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America Held Hostage- the Obama Files...
various links ^ | 11-8-08 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 11/08/2008 3:06:12 AM PST by backhoe

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THE DRAFT COMPLAINT IS ALREADY ONLINE: Landmark Legal Foundation to File Suit to Stop President’s Health Plan if ‘Slaughter Rule’ is Used.
 
March 17, 2010 at 3:29 pm

An outstanding piece that lists house members that are leaning “yes” and “no” with short half sentence summaries of their stance and political vulnerability this fall. For those taking action on health care reform today and this week, this is a great piece to use to do so:

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/85693-whip-watch-the-hills-survey-of-house-dems-positions-on-healthcare-

March 17, 2010 at 5:16 pm

If you try the Slaughter Rule, you will lose the country. Not in November. In March.
http://www.redstate.com/e_pluribus_unum/2010/03/12/if-you-try-the-slaughter-rule/

H/t Seapea

Ooooooh.  Miss Thang’s going to be on the warpath today.

Did you see Tim Burton’s new Alice in Wonderland?  Do you remember Helena Bonham Carter, portraying Obama, running through the halls of the White House, surrounded by insane people, screaming and yelling because she wasn’t getting her way?

Just imagine how mad the Queen of Farts will be when toady Rahm Emanuel lisps the news that Gallop has crossed the historic and unprecedented line today where now, officially, more people DISAPPROVE of this administration than approve of what it’s doing to this country.

47% disapprove, 46% approve.

Cue the cries of RAAACISM! and OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

Do you think the Leftist Media will ever admit their beloved, historic, unprecedented, Lightbringing, “first black president” is an abject, unmitigated, monstrous failure?

And one hideous cross-dresser to boot.

Live thread: Obama on Fox with Bret Baier

Obama On Fox

—DrewM.

Bret Baier says the interview is more "combative" and "confrontational" than his normal interview for him.

(I took the video out, the player wasn't loading)

What's the point of this for Obama? Is to reach the independents that watch Fox? To fire up the left by taking on the evil bastards at FNC?

Should be interesting.

Bit of a follow up to Ace's post on the one trillion dollar price tag, big labor is worried about the taxes on health plans. The problem is lowering them from the Senate bill's level adds to the cost of the plan and makes it harder to show savings that are required for reconciliation.

It's not a done deal yet.

Update: Yeah, I'd say contentious is a good description.

Howie Kurtz
defends Baier's interruptions, at least until that point.

Obama says everyone knows what's in the bill. Uh, what bill? No one has seen the bill that will be voted on (the reconciliation bill).

In summary...I think it's fair to say Bret did not have a thrill up his leg during the interview.

Posted by DrewM. at 05:56 PM New Comments Thingy

30,000 Cuban “Advisers” in Venezuela

by Rodan ( 12 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Cuba, Democratic Party, Dhimmitude, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Liberal Fascism, Mexico, Progressives, Tranzis, Venezuela at March 17th, 2010 - 1:30 pm

As Barack Hussein Obama continues to focus on a few apartments in Jerusalem and defending some pedophiles in Afghanistan from another group of pedophiles (the Taliban), trouble is brewing closer to home. Argentina is once again making noise on the Falklands and Obama is now backing them against our traditional ally: The British. Northern Mexico is a war zone and American consulate workers have been killed, but still no protests from the regime of Hussein.  Obama acts as if these events close to home are unimportant.

Now it has been revealed that 30,000 Cuban “advisers” are now in Venezuela propping up the unpopular regime of Hugo Chavez. Chavez has done something very unusual. He has named Cuban Vice President Ramiro Valdes as an adviser on Venezuela’s electricity crisis. By having the Cuban Vice President as a member of the Venezuelan government, is this paving the way for Anschluss between Venezuela and Cuba?

While two wars in Southwest Asia and a dangerous confrontation with Iran dominate President Obama’s foreign- policy worry list, oil-rich Venezuela, much closer to home, is becoming more than a minor irritant.

To date, the Obama administration has dismissed Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez as a pesky, leftist loudmouth, whose verbal eruptions against the United States pose no threat. But a new era of “Cubanization” in Venezuela should warn of a crackdown against Mr. Chávez’s domestic opponents and a stepped-up drive for socialist revolution across Latin America.

Chávez has been importing “advisers” from Cuba. There are now some 30,000 of them, many of them intelligence, security, and political affairs officers, as well as medical personnel.

Read the Rest: The Castro-Chávez link: What are 30,000 Cuban advisers doing in Venezuela?

The Middle East centric foreign policies of both parties needs to cease. America must secure it’s own Hemisphere first since it’s closer to home. Although the tide of Bolivarian Socialism has receded with recent elections in Latin America, the danger could be worse. With his support crumbling, Chavez could pick a fight with Colombia or get his Argentine puppet Christina Kirchner to start up with the UK. Despots stir up crises when they are in trouble.

 Barack Hussein Obama is obsessed with the Muslim world at the expense of the positions in our own backyard. Maybe he wants Chavez and his allies to dominate the region, the same way it is clear he supports Islamic Imperialism against Israel.  Is it possible Obama wants the US to head up the Axis of Evil?

'Don't count on Jewish Obama voters'


2,601 posted on 03/17/2010 4:05:18 PM PDT by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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March 17, 2010 at 8:14 pm

Republican Congressmen to force vote on Slaughter rule tomorrow morning

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/03/republican_congressmen_to_forc.html

Connie Hair emails that “The vote being forced by House Republicans on whether or not Congress can use the “Slaughter Rule” will take place now TOMORROW MORNING at around 11:00 am on the House floor-either the actual vote or the vote on whether or not to allow the vote as described in my column today! And much more in today’s column!

Republicans Will Force Vote on Slaughter Rule (now tomorrow around 11:00 am)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36065

March 17, 2010 at 7:02 pm

Here’s something to make you gag — Lady Obamagaga delivering a new Gettysburg Address in 2013. (Will he/she do it in a dress?)

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/17/good-news-obama-invited-to-deliver-new-gettysburg-address/

GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE: Walgreens will stop taking new Medicaid patients in Washington state as of April 16, saying it loses money filling their prescriptions.

These Are The Good Old Days. “If Obamacare passes, President Obama and the Democrats will become part of, and perhaps dominate, most of these conversations. Every excessive wait, every missed phone call, every postponed appointment will become Obama’s fault. . . . These complaints won’t be confined to the elderly. Old people complain more about their dealings with doctors primarily because they spend so much more time with them. But I’ve never met a person who likes being blown off by a doctor or sitting for 40 minutes in the waiting room, plus an extra 15 in the examining room before the doctor arrives. Nor have I ever met a person who enjoys hearing his or her aging parents complain about their medical service, especially when the complaint is justified.”

Mmm, Mmm, Mmm: OBAMA WILL BE IN FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA FRIDAY, and Tea Partiers are planning to meet him.

This QOTW from the NYT David Brooks... (via Hotair)

Either this whole city has gone insane or I have or both. But I’m out here on the ledge and I’m not coming in the window. "In my view this is no longer about healthcare, it's just Democrats wanting to pass a bill, any bill, and shredding anything they have in order to get it done", here's Byron York in the Washington Examiner:

And now...Posted by Kate at 9:48 PM| Comments (23)

"The empty suit again proves he is nothing more than a partisan whore...This was a point in time, of an embattled politician, fighting for his political life. "

Lead Story

Landmark Legal Foundation to Slaughter House butchers: Not without a fight; Update: The states’ revolt

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 17, 2010 05:29 PM


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(Get your Constitution Butchers poster here.)

Not without a fight, Deem-o-crats:

Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, today issued a warning to the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives about the possible use of the so-called “deem and pass,” “self-executing,” or “Slaughter Rule” to enact H.R. 3590, the legislative version of President Obama’s healthcare proposal that has been previously approved by the Senate. If this tactic is employed, Landmark will immediately sue the President, Attorney General Eric Holder and other relevant cabinet members to prevent them from instituting this unconstitutional contrivance.

“Landmark has already prepared a lawsuit that will be filed in federal court the moment the House acts. Such a brazen violation of the core functions of Congress simply cannot be ignored. Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution is clear respecting the manner in which a bill becomes law. Members are required to vote on this bill, not claim they did when they didn’t. The Speaker of the House and her lieutenants are temporary custodians of congressional authority. They are not empowered to do permanent violence to our Constitution.”

Read the full draft complaint here.

Related: Republican lawyers warn Democrats of “deem and pass” consequences.

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Update: I noted the states’ brewing revolt against Demcare’s individual mandate back in January.

The revolt continues to spread. Idaho acted today:

Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter on Wednesday became the first state chief executive to sign a measure requiring his attorney general to sue Congress if it passes health reforms that force residents to buy insurance. Similar legislation is pending in 37 other states nationwide.

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2,602 posted on 03/18/2010 1:42:00 AM PDT by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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Democrats ignoring health care reform's canary in the coalmine

[A]n article today at the American Spectator by W. James Antle, III, ... comments of Massachusetts Treasurer Tim Cahill who points out that what the Democrats are about to do to our national health care system is very much like what was done in Massachusetts with Romneycare (Cato calls it the "almost perfect mirror of Obamacare" and even political adviser David Axelrod essentially says this is the case), ... if the Democrats repeat the mistake of the health insurance reform adopted in Massachusetts on a national level, "they will threaten to wipe out the American economy within four years"

http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2010/03/democrats_ignor.php#more

(Excerpt) Read more at hyscience.com ...

The rest of us will end up being practice cadavers for third-year medical students from Outer Mongolia.

 

Slaughter Solution For Wavering Dems May Not Save Them (Clear explanation of the procedure)

House Democratic leaders gave fresh indications Wednesday that they will use a complex procedure dubbed the "Slaughter solution" that would effectively pass the health bill without members voting on it.

Skeptics suggest it will do little to keep Democrats from getting butchered in November.

Despite success in pressuring some prior no votes such as Reps. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, and Dale Kildee, D-Mich., to back the bill, Democrats still find themselves short on the vote count.

The Slaughter solution was conceived as a way to win over wavering members by letting them side-step a direct vote on the bill.

House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., has proposed inserting the Senate health bill into the "rule" for a vote on related legislation.

By voting for that rule, House Democrats would "deem" the attached Senate bill to already be passed.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Wednesday that there was "nothing unusual" about the deem-and-pass plan. "We'll vote for the Senate bill in the rule, and then we'll amend the Senate bill in the process," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...

(Video) Slow Witted Obama : ‘LOUISIANA PURCHASE’ Will Help Earthquake In Hawaii

This so called president has the mind of a child. He’s an affirmative action idiot. He bows down to foreign potentates like he’s playing in some Grouch Marx movie. He even bowed down to some mayor of some minor US city. He surreptitiously flips people the finger while speaking in public and apparently thinks it’s adolescent cool. Without his teleprompter he misspeaks repeatedly, indicating a comic book comprehension of geography, foreign affairs, and virtually every other subject. He can’t even follow the simple instructions of his puppet master George Soros. There is video of a political meeting showing him apparently picking his nose and eating the product. Surely existing in such a pitiful and extreme state of intellectual and emotional retardation and mental incompetence is an impeachable offense and grounds for removal from office. He an embarrassment and humiliation to this once great nation. The only thing lower than Obama is the morons that voted for him...20 posted on Thursday, March 18, 2010 2:30:55 AM by Blado

Step away from it, Barry...

Turning America Into a Banana Republic

 
 

Republicans Will Force Vote on Slaughter Rule

Pelosi: Passing Health Care By Decree?

 

£1,000 fine for using wrong bin: Families face new crackdown over household waste

 

Girl Nearly Stomped to Death Over School Rumor

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Obama's Medical Horror Stories

President Obama believes in government by anecdote. In a nation of 300 million souls, some people will always have some problems. There are horror stories involving medical care in every country, particularly in Canada, Britain and other nations with socialized medical systems. The question isn't whether some bad things happen; the question about a given system should center on the rate at which bad things occur. By that measure, the American medical system does extremely well.

Mr. Obama's use of Natoma Canfield during his Monday talk in Ohio is a good example. The president spent almost a third of his lecture discussing her case, and he claims he's been talking about her in meetings with insurance companies. Ms. Canfield is a self-employed cleaning lady who dropped her $500-per-month insurance plan because she felt she couldn't afford the insurance premiums, only to discover she suffered from leukemia.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...

WSJ/NBC News Poll: Throw ‘Em All Out

Limbaugh inspires half a million phone calls against the health bill

Obama on Slaughter strategy: “I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what the … rules are”

Breaking with Israel: Who will trust America now?

If the Obama administration continues to betray Israel, will any ally ever trust us again?

We've been viewed as a fickle (if mighty) partner at least since the 1970s, when we abruptly dumped allies from Saigon to Tehran. Now the White House not only delights in insulting our closest traditional ally, Britain, but has intensified its diplomatic pogrom against Israel -- our only respectable ally in the Middle East.

President George W. Bush was mocked for shooting from the hip, but this administration fires with its eyes closed.

Obama's unbalanced actions shrivel confidence among allies around the globe -- partners we need. Policy differences are one thing, but gratuitous attacks by the White House are quite another.

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Are the GOP Hypocrites on the Slaughter Rule? (deeming bills passed)

The “self-executing rule” has indeed been used extensively by both parties, but in most cases it is used to insert amendments into a bill without floor debate or a separate up-or-down vote. (This is just one of the many ways the House Rules Committee stacks the deck against dissent and makes the House—not the Senate—the undemocratic body. But that’s another story.)

By contrast, the Democrats want to use a self-executing rule to pass legislation without debate, amendment, or an yea-or-nay vote. This is far rarer. Mostly, it’s done via the “Gephardt Rule,” which automatically passes a measure raising the federal debt ceiling by the amount required in a given year’s budget (thus avoiding a separate, embarrassing vote for members). When bills are “deemed” passed outside the Gephardt Rule, it is usually for the purpose of rubber stamping minor tweaks to conference reports, or for disposing of internal and/or technical matters that affect only the House.

In fact, according to the Rules Committee Republicans, only four times in the last 20 years has a “deeming” rule been used to send legislation directly to the president’s desk — including one bill to raise the debt limit, and one to rubber-stamp “Byrd Rule” modifications to a reconciliation bill.

If Republicans are being hypocritical and opportunistic, they're doing it at their own peril. They've so thoroughly won the messaging war on both reconciliation and “deem and pass” that they've virtually guaranteed they will lose the messaging war if they reverse themselves once they are again in the majority.

So, far from the GOP hollering being hypocritical, it strikes me as — paradoxically, to be sure — principled. Both major parties have a vested political interest in maintaining the murky rules that allow majorities and minorities to do unseemly things under the cover of obscurity.

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Using Psychology To Save You From Yourself {0bamas plan for you "Behavioral Economics"}f

This is the story of how obscure psychological research into human decision-making first revolutionized economics and now appears poised to remake the relationship between the government and its citizens.

Cass Sunstein, President Obama's pick to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, was a vocal supporter of the program, because it was an economic policy that shaped itself around human psychology. Sunstein is just one of a number of high-level appointees now working in the Obama administration who favors this kind of approach.

All are devotees of behavioral economics — a school of economic thought greatly influenced by psychological research — which argues that the human animal is hard-wired to make errors when it comes to decision-making, and therefore people need a little "nudge" to make decisions that are in their own best interests.

And that is exactly what Obama administration officials plan to do: By taking account of human psychology, they hope to save you from yourself.

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2,603 posted on 03/18/2010 3:32:29 AM PDT by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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Let me be as clear as I know how. If this is done, this will create the greatest Constitutional crisis since the Civil War. It would be 100 times worse than Watergate.
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/03/red-alert-we-are-now-living-under.html
 
"If the Slaughter/Pelosi rule is adopted, then the Constitution is dead. The regime in Washington is illegitimate in every sense."
 
73 I have done a little research on Sanford Bishop (D-GA).  The second district was originally gerrymandered to be a black majority district. The GA Supreme Court shot it down (good for them). It was redrawn with 60% white. Which brings in Sanford Bishop.

Yes he is black, liberal as hell (ACU 4/, and a member of the CBC but that is where the similarity with the other members of the CBC ends.

He is ex-Army, he is a farmer, and he is religious. While he supported Obama (go figure), his wife supported Hillary. He has been known to part from the ways of some of the other liberals particularly in the WOT stuff and abortion.

He is hanging on to that district in Southern GA comprised of mostly peanut farmers largely because there is still a lot of blacks and a lot of white old timer yellow dog GA Democrats. One thing that the old timer yellow dog Dems and the Southern blacks in that area have in common is that old time religion.  They may like farm subsidies and some socialism, but they sure as hell don't like abortion.

He truly may be a real maybe leaning towards a NO and you can bet his phone has been ringing off the hook. You can also bet that Rob "finger" Emanuel had better think twice before trying to corner him in the shower.
 
John Barrow (GA-12)
http://barrow.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54&Itemid=33

Obama's Arrogant Narcissism Knows No Bounds

 
 
120 | March 17, 2010 9:52 pm

Did anyone see this article from Drudge? EfFing creepy! obama wants a “regime” change in Israel perhaps the way Bush got one in Iraq.

 

Moving Past Hillary

The American Minute: Johnny Appleseed - Hero of the War of 1812 - Bible Student - Planter of Trees

Our Unconstitutional Census

The census will determine the apportionment of House members and Electoral College votes for each state. To accomplish these vital constitutional purposes, the enumeration should count only citizens and persons who are legal, permanent residents. But it won’t.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...

Why are we not in an uproar over the fact that our House apportionment will be made based on masses of illegal residents?

This is the real issue over the census.... not the fact that they are asking us to list our race and age, etc.

The Census and the Welfare State

The letter that Ralph Groves, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, recently sent to the American people reflects what America has become under the welfare state. Here is what the letter states in part:

"Your response is important. Results from the 2010 Census will be used to help each community get its fair share of government funds for highways, schools, health facilities, and many other programs you and your neighbors need. Without a complete, accurate census, your community may not receive its fair share."

In that one paragraph lies the plunderbund society in all it majestic glory. Everyone is supposed to feel morally obligated to answer all those intrusive questions in order to ensure that his community receives its fair share of the loot forcibly collected by the Internal Revenue Service during the course of the year, but especially on April 15.

You see, all that IRS-collected money goes into a gigantic pool that the president and Congress then have at their disposal to distribute to people.

As Groves points out, some of that IRS-collected money is sent to your "community." What does "community" mean? Alas, it doesn't mean you. If it did, that would mean that the federal government would simply be returning your hard-earned money to you.

No, by "community" Groves means your state and local elected and appointed politicians and bureaucrats, who send complicated and expensive proposals to Washington begging and pleading for help to construct some new highway, health-care facility, school, recreational facility, or some other project or program...

Read All Of It...

The Future's Shadow

I can’t quarrel with a word you wrote...

I don’t write as much as I ought to on this newfangled web thing— usually a link, a quote pulled from that source, perhaps a quip or Bon Mot of my own, are sufficient.

But I have what I call “In the Silence of my Soul” moments- those times when art and artifice are stripped away, and you see things clearly without the usual dodges people apply to take away life’s sharp edges...

Life’s a lot like a high stakes poker game- when you’re young, there’s always the future, and a fresh hand to be played.

When you start seeing the end come up- as I am— you kind of wonder if that hand you’ve been dealt is going to be the last one you have to play.

I’m kind of afraid Obozo is America’s final hand...

3 posted on Thursday, March 18, 2010 8:35:54 AM by backhoe

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12,000 new IRS agents to enforce health care registration? (Just heard on Rush....)

Fox News Poll: 55% Oppose Health Care Reform

Democrats Mock Voters Who Protest ObamaCare

CAN’T GET YOUR CONGRESSFOLKS ON THE PHONE? Pete Hoekstra says to call state legislatures.
March 18, 2010 Hoekstra tells health-care opponents to swamp the state legislat
 
OBAMA TO DEMS: Save my presidency, vote for ObamaCare.
ROGER SIMON: Obama On Fox: It’s Desperation Time.
 

WOW! Sen. Coburn lays it out: Sell your vote and we will publish it
Posted by Ace at 02:47 PM New Comments Thingy

 
David Brooks is figuring out who the rubes were. There’s a lot of that going on. . . .  David Brooks says he’s out on the ledge, morose, and about to have a “Howard Beale” moment. Just last week he was telling us that Obama was a misunderstood moderate. Now he confesses that Obama is aiding and abetting unlawfulness of the worst kind.
THE NETROOTS: So who are the rubes, again?
 

 
#  Call them now, and use their local numbers.
If you called already, call them again! If you have e-mailed them, do it again.
Think of your children; and do it for them. Look into their faces; and then pick-up the phone and get on your computer, and let them know, we are still Americans, and we will not accept tyranny from anyone – foreign or domestic.
 
Vic Snyder 202-225-2506, 501-324-5941
Marion Berry 202-225-4076, 870-972-4600
Melissa Bean 202-225-3711, 847-517-2927
Joe Donnelly 202-225-3915, 574-288-2780
Brad Ellsworth 202-225-4636, 812-465-6484
Bart Stupak 202-225-4735, 231-348-0657
Bob Etheridge 202-225-4531, 919-829-9122
Charlie Wilson 202-225-5705, 740-376-0868
Ciro Rodriguez 202-225-4511, 210-922-1874
Solomon Ortiz 202-225-7742, 361-883-5868
Mike Ross 202-225-3772, 870-536-3376
Betsy Markey 202-225-4676, 970-221-7110
Allen Boyd 202-225-5235, 850-561-3979
Suzanne Kosmas 202-225-2706, 386-756-9798
John Barrow 202-225-2823, 912-354-7282
John Adler 202-225-4765, 732-608-7235
Michael McMahon 202-225-3371, 718-351-1062
Scott Murphy 202-225-5614, 518-581-8247
Larry Kissell 202-225-3715, 704-786-1612
John Boccieri 202-225-3876, 330-489-4414
John Tanner 202-225-4714, 731-885-7070
Glenn Nye 202-225-4215, 757-326-6201
Brian Baird 202-225-3536, 360-695-6292
 
 

TAR, FEATHERS: Court: State Can Dump Non-Sex Offenders Into Registry. “Georgia’s Supreme Court is upholding the government’s right to put non-sex offenders on the state’s sex-offender registry, highlighting a little-noticed (but growing) nationwide practice.”

Well, hell, if you can pass a bill without a vote, I guess you can be a “sex offender” without sex. I wonder if this will be used against shopping malls who falsely imprison teens charged with shoplifting . . .

A Middle East Without American Influence? That’s the logical outcome of the Obama administration’s current policies.

Robert Kagan says that whether Israel deserved a tongue-lashing from Barack Obama or not, it can console itself by observing  that it is in good company on the outs. Britain, France, India, Poland, the Czech Republic and Japan are all huddled under the bus along with it. That’s not to mention the occasionally abandoned, like the Iranian dissidents or the Dalai Lama, who had to come through the door where they take out the trash to talk to the press. Israel is where all the other allies have been at one time or the other. What’s instructive, Kagan says, is who’s remained inside the bus and not crushed under the wheels.

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Field Poll: Babs Boxer In Big Trouble

—Ace

She's in a statistical tie with both Fiorina and Campbell, and leads DeVore by a mere four points, which, let's face it, is pretty much a tie, too.

And her favorables are falling, badly:

Last January among registered voters deemed likely to vote in the November election, Boxer was viewed more favorably than unfavorably by 48% to 39% margin. However, the current survey finds that her image has suffered over the past two months, with more voters now viewing her negatively (51%) than positively (38%). Just 11% have no opinion of Boxer.

Thanks to StarChamberMaid.

Whoops: Gabe had this up this morning, but he highlighted the intraparty primary numbers. Worth a post, I guess, to highlight that Babs is in trouble.

Posted by Ace at 02:07 PM New Comments Thingy
 

Gallup: Obama Ooches Further Underwater

—Ace

The big news yesterday was that Gallup had found that Obama had slipped underwater, 46/47 for the first time.

This finding was confirmed by Democratic polling firm PPP, which also showed him net-negative for the first time, 47/48.

A bit of statistical noise finds Obama slipping down a little further, 46/48, today.

I keep waiting for a 5-8% drop from Obama as the persuadable non-cultists finally get it.

Posted by Ace at 01:51 PM New Comments Thingy

Obama’s Healthcare Sob Stories

If they DEEM this bill passed, we should DEEM our TAXES PAID!!

This sounds clever ... but is a monumentally lousy idea.

I’ve spoken to this in other threads — but I am a tax attorney. Filing a return with “come and take it” or “deemed paid” or some other nonsense written on it will likely get you labeled a “tax protester”, and slammed with an immediate $5,000 penalty for filing a frivolous tax return.

The IRS is EXTREMELY hard on people they determine are “tax protesters”. If you don’t fix the return and pay the fine quickly, they’ll fast-track you into the wage levy/ property lien process — wherein they’ll roast your credit report, encumber your property, and take 75%-90% of your wages. If, for whatever reason, the dispute continues ... they’ll take you to tax court to liquidate assets, seize houses, cars or other property, etc. If you’re a business owner, they’ll shut you down.

“Tax Protester” cases are literally the ONLY instances in which I have seen the IRS send armed Marshals to seize a house. The IRS typically makes examples of tax protesters just to caution others against filing “come and take it” or “deemed paid” returns. They will make your life miserable as an example to other people considering this course of action.

This bill is entirely unconstitutional, and a travesty ... but you don’t want to screw with the KGB (IRS) on this. I’d leave the IRS out of it.

SnakeDoc

13 posted on Thursday, March 18, 2010 1:12:30 PM by SnakeDoctor

Calls to take more DNA samples raise questions (National DNA database even if not convicted)

Obama pitch: My presidency’s sunk without ObamaCare

We won’t have a health care system left after obamanation gets through CUT & GUTTING it. We are fighting for the SOUL of America, not just keeping illegals out.

This is from a 2007 contact list of congressional aides. Some might not be there any longer, but worth a try. The ones on the one post are senate aides, a few have bounced back, it’s worth the effort to clog up their email system along with the phones, and 1/3rd of these senators are up for re-election.

Contact congressional aides.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857768/posts
U.S. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard: (202) 225-3121
White House comments: (202) 456-1111
Find your House Rep.: http://www.house.gov/writerep
Find your US Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Toll free to the US Senate:
1-800-882-2005. (Spanish number)
1-800-417-7666. (English number)
Courtesy of a pro-amnesty group, no less!!

Defeat Obamacare call list: List now contains the new MAYBES culled from FR posts. Be sure to call KNOWN RINOS too.THEY ARE ANSWERING THEIR LOCAL NUMBERS

Here is one of the ones Rush gave out on the radio that I’m calling. So far it’s been busy but I’m going to burn it up till I get to tell my congress critter to vote NO!
Join me?..... 1-877-762-8762

Good idea from the bloggers at Hillbuzz:
http://hillbuzz.org/2010/03/17/action-items-march-17th-2010/

They offer specifics and links on how to put pressure on Dem DONORS, who have private numbers for legislators who may have taken their phones off the hook.
Congress may not want to hear from us, but they’ll listen to the money men.

KEEP THE CALLS UP! DC OFFICE LOCAL OFFICE

CODE RED Contact list http://www.nrcc.org/CodeRed/targets/
Remember they are all being offered BRIBES for their votes. Ask them how much their bribe price is.
The National Republican Congressional Committee has published a target list on health care. In addition to continuing to contact the five Tennessee Democrat Congressmen, you can go http://www.votervoice.net/link/clickthrough/ext/94697.aspx to contact some of these targets. Much of the talk following Obama’s announcement has focused on how to defeat this second bill through reconciliation, but that is misleading because the first step to defeating Obamacare is not by concentrating on defeating the “fixer” bill but by defeating the Senate bill in the House when it goes to the floor for an up-or-down vote on Thursday, March 18th.

New FLIPPERS
Dennis Kucinish, Lakewood 216)228-8850, Fax (216)228-6465,
Parma. 440)845-2707, Fax (440)845-2743, DC (202)225-5871
Dennis Cardoza DC (202) 225-6131, Fax: 225-0819, 800-356-6424, Merced, (209) 383-4455 Fax: 726-1065 Modesto 209) 527-1914 Fax: 527-5748 Modesto, (209) 527-1914
Fax: 527-5748
Jim Costa Fresno 559-495-1620, Fax:559-495-1027, Bakersfeld, 661-869-1620 Fax: 661-869-1027 DC Phone:202-225-3341 Fax: 202-225-9308
Fax (202)225-5745
James Oberstar (202) 225-6211, Duluth (218) 727-7474,

Chisholm (218) 254-5761, Brainerd (218) 828-4400, North Branch, (651) 277-1234
Gabrielle Giffords (202) 225-2542 (520) 881-3588 AZ 8th District
John Boccieri (D), Ohio Voted Yes on Stupak, NO on Health Care.Contact info - DC office (202) 225-3876 - Fax - (202) 225-3059 (330) 489-4414, Local Fax - (330) 489-4448
Rep. Lincoln Davis 202-225-6831 Columbia office: 931-490-8699
Rep. Jim Cooper 202-225-4311 Nashville office: 615-736-5295
Rep. Bart Gordon 202-225-4231 Murfreesboro office: 615-896-1986
John Tanner (202) 225-4714, Union City, (731) 885-7070, Jackson Phone: (731) 423-4848, Millington (901) 873-5690 TN (MAYBE)
Rep. Steve Cohen 202-225-3265 Memphis office: 901-544-4131
Harry Mitchell (202) 225-2190 (480) 946-2411 AZ 5th District
Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315 (928) 226-6914 AZ 1st District
Jerry McNerney (202) 225-1947 925-833-0643 CA 11th District
John Salazar 202-225-4761 970-245-7107 CO 3rd District
Jim Himes (202) 225-5541 (866) 453-0028 CT 4th District
Alan Grayson (202) 225-2176 (407) 841-1757 FL 8th District
Bill Foster (202) 225-2976 630-406-1114 IL 14th District
Baron Hill 202 225 5315 812 288 3999 IN 9th District
Mark Schauer (202) 225-6276 (517) 780-9075 MI 7th District
Gary Peters (202) 225-5802 (248) 273-4227 MI 9th District
Dina Titus (202) 225-3252 702-256-DINA (3462) NV 3rd District
Carol Shea-Porter (202) 225-5456 (603) 743-4813 NH 1st District
Tim Bishop (202) 225-3826 (631) 696-6500 NY 1st District
John Hall (202) 225-5441 (845) 225-3641 x49371 NY 19th District
Bill Owens (202) 225-4611 (315) 782-3150 NY 23rd District
James Matheson Toll-Free Number 1 (877) 677-9743 (202) 225-3011Mike Arcuri (202)225-3665 (315)793-8146 NY 24th District
Dan Maffei (202) 225-3701 (315) 423-5657 NY 25th District
Earl Pomeroy (202) 225-2611 (701) 224-0355 ND At-Large District
Steven Driehaus (202) 225-2216 (513) 684-2723 OH 1st District
Mary Jo Kilroy (202) 225-2015 (614) 294-2196 OH 15th District
Zach Space (202) 225-6265 (330) 364-4300 OH 18th District
Kathy Dahlkemper (202) 225-5406 (814) 456-2038 PA 3rd District
Patrick Murphy (202) 225-4276 (215) 826-1963 PA 8th District
Christopher Carney (202) 225-3731 (570) 585-9988 PA 10th District
Paul Kanjorski (202) 225-6511 (570) 825-2200 PA 11th District
John Spratt (202) 225-5501 (803)327-1114 SC 5th District
Tom Perriello (202) 225-4711 (276) 656-2291 VA 5th District
Alan Mollohan (202) 225-4172 (304) 623-4422 WVA 1st District
Nick Rahall (202) 225-3452 (304) 252-5000 WVA 3rd District
Steve Kagen (202) 225-5665 (920) 437-1954 WI 8th District
Bart Stupak (202) 225 4735 MI (MAYBE)
Brian Baird (202) 225-3536, Vancouver, (360) 695-6292. Olympia, (360) 352-9768, (MAYBE)
senator mark begich (202) 224-3004 toll free. (877) 501 - 6275 just became a MAYBE
Jason Altmire 202-225-2565, Aliquippa, 724-378-0928,
Natrona Heights, 724-226-1304 (MAYBE)

On the Bubble (Major developments from the “yes” and “no” columns in the House)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467046/posts
Congressional Dems on Twitter

http://www.arrghpaine.com/congressional-dems-on-twitter
And here are toll-free numbers we can use to call any Senators or Reps.

At the first number below you must wait through a tape recording urging you to tell your Rep or Senator to vote “yes” for the health care bill. Just hang on and when the recording is over, you will get the Capitol operator. Just ask for your Rep or Senator’s office. Then you will either talk to an aid or have the chance to leave a message for him/her to vote NO on the health care bill.

When you use the second number and the Capitol operator comes on, just ask for your Rep or Senator’s office. Every time I use this number I get the Rep or Senator’s answer machine, so it may be set up that way all the time...to go to their answer machine. Either way you can leave a message to vote NO on the health care bill!

We need to use these toll free numbers that have been set up for the health care/ BO supporters and illegals to use! After all they are FREE!

1-866-220-0044, 1-866-338-1015, 877-851-6437, 877-210-5351

16 posted on Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:45:03 PM by GailA

2,605 posted on 03/18/2010 12:26:22 PM PDT by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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5 | March 18, 2010 12:11 pm

So,they want to pass this on Palm Sunday. Interesting.

 
31 | March 18, 2010 12:40 pm

Truth is, if obama wasn’t  black there would be no talk about saving a presidency, or making it about the man. His job is to protect the constitution, not chop it up and expect everyone to applaud.

9 | March 18, 2010 12:15 pm

@ WrathofG-d:

So questioning Obama is racism. They really are running out of arguments.

33 | March 18, 2010 12:42 pm

kansas wrote:

The Democrats passed the Slaughter Rule, so it’s over. The non vote will come on Sunday and the Obamacare will have been “deemed to have passed.”

I’m staying home tonight to listen to Mark Levine. Rush said earlier, if this passes, this is where the fun starts.

34 | March 18, 2010 12:43 pm

@ kansas:

This is sick, America is now has 3rd World dictator(ship)...

March 18, 2010 at 12:37 pm

Did you see this article? Pamela Geller is being STALKED by census takers.
And she has the notices to prove it.

These thugs in office have GOT to go!

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/03/census-intrusion-and-harassment.html


2,606 posted on 03/18/2010 12:59:25 PM PDT by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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Obama’s Wild Ride

OBAMA’S PROMISE: "Including the American People in the Process, that's how Democracy Has to Work"

What The Senate Bill Would Do To America

Top Blue Dog: Slaughter solution is 'poison'

Video: Democrat Rep. Perriello admits, “If you don’t tie our hands, we will keep stealing”

March 18, 2010 03:37 PM by Michelle Malkin

26 Comments
 
#23
On March 18th, 2010 at 4:27 pm, TigerLady said:

Gosh, don’t you just admire an honest thief? I mean really.

These people need to be taken out and shot. LIterally. Someone said the Bastille is looking good. It might look like a Sunday school picnic compared to where we’re heading. God help us.

Slaughter vote - don't assume too much

 

Obama to Trade Space Policy for Health Care Reform?

Obama,Clinton fundraiser admits $292 million fraud

Obama Evokes His Dying Mother in Health Care Reform Push

Obama bans offshore oil drilling Russia drills off Cuban Coast

The 0bama-Democrat-RINO (Progressive) "No Domestic Energy Policy!"

  • No domestic drilling.
  • No new refineries.
  • No new nuke plants.
  • No new dams for hydro-electric.
  • No coal.
  • No shale.
  • Deplete the SPR.
  • Let Iran get nukes.
  • Let Iraq fall to Iranian domination.
  • No Canadian tar sands oil.
  • Loan billions to Brazil's Petrobras for offshore drilling in Brazil.
  • Carbon caps and taxes to make what's left sky rocket in price.

All of that puts the U.S. in a position that war for oil or
complete economic collapse will be our only choices.
You can't frustrate every source of domestic energy
without consequences. Our enemies will blackmail us
to the extent that we are vulnerable to blackmail.

0bama, the Democrats and RINOs are leading us into a real war for oil.
A war we won't have the energy to fight.
A war we don't need to fight because we have our own resources.

6 posted on Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:35:33 PM by TigersEye

2,607 posted on 03/18/2010 3:41:00 PM PDT by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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CBO: Health Bill Would Force Families to Buy Insurance Costing a Minimum of $12,000 Per Year

Remember- multiply by at least X2 to get "even close" to the real figure you will be paying next year...

"Benefits? Five years later- if ever...

Obamacare Bill Turns the IRS Into the Secret Police

Come To The Capitol At HIGH NOON- Saturday, March 20th

 
JON VOIGHT: Join Me In DC Saturday to Stop ObamaCare.

WashTimes OpEd: Impeach the President?

The Slaughter Solution is a poisoned chalice. By drinking from it, the Democrats would not only commit political suicide. They would guarantee that any bill signed by Mr. Obama is illegitimate, illegal and blatantly unconstitutional. It would be worse than a strategic blunder; it would be a crime - a moral crime against the American people and a direct abrogation of the Constitution and our very democracy.

It would open Mr. Obama, as well as key congressional leaders such as Mrs. Pelosi, to impeachment. The Slaughter Solution would replace the rule of law with arbitrary one-party rule. It violates the entire basis of our constitutional government - meeting the threshold of "high crimes and misdemeanors." If it's enacted, Republicans should campaign for the November elections not only on repealing Obamacare, but on removing Mr. Obama and his gang of leftist thugs from office.

It is time Americans drew a line in the sand. Mr. Obama crosses it at his peril.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...

 
SHOCKER: L.A. Times: Gallup Finds Americans Souring On Obama. And not just Obama. “Speaking of Congress, the new Gallup Poll also finds that barely 16% of Americans approve of its job while 80% (as in eight out of every ten Americans) now disapprove of the work being done by both bodies and their Democratic leaders, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.”

Here’s a question that’s stumped us today:  why do Leftists think they can cram so many things through Congress using illegal and unconstitutional “Slaughter Slams”?

We’re referring to the spate of reports out today that show Democrats are planning on pushing Cap & Tax, Amnesty for Illegal Aliens, and other measures through Congress without voting on them in the House…using Louise Slaughter’s invention, “The Slaughter Slam”, to Demon Pass them without ever taking a vote.  Democrats are doing this so that they don’t have to be on record voting for the madness their constituents have told them not to vote for.

It’s a dictatorship, that’s what this administration has become.  When the House and Senate stop following the Constitution, Americans should rise up and take back our government from these Leftists.  If they really do use the “Slaughter Slam” on Healthcare, that’s what we think is going to happen.

HOW that happens is still a puzzle.  What CAN regular Americans do if the Leftists in control stop following the Constitution and effectively install Obama and his DNC enablers as a dictatorship?  What recourse do citizens have when their government abandons 233 years of history and precedent and starts using Demon Pass and “Slaughter Slams” to rip the country apart?

SOMETHING will happen.  The slumbering American revolutionary spirit will reawaken.  It will be an awesome and terrible thing.  We believe Democrats have no appreciation for the mighty powers with which they are trifling.

Realistically, though, we just don’t know how Leftists can truly believe they are going to ram through Cap & Tax, Amnesty for Illegal Aliens, and all of the other insane things they dream of forcing upon the country.  The November elections are now just eight months away.  Democrats are going to be trounced.  If there’s any luck, every last one of them will be booted from Congress.

Even the most delusional of these people have to understand this.

There is just not enough time for them to do all the damage they want to do.

They will try their hardest, of course, because this is the last time they will ever get so close to achieving the vile things they want to achieve.

Democrats don’t realize this, but they’ve alienated far more people in the middle than they’ve energized on the Left with this madness.

Will Americans ever trust Democrats will power again, when they see what they do with it when they get it?

What do you think?

Why do Leftists think they can cram so much madness through with “Slaughter Slams”, without being completely removed from power for doing so?

What are we missing?

March 18, 2010 at 6:36 pm

Guys, just off the top of my head?

I keep reading “the Democrats know they’ll get whacked in November, so they’ll go out in a blaze of glory.”

And “They see this as the one great opportunity to pass everything they’ve been dreaming of, and can’t pass the chance up, regardless of consequences…”

But… bear with me- if they just get amnesty, 20-35 million illegal aliens become voters ( the figures vary, I can’t find the link quickly, but one non-kook writer I have read argues it is around 36 million– whatever, it’s a lot of new voters. ) who will be beholden to the people who gave them this windfall.

Plus, they will likely bring over one or two or three or more family members… even more new voters.

And with that, they might not be kicked out in November.

They might get and keep a permanent majority.

March 18, 2010 at 6:51 pm

HOLY MOLY!!!!!!!!

THESE PEOPLE ARE FREAKING UNAMERICAN LUNATICS!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.examiner.com/x-21298-Norfolk-Generation-Examiner~y2010m1d24-America-needs-to-stand-up-and-be-heard


The bill will provide medical coverage for all non-United States of America residents even if they are here illegally. (pg 50 / section 152)
• The physicians will be paid the same pay regardless of specialty and set their fees charged (pg 241and 253).
• The tax that will be imposed on the American people will not be treated as a tax. Is it a tax or not?! (pg 203 line 14-15).
• Congress is exempt from the Social Security system, is well funded under a private health and retirement plan. I always thought it would be nice to incur their benefits when they retire.
• The government will have real-time access to an individual’s bank account and will have the authority to make electronic fund transfers from those accounts (pg 58 and 59)”

March 18, 2010 at 6:59 pm

JON VIOGHT CALLING ALL AMERICANS TO JOIN HIM ON THE CAPITAL STEPS ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON:

Call to Arms: Join Me in DC Saturday to Stop ObamaCare
Posted by Jon Voight Mar 18th 2010 at 2:00 pm in Featured Story, Healthcare, News, Politics | Comments (55)

http://bigjournalism.com/jvoight/2010/03/18/call-to-arms-join-me-in-dc-saturday-to-stop-obamacare/#idc-container

His article begins:

I am calling to all of you freedom-loving Americans to come once again to Washington D.C. to gather on the Capitol steps on Saturday, at 12 o’clock noon.

March 18, 2010 at 10:40 pm

Obama has not had to work for anything in his life. He cannot relate to those who do.

It’s the icing on his hateful cake.
He hates the US. He hates white people – oh yes, I said it. He hates people who can do and succeed.
He must take us down the third world path, to level the playing field and become much like his cousin Odinga in Kenya. Google what his cousin did in his country’s election during our primaries.

CALIFORNIA: Poll: Boxer Suddenly In Trouble. It’s telling that she’s basically tied with all the GOP competitors. But don’t worry — President Obama will be campaigning for her!

DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN: “If you don’t tie our hands, we will keep stealing.”

Frank Luntz: The Unabomber Has A Higher Approval Rating Than Members Of Congress Right Now.

FACT-CHECKING THEIR ASS: President Obama Promotes OFA Astroturf Campaign (with Bonus Plagiarism). At the link, a list of papers duped into publishing astroturf letters from Organizing For America. I hope that Big Journalism will contact each editor and ask them if they’re going to print something indicating the astroturf nature of these letters.

Plus, from the comments: “Are you supposed to sign the letter ‘Ellie Light’?”

GOODBYE, CORNHUSKER KICKBACK: “How stupid must Ben Nelson feel tonight? He sold his soul in return for a kickback, he’s reviled in his own state and will likely never again be elected, and now his bribe has been removed from the hot mess that is the healthcare bill.”

FESS PARKER HAS DIED.

Some further thoughts from Rand Simberg. Parker’s big fame was a bit before my time, though I do kind of remember the Daniel Boone show. And here are some thoughts relevant to the health care debate, from the actual Davy Crockett.

THEODORE DALRYMPLE: Our Contemporary Sanctimony Puts the Victorians to Shame. “Is it only in sexual matters that a man can be a hypocrite?”

Next Shoe To Drop – Amnesty For Illegals

March 18th, 2010

From the SEIU:

(Click to enlarge)

Save the Date for Immigration Reform In Washington, DC

Join thousands from across the country at the March For America in Washington, DC on March 21, 2010.

By the way, note how much the SEIU’s arguments for amnesty like their arguments for ‘healthcare reform.’

And, just like with ‘healthcare reform,’ this can’t wait. We must have this now.

Before anyone has a chance to think about it too much.

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Schumer, Graham Unveil Immigration Reform Blueprint (INCLUDES "PATH TO CITIZENSHIP")

Well, I tried to wake people up, for years...

For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:

"People get the kind of government

They want

and deserve..."

We Shall Never Surrender…We Shall Never Yield.

Brave words- let's see some action...

Obama tells Democrats that his Presidency is on the line

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Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Elections 2010, Healthcare, Liberal Fascism, Progressives at March 18th, 2010 - 12:00 pm

It is obvious that the reason for Congressional Progressives pushing the Eugenics based Health care plan is Ideological. Barack Hussein Obama’s reason is that he feels his presidency is at stake.

Change! Obama’s Policy of Distancing Israel & Rehabilitating Islam’s Global Image

by WrathofG-d ( 82 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Gaza, Iran, Islamic Terrorism, Islamists, Israel, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Middle East, Palestinians, Politics, Progressives, Religion at March 18th, 2010 - 4:00 pm

Much ado has been made about the Obama Administration’s most recent manufactured spat and over-reaction...

Thursday, March 18, 2010, 5:10 PM
Jim Hoft

Last Night the Rachel Maddow Show ridiculed the “Conservative Piranhas” Gateway Pundit and Michelle Malkin who were out “lying” about Obama’s sport fishing ban.

Story Balloon posted video:

Story Balloon has the transcript here. But, of course, the Maddow Show was not completely honest about the fishing ban.
This information was not included in their hit piece.

** A sweeping oceans and Great Lakes management policy document proposed by the Obama Administration will have a significant impact on the sport fishing industry, America’s saltwater anglers and the nation’s coastal communities.

** The draft policy, the Interim Report of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, issued on September 17, will govern federal Pacific and Atlantic Ocean waters and Great Lakes resource conservation and management and will coordinate these efforts among federal, state and local agencies.

** The American Sportfishing Association (ASA) has serious concerns regarding the direction the administration is taking regarding how to manage our nation’s marine and freshwater public resources, choosing a tone of preservation over conservation.

** In September 2009 a published administration document outlined a structure that could result in closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas across America.
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** The task force is charged with putting in place a new ecosystem management process called marine spatial planning.

** Under the guise of ‘protecting’ these areas, the current second phase of the Task Force direction is to develop zoning which may permanently close vast areas of fishing waters nationwide.

** Angling advocates point out that senior policy officials on the task force seem inclined to ally themselves with preservationists and environmental extremists who want to create ‘no fishing’ preserves, with no scientific justification.

This concern by American fisherman that Team Obama will ruin their freedom like they ruined the economy is real. Sorry Rachel, your “catch of the day” was Stinkfish.

Previously:
Now Obama Wants to Ban Sport Fishing
Obama White House to 60,000,000 Anglers: We Don’t Need You
Obama’s Latest Assault on Freedom– New Regulations Will Ban Sport Fishing
Obama’s UN-Styled Commission Will Decide Who Gets to Sport Fish and Where

"I've been waiting for the time when America joins the world against Israel"--

Obama blocks delivery of bunker-busters to Israel

 

Scientists a Step Closer to Making Cloak of Invisibility a Reality (Oh great- invisible Germans)

vulture-wolf pic, ouch


Not Yours To Give

Carbon market chaos strikes again

Coburn Warns Vote-Switchers on Health Care

Health Bill 'Expands IRS Power' (Drudge Headline)

Ten Facts Every American Should Know About Democrats’ Final Government Takeover of Health Care

NUMBERS TO KNOW:

$569.2 billion in tax increases

$523.5 billion in Medicare cuts

$48 billion more for Medicaid

1. A Job-Killing Government Takeover of Health Care. No amount of changes or legislative tricks can hide the true destructive nature of this bill: $17 billion in new taxes on Americans who do not comply with the individual mandate, $52 billion in new taxes on employers that do not provide health coverage deemed “acceptable” or “affordable” by government bureaucrats, and new taxes on capital gains, dividends and interest that will further stifle economic growth and job creation.

2. New Tax on Capital Formation and Job Creation. The Medicare tax on capital gains, dividends, and other investment income gets bigger, magnifying the destructive power of this new tax. The bill increases the tax from 2.9 percent to 3.8 percent, pushing the top capital gains rate to 23.8 percent and the top rate for dividends to 43.4 percent in conjunction with tax relief expiring at the end of this year. As The Wall Street Journal editorialized this week, this tax will “permanently skew the incentives to work, save and create jobs.”

3. Democrats Continue to Say ‘I Do’ To Marriage Penalty. The bill leaves in place a massive marriage penalty, which will mean higher premiums for those that tie the knot. As highlighted in January by The Wall Street Journal, “the disparity comes about in part because subsidies for purchasing health insurance … are pegged to federal poverty guidelines.” The final bill leaves this unfair penalty on married couples in place.

4. Lower Wages and More Unemployment. The final bill imposes $52 billion in new taxes on employers, including small businesses, that cannot afford to provide health coverage or that don’t offer coverage. The effect of this type of tax, similar to a payroll tax increase, would ultimately fall squarely on workers in the form of lower wages or reduced employment. In fact, the Tax Policy Center concluded that “economists generally believe that the burden of payroll taxes is borne by workers in the form of lower wages, regardless of whether the tax is levied on the employer or the employee.” The tax proposed in this bill will likely have the same effect.

5. Employers Targeted By Even Higher Taxes to Enforce Employer Mandate. The final bill incorporated President Obama’s suggestion to rake in a little more cash to pay for a massive government-takeover of health care by nearly tripling the job-killing mandate tax on employers who do not offer health coverage to $2,000 per employee. Sure enough, the President’s suggestion raises an additional $25 billion on the backs of American employers, according to CBO.

6. Individual Mandate Tax Reduced? No, Not Really. Democrats are highlighting their generosity by lowering the amount of the tax for not complying with the mandate. But just how generous are they? Not very. Democrats propose to reduce the individual mandate tax flat payment amount by a scant 14¢ a day. And, while Democrats “reduce” the individual mandate tax flat payment amount, they actually raise $2 billion more by making other alterations to the individual mandate, according to CBO.

7. The Power to Tax Our Health Care. The Democrats’ final bill doesn’t just tax individuals and employers if they don’t comply with the complex mandates in the bill. The bill sends the IRS out to tax the very products Americans use to maintain and restore their own health. New taxes on medical devices, on prescription drugs, and on health insurance itself are all targets of the bill. And, with $10 billion in new enforcement resources, you can bet the IRS will be taking its full share out of the pockets of every American who uses any of these products or services.

8. Even More Subsidies, Even Greater Threat to the Economy. The bill increases the subsidies provided under the bill from those provided in the Senate bill by $65 billion, a significant and unsustainable increase. In fact, the Associated Press reported a warning from Massachusetts’ state treasurer, who stated that Congress will "threaten to wipe out the American economy within four years" if it adopts a health care overhaul modeled after the Bay State's.

9. Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Coverage. The final bill does not include the Stupak amendment language that would prohibit federal funds from being used to fund elective abortions. Instead, states are given the option to opt-out of providing insurance coverage of abortions. Still, taxpayers in a state that opts-out would still see their federal tax dollars fund elective abortions in other states. Additionally, each state through the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) can provide access to two multi-state plans, and only one of them will exclude abortions. OPM’s current health care program – the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) – does not include any plans that cover elective abortion. For the first time, a federally funded and managed health care plan will cover elective abortions.

10. Medicaid Rolls And Waiting Lines to Swell Even More. CBO estimates that as a result of the Democrats’ bill, one million more Americans will get their coverage from Medcaid, which is plagued with financial woes and wreaks all kinds of budgetary havoc on cash-strapped states. The Democrats’ bill, as the New York Times highlighted, will push even more Americans into a program where they will have trouble finding doctors and have to wait for potentially months to receive care. That’s not meaningful reform by any measure.

BONUS: Republicans have proposed a health care bill... you just haven't heard about it. because the press won't mention it...

FoxNews/Hannity: Obamacare to create 15,000 IRS positions to fine Americans


2,608 posted on 03/19/2010 3:20:57 AM PDT by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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 It Begins at last: OpEd: Impeach the President?
 
March 19, 2010 at 3:45 am

This is the first time I’ve seen this idea mentioned in the media:

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/19/impeach-the-president/

I believe it is the only solution.

 
March 19, 2010 at 4:47 am

I’ve been reading a little bit about the coup de ‘etat in Chile in 1973 and the similarities are striking to Obama. Obama is like Salavatore Allende, the marxist dictator elected in 1970. Once he was elected he went about radically changing the system from the inside. The people revolted, that’s why General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the gov’t. Not the typical lefty lie that Allende was democratically elected, and the mean old conservative military wanted to stop a Marxist Paradise because they were in the pockets of the rich.
The similarities to Honduras just last year is striking too. Same old lefty lies. A democratically elected government of Zelaya was trying to help the poor…..blah, blah, blah.
With the recent earthquake in Chile, Geraldo made a quick passing remark about the history of Chile, “The overthrow of the DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED gov’t in 1973″
Why the hell do these lefties always use that old line “The democratically elected government was overthrown”.
These dicators get elected, then they radically, unconsitutionally and illegally change the gov’t, build up fascist power centers and dare anyone to stop them.
History repeats again.

Gridlock Washington, D.C.?

 


2,609 posted on 03/19/2010 5:36:30 AM PDT by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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Obama Care Adds 16,500 More IRS Agents For Enforcement

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (March 19, 2010: Hussein ties all time low of -21)

Gee, I wonder why?
 
Surprise, surprise:

Hidden Deep Within ObamaCare, Racial Preferences

And on page 879 is one detail that few know about.

A friend of mine, Allan Favish, has discovered the bill includes race preferences.

In an article written for the American Thinker, Favish says the bill specifies that the secretary of Health and Human Services, “in awarding grants or contracts under this section … shall give preferences to entities that have a demonstrated record of … training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds.”

The bill doesn’t say what would qualify as a “demonstrated record,” so if ObamaCare passes you can expect that medical schools and other training institutions will do whatever they can to get away with training as many people as possible from so-called “disadvantaged backgrounds.”

By the way, if you’re poor and white, or Asian, or Jewish, don’t expect any advantage under this plan. The word “underrepresented” is inserted into the bill’s language to make it clear the preferences are aimed at giving a leg up to black and Hispanic students. According to the soft bigotry of the left, “underrepresented” is always meant to be read as “black” and “Latino.”...

(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...

Democrats plan doc fix after reform -- leaked memo attached, Politico (adds $371B)

Democrats are planning to introduce legislation later this spring that would permanently repeal annual Medicare cuts to doctors, but are warning lawmakers not to talk about it for fear that it will complicate their push to pass comprehensive health reform. The plans undercut the party's message that reform lowers the deficit, according to a memo obtained by POLITICO.

Democrats removed the so-called doc fix from the reform legislation last year because its $371-billion price tag would have made it impossible for Democrats to claim that their bill reduces the deficit. Republicans have argued for months that by stripping the doc fix from the bill, Democrats were playing a shell game.

“Most health staff are already aware that our health proposal does not contain a 'doc fix.' … The inclusion of a full SGR repeal would undermine reform’s budget neutrality. So again, do not allow yourself (or your boss) to get into a discussion of the details of CBO scores and textual narrative. Instead, focus only on the deficit reduction and number of Americans covered,� the memo, sent Thursday to Democratic staff, said

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...

Top Republican opens investigations into healthcare 'secret deals' [Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)

 

IRS To Become Obama's Health Gestapo

We need to keep the pressure on so keep calling today, tommorow, and the next day until this evil thing, this total grab of power is defeated.

1-877-762-8762 Call Now ElRushbo Bump!!!

http://www.nrcc.org/CodeRed/targets/

Here are some more resources if you can’t get through or don’t know who you need to contact. You can find local office phone numbers, emails, faxes, etc.

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/

http://www.congress.org/

Obama Hails 'Historic' Healthcare Reform Vote [Says: Americans Told "A Whole Bunch of Nonsense"]

"Even now he is trying to shove his “victory” down our throats. It’s who he is. Classless and vengeful"

The Heat Is On: Congressman's Office Says Constituent Calls Are 'Harassment'

So they consider their constituants criminals.

Foreclosures ON THE RISE

But you'll have free ( $15,000 per year ) Heel Care...

Health-Care Bill Would Increase Taxes On Wages, Investments

 

Pelosi Confirms New Medicare Tax on ‘Unearned Income, Whatever Category That Is’

Imputed income too I guess? Like if you build your own bookcase or buy a bookcase, refinish, and resell on eBay.

The Fearful Forty; 40 Dems who are persuadable on health care reform you should call NOW

Obamacare Grants IRS Perilous Power, GOP Says (Nice Breakdown by Newsmax)

It’s a complete and total take over of Americans lives. In the past, Americans have fought to get the IRS out of their lives. This President has put them in control over every thing you do now. Businesses will fail by the thousands, taxes will raise to the point that you won’t have enough money to live. Millions of people will loose their homes. The communist party is in total control of your country now. Welcome to the USSA.

Two retiring Tennessee Democrats to get government jobs for Yes on ObamaCARE vote!

According to Human Events, Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) has been promised the job of NASA administrator in exchange for his vote, and Rep. John Tanner (D-Tenn.), another retiring Democrat, has been promised an appointment as U.S. Ambassador to NATO in exchange for his vote!
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2,610 posted on 03/19/2010 11:52:24 AM PDT by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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The root of it all

by m ( 160 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Guest Post, Healthcare, Progressives at March 19th, 2010 - 6:00 am

Blogmocracy in action!
Cross post from
NEWZEALBLOG


Why President Obama and His Marxist Allies are Pushing Socialized Healthcare

I have written this post to explain why President Obama is so desperate to pass health care legislation, seemingly regardless of the cost to the Democratic Party.

The reality is that President Obama owes his success and his hold on power more to three Marxist groups than he does to the Democrats.
The three organizations, Communist Party USA, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism and Democratic Socialists of America, all worked with Barack Obama for years and helped get him elected.

Now they want payback.

All three organizations have campaigned hard for “socialized” or “Single Payer” health care.

They want Obama to pass a Bill, any Bill, so that they can then ratchet up the pressure until the government has complete control of the health sector.

Why? because these people figure that if government controls health care, it will lock socially conservative American workers into supporting their Democratic Party allies indefinitely.

Britain after WW2 is their model. While Winston Churchill was the hero of the hour, in 1946 he was dumped in a landslide in favor of Labour Party leader Clement Attlee, on the promise of a massively increased Welfare State and a socialized National Health Service.

Leading Communist Party USA theoretician Norman Markowitz put it this way in a November 2008 article in Political Affairs, entitled Obama’s Mandate for Change;

A “single payer” national health system – known as “socialized medicine” in the rest of the developed world – should be an essential part of the change that the core constituencies which elected Obama desperately need.

Britain serves as an important political lesson for strategists. After the Labor Party established the National Health Service after World War II, supposedly conservative workers and low-income people under religious and other influences who tended to support the Conservatives were much more likely to vote for the Labor Party when health care, social welfare, education and pro-working class policies were enacted by labor-supported governments.

For an in depth look at the Marxists behind Obamacare I recommend you visit my blog New Zeal, specifically the posts;

Barack Obama and the Socialist Healthcare Scamsters

Some Christmas Reading for Your Senators, Obama, Young, Conyers and Socialized Healthcare.

For a comprehensive expose of President Obama’s Marxist ties I ask you to visit my website KeyWiki, specifically the pages;

Barack Obama and the Communist Party

Barack Obama and the Committees of Correspondence

Barack Obama and Democratic Socialists of America

If you believe the above information is accurate and valuable, please link to the articles on your blog or website.

Please circulate them to your friends colleagues and elected representatives.

From a grateful Kiwi friend of the United States of America.
Trevor Loudon
Christchurch, New Zealand

 
IF YOU’RE CONCERNED ABOUT OBAMACARE, here’s who to call.
 

ObamaCare Target List

—Gabriel Malor

If you intended to pick up a telephone, send a fax, an email, or a letter (although a letter is too slow to matter), here are my suggestions for Dems leaning toward voting against the healthcare bill. They are "maybes" who have not publicly declared, but who may need a gentle nudge from their constituents.

Jason Altmire (PA-4)
332 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
202-225-2565
202-226-2274(fax)

John Barrow (GA-12)
213 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
p: (202) 225-2823
f: (202) 225-3377
(email form)

John Boccieri (OH-16)
1516 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-3876
(email form)

Allen Boyd (FL-2)
1227 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-5235
(202) 225-5615 Fax
(email form)

Lincoln Davis (TN-4)
410 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: 202.225.6831
Fax: 202.226.5172
(email form)

Scott Murphy (NY-20)
120 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-5614
(202) 225-1168 (fax)
(email form)

Glenn Nye (VA-2)
116 Cannon HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202) 225-4215
Fax: (202) 225-4218
(email form)

Heath Shuler (NC-11)
422 Cannon House Office Bldg.
Washington, DC, 20515
Phone: (202) 225-6401
Fax: (202) 226-6422

John Tanner (TN-8 )
1226 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-4714
Fax: (202) 225-1765
(email form)

Harry Teague (NM-2)
1007 Longworth HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2365
(email form)

I've given you their D.C. contact info. If you can't get through there, go here to look up their local offices and talk to some of the staff there.

Posted by Gabriel Malor at 09:22 AM New Comments Thingy
 
43 If you dial *67 before you punch in the phone numbers it will block your number and the people cant see your AREA CODE on their caller ID.  They wont answer the phone if they see you are from OUT OF THEIR AREA.
 
CALLING YOUR CONGRESSMAN TO COMPLAIN now counts as “harassment?” What thin-skinned lily-livered losers we have in Washington. Glad somebody stood up to this one.
 

quiet
 
"We are told to shut up or face federal agents. Such treatment may be acceptable in the former Soviet Union, but it’s repulsive in the country I love and served. Is this hope and change?"

I have new visions of a new Ruby Ridge, and Waco.

This is indeed a Constitutional Crisis.
 
So this is how full throated Marxism gets started in a country like Venezuela. You vote them in, they get disconnected from the electorate, and then they subvert the rule of law.
 
Washington Times is calling for Obama's impeachment today.

 
JOE BIDEN: “We’re going to control the insurance companies.”
 

OPERATION DEM RESCUE: The St. Louis Tea Party will defend Democrats who vote “no” on Obamacare.

Meanwhile, Tennessee’s Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen tells Tenn. delegation the state can’t afford ObamaCare. And here’s a target list.

TAXPROF: House Health Care Bill ‘Dangerously Expands IRS’s Power’.

The Terms of the Deal. “When Barack Obama tries to convince you to accept a government takeover of the health-care industry, he is making a promise he won’t be around to keep. ObamaCare’s job-killing taxes are front-loaded, but in order to fool the Congressional Budget Office into giving it a respectable deficit score, its benefits are delayed for years. Even if Obama wins re-election, he would complete his second term long before the program was completely phased in… and no external authority exists to compel either Obama, or his successors, to honor the promises he’s been making. . .

CHANGE: Rasmussen: 43% now strongly disapprove of Obama, same as Bush when he left office. “Imagine how unpopular Obama would be if the press and the late night comedians (who are at least as important as the press) treated Obama as they treated Bush.”

UPDATE: Desperation time:

The Demcare bribe list, Pt. III

March 19, 2010 11:08 AM by Michelle Malkin34 Comments | 6 Trackbacks

Greasing the skids.

President Obama reminded his constituents that health care “reform” was a life support system for a number of political constituencies which would otherwise die without it. He reminded Congressional Democrats that their political fates were tied to the health bill and that they could not save themselves by voting against the President. Rep Suzanne Kosmas of Florida typified conflict. The Democrat represents a district whose economy was eviscerated by Obama’s NASA budget cuts. Now she can have some of them back — if she votes for health care “reform. She would only say about her health care discussions with President Obama that “I did have a conversation last week on NASA.” Mike Synan of WDBO says Kosmas insisted the conversations were unrelated.

(more…)

Cave-in Watch

March 19, 2010 12:28 PM by Michelle Malkin

Ohio Democrats Charlie Wilson and John Boccieri have caved.

Nevada Democrat Dina Titus is a yes.

Six pro-life Democrats led by West Virginia Democrat Rep. Nick Rahall are getting ready to sell out for a chump promise.

Fox News asks: One down, one to go?

On the no side: Mass. Democrat Rep. Stephen Lynch.

NY Democrat Michael Arcurri is a no.

WaPo: Who’s in play: House health-care vote – How members voted on health-care legislation Nov. 7, where they stand now and who is still undecided.

Remember:

Another reminder: “Keep in mind that from the time the Democrats started the 72 hour clock, they have been working hard at creating an aura of momentum and inevitability around the passage of Obama Care. What they most want to do right now is undermine the spirit of the opposition to get you to begin backing off.”

Posted in: Health care
 

2,611 posted on 03/19/2010 12:58:49 PM PDT by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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Coming Attractions: Rep. Paul Ryan Warns of a Top Marginal Tax Rate of 88% (Video)

Phone Calls Continue to Batter Congress (Over 100,000 an hour!)


New Gallup Poll finds Americans suddenly souring more on Obama; Now, why could that be? (LA Times)

A Pyrrhic Passage? (Victor Davis Hanson on Obamacare vote)

At an outdoor rally today, the president described the health-care debate as a referendum on the “character” of the country, and I do believe he was correct.

The president is pushing legislation that a clear majority of the people dislike, and whose details neither he nor his supporters can explain in simple language. Its ends-justify-the-means passage will require legislative gymnastics that border on the unconstitutional, and in Orwellian fashion are designed to reassure its sheepish supporters that they can appear not to be voting for the bill they vote for. And to achieve a House majority, Obama must offer an array of personal favors, political payoffs, federal stipends, and open threats, which, if done in the private sector, would be actionable acts of felonious bribery or racketeering.

(Excerpt) Read more at corner.nationalreview.com ...

 
55 | March 19, 2010 7:36 am

@ tunnelrat:

Bingo. If they simply “deem” the legislation passed by the House, we are in a Constitutional Crisis. And Nancy and Barry have already indicated that they will use that measure on other controversial issue that come before the House. Why even have the House meet? Queen Nancy will just pick and choose what she wants to pass. We are seeing the beginnings of a for-real dictatorship in this country...

69 | March 19, 2010 7:46 am

We will only be a short leap away from what Chavez has done in Venezuala by overriding their constitution entirely.

Rasmussen : Obama more disliked than Bush ?

How Extreme Was the Winter of 2009-2010?

Repost: Cass Sunstein Advocates for Removal of People's Organs Without Explicit Consent


2,612 posted on 03/19/2010 3:04:11 PM PDT by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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March 19, 2010 at 5:17 pm

Mark Levin just posted this list
Congressman Nick Rahall
(202) 225-3452

Congressman Mike Michaud
(202) 225-6306

Congressman Brad Ellsworth
(202) 225-4636

Congressman Earl Pomeroy
(202) 225-2611

Congressman Harry Teague
(202) 225-2365

Congressman Harry Mitchell
(202) 225-2190

Congressman Chris Carney
(202) 225-3731

Congressman Henry Cuellar
(202) 225-1640

Congressman Kathy Dahlkemper
(202) 225-5406

Congressman Glenn Nye
(202) 225-4215

Congressman Zack Space
(202) 225-6265

Congressman Solomon Ortiz
(202) 225-7742

Congressman Jim Matheson
(202) 225-3011

CODE RED RALLY: KILL THE BILL THIS WEEKEND

This weekend, save America. Next week, save Israel.

Capitol-view-lo-res

Parker G is psyched and writes, "There is going to be a video town hall tonight night in Pittsburgh from 7 to 9 with Bachmann and other brave conservatives. The NRCC is hosting and the Pittsburgh Tea party movement are coming in mass to this. Congressman Jason Altmire is on the fence between "yes and no", there hasn't been a ton of love between Pittsburgh Tea party and the RNC, but today they are fighting a common enemy.

Altmire is going to be under grass roots pressure all day at his offices, tonight our girl Bachmann will bring more pain. This event breaks those long standing rules of "don't mess with my district", small aspects like this can be the difference between a yes and a hell no vote. Let's once again help the folks on the front lines, we are hitting critical times where every single vote will count."

Get on the phones. Get to DC this weekend:

KILL THE BILL RALLY THIS WEEKEND

Unprecedented TEA Party &; Grassroots Coalition Aligns to 'Kill The Bill'; Rally Saturday at Capitol, Other Events Across Country

An unprecedented coalition of grassroots and "tea party" groups is launching the final push before a possible vote by the House. Coming together under the auspices of the American Grassroots Coalition, various events held by different groups will be coordinated, including a noon rally at the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, a candlelight vigil and "virtual vigil" leading up to the vote.

Featured speakers at the Washington, D.C. Rally on Saturday will include:

Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (MN)
Congressman Tom Price (GA)
Congressman Joe Wilson (SC)
Congressman Phil Gingrey (GA)
State Senator Judson Hill (GA)
Actor & Activist Jon Voight
Dr. Milton Wolf, Barack Obama's second cousin who opposes Obamacare
Colin Hanna, Let Freedom Ring
Jim Martin, 60 Plus
Phil Kerpen, Americans for Prosperity
Tim Phillips, Americans for Prosperity
Andrew Langer, Institute for Liberty
Kathryn Serkes, Doctor Patient Medical Association
Mark Skoda, Memphis Tea Party
Amy Kremer, Tea Party Express
Jennifer Hulsey, American Grassroots Coalition
FreedomWorks Representative
Ben Cunningham, Founder of the Tennessee Tax Revolt
Darla Dawald, Grassfire / Resistnet


BACKGROUND

Grassroots activists everywhere have worked to inform themselves, notify their representatives of their objections and take action in the form of rallies, meetings and calls into those representatives. Individual groups have worked to stop the health care legislation while coordinating with each other to amplify their message and their efforts.

Looks like there is more at stake than a tea party this weekend. Looks like a battle royale of the forces for good versus the evil enemy within. Ann over at Potomac tea Party points out:

As Tea Party groups get ready to go to Washington this weekend for one final push to try to stop the so-called health care reform behemoth, they need to know they will not be alone in DC.

There are two huge demonstrations that have been scheduled for months involving demonstrators that will not see eye-to-eye with Tea Party activists.

First there is the International ANSWER anti-war demonstration tomorrow, Saturday, the 20th.   The organizers are primarily Marxists, labor union, immigrant advocates and Muslim activists.  They are an angry group often calling themselves anarchists (although they don’t understand the definition of anarchist!).

I went to a counter-demonstration called the Gathering of Eagles in March 2007 and mounted National Park policemen had to keep our group of largely Vietnam vets separated from them for fear violence would erupt.  

Also, happening this weekend on Sunday is a demonstration expected to draw tens of thousands of Open Borders advocates with a large contingent of immigrant marchers.  This demonstration has also been organized for some time by this front group of George Soros and the Tides Foundation.  It involves many church groups—Catholics, Lutherans and the crop walk people—Church World Service.   Obviously I wouldn’t expect them to be threatening but they are also being organized by LABOR UNIONS (we have seen what their thugs can do) and I suspect that many of the “anarchists” from the Saturday demonstration will be staying over to help their immigrant advocate friends.

I expect everyone will be in different parts of the city and hopefully the National Park Police are geared up, but just stay clear of some very rough people who will be in Washington with you tomorrow and Sunday!

Friday, March 19, 2010, 11:39 AM
Jim Hoft

She-Devil Pelosi says she prayed to St. Joseph this morning to help her pass Obamacare. She also told reporters that even the Catholic nuns want the democrats to pass “this life affirming legislation.”

She offered her prayer on the same day that she rejected a plea from Rep. Bart Stupak to agree to a deal to remove the abortion funding from the Senate health care bill.
Shameless.

Via HotAir

Today is the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, particularly important to Italian-Americans. It’s a day where we remember and pray to St. Joseph to benefit the workers of America, and that’s exactly what our health-care bill will do. … Every order that you can think of was there [on a list of endorsements], saying they wanted us to pass this life-affirming legislation.

UPDATE: Why are we not surprised? Today is not St. Joseph the Worker’s Feast Day…

The Feast of St Joseph the Worker in the United States is celebrated in September, coincident with Labor Day. In Europe it is May 1. It was instituted to counter the Communist May Day festival because the Pope knew that work in communist countries was undignified slavery.Today is the Feast of St Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church, also the Patron of a Happy Death, as the Celebrant of the Mass I assisted at today reminded those present.

Hat Tip to Ladue Pundit and Frank McLaughlin

UPDATE: The Anchoress is hot:

What an abominable woman; what a power-mad, ruthless, mendacious grotesque she is.

I have always argued against knee-jerk excommunications, and when Pelosi visited the Pope I suggested Catholics calm down and let the slow wheels turn, but this astonishing display has me almost choking with disgust and rage. The Church scandalizes itself often; it is an imperfect institution where holiness and evil are activated against one another. Understanding that, one tends to the long view, and so when individual Catholics screw up and bring scandal, I am mindful of the fact that I too am a Catholic who -in my own way- can and do bring scandal to others. I understand that in my rage right now, I am probably “scandalizing” someone who thinks I should be “more tolerant of an opposing view” so I don’t particularly believe I am called to inventory the soul of another.

However, it is one thing for a Catholic to be publicly misguided, misinformed, socially maladjusted or even stupid. It’s quite another -and to my way of thinking, a genuinely evil thing- for Catholics to put on a cloak of moral authority by virtue of their church membership, and proceed to spin their deceitful webs while mindfully exploiting her greatest saints and teachings for the expressed (and unbelievably sleazy) promulgation of their legislative propaganda…

I will pray for her. Maybe by nightfall I’ll be able to manage it. In the meantime, please pray for me, also, that I might settle down and embrace charity and open my heart to the Light of Christ. I don’t like feeling this way about anyone.

But first, I must scream a little more, and swallow back the bile, at the absolute horror she is become, and that she spews from her mouth.

Don’t miss the rest here.


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Gee, I sure "Hope" you all like that "Change" from Cowboy Booosh! and Darth Cheney:

OBAMAVILLES SPREAD: Number of People Living on New York Streets Soars.  

“Hey, what George Bush could not accomplish in 8 years, Obama has accomplished in 14 months.”
IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID: Video: Obama Confronted at Pep Rally By Disgruntled Unemployed Worker.
HAVE A JOB? Don’t Expect A Raise Anytime Soon.
 
"Bribery" is part of the statute, "high crimes & misdemeanors," people:

Message to Bart Gordon: Don’t Trade Your Health Care Vote for NASA Administrator Job.

Bart Gordon’s Response: How Dare You Call Me A Sellout.

UPDATE: Bart Gordon: That $100M that got put in the bill before I changed my vote isn’t a “special deal.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Report from the Anti-ObamaCare Protest at Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s Office.

Lead Story

The Demcare bribe list, Pt. III; Update: Late-night wheeling and dealing into the midnight hour; Stupak press conference 11am Saturday

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 19, 2010 11:08 AM

Scroll for updates…late Friday night wheeling and dealing at Pelosi’s office…see Robert Costa’s reporting…Plus: Stupak’s stupefying negotiations…

Here we go again. Time for another Let’s Make a Deal Watch in the Era of Hope of Change. As GOP Rep. Paul Ryan noted the other day at the House Budget Committee wreckonciliation shell hearing: “We are not governing here today, we are greasing the skids.”

First, a link refresher: Beltway Christmas: Cash for corruptocrats; the Demcare bribe list, Pt. I; Demcare bribe list, Pt. II; “A Reading Guide to the Senate Bill’s Backroom Deals”; and The Chicago Way: Judgeships for Demcare votes?

Now, here’s my rundown on the latest bribes and payoffs. GOP Sen. Tom Coburn is also on high alert. You keep watch, too, and send your additions:

*Nebraska’s Hospital Helper. Via Rowan Scarborough at the Washington Times:

The Obama administration has delivered another budget plum to Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson and the state of Nebraska, adding more than a half-billion dollars for a new veterans hospital in Omaha.

The move reverses a decision by Mr. Obama’s own Veterans Administration of a year ago, which called for repairing an existing hospital.

The Veterans Administration made the budget switch during internal deliberations in 2009 at a time when the White House was wooing the moderate Democrat to vote for President Obama’s health care overhaul bill.

Mr. Nelson was among the last of the Senate Democrats to sign on to the health bill, deciding to vote “yes” after securing special Medicaid payments for Nebraska in a deal known as the “Cornhusker Kickback.” Health care reform opponents have widely panned that deal.

At the time that deal was being made, Mr. Nelson was getting another boost from the VA as it formulated its next budget.

Jake Thompson, a spokesman for Mr. Nelson, rejected the idea the new hospital was awarded in exchange for the senator’s health care vote.

Deny, deny, deny.

*Tennessee’s Hospital Helper. Via the Tennessean:

Bye bye, Cornhusker Kickback. Hello, special treatment for Tennessee and North Dakota.

Democrats unveiling revisions Thursday to their health-care overhaul bill decided to kill the extra $100 million in Medicaid funds for Nebraska that has become a symbol of backdoor deal making. But the 153 pages of changes to the package include an additional $99 million in 2012 and 2013 for Tennessee hospitals that treat many poor people.

Retiring Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., has fought for the funds for years to bring the state’s aid up to par with the rest of the country, spokeswoman Emily Phelps said. She said their inclusion had nothing to do with his announcement Thursday that he will vote for the final health legislation after opposing an earlier version in November.

Deny, deny, deny.

Tom Bevan notes the irony of Gordon’s little deal and a NASA slot rumor.

*North Dakota’s Student Loan Loophole. With a sick stomach, Scott Johnson at Power Line reports:

Although the package nationalizes the student loan system, one bank — the state-owned Bank of North Dakota — would be allowed to continue making student loans. Such a deal for North Dakota’s Democratic congressional delegation facing massive opposition to Obamacare back home.

North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan has already announced his retirement rather than try to defend Obamacare to his constituents. Kent Conrad — North Dakota’s other Democratic senator — is employing the full Nelson, declining the bribe. Referring to “an overly heated partisan environment,” he asked the House to remove the buyoff from the legislation.

We await word from Rep. Earl Pomeroy, the state’s lone member of the House. Before the package was announced, Pomeroy was an enthusiastic advocate of the buyoff. “We want what’s taking place in North Dakota protected,” Pomeroy said. It is not clear whether Pomeroy shares Conrad’s second thoughts

And Congress will now expressly fund racial discrimination in higher education:

The new package also promises new aid for colleges serving minority students, using money the government is supposed to save by no longer paying banks to make student loans. Included are annual payments of $100 million for schools with large numbers of Hispanic students, the same amount for colleges with many black students, and millions more for schools with large numbers of native Americans and other minorities.

Newspapers running stories on these deals such as the Washington Post’s “Cornhusker Kickback gets the boot in health bill” really ought to provide nausea warnings and motion sickness bags.

*The La Raza Lollilop. Open-borders congressional reps made a show of protesting the phony immigration enforcement provisions in Demcare. But purported opponents of the bill led by Illinois Democrat Rep. Luis Guiterrez are falling in line. Just as the congressional Hispanic Caucus announced it support of Demcare, Obama announced his vow of support for their new shamnesty push.

All they needed was a cheap and easy promise from Obama. Chumps.

*Water Wheeling & Dealing. IBD editorializes today:

On Tuesday, the Department of the Interior announced it was increasing water allocations for the Central Valley of California, a region that depends on these water allocations for local agriculture and jobs. The timing adds to our suspicions.

According to the Interior announcement, “Typically (the Bureau of) Reclamation would release the March allocation update around March 22nd, but moved up the announcement at the urging of Senators (Diane) Feinstein and (Barbara) Boxer, and Congressmen (Jim) Costa and (Dennis) Cardoza.”

Blue Dog Democrats Costa, who represents California’s 20th Congressional District (Fresno), and Cardoza, who represents the 18th (Stockton to Modesto), are both listed as “undecided” in the upcoming vote on health care reform, whether it be on the Senate bill itself or the “deem and pass” resolution known as the Slaughter rule, after Rules Committee Chairman Louise Slaughter.

The rule subverts the Constitution by allowing the bill to pass without members actually having to vote on it. Interior’s announcement gives Costa and Cardoza something to assuage the wrath of angry constituents just in time for any vote. They chose what was behind door number one.

This isn’t the first time. To get them out of the “undecided” column in last December’s House vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership promised $500 million for a new University of California-Merced Medical School. Costa and Cardoza then voted “aye.”

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Update: Well, I never thought I’d encourage you to go to Firedoglake, but there is some must-read reporting on the late-night negotiations over the abortion funding issue. And it isn’t good:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made a deal with Rep. Bart Stupak in order to secure his vote and that of other anti-choice Democrats for the health care bill, which is scheduled to be voted on this Sunday. According to a member of Congress who was briefed on the matter, Pelosi has agreed to let Stupak have a vote on his amendment either before or after the House votes to pass the Senate bill. It instructs the Senate to substitute the language in his amendment for the Senate language on abortion.

FDL has obtained a copy of the concurrent resolution (PDF1, PDF2, PDF3, PDF4), which includes cosponsors Marion Berry, Sanford Bishop, Joseph Cao, Kathy Dahlkemper, Steve Driehaus, Marcy Kaptur, Dan Lipinski, Alan Mollohan, and Nick Rahall. A second source confirms that with the exception of Cao, these are the members of Congress who are still on the fence. Cao is still considered a firm “no” vote.

The deal calls for Stupak to have a vote on his amendment either before or after the House votes to confirm the Senate bill on Sunday. Stupak is confident that he has the votes to pass the measure, and is happy to have the vote after the House passes the Senate bill. He believes that by using a “tie bar” approach, his amendment would be “tied” to the health care bill — which would require just 51 votes in the Senate.

Pro-choice members of the House, however, are demanding that the vote on the Concurrent Resolution happen before the House confirms the Senate bill. If in fact it passes, they plan to vote against confirming the Senate bill. They want Rep. Diana Degette to release the names of the 41 cosigners to her letter who pledged to vote against any bill that restricts a woman’s right to choose, and they are angry that the White House has been whipping to push through the Stupak deal.

Allahpundit tries to decipher the deal and wonders:

Exit question: Is this all just lefty spin being fed to Firedoglake by peeved pro-choicers? We’ll find out at Stupak’s presser tomorrow. 11 a.m.!

Meanwhile, The Corner’s Robert Costa has fresh reports on late-night arm-twisting at Pelosi’s office:

UPDATE: Tense times at the Capitol. Democrats are being called into the Speaker’s office at the eleventh hour for negotiations. Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D., Pa.) just arrived at 10:20 P.M. Regional Medicare reimbursement disparities appears to be the issue. Staffers are on their cell phones, telling their bosses to hustle in. Twice in the last 20 minutes, Speaker Pelosi has come into the lobby herself, looking for (maybe) arriving members. It’s now 10:30 P.M.

In the midnight hour, they cried more, more more…

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I told you "reparations" would be part of Hopi Changi, didn't I?

An ObamaCare Surprise: Racial Preferences?

More from John Leo.

 

A REPORT FROM THE SAN ANTONIO TEA PARTY:

I would like to tell you about what happened to a small and orderly group of private citizens when we tried to visit the local office of Rep. Cuellar. We were bringing over 300 letters that were urging the congressman to vote NO to the healthcare bill now under consideration in the House. The staff closed the office and left the building in order to avoid meeting with us. In order to make certain that the staff had the letters we had to slide them under the door. I have attached a photo of one of the citizens sliding the letters under the door. . . Notice how this “Radical” is cleverly disguised as middle-aged business man!

They’re tricky that way.

In the "You have been conned once again, people," Dept."

Y2Kyoto: "Carbon Credit" And "Worthless Asset"

Not just synonyms anymore!

Europe’s emissions trading system was in uproar yesterday amid a mounting scandal over “recycled” carbon permits.

Two carbon exchanges were forced to suspend trading as panic hit investors fearful that they had bought invalid permits.

BlueNext and Nord Pool, the French and Nordic exchanges, suspended trading in certificates of emission reduction (CERs) when it emerged that some had been illegally reused.

[...]

The double counting is threatening confidence in the ETS, according to staff at one energy consultancy. Icis Heren said: “For companies obliged by law to buy carbon credits ... government-led carbon credit recycling means they risk buying a worthless asset.”

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This is a promise we want all of you out there to hold us to.  It is a promise we are making to America, the country we love more than anything else in the world…a place we love more than anything we own, anyone we know, more than ourselves.

If it truly happens, if Democrats truly do ram through Healthcare Rationing this weekend, that will be it for us and the Democrat party.  We will, as of the moment they enact their takedown of America, become officially not only Independents, but we’ll brand ourselves firmly as Resistance.

It will become our solid, daily goal to take down the DNC, destroy it, and do unto it what Rome did to Carthage.

We will do this by committing to three primary goals:

(1) Exposing and destroying ACORN in all its forms.

(2) Investigating and exposing every corrupt bargain and backroom deal Democrats engaged in to ram through Healthcare Rationing

(3) Taking down the Democrats’ fundraising machine and making life an absolute living Hell for all wealthy people who fund the DNC and its Leftist candidates.  We will feature a different Leftist every day, and encourage as many people as possible to direct their ire at the wealthy men, women, and firms who fundraise to keep these Marxists in office.

We will, in fact, build a coast to coast operation to achieve this, making it our mission to cripple the DNC’s revenue stream.

In that M. Night Shamalamanamon film Signs, at the very end, when things looked the absolute worse for the movie’s family, all sorts of random things came together to achieve an unlikely victory.  A guy who should have been playing baseball somewhere, but who had been injured, was instead right where he needed to be with his bat; a little girl’s obsession with leaving glasses of water everywhere was key to having just the right ammo ready when needed most; a little boy’s random and crippling asthma acted up just when he most needed his air supply cut off so he didn’t have to breathe in poison.

The point the director made was that there are sometimes extraordinary moments of great personal and national need where all sorts of randomness comes together, as if by divine plan, to save the day when needed most.

We think we’re part of something like this here.

We started this site to support Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency, back when we were dyed in the wool loyal Democrats who absolutely hated Republicans.  None of us knew each other back then, and we certainly didn’t know any of you out there.  We didn’t want to be writers, but we committed to this project every day to help Hillary.

Well, despite all that happened to our candidate and our party, we kept writing.  We kept growing this site.  We kept meeting more of you.  Personally, the lot of us got to know many Republicans, who are now great friends, and we realized how much we love this country.  That was something that was always in the back of our minds before, but now it’s become paramount to all of us.  We wake up each morning and listen to the Star Spangled Banner for crying out loud.  We have big flags we rescued at campaign rallies in 2008 hanging here in Buzzquarters, and every time we look at them we make a promise to America to never stop fighting to save this country from the Leftists.

We are a most unlikely bunch to be leading any charge against the Left.

We’re gay Democrats in Boystown.  We are not the sort of site Republicans and Independents would typically come to every day — and yet, you do.

We feel your energy.  It makes us stronger, and it guides us.

Since all of us have spent many years in fundraising for Democrat candidates, we feel like we’re that baseball player in Signs, in a weird unexpected place right where we are needed to be.

We really believe we can teach all of you the secrets to taking down the DNC…just by using what we know about Democrat fundraising against the Left.  It’s like taking down Al Capone on tax evasion, when all efforts to get him for everything else more sexy and violent failed.  Follow the money.  Expose where it’s coming from. Make it undesirable for the wealthy to keep funding the Leftists.  Take back this country when the DNC collapses into ruin.

Each Member of Congress is like a glass of water in Signs…filled with Donor info that can be used to cripple the DNC.  We intend to do what’s never been done before, and open a new front against Democrats.  We’re sure the GOP and other sites out there will be hitting these people in their own ways, like Elliott Ness going after Capone all across the board.  But, in the end, we think our plan is what will truly end up destroying the Left once and for all.

And when that happens, we all need to work together across the spectrum to salt the Earth and make sure ACORN and the Democrat Party does not ever rise again.  Who knows, perhaps in all of this we’ll also be able to break the unions, eliminate the SEIU, and defeat the Race Industry as well.

We keep thinking about our favorite story from World War II tonight, one we’ve told many times here on this site — the story of Hitler’s most coveted victory over France.

As he prepped to take Paris, Hitler sent a very special team straight to the Louvre when he’d secured the capital.  They burst into the museum ready to loot it, with cameras in tow recording what Hitler expected to be his greatest triumph, the capture of all that art and treasure.  Instead, Hitler’s goons found room after empty room, completely cleared of all contents.  As the government of France dithered in the leadup to invasion, private citizens took it upon themselves to organize a nascent Resistance, and they removed all that art to underground tunnels, caves, farmhouses, and the like, to deny Hitler his prize.  The Resistance formed before Hitler had even overthrown the Republic.  And the Resistance remained strong and worked hard every day until both Hitler and the Vichy government were overthrown, and the Republic restored to glory.

THAT is precisely what Americans need to do.

We need to resist the Leftists at every turn.

We must organize and mobilize to batter the DNC with everything we’ve got, cripple them financially, and make sure that once defeated, the DNC never rises again.

Starting after the November elections, we need to work hard every day to make sure whatever the Left has forced on this country is repealed, using the very tactics they used to ram it through to undo all of it.

Every last bit of it.

They’ll have their Pyrrhic victory…just as Hitler did when he overthrew the government of France and briefly occupied Paris.  But, we will deny them their looting of the Louvre.  We’ll do everything we can to make their occupation as difficult as possible, and hurt the DNC more than it can ever hurt this country.

The Golden Age of Hope and Change will, in the end, last just as long as Hitler’s Empire of Germania.  And we’ll make damn sure Obama himself goes down in history as the radical, deranged, destructive villain he most certainly is.

Worse than Carter.

The most un-American, dictatorial president this Republic ever had, or will ever have.

Of this we promise, to work hard every day to drive these Leftists from power, take back the country, and undo all the evil that they’ve done.

We hope you’ll join us, and help us do everything we can to save this country — as unlikely and unexpected a ragtag band of Resistance fighters that we are.

March 20, 2010 at 3:27 am

We’re an “Army of Davids,” Boyz.

Get ready to Ride the Thunder…

May the Snark be with you:

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Friday, March 19, 2010, 4:57 PM
Jim Hoft

The Radicals in Washington are using unprecendented tactics to force their socialist agenda on the American public. Today the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition will announce new tactics to defeat these radicals who are set on destroying our nation, economy, security, alliances and freedoms.

For those of you who can make it to the rally in Washington DC tomorrow we encourage you to make the sacrifice. There are vans heading to Washington D.C. in the next 24 hours from St. Louis in response to Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s emergency plea for opposition to Obamacare. Contact I Heard the People Say for information.

(Keyboard Militia)
We will protest tomorrow here in St. Louis.
More information will be posted here later today.

The St. Louis Tea Party Coalition released this statement earlier this morning:

If Congress continues on its present course – to inflict socialized medicine on America by decree – the reaction from the people will be something that we have never seen before.

If this law passes, wheels will turn that will be difficult to stop. Consolidation among insurance companies, who have already shown remarkable cowardice, will result in only a few huge insurers. Similar consolidation will occur in hospital companies and pharmaceuticals. These huge companies will then beg government to absorb them like General Motors. The government will comply and give any remaining competitors the Toyota treatment.

So let’s do this (the weekend part):

* Plan on protesting on Saturday. Location to be determined.

* Plan on getting a List of Leaners on whom we will focus our letters, calls, and FedEx packages (for Saturday delivery)

* Plan on giving a primary pass to any Democrat who votes NO on this bill

* Plan on hosting a watch party on Sunday, all day, praying that Pelosi does not get the votes

But if this bill passes, all bets are off. Every aspect of the government in Washington is fair game.

Check back later today for more information on tomorrow’s protest.

Dana Loesch has more on “Dem Rescue.”

UPDATE: The Potomac Tea Party Report sent out a heads up that Marxist anti-war demonstrators will also be protesting in Washington DC tomorrow so be safe.

UPDATE: San Diego Patriots will also hold a protest tomorrow.

UPDATE: St Louis Patriots Will Meet at Russ Carnahan’s Office tomorrow at 11:00 AM CST.
His office is located at 8764 Manchester Road
St Louis, MO 63144

This rally will coincide with the Taxpayer March on Washington tomorrow at noon EST.

AND SO IT BEGINS: Brick thrown through Rep. Slaughter's (D) office window

Not that I would ever advocate violence against those seekin to destroy this country as a constitutional republic, where the government draws its authority from the consent of the governed.

"I haven't either. But I have stuck my finger up in the air and then commented on the breeze I felt. I won't agitate or egg on a rock thrower (or worse) but I'm here to tell ya that folks can only be pushed about so far. When it gets to the point where little old ladies are talking about arming themselves against the coming storm a person would have to be comatose to not recognize it.

I've lived too long and seen too much and lost too much to GAS about being nice about what their doing to us. All I wanted to do was to spend my last few days quietly and peacefully. They are precluding that and that makes me see red.

...and its gonna get worse before it ever gets better."

"One of the phrases Donald Rumsfeld used several years ago struck me and has stayed with me- "Come-as-you-are war." Not as you wish, but as you must. We have a government full of assholes playing at being Bolshevik revolutionaries, and patting themselves on the back for engineering a "bloodless revolution". This ain't Venezuela, and it ain't gonna go down quite that easily.

/ if it does, then perhaps it is time for this nation to perish."


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Anger at Washington reaches full throttle

Obama's Bizarre, Unhinged Health Care Rally (Video: Obama Looks drunk and/or drugged!)

Health care bill puts payroll tax on investments

St. Louis Tea Party Launches Operation Dem Rescue

Ike Skelton (D), HASC Chairman, admits Obamacare doesn't protect servicemembers, families

Memo Purportedly Urges Dems to Keep Quiet on Critical Health Care Topics

Obamacare Hits Middle Class Hard, Pricing Them Out of Insurance

What Next: A "Bribery Czar"? Is Our Administration Becoming "The Godfather Part Four" ?

"Bribery" is part of the statute, "high crimes & misdemeanors," people...

It Begins at last: OpEd: Impeach the President? [ 1, 2 ]

Report: WH sending unsolicited e-mails touting O-Care to federal employees

I have not researched it , but does this sound like a Hatch Act violation ?

Yes, it does, and it is.

There are two types of employees - Lesser restricted: http://www.osc.gov/haFederalLessRestrisctionandActivities.htm

And further restricted: http://www.osc.gov/haFederalFurtherRestrisctionandActivities.htm


Boehner to Pelosi: “Every Member Should Stand Before the American People and Announce Vote”

Government-run Healthcare: UK’s medical records go online without consent

 

Community Organizing 2.0: 'Climate Community Activism'

The Cambridge, Massachusetts Climate Emergency Congress (CEC) is more than a grassroots group of out-of-touch leftists. Rather, it is a casebook study of a new movement of "climate community activism" that pushes sustainability issues in municipal governments. It is a worldwide movement that bears watching.

California And The The Bureaucratization Of Pornography [THE BUREAUCRATIZATION OF EVERYTHING]

Most Racial America:

Arrest Made in N.J. Walmart 'All Black People' Case (Arrested for what, exactly?)

Coffee Party 'founder' in Astroturf hole, keeps digging

Obama Administration Restores Full Funding to Corrupt ACORN Org.


2,615 posted on 03/20/2010 3:10:13 AM PDT by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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If you’re having trouble keeping up with the news, she’s rounding up
 

John Hawkins assembles a damning collection of quotations about the health care bill . . . from Democrats!

Amazing, really amazing, cakes.

Thomas Lifson finally says it:  Obama is Captain Ahab.  Hard to think of a better analogy.

I have been impressed that Bart Stupak has stood firm.  Since he is a Democrat, I had my doubts, assuming that, like all other “principled” Democrats, he would fold when the press was right.  So far, he hasn’t, and he deserves our respect and kudos.

A few takes on the growing disaster Obama is creating for Israel:  the fact that Arabs have done nothing for peace in 67 years; the way Obama is deliberating turning America against Israel; the ham-handed, intentional bullying of Israel; Hillary’s games regarding the Middle East;  Obama picked on the smallest kid in the playground to show the bullies how “tough” he is; the bullying has a purpose and it’s very dangerous for Israel; and the bizarre calculus of the “peace process.

James Taranto hits a home run with his analysis of a “smart” president making foolish choices when it comes to health care (the first section of Taranto’s “best of the web”).  (I put “smart” in quotations because I do not believe Obama is smart.  He’s feral, but there’s no high intelligence functioning in this man, as the Baier interview vividly shows.)

Peggy Noonan, who has morphed into a vapid RINO, recovers herself after seeing the Baier interview and comes out swinging at Obama.

A reminder of how your life can be severely damaged when a huge government entity charged with your care and information screws up.

Another Michael Ramirez picture that’s worth a thousand words.

Is the health care bill just a way point in obtaining a permanent Democratic majority? 

Think You'll Get Revenge in November? Think Again.

Think again. I think we're watching "Checkmate" in action. Why? Word is that Immigration "Reform" is the Obama Administration's next goal,and that they intend on granting Amnesty to the illegals living here now. Estimates put that number at about 15-30 million people. Assuming 90% of them would instantly become life-long loyal Democrat voters (And why wouldn't they? They've just been given US citizenship and US Health Care by a Democrat), any massive "backlash" against the Democrats that appears to be developing right now will really only end up likely being more than countered by the massive increase in the total number of loyal Democrat voters that Amnesty will provide.

I hope I'm wrong.

Dan Riehl warns us that the Dems must create a sense of momentum and inevitability about Sunday if they want to get anywhere at all, but that doesn’t mean it’s real.  And John McCormack has the facts about how real it might not be (huh?).  It looks as if some of the pro-Life Dems are holding strong, which impresses me no end.  (When people with backbone show backbone, you take it for granted.  When worms stand tall, it’s a surprise.)  After all, things are so bad, Dems are officially being told to lie to constituents.

Melanie Phillips suggests that Israel abandon the diplomatic dance and state the truth.  After all, now that America has joined the UN in attacking Israel as sport, what has she got to lose?

You’ve already heard that Nancy Pelosi is praying to St. Joseph that a bill antithetical to Catholic values passes this Sunday.  You’ve also heard that she’s gotten her St. Joseph wrong.  Anchoress, of course, ties it all together into a neat package showing what a miserable excuse Pelosi is, not just for a politician, but for a human being.

John Hawkins and Keith Hennessey both have excellent, quick-read rundowns of the bill. It will bury America in a never-ending sea of red ink.

Fact Sheet: The Truth About the Health Care Bill

More Deals In: Health Care Bill Gives Special Treatment (The bribes still coming in)

 

Who Are These Fake Catholic Groups? (that support Obama and health reform)

America flooding Congress with telephone calls

Another Obamic Jihad Appointment: Nawar Shora Tapped for TSA

Holder Unplugged

http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1472700#1472700

Galganov.com

Good Jew – Bad Jew
by Howard Galganov


Obama, Biden, and Hillary Clinton have made a HUGE blunder, which is JUST one more on top of all the other blunders they’ve made, this time by beating-up on Israel.

America’s Jews might on average be LEFTISTS, and are in reality a HUGE national voting block for Democrats, and too often somewhat critical of Israel.

BUT - They are not so stupid as to accept a SMACK-DOWN on Israel by a President whose whole personal history is surrounded by vicious Jew-Haters.

If you want to talk about a seismic miscalculation of kicking Israel in the GUTS before the entire world, but MORE so, in front of America’s very influential Jewish community, and America’s HUGELY POWERFUL fundamentalist Christian community, THIS IS IT.

I’m actually happy that Obama has brought his disdain for Israel to the forefront.

At least now, the veneer has been peeled back, so all those LEFTIST Jews who ran to Obama’s support to get him elected, can see for themselves what they’ve wrought upon the ONLY Jewish State on the planet.

Obama is indeed about CHANGE. He wants to change the reality on the ground in the Middle East by neutering Israel to the point of extinction.

GOOD JEWS:

Yitzchak Rabin and Shimon Peres are deemed to be GOOD Jews. So good, that they were both awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1994), along with Arafat, for resurrecting the putrid Arab (Egyptian born) Palestinian TERRORIST (Yasser Arafat) from his 27 year exile through Bill Clinton’s suicidal (for Israel) Oslo Accords in 1993.

Rabin and Peres were GOOD Jews because they took that leap of faith the Israel-Hating world demanded, which placed a safe and secure Israel back into the Arab meat-grinder after 20 years of relative peace with near 100% stability after the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

The world LOVES NICE COMPLIANT Jews who are more interested in being NICE guys willing to bend to the will of their “gentlemanly” enemies, which includes MOST of Europe, Asia, a chunk of South America, and the UN, than Jews who are defiant about their territory and RIGHTS.

But NICE guys don’t make peace.

To the contrary - Nice guys cause war and misery.

When Golda Meir was warned repeatedly by her own Intelligence Agency (Mossad), that the Arabs planned to attack Israel sometime in the Autumn of 1973, Nixon’s self-hating Jewish National Security Advisor/Secretary of State (Henry Kissinger) pressured Meir to stand-down her troops as a show of non-belligerence to blood-thirsty Jew-Haters.

Today - Obama and Hillary Clinton call that kind of display a Demonstration of GOOD-FAITH. Huh?

For Golda Meir’s acquiescence to Kissinger’s demand, Israel was seconds away from being destroyed, as the Arab nations surrounding Israel took the opportunity to SNEAK-ATTACK the Jewish State on the Holiest of Holy Days (Yom Kippur Eve) in 1973.

Even as Israel was clinging to life during the attack of it’s Arab enemies, Kissinger would NOT allow the US military to send vital armaments to Israel.

It took a personal intervention by President Nixon once he really understood how grave the situation was, to over-rule Kissinger, and send the single largest military airlift ever at that time to rearm Israel.

EVERYONE LIKES A GOOD JEW:

Even though Kissinger’s efforts to teach the Uppity-Israeli Jews a lesson they would never forget came within a whisker away from the end of Israel, he was nonetheless awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973.

But, the Jews who are not nice, such as Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, were the ones who REALLY brought PEACE and SECURITY to Israel, as did Ariel Sharon until he decided to become a nice-guy Prime Minister Diplomat, instead of the Prime Minister SOB the people elected because he was intransigent and tough as nails.

THE NAZIS LOVED GOOD JEWS:

If you ever have the opportunity to visit the Washington Holocaust Museum, you will see one of the first exhibits on a wall with PROMINENT Jewish names inscribed, as those whose willingness to CAPITULATE with the Nazis enabled the Nazis to do what they had done. THEY WERE GOOD JEWS.

Like everything else about Obama/Biden, they simply shoot from the lip without giving serious thoughts about unintended consequences.

In this case, their very public FURY at Israel, including Hillary Clinton’s DEMANDS for Israel to effectively surrender their rights to Palestinian Arabs has REAL consequences.

1 – The Palestinian Arabs have interpreted the Obama/Biden/Clinton attack on Israel as a signal to start a new Intifada. How far it goes is yet to be seen. But the spark has been lit and one person, a guest worker from Thailand has already been murdered in a Gaza Rocket Attack.

2 – This attack on Israel ONLY serves to galvanize Israel’s resolve, and moves the PHONY Peace Process even further away than it already was.

3 – The Obama/Biden/Clinton SMACK-DOWN of Israel has ignited a new and needed alarm in Israel for the Israelis to understand that in the FINAL crunch, Israel will be on its own.

4 – Because of what the Obama/Biden/Clinton TROIKA have put on the table AGAINST Israel, they’ve ENERGIZED America’s Jewish Base to the point that these Capital Hill FOOLS have created yet another powerful front against themselves, who before this stupidity were ACTIVE Democrat supporters.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TAKE-ON A BAD JEW:

Even as I’m writing this, Obama’s White House is trying to find a way for this issue to DISAPPEAR. If anything, the Media is reading this so-called crisis WRONG.

This ISN’T a crisis for Israel. IT’S A HUGE CRISIS FOR OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS.

That’s what happens when you take-on an Israeli Jew who won’t bend a knee.

If you want to know more about how STUPID I believe this Amateur Hour White House is in their international dealings, click here to hear a 20-Minute Audio Editorial.

Best Regards . . . Howard Galganov

The Troll President

 

Scratch A Leftist Student President

...find an anti-Semite. Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!

University Of Ottawa student president Seamus Wolfe: -“As difficult as it is to navigate that boundary, Ann Coulter has a history of hate speech and we wouldn’t invite somebody who spreads hate to come to our campus.”

BC Blue - "This is the same student group who organized the Israeli Apartheid Week earlier this month"

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2,616 posted on 03/20/2010 7:05:36 AM PDT by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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March 20, 2010 at 1:44 am

I saw my first Impeach Obama bumper sticker in Los Angeles County today.

 
March 20, 2010 at 12:57 am

From Redstate http://www.redstate.com/charlesdjou/2010/03/19/democrats-didnt-listen-to-massachusetts-lets-send-them-another-message-2/

Special election in Hawaii on April 30

Call Traitor-Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (D-FL-24) At Her Husband's Business 386-427-0439

RCP President Obama Job Approval [Lines Cross in poll average for first time!]

Health Care Reform and the IRS

Prepare for Unemployment If 'ObamaCare' Passes

Michelle Obama Flashback: Health Care Reform Requires Americans to ‘Sacrifice’ (video)

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What is the Percentage of People that will be Fined or Jailed for not buying Obamacare?

They will garnish wages, use the IRS to punish you, and jail a few as examples to the rest of the rebellious serfs. The tyrants are in control ... I do not long for a war. However, I been preparing. I bought guns. I have bought ammo. I have taken lessons. I have doing more praying. I prepared my house, with a generator, extra food stores and etc. I encourage every American to do this...

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“Obama’s dedication to passing this spectacularly flawed and unpopular health care bill appears to be based on the assumption that the American people like a winner even if the victory comes at their expense.”
 

ANN ALTHOUSE HAS MORE PICS FROM THE WASHINGTON, D.C. PROTEST, courtesy of Meade.

UPDATE: More blogging here.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Anyone who’s there, Charlie Martin would like to know the width of the crowd (“between Penns and Maryland, or wider?”) and depth for purposes of estimating size.

MORE: Still more coverage at TigerHawk.

Also, a reader emails: “You want to know why I think most media outlets are frauds? There are 30,000 people in Washington, DC today protesting the health care bill right now. It’s not a headline on any of the main news outlets websites. Fail.”

PROTESTING OBAMACARE IN WASHINGTON: Reader Barrett Cunningham sends this photo and reports: “It’s an incredible turnout Glenn, and people just keep coming.”

And reader Alan Poston sends this pic and reports a crowd estimate of 30,000 was given at the scene. Not sure of the source.

UPDATE: Here’s another pic from Randy Barnett.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Another pic from Randy Barnett:

Blackberries, iPhones, etc. sure make blogging these things easier.

On crowd size, Randy emails: “They announced 25K about 15 minutes ago. I cannot see side to side but it goes solidly from steps to pond and then around to the other side of the water. Before things got started it was full between the 2 walk ways leading up to Capital. Is now wider than that but I cannot see the edges from where I am.”

Photos from high vantage points, or descriptions of exactly how far the crowd spreads in various directions, would be much appreciated.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Another from Barnett, this time facing south.

And Randy emails: “Been reading your posts. Speaker just said, ‘The President is like a used car salesman. We tell him we don’t want to buy what he’s selling but he won’t let us off the lot.’”

44% “Strongly Disapprove” of Obama; only 43% approve of Obama at all.

23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President (see trends). . . . Overall, 43% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. That also matches the lowest level yet recorded for this President. Fifty-six percent (56%) disapprove.

Will the press start talking about “the increasingly unpopular President Obama” any time soon?

VIDEO from an “impromptu” Tea Party protest outside Jan Schakowsky’s office.

 

Day of defiance: Nationwide protests as Slaughter House rushes through Demcare

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 20, 2010 08:31 AM


WOW: View of Kill the Bill rally from the Speaker’s Lobby, via Rep. Patrick McHenry


A symbolic pitchfork raised at the noon hour Capitol Hill Code Red rally today, via Keder


Noon hour crowd shot of the swelling protest on Capitol Hill, via Christinakb


Another crowd shot via Maryland Patriot

More photos at Instapundit, who shares an e-mail from a protester in D.C.: “On crowd size, Randy emails: “They announced 25K about 15 minutes ago. I cannot see side to side but it goes solidly from steps to pond and then around to the other side of the water. Before things got started it was full between the 2 walk ways leading up to Capital. Is now wider than that but I cannot see the edges from where I am.”

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Nancy Pelosi’s Slaughter House convenes at 9am. The chaplain opened with a prayer that had this line: “Shield us with your Holy Spirit, Lord…and drive away all that is evil.”

Amen to that.

On the West Lawn of the Capitol, Tea Party protesters and health care takeover opponents meet at high noon to raise their voices against the rotten policy and rotten process that has led us to this foul moment.

Americans will also gather at demonstrations nationwide to show their disgust and disapproval of the corruption, coercion, and Constitution-butchering.

I’ll post as many reader notices, photos, etc. from across the country as I can. Kicking off the rundown:

BOSTON
2-4pm today at Faneuil Hall – Meet up at the Sam Adams Statue.

SAN DIEGO
Event: FLASH PROTEST – KILL THE BILL – SAN DIEGO
10:00am – Noon today
Where: Broadway, between 2nd and 3rd
Details here. [Link fixed.]

ST. LOUIS
11am today
At Democrat Rep. Carnahan’s congressional office
8764 Manchester Rd
St Louis, MO 63144
Details here.

SALT LAKE CITY
SAVE THE CONSTITUTION rally
10:30am today at the State Capitol

 

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Obama: Water for Votes and Other Atrocities

welcome


Althouse is posting Meade-taken-Pics from the capital protest. Meade is very cute, but this is my fave:

 

Louise Slaughter: the face of Leftist overreach and corruption.

Let’s use Louise Slaughter as a case study, and see how well we can investigate who her main political funding sources are.

All of this information is publicly available, but it does not turn up automatically in casual searches.  So, the people funding the Left can indeed be identified, but it takes legwork and determination the regular person doesn’t usually possess.  ALL of this data can be found — for FREE — just using your computer if you are inclined to spend the time looking for it.

What we want to find are Louise Slaughter’s PRIVATE donors — individuals, not corporations (this seems to be a point of big confusion for some of you, but we don’t believe a writing campaign against big corporations will be effective; we think, for our purposes, alienating wealthy individuals and small firms, like law firms, from Slaughter’s donor rolls will prove most effective, since there are a smaller number of decision-makers involved in cutting off those funds to Slaughter...

Here’s how you can do it:

(1) Go to http://www.newsmeat.com/ It is the be-all and end-all for federal campaign contribution research.  Get very familiar with it.  We’re working on a tutorial to help guide you on how to get the best information out of it.  Please add comments to this thread your experiences with it that would be good in a tutorial.

(2) Go to www.OpenSecrets.org Similar to Newsmeat.  Please do the same thing, and as you get familiar with it add in comments your tips so that we can compile a tutorial that teaches people how to effectively research who is funding the Left.

(3) Run Bing searches for “Louise Slaughter fundraiser”, “Louise Slaughter” campaign event, “Louise Slaughter” co-chair event, etc. trying to pull up all the articles you can find on campaign fundraising events Louise Slaughter has held.

Use

The

Link- a sample:

Not specifically about Slaughter, but this is a long article mentioning all sorts of donors:

http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-04-03/news/17292378_1_paul-pelosi-campaign-finance-democratic-party

Also http://www.campaignmoney.com/ is a good source. Here’s Slaughter’s top 100…

http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/campaigns/louise_m_slaughter.asp?cycle=10

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?CID=N00001311&cycle=2004

 

Bertha Lewis reacts to the fact large, wealthy donors have stopped funding ACORN.

We’ve been telling you about a revelation we had a few weeks ago that we believe could be game-changing in politics as we know it right now — something that, surprisingly, Republicans have never done to the Left and regular Americans never thought to do.  Namely, to expose and pressure the large Donors to the Democrat Party, the people who are funding the Leftists in Congress right now who are doing so much damage to our Constitution and nation.

All of us here have fundraised for Democrats and Liberal nonprofits (schools, hospitals, art institutions, theaters, etc.) for years.  Chiefly, we’ve worked in the fields of prospect research, grant writing, donor maintenance, and new donor cultivation.

Nonprofits spend a great deal of money to bring funds into the cause — courting wealthy people, building relationships with them, and then making sure these people are perpetually happy is a full time job for a nonprofit.

The same is true for a political campaign.

Large Donors are very easily spooked.

Trust us, many of these people will refuse to donate any longer if they didn’t like the sauce the shrimp was served with at the last gala.  These are socialites and ladder climbers who pay the admission prices to political events because they want to be seen with powerful people and have their photos taken.  They donate to nonprofits they think will make them seem like saints in their communities, and land them on the society page where they can make Marilyn Vanderwald or Tuppance Breesford jealous they were photographed and instead of THEM.

Our revelation is that the DNC, ACORN, and Leftist politicians all depend on the same kinds of wealthy socialites and rich kooks that nonprofits depend on for survival.  We’ve seen various scandals, like with the United Way in the 90s, scare large donors away in droves (because these people don’t keep funding an organization once it’s no longer socially advantageous to be associated with it).  We’ve also seen dramatic drops in donations whenever an organization like the Shedd Aquarium or Art Institute puts on a poor event that disappoints its donors.  People will find something more fun and personally rewarding to write their checks to.

We believe if the Tea Party Movement, in particular, set its sites on a nationwide level at the Democrats’ large Donors — wealthy private individuals and big law firms in particular — that donations to the DNC and Leftist candidates would dry up as these rich kooks ran as fast as possible from the source of the negative attention they started receiving.

Just imagine if Amanda Huggenkiss, large Democrat Donor, started receiving thousands of emails, phone calls, faxes, and letters at her home and office asking her why she was funding the socialist takeover of America.  What if all of Huggenkiss’s neighbors started receiving mail asking them how they could live next to a woman who was funding the destruction of the country?  Huggenkiss, a socialite, would be BEYOND EMBARRASSED, and would more likely than not stop donating to the DNC lest she find herself uninvited from other events around town — where people would not want her around lest they attract the public’s ire as well.

“Get me Amanda Huggenkiss on the phone!  I really need Amanda Huggenkiss!”, we imagine Rahm Emanuel barking at his subordinates, trying his best to bring Huggenkiss back into the fold after her donations ceased.  ”Who do I have to $%^& to get Amanda Huggenkiss around here?”.

We think once these large Donors would be scared off Democrat campaigns, they might be scared out of political donating for GOOD.  Democrats could lose a whole generation of wealthy Donors.  There’s even potential to cripple the DNC permanently, since children learn their donating habits from their parents.  If Amanda Huggenkiss stops donating, then her children, Brenden and Cordelia and little Skip, won’t grow up to be large Democrat Donors when they get older either.

Every day there is some sign we see that this is really a strategy that could indeed work, and could actually destroy the DNC.

Today, it was this article on BigGovernment about ACORN having to file for bankruptcy because its private funding sources dried up.  Now, Democrats have worked overtime to get the federal funding to ACORN restored, and Eric Holder, notorious race-baiter that he is, bent over backwards to drop all legal actions against ACORN wherever he could, but no one was able to draw the large private Donors back to ACORN once it became socially undesirable to be associated with the group.  Private foundations and wealthy individuals did not want to take the social risk of being associated with this Leftist criminal enterprise.

If the Tea Party Movement can make it socially undesirable for wealthy people and large firms to be caught donating to Democrats, then the DNC will go bankrupt just like ACORN.

This is, clearly, not a project Republicans will tackle on their own, for whatever reason.

But, we think it’s something independents, moderates, and conservatives can do for America that would rid us of the DNC once and for all.

We’re just a couple of guys in Boystown who have this idea, and know from our experiences in the nonprofit and fundraising world that this will work.  The DNC declared war against all of us personally because we refused to drink the Kool-Aid and toe the line when it came to the current president and his socialist agenda.  So, we think it’s only fitting that a group of gay Hillary guys do everything we possibly can to permanently destroy the Democrat Party.   We’ve wanted this to happen since May 31st, 2008 when the DNC’s Rules & Bylaws Committee Meeting proved the Democrat Party as we knew it no longer existed.  The actions Democrats are taking in Washington in pursuit of Healthcare Rationing and the ruination of our economy forced us to conceive a concrete plan for ridding America of the DNC for keeps.

This is our plan:  expose, pressure, and alienate large Donors from the DNC to cut off its funding and cripple it.

What happened to ACORN proves the plan will work.

Now, we just need your help with tapping into the Tea Party spirit and teaching regular Americans about the Democrats’ fundraising world and just how vulnerable the DNC is when we upset the Huggenkisses of the world…enough so that these socialites give the Dems one expensive kissoff.

March 20, 2010 at 3:43 pm

Everything we need to know for this campaign is listed here:

http://www.opensecrets.org/

March 20, 2010 at 4:02 pm

rush said this..” it’s about two things, reparations for slavery and redistribution of wealth”.

March 20, 2010 at 4:06 pm

For those who want to engage in a little bit of activism here is what I’ve been doing today. You can write to any representative in congress as long as you have a zip code for their district. So here is what you need.

First, Code Red list of Representatives who are on the fence:

http://www.nrcc.org/CodeRed/targets/

Second, “Write Your Representative” This needs only a zip code and the state.

https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

Third, You’ll need a correct zip code so use these two in combination:

Wikipedia list of congressional districts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_congressional_districts

And the post office will give you a zip code:

http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp

Type in a town in the district, the state and a street. I use Elm; there is almost always an Elm. If not, use Oak or Pine. Only in one case did I have to go to Google Maps to look up a street.

Enjoy.

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Lived under UK national HC for six years, 20 yrs ago. It was terrible then and I understand it has only gotten worse. God help us all when this passes.

Bernie Sanders is on You Tube stating that “deem and pass” opens the door to passing all unpopular legislation, including public option, immigration, cap and trade, etc. If this passes, we may as well just hand Obama the keys to the treasury and crown him King because he will be unstoppable.

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Yeah the current medical board standards clearly discriminate in favor of white males and white females.
We have a chance to be to medicine what Zimbabwe is to agriculture.

Good News Saturday

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1-paragraph health care overhaul (modified Coulter plan)

Health Care Protesters Hurl Verbal Epithets at Black Lawmakers

I can't get too worked up over this, even if true (which I doubt...there have been a lot of "racist" comments attributed to tea-partiers, without a shred of evidence).

There's not a Demonrat or journalist out there that doesn't call the tea partiers "tea-baggers" at every opportunity. Then they cry foul and pretend like they've been insulted when a tea-partier "allegedly", without evidence or proof of any kind, calls them a "racist" name.

Wahhh.

Teen charged in NJ Walmart racial comment case (THE HYSTERIA GROWS)

It should be noted that a lot of the people who scream “racism” actually have no problem with racism so long as it is directed towards a group other than their own. They don’t mind if their group votes 97 per cent for the black candidate, the are greedy to have a provision in the health bill which gives large amounts of money to BLACK colleges, they don’t mind black networks, the black caucus, black Miss America, etc. etc. So we always need to be clear with them that they don’t have a problem with one race exalting itself, being exclusive unto itself, preferring itself and its own cultural quirks....so long as it is themselves as the designated “preferred” or given to group.

78 posted on Saturday, March 20, 2010 5:51:11 PM by Anima Mundi

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 Tens Of Thousands Protest ObamaCare At Capitol, Legacy Media Not Interested. “It would appear that a decent estimate for the size of the rally by the end was at least 30,000 people; tweeted estimates in excess of 40,000 seem a bit high.”
 
President Obama’s lackluster speech to the Democratic caucus. “I watched this live, and I was struck by the dullness...
 

 

CNN Reports: Protesters Shout Racial And Gay Slurs At Lewis And Frank (none heard on camera)

Video shows black tea party member was part of crowd (Pink shirt at very start of vid) that was shouting at CBC member. No racial insults can be heard:

vhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPoJGNhWB-s&feature=player_embedded

It’s all about the narrative:

DOES CLYBURN OWE TEA PARTY PROTESTERS AN APOLOGY? The bogus racism card has been played so often that I no longer find such charges very credible. I’m sure, however, that, true or not, they’ll be played much more loudly than the indisputably true statements about the antiwar movement.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Short on hate: “The rally earlier today on the West Lawn in opposition to the health-care legislation before Congress had all the fingerprints of a somewhat organic celebration of democracy. There was a pretty focused message, but mostly displayed on handwritten signs. . . . As I walked around, if it weren’t for the congressmen and some right-wing organization types speaking, one might think people had gathered for an Independence Day celebration. There were smiles and babies and families and goodwill. Now and again I would run into some lone guy responding to a speaker with ‘then we’ll dismantle the government.’ But that guy also got weird looks — and not just from me. I was struck by how few mass-produced signs there were. Many groups might try to take credit for the rally, but concerned Americans are responsible for it.” Lots of pics at the link. And, by way of contrast, here are some photos from that antiwar rally today in DC. Note the Soviet-nostalgia T-shirt. But guess which one the press will cast as “extremist?”

MORE: Smears debunked by video.

Saturday, March 20, 2010, 11:36 PM
Jim Hoft

It’s come to this…
The state-run media is now pushing their anti-tea party propaganda from sources at the anti-military Jew-hating conservative-hating Huffington Post. And, they’re reporting this propaganda without a single piece of evidence.

On Saturday the media reported without a shred of evidence that tea party protesters were shouting obscenities and “n***er” at black Representatives on Capitol Hill. The representatives said it happened as they walked from the Longworth office building to the Rayburn office building.


The Huffington Post is concerned that those conservative, church-going, taxpaying tea party protesters are using words like “slaughter” on their signs.

This McClatchy News story was one of the top articles on Yahoo on Saturday Night:

Tea party protesters use racial epithet against Georgia’s John Lewis

Demonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol , angry over the proposed health care bill, shouted “nigger” Saturday at U.S. Rep. John Lewis , a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s.

The protesters also shouted obscenities at other members of the Congressional Black Caucus , lawmakers said.

“They were shouting, sort of harassing,” Lewis said. “But, it’s okay, I’ve faced this before. It reminded me of the 60s. It was a lot of downright hate and anger and people being downright mean.”

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver , D- Mo. , said he was a few yards behind Lewis and distinctly heard “nigger.”

“It was a chorus,” Cleaver said. “In a way, I feel sorry for those people who are doing this nasty stuff – they’re being whipped up. I decided I wouldn’t be angry with any of them.”

Protestors also used a slur as they confronted Rep. Barney Frank , D- Mass. , an openly gay member of Congress . A writer for Huffington Post said the crowd called Frank a “faggot.”

But, look at this…
Here’s video proof that these horrible leftists are liars:


No one screamed “n***er.” No one screamed “f*ggot.” No one was spit on.

Do you suppose the state-run media will correct their propaganda piece now?

Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver says he will not press charges for being spit on. That’s probably a good idea.

REMEMBER: These radical liars with stop at nothing to ram their socialist agenda down America’s throat. And, the state-run media will report their racist filth without question.

 

Today proved yet again how we know something we ask you to do is effective, and if it has the potential to really damage the Left.

Whenever the Left doesn’t like something we are up to, the hatemail starts flowing in, and DemocraticUnderground starts posting more threads asking its members to attack us in any way possible.

Read it all

Read the comments:

March 20, 2010 at 8:56 pm

This could be HUGE guys!
Daily Kos and Firedog are in a frenzy afraid the R’s will do a “motion to recommit” tomorrow.

Daily Kos in full-on pants-wetting meltdown over “Motions to Recommit”

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Essentially, the pants-wetting is because back when he was in Congress, Rahm Emanuel invented the strategy of “Motions to Recommit”, which he engaged in both clothed and nude, depending on his mood, and whether he wanted to do this in the Congressional showers at the time or in actual Congress itself.

Mary Quite-contrary Says:


What an emotional roller coaster day for me (in my real life) and in the political kabuki theatre of ObamaCare.

This evening, I have read a Congressman call the DC Patriots ‘teabaggers;’ another (Alcee Hastings, Idiot, FL) proudly proclaim ‘we make the rules as we go along!;’

 I’m guessing that this Alcee Hastings video will appear in a few political ads this fall . . . Background here. And doesn’t it say a lot about this Congress that a guy who was kicked off the bench for corruption — by a Democratic-controlled Congress, no less — is now on the Rules Committee? Comments (40)

and various others state that the ‘n’ word was yelled at them (and Barney Frank claims he was called gay slurs)…but, as noted by FReepers reviewing film and audio NO substaniation of these claims can be found. Odd…huh? Kinda like back during the election when that one reporter heard an Obama slur that no one else (including the wacky feed) captured. But I digress…

The real (in a cosmic sense) good vibe coming from DC is yet another ‘UnMidas’ Touch of Obama Epic Fail. The Kansas Jayhawks (Barky’s pick to win it allin mens’ hoops) crashed and burned to a nine seed today. And, around special deal making; water bribes (are they related to the vaunted ‘waterboard?’); arm twisting and outright begging…our Dear Leader STILL had the time to be on ESPN this morning to chat up Bracketology. Can he multitask or what?

Like Tut’s guyliner, the curse of BO lives on. Everything he “picks” becomes an EpicFail.

Let’s hope tomorrow continues the pattern.

Carter

Troll Dissection 101: Can you break down this troll’s comments and see its agenda?

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March 20, 2010 at 10:45 pm

1. The troll either doesn’t visit regularly, or he doesn’t read very well. There are plenty of instances in which you have derided and mocked Republicans.

2. The troll’s objective is to paint the Hillbuzz crew as something that you aren’t in order to cause a rift between you and as many of your readers as possible so that you lose many of them, which would make your efforts to dismantle the Democratic party more difficult. An added benefit for the troll would be to also get Hillbuzz to start doubting their own beliefs, goals, and supportive actions.

March 20, 2010 at 11:04 pm

It’s weirdly written, like by someone who is in college and majoring in poly sci. it has a term paper “voice” to it which is how college kids write...Also the person seems really uptight and unfun and so that’s a dem obot troll. The O’bambi bit was hilarious...Loved the part about how they are going to leave Hillbuzz because they are disappointed in the tone of the website.

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