http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/democrat/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:24:07 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418169/posts The British hostage Peter Moore was dramatically set free yesterday after the United States handed over an Iraqi insurgent suspected of planning the deaths of five American servicemen. Mr Moore, an IT consultant, was freed by League of the Righteous, or Asaib al-Haq (AAH) — an extremist Shia group allied to Iran — after 31 months and spent his first night of freedom at the British Embassy in Baghdad. He is expected to fly home today. Times on line http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418169/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:24:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417419/posts If you work in Washington long enough, there are some things you get used to. One of them is the tradition of burying news by releasing it on a Friday afternoon. Or even better: on Christmas Eve. That's when the House Ethics Committee quietly announced the launch of an ethics probe into California Congressman Fortney 'Pete' Stark: The Chair and Ranking Republican Member of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (the Committee) have jointly decided to extend a matter regarding Representative Pete Stark, which was transmitted to the Committee by the Office of Congressional Ethics, for a 45-day period...... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417419/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:27:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412982/posts Activist Maurice Joseph Schwenkler, 24, pleaded guilty Monday to a second-degree misdemeanor for smashing windows at the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters last summer. Anarchist websites across the country raised money for Schwenkler's $5,000 bail, and identified him as "a transgendered anarchist" using the name Ariel Attack. Authorities have consistently identified him as male. The gay, lesbian and transgender protest group Denver Bash Back characterized Schwenkler as one of its "friends and comrades." Initially, Democratic Party officials blamed conservative ... Then it became known that Schwenkler had previously worked for a Democratic candidate. Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412982/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:37:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416494/posts Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano came in for some well-deserved criticism for declaring over the weekend that "the system worked" with respect to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's effort to blow up the plane he was flying from Amsterdam to Detroit. By Monday, she was backpedalling, acknowledging that "our system did not work in this instance." In truth, for a lot of Americans, Ms. Napolitano has not had much credibility since she tried to ban "terrorism" from the official lexicon of her department. But arguably the most serious indication that she is wholly ill-equipped to carry out her present responsibilities can be... Center for Security Policy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416494/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:37:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416305/posts Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.) barely managed to celebrate the holidays before being reminded he’s facing his toughest challenge since first elected in 2002. Bishop’s Republican opponent, businessman Randy Altschuler, is already up with his first campaign ad – with over 10 months until the election. The ad, which begins airing today, ties Bishop to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the dysfunctional political culture in Albany. “Tim Bishop is all about the old way: big government, more taxes, more spending,” Altschuler says in the ad. “My top priority is to create a pro-growth environment, lower taxes and more jobs." The Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416305/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:11:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308266/posts THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG THE BLOG TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 2009 AT 6:55 AM Facts Are Stubborn Things Posted by Macon Phillips Opponents of health insurance reform may find the truth a little inconvenient, but as our second president famously said, "facts are stubborn things." Scary chain emails and videos are starting to percolate on the internet, breathlessly claiming, for example, to "uncover" the truth about the President’s health insurance reform positions. In this video, Linda Douglass, the communications director for the White House’s Health Reform Office, addresses one example that makes it look like the President intends to... WHITEHOUSE.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308266/posts#comment Tue, 4 Aug 2009 22:45:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415657/posts They are objects of derision.  Influential government officials refer to them as unproductive, of less value than others in society. The political party running the government aggressively denies them access to health services while putting in place bureaucracies devoted, in effect, to ending their lives. The Jews in Nazi Germany?  In the Soviet Union of Stalin? In a socialist paradise set up by the rabidly anti-Semitic United Nations? No, seniors in a United States governed by the party of President Barack Obama and his allies on the Democratic left. The Democratic Party senate healthcare bill makes it official: Seniors are... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415657/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:36:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415638/posts Senior Obama administration officials have requested that National Security Adviser Uzi Arad explain an Israel Defense Forces raid in Nablus on Saturday during which undercover troops killed three Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorists. Arad shared intelligence with the officials that Israel had received about the militants, who belonged to the military wing of the Western-backed Fatah movement and the details of the operation that led to their deaths. The national security advisor, a key aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stressed that this was a case of self-defense, since the three were behind a terror attack on Thursday in which... Haaretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415638/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:42:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415230/posts "For all of America's cherished belief in choice and freedom, it remains an astonishing fact that the U.S. government forces citizens over the age of 65 into a subpar health plan of its choosing. And so it is with some hope that we greet a new federal lawsuit that aims to allow senior citizens to flee Medicare. The suit comes courtesy of Kent Masterson Brown, a lawyer who has previously tangled with the government over Medicare benefits. Mr. Brown represents three plaintiffs who are suing the federal government to be allowed to opt out of Medicare without losing their Social... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415230/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:21:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414380/posts WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats are poised to pass a landmark health care bill that could define President Barack Obama's legacy and usher in near-universal medical coverage for the first time in U.S. history. Ahead lie complex talks with the House to reach final legislation in the new year. "We stand on the doorstep of history," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat. "We recognize that, but much more importantly, we stand so close to making so many individual lives better." The vote Thursday on the bill extending health care coverage to some 31 million uninsured Americans brings Obama... FOX NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414380/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:58:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414376/posts University of Chicago Law Professor Richard A Epstein has brilliantly argued that the Reid bill unconstitutionally turns private health insurers into public utilities. Luckily for those who haven't time to study his detailed argument, he's now summarized it nicely in the Wall Street Journal: "As Harry Reid's 2,000 page health-care bill is being rammed through the Senate, most of the public debate has been focused on its expanded coverage, its now defunct public option, and its high taxes. Lost in the shuffle has been its intensely coercive requirements on health insurance issuers, especially in the individual and small group markets.... The American Thinker Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414376/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:45:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412881/posts The biggest national security news last week barely made the news at all. It is troubling to watch Congress continue to play politics with the reauthorization of key counterterrorism tools in the Patriot Act (like the ability to tract terrorists as they jump from cell phone to cell phone) and basically see the White House stand on the sidelines. By law, these tools would “sunset” at the end of the year unless reauthorized by Congress. Obviously, these authorities are needed, but Congress has dithered and the White House has done little to pressure the legislators to act. Family Security Matters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412881/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:59:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410074/posts A leftist La Raza activist previously forced out of a U.S. ambassadorship for her close ties to a terrorist-sponsoring foreign government has been nominated by President Obama to a key administration post. Mari Del Carmen Aponte, a former director at the extremist Mexican group National Council of La Raza (see the press release applauding her nomination) and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, has been handpicked by Obama to be the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. That means Aponte, an attorney and independent consultant, will represent the State Department in the civil war-ravaged Central American country. In 1998... Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410074/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:59:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414300/posts What's happening with ObamaCare this week in the Senate is raw, rank politics at its worst. PASSING LAWS has been compared to making sausage. But in the case of the mammoth health care bill expected to pass the Senate on Christmas Eve, that's an insult to employees at the Jimmy Dean plant. It's also a slap at Americans who want Congress to take its time to make thoughtful changes that will affect one seventh of the U.S. economy. President Obama campaigned on "change we can believe in." Most voters believed him. Yet many polls show that only a minority of... The Savannah Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414300/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:55:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414297/posts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiC7S12cwhE "TV AD: HARRY REID FAILED!" Video - Description - quote: OurCountryPAC December 20, 2009 More info: http://www.TeaPartyExpress.org Senator Harry Reid has shown contempt for the American people and the people of Nevada. Now, "We The People" are fighting back, and the Tea Party Express (and its principal sponsor, the Our Country Deserves Better Committee) fights back with this TV ad campaign against failed Democrat Senator, Harry Reid. Category: News & Politics Tags: harry reid failed our country deserves better tea party express tv ad sharron angle sue lowden danny tarkanian Video (via OurCountryPAC YouTube account) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414297/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:38:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414191/posts The gist: With his antics, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson is making a mockery of his office and letting down constituents. * * * In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the 8th District Democrat asked that a Lake County woman behind a Web site critical of Grayson be investigated, prosecuted, fined and imprisoned -- for five years. * * * Being the target of rough criticism is an occupational hazard for public officials, especially those as high-profile as a U.S. congressman. Any politician who pursues legal action against critics, even critics who may not have followed the letter... Orlando Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414191/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:53:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413012/posts Formally, it is known as H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But this week, it has acquired an unhelpful nickname: "Cash for Cloture." As Senate Democrats finally complete their health-care legislation, those combing through the bill have uncovered many backroom deals that were made to buy, er, secure the 60 votes needed to "invoke cloture" -- the legislative term for cutting off debate and holding a final vote. It will take years to see how well the measure reduces costs and expands insurance coverage. But already, the bill has been a bonanza for wordsmiths. First there was... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413012/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:11:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413528/posts Pa. House majority leader implicated in corruption By: Jackie Massott HARRISBURG (AP) - The majority leader of the Pennsylvania House directed illegal campaign activities by legislative employees and raised campaign funds from inside the Capitol, according to witness testimony in transcripts obtained by The Associated Press. The witnesses in the widening probe, which has reached top levels of the state General Assembly, allege conduct similar to that for which 25 others have been charged. Todd Eachus has not been charged. John Paul Jones, a $62,000-a-year legislative research specialist until December 2007, told the grand jury that Eachus, D-Luzerne, brought him... Bucks County Courier Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413528/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:27:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413333/posts Tuesday, December 22, 2009 "Democrats Ensure America Will No Longer Be the Last Best Hope of Earth" by Dennis Prager SNIPPET: "As the passage of the bill that will start the process of nationalizing health care in America becomes almost inevitable, so, too, the process of undoing America's standing as The Last Best Hope of Earth will have begun." SNIPPET: "Just as the left has waged war on America's Judeo-Christian roots, it has waged war on individual liberty and responsibility." SNIPPET: "Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are right about one thing -- they are indeed making history. But... TOWNHALL.com - Column by Dennis Prager http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413333/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:34:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412872/posts Press Conference of Senator __________, January 1, 2010 I have called this press conference because I have not slept since Christmas. Something inside me is deeply bothered and I realize I need to take a stand. Though I have been a member of the Democratic party all my life, I've come to realize since last year that my party has been a party in name only. I now know in my heart that the central goals and philosophy of my party are no different than the goals, tenets and philosophy of the Communist Party USA. I am worried about the... Art in Idaho http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412872/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:44:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412664/posts Health Care: Democrats on the take and in the dead of night pass an execrable piece of legislation that they haven't read, the public doesn't want and only socialists could love. What has happened to this country? If we hadn't stayed up past midnight Sunday, we wouldn't have known what was going on. Here we thought a vote on the proposed health care overhaul wasn't going to take place until Thursday night — Christmas Eve. But there they were, the United States Senate, at 1 a.m. Monday, rushing to vote in the middle of a snowstorm to close debate on... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412664/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:41:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412533/posts At least common thieves don't destroy an entire health care system and socialize the American economy when they commit their felonies. Too bad we can't say the same for our illustrious Democratic senators who sold out the nation. In exchange for criminally unconstitutional favors for their respective states, they voted to pass the Senate health care bill just 38 hours after it had been made available to the public for review. Everyone knows about Sen. Mary Landrieu's negotiating $300 million for her state in non-guaranteed Medicaid payouts. She was even cocky about her institutionalized larceny. Sen. Bernie Sanders finagled $10... davidlimbaugh.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412533/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:39:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412314/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412314/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:24:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412293/posts Congressman Alan Grayson is so angry about a parody website that he wants Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute its creator and imprison her for 5 years, according to a Newser.com report. Grayson sent a complaint to Holder accusing Angie Langley, the woman behind MyCongressmanIsNuts.com, of lying to federal election officials, reported the Orlando Sentinel. Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412293/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:44:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412259/posts Gartman: Blame Democratic Mayors For Nationwide Poverty Vince VenezianiDec. 21, 2009, 10:24 AM In this morning The Gartman Letter, analyst Dennis Gartman segues off his usual topic of markets to focus on poverty levels and the political front: The Gartman Letter: Finally, we came across the following list over the weekend as we were going through e-mails and cleaning things up. We checked out the data, and it is correct, so the “correlation” seems reasonably to hold. Now, what do all of these cities have in common beyond their egregious poverty level rates? They all have had since 1989 and... The Business Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412259/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:53:25 GMT