One Ringy Dingy, Two Ringy Dingy's, Three ...(Mel Morgan, Specter, Jim Robinson FollowUp)

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[Syncro]

One Ringy Dingy, Two Ringy Dingy's, Three ....

Written by Melanie Morgan   

Thursday, 12 February 2009

I got an early wakeup call from the East Coast Thursday morning. The alert came from the office of Sen. Arlen Specter, the alleged Republican whose office I stormed on Monday. Specter wanted to talk with me, mano y mano. As I write this, I am still waiting for the Senator’s call.

I’m not sure what he wanted to tell me. Lobbying from nonsensical moderates doesn’t work on me. Maybe he wanted to tell me that I shouldn’t barge into his offices and demand to talk with him – even if he is hunkering down with Democrats in a scheme to bilk taxpayers and future generations of billions of dollars.

Jim Robinson, founder of FreeRepublic.com, and I arrived at Sen. Specter's office on Monday with a group of folks who oppose the $1.5 trillion porkulus package. We asked to see Sen. Specter. The office secretary was cold as a street-market codfish. I couldn’t blame her. We were there to have words with her boss. Jim, wearing his Navy cap, asked about the senator's whereabouts, but the secretary wasn't helping. It was distressing to see a wheelchair-bound Navy veteran being treated with such disrespect by a senator's staff.

So I flung open Specter’s back office door, and yelled like I was back in the country hollering for my dog. I yelled that I wanted to talk to somebody. Now!!! Specter’s chief of staff slinked out and gave us a few minutes of his time. We let him know that the country is angry, and we aren’t standing by as they decimate our Constitution and saddle our grandchildren with staggering debt.

Specter, along with two other spineless Republicans, have betrayed our country by joining hands with the socialist-in-chief and his minions, the Democrats. They have hoodwinked those still under the spell of Obamamania, and are force-feeding the rest of us with their spend-and-smile bill that will do nothing to stimulate the economy.

Government spending has never stimulated anything, but the coffers of politicians who get favors from those they’ve greased up with taxpayer money.

I wanted to speak with Sen.Stymie-us Specter and ask him just exactly how $4.8 million for a polar bear exhibit in Rhode Island, $300 million for new cars for government bureaucrats, or $400 million to prevent sexually transmitted diseases will stimulate the economy. I guess you could make an argument that prostitutes might get more jobs if they were free of STDs, but $400 million seems like a lot to promote hookers.

My friends at KSFO radio in San Francisco put out a call to their listeners asking for questions for the Senator, just in case he really did call me. Within a short time, I got more than 1,000 emails with questions for Specter.

I’ll print some here so, if Specter finds the time to read this column, he’ll get an idea about how American taxpayers feel about him and his buddies who are selling America’s soul.

Question 1: “I would like to know if Senator Specter wishes to be remembered as one of three Americans who could have saved our nation from Socialism and FAILED to do so!”

Question 2: “My wife and I (we are senior citizens) were shocked to learn that the current stimulus bill contains a new health bureaucracy that WILL HAVE THE POWER TO ESTABLISH MEANS TESTING FOR THE ELDERLY! THAT MEANS THAT SOME BUREAUCRAT, NOT YOUR DOCTOR, WILL DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE ELIGIBLE FOR A PARTICULAR TREATMENT.  This is untenable and pernicious. It's like throwing away the elderly as not worth the cost of saving their life. “

Question 3: “His accepting the "Stimulus Bill" as it reads is a betrayal of his oath!  Stand up for what is right.  Stand up for the principles on which this great nation was built.”

Question 4: “Tell him we are through being nice guys...he is a senior Senator - tell him to be a LEADER instead of a turncoat - or to run as a Democrat next time - you know, like Ethics?  This time we are paying attention and TA KING NAMES!”

Question 5: “What did Arlen Specter get for his vote?  Something for himself or his state?  Matter of fact what did all three get for selling out?”

Question 6: “The majority of American citizens . . . are against this stimulus bill, so why are you voting against us and with the Democrats?  Are you more interested in being looked upon as a centrist and liked by your colleagues than in representing the will of the people?” 

Question 7: “Why is the ratio 2/3 pork spending to 1/3 tax cuts? At the very least, it should be the reverse proportions.”

I don’t have room for all 1,000 questions. Maybe Sen. Specter and I can get together for a fried pork lunch so we can chat about the problems. I’ll buy.

[Enterprise]

Trying not to sound too conspiracy theory here but there is a black and pathological presence around Bamster. There are ideas which might be his, but my impression is that there is a hand behind the throne. Things like, ACORN, gun control, a packed federal judiciary, "volunteer" 90 day training, a civil defense force funded and trained at the level of the military, and spending which may give us Zimbabwe bucks are things to be genuinely fearful of.

It is dreadful that people of the Republican Party can even think of cooperating with these monsters.

[lonewacko_dot_com]

The better thing for Morgan to do is to contact someone like Robert Rector and ask him to come up with some two to four sentence questions that she can ask. I’m not familiar with the fine points of the bill and neither is she. So, she needs to find someone who is and who can come up with those questions together with supporting material.

However, if she wants to ask someone about the field I deal with, here are some I submitted to BHO’s site (and then failed to find anyone else willing to vote them up):

http://24ahead.com/more-immigration-questions-barack-obama-changegov-open-quest

[scottywr]

I’m with you. Was it an accident that oil prices were out of control in the short months leading up to the election, that the economy collapsed on the eve of the election, the fairness doctrine is looming, schools are programming our kids to be anti-American? I’ve always been skeptical about conspiracies but our current times are dark, and should be feared by true Americans.

[malkee]

Steele on stimulus.

[Quix]

He has obviously . . .

Allinsky, his other evil mentors . . .

sucked at the tit or worse of demonized folks for most, if not all, of his adult life.

He has gloried in their tutelage and grooming him as the main puppet in one of the closing chapters toward Armageddon.

He may have contributed a stray idea occasionally . . . but other than being a great puppet and orator . . . a la the likes of the German runt . . .

I think any substance he may have hidden under his skin is a black, gooey, stinky kind.

imho, you are exceedingly right about the evil forces, black forces hovering around . . . at least around . . . him.

[Quix]

BTW,

OTHER THAN SLAVISHLY AGREEING WITH THE MSM . . .

WHAT IS IT

with !!!!CONSERVATIVES!!!!

calling ENDLESS MULTIPLE SOURCES CONFIRMED

CONSPIRACY FACTS

“theory??????”

CRAZY!

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings shielagolden:

Is the URL provided correct? The link reads: No such file (give_legacy_article)

Cheers,
OLA

[GOP Poet]

Jim, wearing his Navy cap, asked about the senator's whereabouts, but the secretary wasn't helping. It was distressing to see a wheelchair-bound Navy veteran being treated with such disrespect by a senator's staff.

So I flung open Specter’s back office door, and yelled like I was back in the country hollering for my dog. I yelled that I wanted to talk to somebody. Now!!! Specter’s chief of staff slinked out and gave us a few minutes of his time. We let him know that the country is angry, and we aren’t standing by as they decimate our Constitution and saddle our grandchildren with staggering debt.

Melanie Morgan is my kind of lady. I would have done the same darn thing! Good for you Melanie for your actions on all ends and for publishing these darn good and IMPORTANT questions. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!!

[Quix]

INDEED! INDEED!

INDEED TO THE MAX!

[Syncro]

Hadn't heard of Rector before, thanks.

If I had time, I would post this as a thread:

Stimulus Bill Abolishes Welfare Reform and Adds New Welfare Spending

by Robert E. Rector and Katherine Bradley

WebMemo #2287

A major public policy success, welfare reform in the mid-1990s led to a dramatic reduction in welfare dependency and child poverty. This successful reform, however is now in jeopardy: Little-noted provisions in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate stimulus bills actually abolish this historic reform. In addition, the stimulus bills will add nearly $800 billion in new means-tested welfare spending over the next decade. This new spending amounts to around $22,500 for every poor person in the U.S. The cost of the new welfare spending amounts, on average, to over $10,000 for each family paying income tax.

Ending Welfare Reform

The welfare reform of 1996 replaced the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with a new program named Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). The key to welfare reform's reduction in dependency was the change in the funding structure of AFDC.[1]

Under the old AFDC program, states were given more federal funds if their welfare caseloads were increased, and funds were cut whenever the state caseload fell. This structure created a strong incentive for states to swell the welfare rolls. Prior to reform, one child in seven was receiving AFDC benefits.

When welfare reform replaced the old AFDC system with TANF, this perverse financial incentive to increase dependence was eliminated. Each state was given a flat funding level that did not vary whether the state increased or decreased its caseload. In addition, states were given the goal of reducing welfare dependence (or at least of requiring welfare recipients to prepare for employment).

The House and Senate stimulus bills will overturn the fiscal foundation of welfare reform and restore an AFDC-style funding system. For the first time since 1996, the federal government would begin paying states bonuses to increase their welfare caseloads. Indeed, the new welfare system created by the stimulus bills is actually worse than the old AFDC program because it rewards the states more heavily to increase their caseloads. Under the stimulus bills, the federal government will pay 80 percent of cost for each new family that a state enrolls in welfare; this matching rate is far higher than it was under AFDC.

It continues at the link in the title.

[Brad’s Gramma]

A sad....BTTT....

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Senility: it's not a pretty sight.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Goes especially well with $h!t sandwiches.

[Truth29]

Yes, this is serious stuff and things are going to get worse before they get better. When people no longer think they can get redress through the system, when their leaders no longer listen to them, when their leaders actively work against them and conceal their true motives, then the stage is set for the type of outbreak you describe.

[wita]

...that President Obama is misguided, ill-informed, and dangerously naive about terrorism,

Say it isn’t so?

Say it like you mean it.

say it like it has been said for years.

American cannot say it wasn’t warned.

Obamamania, is the sad result of BDS.

BDS and Obamamania are classic mental illness.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

So, did Senator Sphincter ever call...?

[trooprally]

D.C. Chapter Master Ping List

The Porkulus Bill is still alive. Keep up your calls, faxes and emails.

[gimme1ibertee]

I'll see your bump and raise you two! Jim,you are the man!

[M Kehoe]

Good work bump.

5.56mm

[Gvl_M3]

I heard him being interviewed by Hannity on the radio.

Even when Hannity pointed out all the bad stuff in there that Spector didn't know about, Spector kept saying “I tried to work with them. I was at the meeting. Where was everyone else.” And finally “I Gave My Word.”

Do you think “giving your word means a hill of beans to a Democrat?