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January 2nd, 2010 Maggie M. Thornton President Obama’s nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) lied to Congress. His confirmation to the office has been moved-up to tomorrow (just kidding – but probably). Not only did he lie, but some in Congress knew he lied before advancing his nomination in November 2009. See video below.

Desperate for Edge in Election Year, Dems Turn to Old Strategy House Democrats began an ad campaign in December assailing Republicans for opposing legislation restructuring federal financial rules and recalling the final days of the Bush presidency, when the economy tanked With the congressional GOP poised for a comeback in the 2010 midterm elections, Democrats are dusting off an old playbook, using George W. Bush as their boogeyman and castigating Republicans as cozy with Wall Street. House Democrats began an ad campaign in December assailing Republicans for opposing legislation restructuring federal financial rules and recalling the final days of the...

Republican critics pilloried the White House for making it too easy to request e-mail updates about health reform, but it turns out the GOP could have spam problems of its own. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) sent a tweet this morning from her @michelebachmann account saying: "If you're interested in receiving mobile updates from me, text MN6 to 467468 or visit Bachmann.house.gov and subscribe. Thanks so much!" The homepage of her congressional site allows users to sign up for the "Bachmann Bulletin" by entering only a first name, last name and e-mail address. Then you get a confirmation message that says,...

"Hear our cry, Obama." "Deliver us, Obama." Video at link.

Facts Are Stubborn Things Democrats Yank Middle Class Tax Relief from National Energy Tax Bill Wednesday, June 24, 2009 * In the middle of the night, Democrats yanked any energy tax relief for American families from their National Energy Tax bill (the cap-and-trade scheme under Waxman-Markey) and replaced it with a further expansion of their welfare program --- energy stamps. * This change renders the recent CBO analysis of net household cost from the Democrats’ National Energy Tax obsolete, because CBO included the benefits of the previously proposed tax relief in its analysis. * The Democrats’ National Energy Tax will...

outspoken, conservative, media-friendly — and for many in the Democratic Party, a new public enemy No. 1. Now that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is out of office, there are few Republican officials in the country Democrats would rather unseat in 2010 than Bachmann, a two-term congresswoman with a habit of pushing the buttons of liberals on everything from ACORN to global warming to even whether President Barack Obama is, as she once asked, "anti-American." "She's definitely somewhere up there," Bachmann chief of staff Michelle Martson said of where the Minnesota congresswoman sits on the Democratic campaign hit-list.

ConservativeAmerican.org In a...somewhat biased poll, (CNN Says) Americans are just not happy with Washington. No kidding! ...Now for the bias...while CNN asks survey takers to rate the "Republican leadership in congress" and "congress" as a whole, they do not ask viewers to rate the "Democrat leadership in congress." Wonder why? The Democrats run everything! Their leadership is all that counts right now!! ...Here's Where the Poll Could Be a FAKE! The ObamaCare Nightmare gets a grade of C- and D nearly everywhere! How can this be?! Dick Durbin and Obama and Nancy Pelosi are out telling the willing media that...

As he announces an improvement in the GDP decline, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) reminds everyone that once President Obama took office, Congress "confronted the worst economy this coutnry had seen in 75 year. That was the legacy that we inherited."

Xxxxx -- Monday morning, an unlikely gathering of health care industry and union leaders emerged from the White House, announcing a historic agreement to lower medical costs and save the average family up to $2,500. This kind of broad coalition would have been unthinkable in the past, when the old politics of division and short-term self interest held sway. But this is a new day. Yesterday afternoon, President Obama announced the three bedrock principles that any comprehensive health care reform must achieve: (1) reduce costs, (2) guarantee choice, and (3) ensure all Americans have quality, affordable health care. And...

·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683   Tennessee: Memphis News Site Publishes Tennessee Concealed Carry Permit Holder List   Thursday, February 12, 2009   Call CommercialAppeal.com today and urge them to remove this intrusion on personal information!  A Memphis based online news website, CommercialAppeal.com, has posted Tennessee’s right to carry permit holder list online!  CommercialAppeal.com apparently feels that the “public’s right to know” outweighs your right to privacy.  Their irresponsible decision to publish this list has made it easier for criminals to target law-abiding gun owners.   Shockingly when the list was first published, it even included permit holders...

RUSH: I got an e-mail. This is from Susan in Virginia Beach. "Dear Rush: You are my professor. I am indebted to you for the knowledge that you have given me. You've always told us that you would tell us when it was time to panic. I'm starting to wonder how we are going to get our country back from these revolutionaries. Is it time to panic?" No. 'Cause panic doesn't accomplish anything. But when we come back from the break, I'm going to tell you how to get the country back. I'm going to tell you how it will...

Federal agents swarmed over the Kuchera Defense Systems plant, taking trucks full of documents, disks full of computer records and names of employees, then vanished, leaving this town of 4,000 confused, wondering and a bit fearful. (snip) Much of the speculation centers on the company's multi-million dollar federal defense contracts, among the hundreds of millions steered into this region by its powerful congressman, John P. Murtha, a Democrat from neighboring Johnstown. Kuchera began as a modest, computer-based business in 1985 and has since grown into a major contractor that does work on weapon guidance systems and recently developed a bomb-searching...

'Golden Week' revived with veto Governor axes GOP-led elections reform, but OKs 36 bills, including anti-snooping law Tuesday, January 6, 2009 8:48 PM By Jim Siegel THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Ohioans will have just as much time to vote early, including a week when they can register and vote on the same day, thanks to one of the first vetoes issued by Ted Strickland since he became governor. Strickland signed dozens of bills today and vetoed three passed by the Republican-controlled lame-duck legislature late last year. Among the bills he approved was one designed to keep state employees from snooping in...

WASHINGTON - In the last month of the presidential campaign, it was one of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's strongest attack lines: John McCain, they warned, would "tax your healthcare benefits for the first time ever." But now, some Congressional Democrats in charge of health reform are talking about doing just that. They would not go as far as McCain, who wanted to end the tax exclusion entirely for employer-sponsored insurance, which excludes money spent by employees and their employers on health benefits from income and payroll taxes. But some key Democrats are talking about limiting the benefit for workers,...

There will undoubtedly be Demonrats and their criminal cohorts checking in here and reveling in Republicans/conservatives upset about this 'election'. I would like to tell them exactly what this 'election' means and what THEY can expect.

On the eve of what may be the most important election of our time, the financial catastrophe that many believe will most influence Tuesday's vote remains only partially covered by the major media. IBD has run many articles and editorials on the mortgage meltdown, including a 7,500-word history from Web magazine American Thinker on Thursday. This timeline is condensed from that article, written by M. Jay Wells. (Click here to read the full version.) It lays out the essential facts of the crisis, which at its heart is a tale of misguided government intervention rather than a failure of free-market...

The next time you hear the expression 'Bush's war' remember this video!!!

During the last election cycle, the Democrats and the MSM made considerable political hay from the Abramoff scandal, where lobbyist Jack Abramoff directed campaign contributions and perks to Republicans and Democrats alike (somehow, the MSM seldom got around to mentioning the Democrats involved in the scandal, such as Harry Reid). The non-stop MSM harping on the Abramoff scandal was a key factor in the GOP Congressional defeats of 2006 (along with GOP overspending). At the end of the day, any Pubbie caught up in the scandal deserved to lose his seat (too bad none of the Dems implicated in the...

Rangel to Remain as Committee Chief By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI and RAYMOND HERNANDEZ Representative Charles B. Rangel will not step down from the chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee, despite pressure from Republicans and others who say his leadership is being undermined by his swirling ethical problems. Mr. Rangel’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, told reporters during a conference call on Tuesday that the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, supports his decision to remain in the chairmanship. The announcement came after Mr. Rangel, the 78-year-old Harlem Democrat, met behind closed doors on Monday with the speaker and other party leaders. Mr. Davis...

In the first nights of the convention we beheld the spectacle of deceptive speeches by such leftists as Michelle Obama, Mark Warner, Bill and Hill and others who made big speeches about how America will be Utopia on earth when they control the congress the senate and the white house and that everything wrong with America is the fault of George W Bush and the republican party. When Clinton ran things things were smooth, then the minute Bush took office everything went to hell. We at MainestateGop were also nearly sucked into the brouhaha of bashing Bush and praising Democrat...

Excerpt - ~ snip ~ "Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise" is coming out Sept. 9 as a paperback with an announced first printing of 300,000 copies and a list price of $13.95. Looking ahead to the digital market, the e-book, also $13.95, will go on sale the day before. ~ snip ~

A new left-wing organization that wants to help elect Barack Obama president is sending letters to nearly 10,000 major donors who contribute to Republican causes, threatening them with potential legal problems if they finance conservative groups. The nonprofit organization, Accountable America, is even offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to the criminal conviction or fines of at least $10,000 for violations of campaign finance laws or other statutes by a conservative group, according to The New York Times. Accountable America is led by Tom Matzzie, former Washington director of the liberal activist group MoveOn.org, and its research director...

HARRISBURG - They cost only a dime each, but it added up quickly. Over more than two years, as they toiled in the minority, Democrats in the state House allegedly purchased millions of e-mail addresses to send campaign-related propaganda to Pennsylvania voters who were stuck paying the political tab - $1.2 million. And that's not including several hundred thousand more in public funds that went to a tech consultant - the son of a state representative - who allegedly made it all look like a legitimate legislative endeavor. Details of the conspiracy were laid out recently in the 74-page grand-jury...

In 15 years the Clintons have never been this far removed from the limelight. Im guessing that Denver will be something special to watch. Here's betting the notorious Michelle tape appears or a super delegate fight breaks out. I don't trust them a one bit! Your thoughts.

It's the top story in Pennsylvania. Twelve Democrat state leaders facing corruption charges in a massive scandal dubbed "Bonusgate." If it were twelve Republican state leaders, I guarantee you would have heard all about it by now. Via the Philly Daily News: A SORDID TANGLE of corruption, cash and sex rocked the Statehouse yesterday in a political scandal that left one current and one former legislator and 10 current and former staff members facing criminal charges. Among the accusations leveled by two state grand juries: Former top legislative staffer Mike Manzo got his lover, a twenty-something former rural beauty queen,...

A Republican effort to force a vote on opening up more land to drilling on Thursday threatened to bring the annual appropriations process in the U.S. House of Representatives to a halt. Democrats, who control the House, shut down Appropriations Committee work on two major federal funding bills after Republicans tried to force a vote on drilling. "I think we've probably had our last meeting of the year," Chairman David Obey heatedly told reporters after the bill-drafting session broke up. The meeting was called to work on Labor and Agriculture department bills. Republicans tried to attach the Interior Department bill...

CBS/NYT May 1-3 - 607 registred voters McCain 40% / Obama 51% McCain 41% / Clinton 53% ------- COMPARE WITH ------- USA Today/Gallup May 1-3/ 803 voters / Margin +/- 4% McCain 48% / Obama 47% McCain 49% / Clinton 46%

Are Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Elton John breaking U.S. laws by allowing the British pop singer, a foreign national, to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign by performing a concert on her behalf? That's the question Inside the Beltway put to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) yesterday, which does not rule out the possibility. First, some background supplied by the FEC: The goal of the 1966 Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) was to "minimize foreign intervention" in U.S. elections by establishing a series of limitations on foreign nationals. In 1974, the prohibition was incorporated...

Unlike Barack Obama, Bill Clinton does not believe in "the fierce urgency of now." The former President has an exquisitely languid sense of how political time unfurls. He understands that those moments the political community, especially the media, considers urgent usually aren't. He has seen his own election and re-election—and completing his second term—pronounced "impossible" and lived to tell the tale. He remembers that in spring 1992 he had pretty much won the Democratic nomination but was considered a dead man walking, running third behind Bush the Elder and Ross Perot. He knows that April is the silly season in...

Hillary and Bill Clinton are again teaming up on Barack Obama -- this time saying the first-term U.S. lawmaker, whom they have derided as inexperienced, would be a strong running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket headed by the former first lady. In talking up a joint ticket, the Clintons may be seeking the upper hand, attempting to put her in consideration for the top of the ticket when she so far has failed to win the votes necessary to assure that she would face Republican presidential candidate John McCain in the November election. The maneuver may also be aimed...

Liberal Democrats were very busy last week conducting the people’s business. In the Senate, our dedicated public servants spent the week debating a plan by Sen. Russ Feingold to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq by July. Alas, the plan was a few votes short. After failing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Democrat) passionately vowed “The anti-war fight will continue”. Meanwhile, in Iraq, several positive indicators show the tide may have turned. Due to the success of the surge, violence is down a whopping 80%. The Iraqi government is finally stepping up, having...

Hillary Rodham Clinton has a man problem. And this time it's bigger than just Bill. Take a look at the exit polls coming out of the primaries. Men are going for Barack Obama over Clinton. In California, men went for Obama, 51 percent to Clinton's 39 percent, according to the San Jose Mercury News. In South Carolina, 55 percent of men voted for Obama, with only 23 percent going for Clinton. (John Edwards took the bulk of the rest.) This is not about sexism. But try telling that to feminists Gloria Steinem and Erica Jong, who both recently wrote whiny...

Sen. Hillary Clinton may not win Virginia today, but she needs to hold rival Sen. Barack Obama well below the devastating 68 percent wins he secured last weekend in Nebraska and Washington. Obama is expected to sweep all three races in the Potomac Primary today: Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. But it's Virginia that's the key. With each Obama sweep in the post-Super Tuesday contests, Clinton watches the Democratic nomination slip further from her once presumptive grasp. With more losses expected next week in Wisconsin and Hawaii, it's becoming clearer that had Clinton not won convincingly in California...

WASHINGTON — The Anti-Defamation League on Monday condemned a flyer circulating in Memphis and elsewhere that says U.S. Rep. "Steve Cohen and the Jews Hate Jesus," saying it "attempts to incite tension" between African-Americans and Jews. The flyer, which provides the name and telephone number of Rev. George Brooks of Murfreesboro, Tenn., has been in circulation since at least last Thursday. Brooks on Monday took responsibility for the flyer, saying, "I sent that out." The flyer, which Cohen said he received at his law office in Memphis last week, reads in part: "Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen and the JEWS HATE...

BACKGROUND: According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Clinton spent approximately an hour going door-to-door in the area near Eastern and Washington Avenues. One woman, a real-estate broker, asked Clinton in accented English: “I have no income at all, so how will I survive?" "In my neighborhood, there are brand-new homes,” the woman said, “But the value is nothing. I'm glad you are here so I can tell you, because you're going to be the president, I know." An unidentified man, from behind a wall, shouted to Clinton that his wife was illegal. To cheers, Clinton replied, "No woman is illegal."...

WASHINGTON (Nov. 28, 2007) - The Army announced today that it has taken initial steps to plan for reduced operations at all Army bases while the congressional review continues on funding for operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and requirements associated with the Global War on Terror. With no funds provided for GWOT requirements since the beginning of the fiscal year, the Army has had to use operation and maintenance dollars budgeted to organize, train, equip, and field forces, as well to sustain Soldiers and their Families, to fund war related activities. Gen. Richard A. Cody, vice chief of staff of the...

In a closed-door meeting before the last vote on the children’s health care bill, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer appealed for the support of about 30 wavering Republican lawmakers. What he got instead was a tongue-lashing, participants said. The GOP lawmakers, all of whom had expressed interest in a bipartisan deal on the SCHIP legislation, were furious that the Democratic leader from Maryland had not reached out to them in a more serious way early on. They also criticized him and Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel of Illinois for failing to stop his allies outside Congress from running attack...

Over the years, as it became Exhibit A for critics of shareholders’ class action lawsuits, the law firm of Milberg Weiss often enjoyed the support of Democrats who called the suits an invaluable weapon in the universal conflict between big business and the little guy. The Democrats, in turn, enjoyed the support of Milberg Weiss and its partners, who together have contributed more than $7 million to the party’s candidates since the 1980s. Last year, the firm was indicted on federal charges of fraud and bribery. But the political partnership has not been entirely severed. Since the indictment, 26 Democrats...

It's not exactly the old-time religion, but suddenly there's sawdust on the trail. If some other worthy actually wins the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have a new career open to them, reprising Jim and Tammy Faye. Praise the Lord. Just when everyone thought that no Democrat wanted to be caught in church dead or alive, it's revival time. First Hillary started talking about the influence of the Methodist social gospel on her life — this must have been heck all these years for Bubba, a hymn-singing good ol' Baptist boy — and now Barack Obama invokes God...

Brad Pitt has spoken about his choice for next President of the United States – His good pal George Clooney! Speaking to Parade magazine, the Ocean’s Eleven actor encouraged his fellow co-star to run for political office, and if George fails then Ben Affleck should try out for President instead. He says: "I never thought about it. I have no desire at this point. Maybe I serve better by not going through that door. "George should do it! He'd be quite good. I think Ben Affleck should run." We think Ben Affleck would be better suited. He needs a career...

For Democrats, things rarely get much better than this. In 2008, they’ll be running to succeed an unpopular incumbent, against an opposition that has rarely been more disorganized or dispirited. Polls show a Democratic advantage on major issues nearly across the board. Amid all these favorable signs, it’s only natural that some of the party’s top strategists would be pondering the same question: Wonder how we’ll screw it up this time? “We are a little bit of a shellshocked political party. We somehow or another always figure out a way to blow it,” Democratic strategist James Carville said. “Democrats have...

You can’t make up this kind of stuff. John Edwards is trying to get to the left of Dennis Kucinich (who wants to replace the Department of Defense with a “Department of Peace�) by proposing that we “fight� a nonexistent war on imaginary terrorists by creating a peace corps. 10,000 strong! There will be no stopping them. Senator Edwards is outlining a new national security strategy that hinges on the creation of a 10,000-person civilian peace corps to stem the tide of terrorism in weak and unstable countries. Prediction: the Nutroots are gonna love it. UPDATE at 6/8/07 10:26:50 am:...

Download the Democrat opposition research paper on GOP candidates to see what they are up to. 40 pages worth. I put this in Breaking News cause I'm not sure how long it will last. http://a9.g.akamai.net/7/9/8082/v001/democratic1.download.akamai.com/8082/images/content/republican_cands/pdfs/CAPAK_FINAL.pdf

AUSTIN — A Senate committee has passed the controversial, partisan-charged voter identification bill, but Senate Democrats are vowing to do whatever it takes to block it. Their success will depend on whether Sen. Mario Gallegos Jr., D-Houston, who has missed most of the session recuperating from a liver transplant, can make it back to work for the vote. All 11 Senate Democrats are needed to block the bill from coming to the floor for debate, where the Republican majority easily can pass it. "I'll be here," Gallegos promised Tuesday from the Senate floor, where he put in a full day...

President Bush Makes Remarks on the Emergency Supplemental WH video may be viewed HERE! Click here for ABC spin. I for one am sick and tired of the Enemedia repeating a lie claiming to speak for me! Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

After only being a U.S. Senator for a couple of years, Barak Hussein Obama, Democrat Senator from Chicago, has managed to catapult himself to the status of a messiah in the Democrat Party. The result is that, ever since, he's been walking on water toward the White House. Obama says after his visit with friends and family in Hawaii during the 2006 year-end holidays, he'll announce if he's going to run for president in 2008. Bets are that he will. Who is Obama and what has he done? Independent columnist, Andy Martin (Out2.com) says he believes Obama is a political...

In the wake of their Tuesday catastrophe, angry conservatives are pointing fingers in every direction. They blame corrupt congressmen, terrible Donald Rumsfeld, the stumbling president, their disaffected rank and file. They blame social conservatives, neoconservatives, moderate conservatives, and big-government conservatives. But are they blaming "the architect"? I wondered how Karl Rove's reputation withstood the Tuesday thumping. Are Republicans holding their top political strategist responsible for the midterm fiasco? It turns out there are plenty of reasons to blame Rove if you're of a mind to. Here are a few: 1. After the national horror of 9/11, Rove chose to please...

WASHINGTON — As Republican strategists make last-minute preparations for Election Day, checking voter lists and calling supporters, they might want to consider an unorthodox tactic: a rain dance. A new study of voter behavior confirms something political operatives have long suspected: rain hurts Democrats and helps Republicans. The study found that 1 inch of rain reduces overall turnout by slightly less than 1 percent and cuts the Democratic vote by 2.5 percentage points. “Rain does have a significant effect decreasing the Democratic vote share,” said Brad Gomez, a visiting professor of political science at the University of Georgia who co-authored...

WASHINGTON - Democrats eased expectations yesterday for seizing the Senate, as last-minute polls showed key contests tightening across the country. "We have never said we are going to take control of the Senate," insisted Sen. Charles Schumer, who heads the Democratic campaign organization, showing less bravado than he did last week. "We have said we're on the edge. That's where we are."

Statesmanship: In addressing the U.N. on Tuesday, President Bush spoke truth to those nations that support terrorism and oppression, country by country. Bracing stuff, great speech. Why can't the left see that? In recent years, our president has been given a thorough trashing by America's left. As we noted earlier this week, Democrats and the media, having lost most of the debates, have taken to calling Bush names — "stupid," "murderer," "fascist" and "Beelzebub," to list a few of the milder ones. Sick with rage, they've assassinated him in the movie "The Death of a President." On the bankrupt liberal...