall, even to the point of putting the Democrats’ 59-seat majority in peril. In eight seats currently held by Democrats - Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Washington - Republican candidates average an edge of seven points over their Democratic opponents, leading 47 percent to 40 percent.

In five Republican-held seats - Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, New Hampshire and Ohio - GOP candidates hold an average lead of eight points, 45 percent to 37 percent.

The survey tested specific candidates - Republican nominees or frontrunners against their Democratic counterparts - in every state except for Colorado, where this week’s primaries remained too close to call. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist was listed as an independent candidate in his state’s Senate race.

A switch of 10 seats will give GOP control of the senate. It is extremely rare for such a turnabout to occur in Mid Term elections (the GOP picked up 12 seats in the Reagan landslide in 1980 with the last swing of this magnitude in a mid term election being the 13 seats won by Democrats in 1958). But it appears that a perfect storm is brewing that could sweep away even long time incumbents like Barbara Boxer and Russ Feingold who are running for their lives just 10 weeks before the election.