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And it has brought us to this trainwreck called ObamaCare and we have bankrupted our kids and grandkids!

We are now headed into the 2014 Election Season and common sense and conservatism are on the rise. Please stand-up and be counted!

Reading Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election is a great place to start!

The Founding Father's Real Reason for the Second Amendment

And remember the words of Thomas Jefferson "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." See Video of Suzanna Gratia-Hupp’s Congressional Testimony: What the Second Amendment is REALLY For, below (u-tube HERE).

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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Pres. Obama Tells GOP 'I am Not an Ideologue'

For someone who says he is not an ideologue… he is sure acting like one. He is following Progressive leader Saul Alinsky’s playbook (Rules for Radicals) step by step… Instead of pivoting after the second shot heard round the world… the election of Scott Brown, he stepping on the exploratory and moving ahead with his agenda full speed.

Obama told Americans in his State of the Union that he plans to push Cap and Trade (in spite of the ClimateGate scandal and record cold temperatures everywhere) and ObamaCare, not matter what they want and he essentially played verbal smoke and mirrors (lied) about budget cuts; lobbyists (11 work in the White House and Andy Stern who is the the head of SEIU is the White Houses most frequent visitors) ; transparency and having tried to include the GOP in any HC negotiations.

BALTIMORE — President Barack Obama on Friday accused Republicans of portraying health care reform as a "Bolshevik plot" and telling their constituents that he’s "doing all kinds of crazy stuff that's going to destroy America."

Speaking to House Republicans at their annual policy retreat here, Obama said that over-the-top GOP attacks on him and his agenda have made it virtually impossible for Republicans to address the nation’s problems in a bipartisan way.

“What happens is that you guys don’t have a lot of room to negotiate with me,” Obama said, silencing the smattering of Republicans who had applauded when he said “Bolshevik plot.” "The fact of the matter is, many of you, if you voted with the administration on something, are politically vulnerable with your own base, with your own party because what you've been telling your constituents is, ‘This guy's doing all kinds of crazy stuff that's going to destroy America.' ''

Obama’s comments came in the midst of an extraordinary back-and-forth with Republican House members – a scene straight out of the House of Commons that played out live on cable TV.

Republicans invited Obama to appear at their annual conference; the president accepted — and then surprised them by asking that cameras and reporters be allowed into the room.

Republicans immediately agreed to the request, but they may be regretting it now.

Again and again, Obama turned the Republicans questions against them — accusing them of obstructing legislation for political purposes and offering solutions that won’t work.

"I've read your legislation. I take a look at this stuff. And the good ideas we take," Obama said. "It can't be all or nothing, one way or the other … If we put together a stimulus package in which a third of it is tax cuts that normally you guys would support, and support for states and the unemployed and helping people stay on COBRA, that certainly your governors would support … and maybe there are some things in there, with respect to infrastructure, that you don't like … If there's uniform opposition because the Republican caucus doesn't get 100 percent or 80 percent of what you want, then it's going to be difficult to get a deal done, because that's not how democracy works."

House Minority Leader John Boehner, who introduced Obama to his colleagues and gave the president a stack of Republican policy proposals, said afterward that the event had been “a good first step in having more of a dialogue.”

Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake said the event had helped his party by showing that Republicans have offered alternatives to Obama’s plans.

"The real effort here was to convince people out there that we have offered solutions, we've offered things,” Flake said. “For him to say, ‘Yes, I've read your proposal; it's a substantive proposal’ — that's good. That's a huge thing for Republicans."

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence of Indiana began Friday’s question-and-answer session by asking Obama whether he’d embrace “across the board” tax cuts as a way to revive the economy, and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) asked him to support a line-item veto to help achieve a balanced budget.

And… FOX VIDEO: Obama - 'I am Not an Ideologue'

Q: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None, if it really wants to change.

Any president, at any time, can choose to embody the consensus his nation has reached after it has engaged in a period of extended debate. That process, called triangulation, involves the embrace of the elements advanced by the right and by the left that Americans have found valid, and the rejection of those from which they have turned away.

When our nation encounters a new problem, we welcome vigorous debate and encourage each side to articulate its views and elaborate its solutions.

But, after a time, we have heard enough and want resolution, consensus and implementation. If Obama heeds that call, he can, indeed, turn his presidency around. But if he continues to pursue his leftist, socialist agenda and uses a feigned moderation as a guise for his radicalism, we will not be fooled again. We have been down that road with him before

In healthcare, for example, the debate has left most of us in agreement that insurance companies need to be reined in. They should not be allowed to reject those with pre-existing conditions or to raise rates when their clients become sick. We mostly agree that lifetime caps on benefits are unfair. Since each of us could become sick and run afoul of those rules, we oppose them and ask for their reform. On the other hand, we reject the total revamping of the healthcare industry, the reduction of doctor pay, the cuts in Medicare and the mandatory insurance embedded in the ObamaCare legislation. Were Obama to embrace these solutions, he would be able to pass his bill quickly and would be hailed for it.

But will Obama do it? Will he emulate Clinton and save his presidency by moving to the center? Certainly not before he has lost his control over Congress. It was not the defeat of healthcare that impelled Clinton's change of course, but his defeat in the elections of 1994. Even then, it took six months to turn the battleship around.

And after he loses Congress? Probably not even then. Clinton was a lifelong moderate who moved to the left when expediency dictated. Obama is a lifelong liberal who pretends to move to the center when he has to.

A committed socialist, one doubts that Obama would sacrifice his cherished transformative goals for incremental policies.

But even if Obama did, it might not save him. There is a basic difference between the circumstances that surround the Obama and Clinton administrations. Clinton faced relatively minor problems while Obama is neck deep in recession, deficit and stagnation. Clinton could reshape his presidency by positioning, posturing and passing moderate legislation. But Obama can only succeed by altering outcomes. Americans want jobs, lower unemployment, economic growth, a reduced deficit and an end to the recession. They will not be assuaged or appeased by programs or proposals. They demand results.

The skills of the spin doctor are wasted on his administration. All the photo-ops in the world and all the populist-sounding rhetoric will not do the job.

They may provide a short-term bounce -- as will probably follow the State of the Union speech -- but they will become undone with the next week's jobless numbers.

Just as George W. Bush could not recapture his popularity with new programs for Iraq -- voters demanded a reduction in casualties and then withdrawal -- Obama cannot save his by announcing new ideas. He has to produce.
All the spin in the world will not save Obama.

Dick Morris – Morris, a former adviser to Senator Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton, is the author of Outrage, Fleeced and Catastrophe.

Published in The Hill

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ZONATION: Oh, How Liberals Contradict Themselves

This is great!! You have to watch this!!!

ZONATION: Oh, How Liberals Contradict Themselves – Video

Alfonzo RachelZONATION: Oh, How Liberals Contradict Themselves

by Alfonzo Rachel – Posted at Big Hollywood

Obama, Haiti and the Bold & Fresh Tour

(Even some of the not so conservative are seeing the reality and speaking out)

"Glenn Beck and I are here on the Gulf Coast to do two sold-out Bold & Fresh shows. We knew when we signed on for the tour that creepy far-left people would be stalking us, and they are. After our first show, the loopy Media Matters rejoiced in saying that I had compared the South Side of Chicago to Haiti. Here's what I said: 'If you've ever been to the South Side of Chicago, it's a disaster. It's like Haiti. I support some charities there, but Haiti just never gets better, no matter how much money you put in there ... but Obama really believes the government can do it.' Those comments deeply offend far-left kool-aid drinkers, even though every word is true. For decades Chicago's South Side has been a pocket of poverty and brutality; Barack Obama's well aware of that because he worked there. An enormous amount of federal and state money has poured into the South Side, yet it remains a major problem. The situation directly parallels what's happened in Haiti - massive aid, few results. Self-reliance is the key to success in life; a nanny state chokes that. If the President and I have one area of disagreement, it is big government. I believe it can not solve problems, he believes it can level the playing field, at least somewhat. That hasn't happened on Chicago's South Side, has it?"

The Rise of the Black Conservative Voice

Mr. President You are Blocking the Sun

ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: OBAMA ORGANIZING IN HIGH SCHOOL

An Atlas reader, Chuck, has a student in the eleventh grade in an Ohio High School. Her government class passed out this propaganda recruiting paper so students could sign up as interns for Obama's Organizing for America (OFA is the former mybarackobama.com site.)

Obama is using our public school system to recruit for his Alinsky-inspired private army. Organizing for America is (and I quote) recruiting in our high schools to "build on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda" ............of national socialism.

The Ohio High School is Perry Local in Massillon, Ohio.

This is incredible. And evil. Suffer the little children -- enlisted like SS youth. This is no accident. Obama is poisoning our public school system. He acts as if it's his own private breeding farm. Once again academic learning and achievement is hopelessly abandoned, and supplanted by radical leftist activism from the leftwing Alinsky indoctrinators in the perverse public school system.

Children must be advised to expose this ugly propaganda. Children must tell their parents how they are being used and manipulated. Parents, warn your kids. Better yet, home school.

Check out the recommended reading list page 4:

  • Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky
  • The New Organizers, Zack Exley
  • Stir It Up: Lessons from Community Organizing and Advocacy, Rinku Sen
  • Obama Field Organizers Plot a Miracle, Zack Exley, Huffington Post
  • Dreams from My Father Chicago Chapters, Barack Hussein Obama

This internship program is geared towards the 2010 elections. Using our kids as their goons. Can you imagine if the Republicans attempted such a fascist stunt?

Remember the children singing heil Obama songs? The Obama youth regiment brigade.

How about being forced to listen to his creepy speech?

During the election he had those freaky kids parades.

And video after video of kids singing brainwashed tunes of Obama praise here and here.

Atlas had The Obama Childrens Book -- illustrations show rainbows, sunbeams and an aura around Obama. Rainbows and moonbeams -- got that?

Then the goosestepping kids for Obama -- a school project. And now this, high school pods for O.

And what will these "interns" be force fed? The mother's milk of the left -- anti-war agitation, anti-capitalism, Marx, Lenin, Ayers, Ellie Lightactivism, LGBT agenda promotion, global warming, pro-jihad, and illegal immigration. For starters.

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He is using the public school system to to get kids "on the ground - working to make the change we worked so hard for 2008".

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Obama is using high school children to goose step on the healthcare socialism program.

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"How do you plan to continue working for Obama in the future?"

"What can we do to stay connected?"

"What did you learn about organizing?"

CAMPAIGN FLASHBACK: He pulled this corrupting garbage when he was running:

Obama_organizer

Introducing the Obama Organizing Fellows

Atlas Shruggs/ Hat tip to Christine B. MA Reg. Coordinator on AAM

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Obama Says We Need National Civilian Security Forces... Why?

The Obama Youth - Video

The Dumbing Down of America Series

For Anyone Who Missed the Carlson Tucker (Fox) Special on Textbooks…

Obama Says We Need National Civilian Security Forces. WHY? – Video

ParentalRights.org vs. global children’s rights treaty

Resources:

Video: The White House Where Everybody Knows the Union Bosses' Names

 

Video: The White House Where Everybody Knows the Union Bosses' Names

After Big Labor Bosses spent over one billion dollars getting Obama elected President, you could be sure that they’d seek a steep return on their investment.

Sure enough, SEIU Top Boss Andy Stern is the White House's most frequent visitor.  Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis's last job was at Big Labor-front group American Rights at Work.  And union bosses get top billing at high-profile Administration events.

To commemorate the union bosses' newfound friendliness with top White House politicos, we decided to put together a short video on the Obama Administration's relationship with Big Labor:


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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Has Forbes Gone Psychotic or Taken the Blue Pill?

Posted by: Dr. Mercola – January 2010
happy pills, psychoticForbes has declared Monsanto “Company of the Year,” calling criticism of the notorious company “vicious” attacks against a company that “has been working to make humanity better fed.”

What’s more, Forbes claims that the attacks come because Monsanto has close to a monopoly in some seed markets, which Forbes argues is because they are making “seeds that are too good.”

You read that right. Apparently, Monsanto’s decades-long attempt to control the seed market -- which has led it lawsuits against small farmers and genetically modified plants that never regerminate, forcing farmers to buy seeds year after year -- is apparently just a result of their being “too good.”

I encourage you all to BOYCOTT Forbes and cancel any subscription you may have.

Sources: Forbes January 18, 2010

Dr. Mercola's Comments:

For anyone who knows anything about the business of Monsanto, the news that this ominous company has been named “Company of the Year” by renowned Forbes magazine is simply shocking.

This follows on the heels of other oxymoronic honors, such as

  • President Obama accepting the Nobel Peace Prize while firmly entrenched in a seemingly never-ending war spread across two countries, and

  • Time magazine naming Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke “Man of the Year,” supposedly for “saving” the US from “an even worse” financial collapse than what Bernanke himself helped create.

  • Even more ironic are the media efforts to convince you that the unsustainable situation created by printing of billions of dollars to bail out failing banks and companies can be sustained indefinitely.

So, who is responsible for these strange decisions? And perhaps more importantly, why?

Through the lens of these examples, a rather bizarre picture is taking shape. I can’t say exactly what the message is, but I believe I can say this: Beware, because deception is taking place through coordinated media manipulation.

If you know anything about how conventional media is being used on a mass scale, you realize that typically someone is trying to sell you on something – an idea, an ideology, a certain mindset, in order to eventually produce a certain behavior.

The question is, what are they trying to convince you of now?

Are We Living in Some Alternative Reality?

When reading the news these days, I often feel like I’m getting information from some alternate Universe where up is down, and left is right. Because they surely aren’t reporting reality on this planet. It’s gotten so blatantly bizarre lately, it’s as though they don’t even bother to come up with a decent cover story to shroud their attempts at manipulating your mind.

That’s the good news.

The bad news is that there are still many who have not figured this game out yet, who will swallow just about anything that magazines like Time and Forbes put in print – like the story that Monsanto is a world class do-gooder.

Unfortunately, there are still those who are unaware of the many improprieties and outright crimes committed by Monsanto, such as:

This is but a short list of examples, but it should give you a clue as to why I question the rationale behind giving them this honor.

Monsanto – Company of the Year?

Anyone who has studied the devastating effects of the unrestrained release of genetically modified crops into the environment will see the insanity in declaring Monsanto “Company of the Year.”

What the world needs is a return to saner, more sustainable farming practices, not mass cultivation of crops infused with “suicide genes” that prevent regermination the year after, or food crops that have been contaminated with GM seeds used for pharmaceutical production.

I truly believe that letting Monsanto lead us down the garden path is nothing short of suicidal.

It’s time for people to realize that while the declared motive behind GM food is an altruistic one -- to alleviate hunger, poverty and malnutrition worldwide – in reality, the ruthless propagation of GM crops are intended to create previously unimaginable profits above anything else.

Despite their assurances, we’re already beginning to see the real price of all that tinkering with Mother Nature: unnatural crop combinations that can harm your health and potentially cause generational DNA changes, for example.

Not only that, but contrary to promises, GM crops are FAILING MISERABLY all across the world. The reality simply isn’t living up to the hype of increased yields of healthy crops.

After 30 years of GMO experimentation, we have the data to show:

  • No increase in yields; on the contrary GM soya has decreased yields by up to 20 percent compared with non-GM soya. Up to 100 percent failures of Bt cotton have been recorded in India. And recent studies by scientists from the USDA and the University of Georgia found that growing GM cotton in the U.S. can result in a drop in income by up to 40 percent.

  • No reduction in pesticides use; on the contrary, USDA data shows that GM crops has increased pesticide use by 50 million pounds from 1996 to 2003 in the U.S., and the use of glyphosate went up more than 15-fold between 1994 and 2005, along with increases in other herbicides to cope with rising glyphosate resistant superweeds.

  • Roundup herbicide is lethal to frogs and toxic to human placental and embryonic cells. Roundup is used in more than 80 percent of all GM crops planted in the world.

  • GM crops harm wildlife, as revealed by UK and U.S. studies.

  • Bt resistant pests and Roundup tolerant superweeds render the two major GM crop traits useless. The evolution of Bt resistant bollworms worldwide have now been confirmed and documented.

  • Vast areas of forests, pampas and cerrados lost to GM soya in Latin America.

  • Epidemic of suicides in the cotton belt of India. 100,000 farmers between 1993-2003, and an estimated 16,000 farmers a year since, have committed suicide since Bt cotton was introduced.

  • Transgene contamination is completely unavoidable, as science has recently revealed that the genome (whether plant, animal or human) is NOT constant and static, which is the scientific base for genetic engineering of plants and animals. Instead, geneticists have discovered that the genome is remarkably dynamic and changeable, and constantly ‘conversing’ and adapting to the environment. This interaction determines which genes are turned on, when, where, by what and how much, and for how long. They’ve also found that the genetic material itself has the ability to be changed according to experience, passing it on to subsequent generations.

  • GM food and feed linked to deaths and sicknesses both in the fields in India and in lab tests around the world. For example, in April 2006, more than 70 Indian shepherds reported that 25 percent of their herds died within 5-7 days of continuous grazing on Bt cotton plants.

Forbes on a Roll – But Where?

But Forbes doesn’t just throw your intelligence for a loop by hailing the success of a destroyer like Monsanto. Oh, no. There’s more.

Tellingly, in the same issue, Forbes also lashes out against chelation therapy, and derides anyone who thinks there may be a connection between vaccines and autism.

So what is this all about, really?

I have to seriously wonder why we are being urged to imagine we live in a world where no bad deed goes unrewarded; a place where what’s bad for you is somehow beneficial, and where lack of integrity, reason and logic is applauded.

What is this type of media coverage saying to you? What is this saying to your children?

This is not what America used to stand for, if I remember correctly. And it’s not what America should stand for now, or in the future.

Quite frankly, it’s all wrong. It’s all upside-down and backwards.

The only good thing about these blatantly bizarre media displays is the fact that they are just that – blatantly bizarre. And hopefully that will shake more people from their slumber and cause them to ask some basic questions about what’s really going on in this world.

Important Questions Only You Have the Answer to

  • Who taught you what you know?

  • Who do you listen to? What messages are you receiving from conventional media? How do you determine what’s real and what’s not?

  • When was the last time you turned OFF the television and really pondered some issue at length, on your own, looking at it from all sides, including the sides you’ve been told to ignore? Heck, when was the last time you asked WHY you are being told to ignore it in the first place!

Other questions may be even more important than the preceding ones, as they involve really tuning into yourself:

  • Where do you fall within the scheme of nature?

  • Do natural laws apply to you?

  • Where does science fit in? How far can science take you? Are you willing to gamble the future of your children on the assurances of mega-companies like Monsanto, who have tremendous responsibility to their shareholders to turn a profit in a crumbling market?

  • To what degree do you think man-made chemicals can improve your health? What IS health, really? What does your body really need in order for all those trillions of cells to thrive in harmony?

Folks, I encourage you to open your mind; think deeply and clearly, and avoid jumping to preconceived conclusions based on what you think you “know,” without first challenging yourself to discern who fed you that “knowledge” in the first place.

Personally, I’m fed up with the brainwashing that conventional media dishes out, and if you too have had enough, I suggest you boycott Forbes and cancel any subscription you may have to their magazine. Unless you simply don’t want to live in a right-side-up world, that is.

Congressman Ron Paul said the following in one of his speeches before Congress earlier this year, and it sums up my sentiments exactly:

"Is this a dream or a nightmare? Is it my imagination or have we lost our minds? It is surreal. It is just not believable. A grand absurdity. A great deception. A delusion of momentous proportions based on preposterous notions and ideas whose time should never have come.

Insanity passed off as logic. Evil described as virtue. Ignorance pawned off as wisdom. Slavery sold as liberty.The philosophy that destroys us is not even defined. We have broken from reality, a psychotic nation. Ignorance with a pretense of knowledge replacing wisdom."

Related Links:

The Doors Of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything

Why You Are Being Deceived by the News Media

World's Largest Media Source Controlled by World's Largest Drug Company

(Sometimes I wonder if we the American People have gone psychotic or taken the idiot pill??)

Friday, January 29, 2010

CA – Need Your Help!! - Liberal California Senators Pass Universal Health Care Legislation

George Runner's picture By George Runner - California State Senator representing the 17th Senate District

Fri, January 29th, 2010

Senate Bill 810 has unfortunately passed the Senate yesterday on a 22-14 party-line vote.

The measure would create a single-payer, government-controlled health care plan for Californians. The same government that has mismanaged your money now wants to control your health care.

Does anybody believe a state that bleeds red year-after-year could possibly control the costs of health care?

As I said on the Senate floor: This plan is to the Left and radical of ObamaCare. It’s this type of big-government idea that caused an earthquake of an election in Massachusetts in recent weeks. Yet, my liberal colleagues in Sacramento don’t seem to care about the needs or concerns of the people or the state of our economy.

Senator Runner on passage of CA Government Run Health Care Plan from CA Senate GOP on Vimeo.

The Orange County Register says the Senate Democrats are “tone deaf” to have revived “a $200-billion, government-run, universal health care scheme to outlaw private insurance and subsidize coverage for millions of Californians.”

The San Diego Union-Tribune calls the plan “appalling on one level and bizarre on another.”

The editorial goes on to say: “It is appalling because it amounts to an in-your-face display of contempt for public sentiment.”

And the Oakland Tribune wrote: “The bill would add a huge public cost and create considerable uncertainty at a time when both the state government and the private sector are struggling for survival.”

SB 810 will now be heard in the Assembly, where I hope the Democrats are in tune with the wishes of the people and in touch with the realities of our economy.

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I called and faxed those listed below:

Liberal California Senators Pass Universal Health Care

CALL THEM AND SAY “NO” TO THIS BILL SB 810
CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY MEMBERS- DEMOCRATS- UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE

Jared Huffman-Phone: 916-319-2006, Fax: 916-319-2106
Noreen Evans-Phone: 916-319-2007, Fax: 916-319-2107
Mariko Yamada-Phone: 916-319-2008, Fax: 916-319-2108
Dave Jones-Phone: 916-319-2009, Fax: 916-319-2109
Alyson Huber-Phone: 916-319-2010, Fax: 906-319-2110
Tom Torlakson-Phone: 916-319-2011, Fax: 916-319-2111
Fiona Ma-Phone: 916-319-2012, Fax: 916-319-2112
Tom Ammiano-Phone: 916-319-2013, Fax: 916-319-2113
Nancy Skinner-Phone: 916-319-2014, Fax: 916-319-2114
Joan Buchanan-Phone: 916-319-2015, Fax: 916-319-2115
Sandre' Swanson-Phone: 916-319-2016, Fax: 916-319-2116
Cathleen Galgiani-Phone: 916-319-2017, Fax: 916-319-2117
Mary Hayashi-Phone: 916-319-2018, Fax: 916-319-2118
Gerald Hill-Phone: 916-319-2019, Fax: 916-319-2119
Alberto Torrico-Phone: 916-319-2020, Fax: 916-319-2120
Ira Ruskin-Phone: 916-319-2021, Fax: 916-319-2121
Paul Fong-Phone: 916-319-2022, Fax: 916-319-2122
Joe Coto-Phone: 916-319-2023, Fax: 916-319-2123
James Beall Jr-Phone: 916-319-2024, Fax: 916-319-2124
Bill Monning-Phone: 916-319-2027, Fax: 916-319-2127
Anna Caballero-Phone: 916-319-2028, Fax: 916-319-2128
Juan Arambula-Phone: 916-319-2031, Fax: 916-319-2131
Felipe Fuentes-Phone: 916-319-2039, Fax: 916-319-2139
Bob Blumenfield-Phone: 916-319-2040, Fax: 916-319-2140
Julia Brownley-Phone: 916-319-2041, Fax: 916-319-2141
Mike Feuer-Phone: 916-319-2042, Fax: 916-319-2142
Paul Krekorian-Phone: 916-319-2043, Fax: 916-319-2143
Anthony Portantino, Jr.-Phone: 916-319-2044, Fax: 916-319-2144
Kevin de Leon-Phone: 916-319-2045, Fax: 916-319-2145
John Perez-Phone: 916-319-2046, Fax: 916-319-2146
Karen Bass-Phone: 916-319-2047, Fax: 916-319-2147
Mike Davis-Phone: 916-319-2048, Fax: 916-319-2148
Mike Eng-Phone: 916-319-2049, Fax: 916-319-2149
Hector de la Torre-Phone: 916-319-2050, Fax: 916-319-2150
Isadore Hall, III-Phone: 916-319-2052, Fax: 916-319-2152
Ted Lieu-Phone: 916-319-2053, Fax: 916-319-2153
Bonnie Lowenthal-Phone: 916-319-2054, Fax: 916-319-2154
Warren Furutani-Phone: 916-319-2055, Fax: 916-319-2155
Tony Mendoza-Phone: 916-319-2057, Fax: 916-319-2157
Edward Hernandez-Phone: 916-319-2057, Fax: 916-319-2157
Charles Calderon-Phone: 916-319-2058, Fax: 916-319-2158
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Norma Torres-Phone: 916-319-2061, Fax: 916-319-2161
Lori Saldana-Phone: 916-319-2076, Fax: 916-319-2176
Martin Block-Phone: 916-319-2078, Fax: 916-319-2178
Mary Salas-Phone: 916-319-2079, Fax: 916-319-2179
Manuel Perez-Phone: 916-319-2080, Fax: 916-319-2180
Wesley Chesbro- Phone: 916-319-2001, Fax: 916-319-2101

You really have to shake your head, don’t you?? The majority of Americans do not want socialized single-payer healthcare, from the federal government or the state. California is bankrupt already, and if we pass this disaster we will be paying twice, like Massachusetts… who just elected Scott Brown to say no to government controlled HC of any kind and no to a public option, no to single payer and no to paying twice.

Please call, fax and visit your rep’s local and Sacramento offices and tell them NO, NO, NO. And when you are done please call your Federal Congressman and Boxer and Feinstein and tell them the same thing about ObamaCare.

Think about it, California can’t pay its bills and is threatening layoffs and reduction of services everywhere and now they are voting in socialized medicine??? This is the perfect example of what is wrong with liberal politics, the Progressive movement and what happens when you lose all Common Sense!!

About 17% of Californians are either unemployed or underemployed… just think about it?!?

Leftwingers Outraged By Being Associated With Leftwingers

Nazis (and by implication all “right- wingers,” past and present) were inherently wicked. Their agenda was evil from A to Z, their methods along with their goals.

Communists (and by implication left-wingers) at least mean well. Oh, they might get a tad overzealous at times (killing more people than the Nazis and the Bubonic Plague combined, as documented in the The Black Book of Communism, for instance) but at least their hearts were in the right place. Even Barry Goldwater might get it. “Extremism in the defense of socialism is no vice!”

In a one hour special titled “Revolutionary Holocaust; Live Free or Die” run on January 22nd Glenn Beck mounted a full-frontal attack against the above notion—and left it a smoking cinder. First off, by sourcing Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, Beck swept aside a premise that often handicaps conservatives from the get-go: the premise that Nazis belong on the right. Bombarded by relentless documentation to the contrary, this liberal bromide quickly blew up, and the program proceeded to report on the notoriously under-reported Communist holocaust.

As a participant in the program, I’ll go on the record and report that the care given by the producers to proper documentation for all Communist crimes and Communist quotes amounted to a fetish. This care, of course, accounts for the program’s devastating effectiveness—and thus the anguished reaction by liberals.

“The Liberal cannot strike wholeheartedly at the communist for fear of wounding himself in the process," wrote James Burnham in his classic Suicide of the West. This little gem did much to explain the theme in the opening lines of this article. But so vividly did Revolutionary Holocaust document Communist butcheries—from Stalin’s to Mao’s to Fidel Castro and Che Guevara’s-- that now some liberals are trying to weasel away from their years of alibis and rationalizations for the mass-murder.

The Glenn Beck special is now catching heat from “mainstream” liberal sources who claim no “mainstream” media or academic sources in fact herald the Communist icons as claimed on the special. To this end an article in Politico quotes Clemson professor and Harvard PHD, Steven Marks: "No one in their right mind is going to defend Stalin or Mao or Che Guevara,"

Oh?

Exhibit A: Time Magazine honors Che Guevara among "The 100 Most Important People of the Century." Not satisfied with such a paltry accolade they list him in the "Heroes and Icons" section, alongside Anne Frank, Andrei Sakharov, Rosa Parks and Mother Theresa.

Exhibit B: “Innocent people were not executed in significant numbers, (by Che and Castro.) Che presented a Christlike image, with his mortuary gaze it is as if Guevara looks upon his killers and forgives them." (Jorge Castaneda. Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American Studies. Visiting professor at Princeton and Berkeley, columnist for The Los Angeles Times, and Newsweek.)

Exhibit C: the cover of this very month’s GQ magazine (not exactly a “fringe” publication) features Che Guevara iconography on a smiling Johnny Depp.

Exhibit D: During last year’s presidential campaign, Obama campaign offices prominently displayed Che Guevara posters.
(Note: Che Guevara’s butcheries and Stalinist schemes were all orders from above, namely from his Stalinist boss, Fidel Castro, who appointed Guevara as his regime’s chief hangman.)

Exhibit E: “Fidel Castro is very shy and sensitive, a man I regard as a friend." Democratic Senator and Presidential Candidate, George Mc Govern:

* “Viva Fidel! Viva Che!” bellowed while arm in arm with Fidel Castro himself. (Democratic Presidential candidate, Jesse Jackson.)

* “Fidel Castro first and foremost is and always has been a committed egalitarian. He wanted a system that provided the basic needs to all -- enough to eat, health care, adequate housing and education. Cuba has superb systems of health care and universal education” (Democratic President James Earl Carter)

* “Fidel Castro is Cuba’s Elvis!” (former ABC anchorman Dan Rather)

* “Fidel Castro is an absolutely fascinating figure!” (NBC’s Andrea Mitchell)

* “Fidel Castro is one helluva guy!” (Ted Turner)

* “Fidel Castro has done good things for Cuba.” (Colin Powell)

Time and space restraints do not allow a listing of accolades to Castro/Stalinism from Hollywood folks.

The Toast of Manhattan!" crowed Time magazine about Fidel Castro's reception by Manhattan's Beautiful People on his visit to address the U.N. General assembly in 1996, upon the U.N.'s 50th anniversary celebrations.

"The Hottest Ticket in Manhattan!" read a Newsweek story that week, referring to the social swirl that engulfed Castro. After Fidel's whooping, hollering, foot-stomping ovation in the General Assembly, he was fêted by New York's best and brightest, hobnobbing with dozens of Manhattan's glitterati, pundits and power brokers.

First, there was dinner at the Council on Foreign Relations, (CFR). After holding court there for a rapt David Rockefeller, along with Robert McNamara, Dwayne Andreas and Random House's Harold Evans, Castro flashed over to Mort Zuckerman's Fifth Avenue pad, where a throng of Beltway glitterati, including a breathless Mike Wallace, Peter Jennings, Tina Brown, Bernard Shaw and Barbara Walters, all jostled for a brief tryst, cooing and gurgling to Castro's every comment.

All clamored for autographs and photo ops. Diane Sawyer was so overcome in the mass killer's presence that she rushed up, broke into that toothy smile of hers, wrapped her arms around Castro and smooched him warmly on the cheek.

"You people are the cream of the crop!" beamed the mass-murderer to the smiling throng that surrounded him.

"Hear, hear!" chirped the delighted guests while tinkling their wine glasses in appreciation and glee.

But the mass-murderer had barely scratched the surface of his fan club. According to the U.S. Cuba Trade and Economic Council, on that visit Castro received 250 dinner invitations from Manhattan celebrities and power brokers.

By: Humberto Fontova - the author of four books including: Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who idolize Him and Fidel; Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant

Source: Townhall.com

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***All colleges should require a course on the Constitution as part of their curriculum and Law Schools must go back to reaching Constitutional Law instead of Case Law***

White House asks Justice Department to look for other places to hold 9/11 terror trial

BY KENNETH R. BAZINET, ADAM LISBERG AND SAMUEL GOLDSMITH - DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Originally Published:Thursday, January 28th 2010, 8:04 PM
Updated: Thursday, January 28th 2010, 9:14 PM

Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed after his arrest in March 2003.

Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed after his arrest in March 2003.

CLICK TO ENLARGE: POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE SITES FOR KSM TERROR TRIAL.

The White House ordered the Justice Department Thursday night to consider other places to try the 9/11 terror suspects after a wave of opposition to holding the trial in lower Manhattan.

The dramatic turnabout came hours after Mayor Bloomberg said he would "prefer that they did it elsewhere" and then spoke to Attorney General Eric Holder.

"It would be an inconvenience at the least, and probably that's too mild a word for people that live in the neighborhood and businesses in the neighborhood," Bloomberg told reporters.

"There are places that would be less expensive for the taxpayers and less disruptive for New York City."

State and city leaders have increasingly railed against a plan to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in Manhattan federal court since Holder proposed it last month.

Sen. Chuck Schumer said he was "pleased" that the administration is reconsidering the location of the trial.

Earlier in the day, Schumer spoke "with high-level members of the administration and urged them to find alternatives," said the senator's spokesman, Josh Vlasto.

The order to consider new venues does not change the White House's position that Mohammed should be tried in civilian court.

"President Obama is still committed to trying Mohammed and four other terrorist detainees in federal court," spokesman Bill Burton said Thursday.

"He agrees with the attorney general's opinion that . . . he and others can be litigated successfully and securely in the United States of America, just like others have," Burton said.

Burton referred questions about the location debate to the Justice Department. While not commenting publicly, a department official disputed the characterization that the White House ordered the possible move.

But another insider told the Daily News that Justice officials have been caught off guard by the fiery opposition in New York.

"They're in a tizzy at Justice over Bloomberg," a federal law enforcement official said. "It's like a half-baked soufflé - the plan is collapsing."

Julie Menin, the chairwoman of Community Board 1 who helped rally opposition to the plan, called the shift "a step in the right direction."

"I'm thrilled the White House is reconsidering," Menin said. "The trial has to be moved out of New York City."

Meanwhile, a source told The News that Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly was the driving force behind the push by Manhattan business leaders to change the mayor's mind on the trial.

Kelly made an "extremely powerful" speech to a roomful of 150 prominent business leaders about how disruptive and costly the trial would be for lower Manhattan at an annual police charity event on Jan. 13, the source said.

"What turned this around was when Ray made a presentation to the Police Foundation," the source said. "Everyone went from thinking, 'Justice will be served' to thinking 'We are screwed.' "

What followed was a barrage of complaints to the mayor from some of New York's most powerful tycoons - part of a tide of pressure that led Bloomberg to turn against hosting the trial.

Estimates put the cost of a multiyear terror trial in lower Manhattan at about $200 million a year. Leaders have suggested other venues for the trial, such as the Military Academy at West Point or Stewart Air National Guard Base in upstate Newburgh.

The federal government has said they would reimburse the city for the costs, most of which cover overtime for increased security, but they won't reimburse business owners for lost revenue during the chaos, said Steven Spinola, president of the heavyweight business group Real Estate Board of New York.

"Is the federal government going to give the city $1 billion plus the cost of propping up businesses? I don't think so," Spinola said.

"The mayor clearly has been thinking about this. The tide is turning," he

said.

With Kenneth Lovett, James Gordon Meek and Rocco Parascandola

How about a military trial… at Gitmo!?!

Obama finally sees the light

Perhaps someone with the intellect of Barack Obama should have known that moving a 9/11 terror trial to New York City wasn't the best idea in the world. Finally, the President has caved in and it has been reported that he ordered the Justice Department to find new places to hold the trial. Glenn Beck has a suggestion for the President as to where the trial should be held. Find out where and listen to Glenn talk about it on radio this morning. ( Transcript, Insider Audio)

A Profound Evening with Dr. Charles Krauthammer

(Dr. Charles Krauthammer, Thomas Sowell and Ben Stein are considered 3 of the top thinkers of our time, by many)

It's better to be paralyzed from the neck down, than to be paralyzed from the neck up....

Dr. Krauthammer is on Fox News. He is an M.D. and a lawyer and is paralyzed from the neck down. A friend went to hear Charles Krauthammer. He listened with 25 others in a closed room. What he says here, is NOT 2nd-hand but 1st. The ramifications are staggering for us, our children and their children.

Last Monday was a profound evening, Dr. Charles Krauthammer spoke to the Center for the American Experiment. He is a brilliant intellectual, seasoned & articulate. He is forthright and careful in his analysis, and never resorts to emotions or personal insults.

He is NOT a fear monger nor an extremist in his comments and views. He is a Fiscal conservative, and has received a Pulitzer Prize for writing. He is a frequent contributor to Fox News and writes weekly for the Washington Post. The entire room was held spellbound during his talk. I have summarized his comments, as we are living in uncharted waters economically and internationally. Even 2 Dems at my table agreed with everything he said! If you feel like forwarding this to those who are open minded and have not drunk the Kool-Aid, feel free.

Summary of his comments:

1. Mr. Obama is a very intellectual, charming individual. He is not to be underestimated. He is a cool customer who doesn't show his emotions. It's very hard to know what's behind the mask. The taking down of the Clinton dynasty was an amazing accomplishment. The Clintons still do not understand what hit them. Obama was in the perfect place at the perfect time.

2. Obama has political skills comparable to Reagan and Clinton. He has a way of making you think he's on your side, agreeing with your position, while doing the opposite. Pay no attention to what he SAYS; rather, watch what he DOES!

3. Obama has a ruthless quest for power. He did not come to Washington to make something out of himself, but rather to change everything, including dismantling capitalism. He can't be straightforward on his ambitions, as the public would not go along. He has a heavy hand, and wants to level the playing field with income redistribution and punishment to the achievers of society. He would like to model the USA to Great Britain or Canada .

4. His three main goals are to control ENERGY, PUBLIC EDUCATION, and NATIONAL HEALTHCARE by the Federal government. He doesn't care about the auto or financial services industries, but got them as an early bonus. The Cap and Trade will add costs to everything and stifle growth. Paying for FREE college education is his goal. Most scary is his healthcare program, because if you make it FREE and add 46,000,000 people to a Medicare-type single-payer system, the costs will go through the roof. The only way to control costs is with massive RATIONING of services, like in Canada . God forbid!

5. He has surrounded himself with mostly far-left academic types. No one around him has ever even run a candy store. But they are going to try and run the auto, financial, banking and other industries. This obviously can't work in the long run. Obama is not a socialist; rather he's a far-left secular progressive bent on nothing short of revolution. He ran as a moderate, but will govern from the hard left. Again, watch what he does, not what he says.

6. Obama doesn't really see himself as President of the United States, but more as a ruler over the world. He sees himself above it all, trying to orchestrate & coordinate various countries and their agendas. He sees moral equivalency in all cultures. His apology tour in Germany and England was a prime example of how he sees America, as an imperialist nation that has been arrogant, rather than a great noble nation that has at times made errors. This is the first President ever who has chastised our allies and appeased our enemies!

7. He is now handing out goodies. He hopes that the bill (and pain) will not come due until after he is reelected in 2012. He would like to blame all problems on Bush from the past, and hopefully his successor in the future. He has a huge ego, and Dr. Krauthammer believes he is a narcissist.

8. Republicans are in the wilderness for a while, but will emerge strong. Republicans are pining for another Reagan, but there will never be another like him. Krauthammer believes Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty & Bobby Jindahl (except for his terrible speech in February) are the future of the party. Newt Gingrich is brilliant, but has baggage. Sarah Palin is sincere and intelligent, but needs to really be seriously boning up on facts and info if she is to be a serious candidate in the future.. We need to return to the party of lower taxes, smaller government, personal responsibility, strong national defense, and state's rights.

9. The current level of spending is irresponsible and outrageous. We are spending trillions that we don't have. This could lead to hyperinflation, depression or worse. No country has ever spent themselves into prosperity. The media is giving Obama, Reid and Pelosi a pass because they love their agenda. But eventually the bill will come due and people will realize the huge bailouts didn't work, nor will the stimulus package. These were trillion-dollar payoffs to Obama's allies, unions and the Congress to placate the left, so he can get support for #4 above.

10. The election was over in mid-September when Lehman brothers failed, fear and panic swept in, we had an unpopular President, and the war was grinding on indefinitely without a clear outcome. The people are in pain, and the mantra of change caused people to act emotionally. Any Dem would have won this election; it was surprising it was as close as it was.

11. In 2012, if the unemployment rate is over 10%, Republicans will be swept back into power. If it's under 8%, the Dems continue to roll. If it's between 8-10%, it will be a dogfight. It will all be about the economy. I hope this gets you really thinking about what's happening in Washington and Congress. There is a left-wing revolution going on, according to Krauthammer, and he encourages us to keep the faith and join the loyal resistance. The work will be hard, but we're right on most issues and can reclaim our country, before it's far too late.

Do yourself a long term favor, send this to all who will listen to an intelligent assessment of the big picture. All our futures and children's futures depend on our good understanding of what is really going on in DC, and our action pursuant to that understanding!! It really IS up to each of us to take individual action!! Start with educating your friends and neighbors!!!

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Boycott Citgo Oil and Gasoline – Owned by Venezuelan Government… O’s Friend Chavez

Did you know that Citgo is owned by the Venezuelan government…?? That’s Hugo Chávez… Marxist dictator who openly hates America and is known for his civil rights violations.

Citgo Petroleum Corporation or Citgo, a subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., the Venezuelan state-owned petroleum company, is a United States-incorporated firm refiner and marketer of gasoline, lubricants, petrochemicals and other petroleum products. PDVSA is controlled by the Venezuelan government. The Citgo gasoline brand was inaugurated in 1965 by the Cities Service Company, a United States based energy company that first rose to prominence in the early 1900s. Cities Service Company was acquired by Occidental Petroleum Corporation in 1982. That same year, Cities Service Company transferred all of the assets of its Refining, Marketing and Transportation division (which comprised its refining and retail petroleum business) into the newly formed Citgo Petroleum Corporation subsidiary, to ease the divestiture of the division. In 1983, Citgo and the Citgo brand was sold by Occidental to Southland Corporation, owners of the 7-Eleven chain of convenience stores; 50% was sold to Petróleos de Venezuela in 1986, and the remainder in 1990. As of 2004, it is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with over 4,000 employees and annual revenue in excess of $32 billion. Citgo has supplied 14,000 retailers, but in July 2006 announced plans to cease serving 14% of their independent retailers in the United States. Before relocating its headquarters to Houston, Citgo was headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Cities Service Company continued on under various Occidental names as a part of OXY's domestic exploration and production business, but all Cities Service trademarks are now owned by Citgo.)

A number of 7-Eleven stores in the U.S. are licensed to sell motor fuel and lubricants under the Citgo brand.

Has Citgo become a political tool for Hugo Chávez?

By David J. Lynch, USA TODAY

HOUSTON — From the glass-walled building and manicured lawn to the security guard who greets visitors in a cheerful Texas drawl, everything at Citgo Petroleum seems perfectly ordinary.

Motorists pump gas at a Citgo gas station in October. Chavez could destroy the U.S. economy in 90 days, an energy banker said.Motorists pump gas at a Citgo gas station in October. Chavez could destroy the U.S. economy in 90 days, an energy banker said.

By Tim Boyle, Getty Images

But in fact there's nothing ordinary about Citgo. One of the USA's largest refiners, Citgo is a subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA). As such, it ultimately belongs to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, an avowedly anti-American leader who counts Fidel Castro among his closest friends and mocks President Bush as a "genocidal murderer."

The question of Chávez's influence over Citgo was highlighted by the company's recent provision of 25 million gallons of subsidized home-heating oil to poor people in the northeast USA. More than 100,000 households in four states should eventually benefit from the low-cost heating aid.

But some worry that Venezuela's ownership of more than 6% of U.S. refinery capacity gives Chávez, a former paratrooper given to wearing red berets and military fatigues, the power to cripple as well as comfort.

As Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, any disruption to the nation's refining industry instantly increases gas prices. What if Chávez, who periodically threatens to curtail oil shipments to the USA, closed Citgo's refineries? (Read Full Article)

Chavez Furiously Backtracking As Venezuela Petro-Economy Deteriorates

(Translation: Chavez Begs for Foreign $$ After Running Economy Into Ground)

In anticipation of Thursday's Carabobo oil field auction, outspoken Marxist president Hugo Chavez quietly pleaded for foreign investment.

""Investment and experience from foreign oil firms is necessary in Venezuela. We need it," Chavez said, according to Dow Jones.

The statement is a serious turnaround for a government that has nationalized dozens of foreign oil companies in recent years. But they 'need' foreign investment because mismanagement is turning the country into just another failed petro-state.

This is also the second instance of Chavez backtracking today.

Chavez reversed a six-year ban on the sale of U.S. dollars by Venezuela's central bank, in an effort to control the vast amount of money that was leaving the country through unregulated exchange, according to Bloomberg.

He had previously threatened to "burn the hands" of speculators who speculated against the bolivar.

hugo chavez worried

Hopefully the president understands that if the U.S .government sends (more) aid to his Marxist friend, it could mean curtains for him!!

And Americans need to stop purchasing Citgo products and invest in U.S. stocks and US friendly (country) stocks.

Beck’s Response to O’s State of the Union and Bernanke’s Reappointment… Videos

Video 1 of 6 – Which Obama Showed up for the State of the Union? The one who thinks the American People are stupid, believes the spin cures all and the one intends to move forward with his agenda regardless of the wants and needs of the people.

And, is partisan bickering really one of our biggest problems?

Video 2 of 6 – Logic and Math will ultimately kill the Obama Administration.

Obama’s speech let us know that neither he, the Progressives, Pelosi or Reid heard the second shot heard by everyone else around the world from Massachusetts.

Video 3 0f 6

The average salary in America is $40,321

The average union salary is $71,206 plus great benefits… and it is the union’s benefit packages, that if not adjusted, that will keep us from being competitive forever.

Giving the government more control over education is giving them more control to indoctrinate your children. Note the featured book “Little Pal Book”

Video 4 of 6 - Speech was arrogant and defiant and full of mistruths as 9/11 two is looming.

The new jobs bill is stimulus 2 renamed

Obama said jobs but followed with this same old socialistic global job killing programs like ObamaCare and Cap and Trade.

The espoused anti-lobbyist politician has 30 lobbyists in the administration

Video 5 of 6 – The Fed, Bernanke, Geithner, GreenSpan… Goldman Sachs

Video 6 of 6 – Obama’s Blue Ribbon Panel – Remember the one he plans to override the Senate vote on by signing another executive order (EO)?? And more Goldman-Sachs

Appointing Geithner and Bernanke to fix the economic problem is like choosing Bonnie and Clyde to help find the bank robbers.

And then there is Al Capon… Freddie and Fannie (the major cause of economic wows) are the Al Capon in this story… And Mommy (Fannie) and child (Salle) will be the institutions making all the Federal student loans, if the fiasco passes.

Obama’s First State of the Union

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And now for a little laugh…

A teacher asked her 6th grade class how many of them were Obama fans.

Not really knowing what an Obama fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands except for Little Johnny.

The teacher asked Little Johnny why he has decided to be different... again.

Little Johnny said, "Because I'm not an Obama fan."

The teacher asked, "Why aren't you a fan of Obama?" Johnny said, "Because I'm a Republican."

The teacher asked him why he's a Republican. Little Johnny answered, "Well, my Mom's a Republican and my Dad's a Republican, so I'm a Republican."

Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked, "If your mom was a moron and your dad was an idiot, what would that make you?"

With a big smile, Little Johnny replied, "That would make me an Obama fan."

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Hosed by the Progressives Again… Senate OKs debt sealing hike to $14.3 Trillion

money_signs $45K owed by every man, women and child in America. And China now owns more of our debt than we do. How much more until we wake up or are Joe Klein of the Times and the other Progressives right, the American people are too stupid and too disinterested to do anything about anything?

Senate Democrats passed a $1.9 trillion increase in the federal debt limit Thursday, seeking to push off another politically painful debt vote until after the midterm elections.

All 60 Democrats and no Republicans voted for the debt limit increase. The measure, which the House has yet to vote on, would put the debt ceiling at roughly $14.3 trillion.

Sen. Paul Kirk (D-Mass.) voted for the debt increase. Sen.-elect Scott Brown (R-Mass.), his replacement, has not been seated.

Democrats said the move is necessary because the debt is approaching its current ceiling of $12.4 trillion. If the debt breaches the limit, the government would lose its borrowing authority and risk default.

"We have gone to the restaurant, we have eaten the meal; now the only question is whether we pay the check," said Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) in urging his colleagues to increase the limit.
Republicans criticized Democrats for passing a massive increase, arguing that a smaller increase would have been more responsible.

"It's like the drunken sailor asking to have the bar open all night," said Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.).

If the House agrees to the $1.9 trillion debt ceiling hike, lawmakers won't have to make another debt vote until 2011.

Democrats won enough votes for passage only after the White House, Senate centrists and House Democratic leaders reached a deal on measures to tackle the rise in red ink.

A group of centrist Senate Democrats, led by Sens. Evan Bayh (Ind.) and Kent Conrad (N.D.), said that their votes depended on lawmakers committing to a special legislative process to come up with a package of fiscal reforms. President Barack Obama fulfilled that requirement in his State of the Union when he announced that he would create by executive order a fiscal reform commission.

Bayh, who opposed a short-term debt limit increase last month, praised the president for backing measures such as the fiscal commission and a three-year freeze on non-security discretionary spending to address the deficit, which hit a record $1.4 trillion last year and is expected to surpass $1 trillion in 2010.

"We can't allow the country to default on its debt. That would cause an economic calamity," Bayh said. "But we also need fiscal discipline, so I think [Obama has] struck a balance here that will enable us to do both."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had opposed the commission approach, fearing it would put the power over entitlements, taxes and spending in the hands of an appointed body. But she relented after Senate Democrats agreed to pass a pay-as-you-go measure that requires any new mandatory spending be offset by new taxes or spending cuts elsewhere.

The Senate passed the pay-go measure as an amendment to the debt limit increase Thursday. The pay-go amendment also passed on a party-line vote, 60-40.

The Senate pay-go legislation would not apply to costly items that are expiring that Democrats plan to extend — a host of middle-class tax cuts, Medicare doctor payments, current estate and gift tax rates and a patch to keep the Alternative Minimum Tax from hitting middle-income Americans. The exemptions, except the one for the middle-class tax cuts, would end in five years or less, meaning that lawmakers would have to pay for them eventually.

Conrad had opposed a version of the pay-go measure passed by the House because all of the exemptions would have been permanent.

But Gregg argued that the limits on exemptions did not go far enough, making a floor motion to call the Senate legislation "Swiss-cheese-go."

The debt limit debate revealed bipartisan support for discretionary spending limits, suggesting that Obama's call for a freeze on non-security discretionary spending has a chance of passing the upper chamber. An amendment offered by Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) sought to cap yearly discretionary spending increases to about 2 percent for the next five years. The amendment didn't get the 60 votes it needed to be adopted, but most of the Senate — 16 Democrats, 39 Republicans and an independent — voted for it.

Senate Democrats passed a $1.9 trillion increase in the federal debt limit Thursday, seeking to push off another politically painful debt vote until after the midterm elections.

All 60 Democrats and no Republicans voted for the debt limit increase. The measure, which the House has yet to vote on, would put the debt ceiling at roughly $14.3 trillion.

Sen. Paul Kirk (D-Mass.) voted for the debt increase. Sen.-elect Scott Brown (R-Mass.), his replacement, has not been seated.

Democrats said the move is necessary because the debt is approaching its current ceiling of $12.4 trillion. If the debt breaches the limit, the government would lose its borrowing authority and risk default.

"We have gone to the restaurant, we have eaten the meal; now the only question is whether we pay the check," said Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) in urging his colleagues to increase the limit.
Republicans criticized Democrats for passing a massive increase, arguing that a smaller increase would have been more responsible.

"It's like the drunken sailor asking to have the bar open all night," said Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.).

If the House agrees to the $1.9 trillion debt ceiling hike, lawmakers won't have to make another debt vote until 2011.

Democrats won enough votes for passage only after the White House, Senate centrists and House Democratic leaders reached a deal on measures to tackle the rise in red ink.

A group of centrist Senate Democrats, led by Sens. Evan Bayh (Ind.) and Kent Conrad (N.D.), said that their votes depended on lawmakers committing to a special legislative process to come up with a package of fiscal reforms. President Barack Obama fulfilled that requirement in his State of the Union when he announced that he would create by executive order a fiscal reform commission.

Bayh, who opposed a short-term debt limit increase last month, praised the president for backing measures such as the fiscal commission and a three-year freeze on non-security discretionary spending to address the deficit, which hit a record $1.4 trillion last year and is expected to surpass $1 trillion in 2010.

"We can't allow the country to default on its debt. That would cause an economic calamity," Bayh said. "But we also need fiscal discipline, so I think [Obama has] struck a balance here that will enable us to do both."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had opposed the commission approach, fearing it would put the power over entitlements, taxes and spending in the hands of an appointed body. But she relented after Senate Democrats agreed to pass a pay-as-you-go measure that requires any new mandatory spending be offset by new taxes or spending cuts elsewhere.

The Senate passed the pay-go measure as an amendment to the debt limit increase Thursday. The pay-go amendment also passed on a party-line vote, 60-40.

The Senate pay-go legislation would not apply to costly items that are expiring that Democrats plan to extend — a host of middle-class tax cuts, Medicare doctor payments, current estate and gift tax rates and a patch to keep the Alternative Minimum Tax from hitting middle-income Americans. The exemptions, except the one for the middle-class tax cuts, would end in five years or less, meaning that lawmakers would have to pay for them eventually.
Conrad had opposed a version of the pay-go measure passed by the House because all of the exemptions would have been permanent.

But Gregg argued that the limits on exemptions did not go far enough, making a floor motion to call the Senate legislation "Swiss-cheese-go."

The debt limit debate revealed bipartisan support for discretionary spending limits, suggesting that Obama's call for a freeze on non-security discretionary spending has a chance of passing the upper chamber. An amendment offered by Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) sought to cap yearly discretionary spending increases to about 2 percent for the next five years. The amendment didn't get the 60 votes it needed to be adopted, but most of the Senate — 16 Democrats, 39 Republicans and an independent — voted for it.

Instead of doing the right thing and either seating Scott Brown immediately or waiting to take this vote until he was seated, the Progressives (Obama’s cronies) forced this vote to strike another blow against the American people and especially the middle class, and to reinforce Obama’s State of the Union message, “We don’t care what you think and we will push through our agenda… no matter what you say or want!” To the tea party, town hall and Mom’s groups… “We don’t hear you now!!”