http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/fascism/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:20:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417536/posts You wouldn't know it by listening to many Democrats, but the last time I checked, the party still controls the White House, the U.S. Senate, the House of Representatives and 26 governor's offices across the country. And while they could be heading for a disaster in the 2010 elections, it's just as possible it could still be a very decent year for Democratic candidates. So, while they shouldn't really need it, for all those Democrats wringing their hands, here's a five-step plan for Democratic "recovery": ...Stop whining, stop bellyaching and, as Barack Obama's former campaign manager, David Plouffe, so eloquently... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417536/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:20:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414875/posts Increasingly unloved and ridiculed from both sides, a new and embittered President Obama is emerging this Christmas season as he begins a badly needed vacation in Hawaii. In an interview on the eve of yesterday's health-care ram-through, Obama expressed his deep frustration over the legislative process. The president accused Republicans of abuse for employing the very rules that make the Senate the "world's greatest deliberative body." "If this pattern continues, you're going to see an inability on the part of America to deal with big problems in a very competitive world, and other countries are going to start running circles... The New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414875/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:06:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414854/posts Obamacare, as critics have dubbed the president's plan to socialize health care, will be flooded with lawsuits if it ever becomes law, according to an organization that works to protect rights and liberties of Americans. In an alert issued this week, Liberty Counsel, run by President Mathew Staver, promised his organization "is prepared to challenge the constitutionality of the bill since Congress has no authority to require every person to obtain insurance coverage and has no authority to fine employers who do not provide the coverage standards that are required in the bill." "In addition," he warned, "the bill still... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414854/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:55:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414573/posts The announcement by Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith that he is switching to the Republican Party is just the latest warning sign that the Democratic Party -- my lifelong political home -- has a critical decision to make: Either we plot a more moderate, centrist course or risk electoral disaster not just in the upcoming midterms but in many elections to come. Rep. Griffith's decision makes him the fifth centrist Democrat to either switch parties or announce plans to retire rather than stand for reelection in 2010. These announcements are a sharp reversal from the progress the Democratic Party made starting... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414573/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:12:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414447/posts Democrats are doing a victory lap...But the Democratic celebrations are premature, as Republican despair would be. This battle isn’t over, and opponents of the legislation could still win. National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414447/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:33:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414151/posts President Barack Obama went on the offensive against Wall Street for not lending more to Main Street. On CBS's "60 Minutes," the president declared, "I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street." He was joined on the Sunday morning circuit by his chief economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, who echoed the message of intimidation. Wall Street fat cats are always a convenient political target, but bankers are responding to the incentives generated by the economic policies of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve. First and foremost is the Fed's policy... The Woodward Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414151/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:49:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413342/posts This is hilarious! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8O-E_GN0Kg&feature=player_embedded YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413342/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:54:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413302/posts EXCLUSIVE: Transvestites, Mao And Obama Ornaments Decorate White House Christmas Tree by Why let a holiday season come between the White House and making some political statements? The White House pegged controversial designer Simon Doonan to oversee the Christmas decorations for the White House. Mr. Doonan, who is creative director of Barney’s New York has often caused a stir with his design choices. Like his naughty yuletide window display of Margaret Thatcher as a dowdy dominatrix and Dan Quayle as a ventriloquist’s dummy. For this year’s White House, he didn’t disappoint. These photos of ornaments on the White House Christmas... Big Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413302/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:52:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413280/posts Australians will soon find their internet access routed through a government-run filter designed to block access to a secret blacklist of sites, including those that disseminate child pornography. Google slammed the move as "heavy-handed" and one Australian politician called it a "move towards censorship". It is not, however, radically different from plans already in place elsewhere. Most of the UK's internet service providers already filter their content using an industry-run blacklist maintained by the Internet Watch Foundation. ISPs are not forced to comply, but they will be if European Union proposals announced this summer are enacted. There are plenty... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413280/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:25:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413055/posts The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 25% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-six percent (46%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21 That’s the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President. Fifty-three percent (53%) of men Strongly Disapprove along with 39% of women. Most African-American voters (58%) Strongly Approve while most white voters (53%) Strongly Disapprove. Seventy-four percent (74%) of Republicans Strongly Disapprove as do 52% of unaffiliated voters. Forty-seven percent (47%) of Democrats Strongly Approve.... Rasmussen Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413055/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:49:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412937/posts (The) Independent Payment Advisory Board.. would be required.. to recommend (spending )changes to ..Medicare .. to limit the rate of growth in ..spending. Those recommendations would go into effect automatically... Congressional Budget Office http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412937/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:39:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412726/posts On December 21, 2009, however, Harry Reid sold out the Republic in toto. Upon examination of Senator Harry Reid’s amendment to the health care legislation, Senators discovered section 3403. That section changes the rules of the United States Senate. To change the rules of the United States Senate, there must be sixty-seven votes. Section 3403 of Senator Harry Reid’s amendment requires that “it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection.” The good news is that this only... Redstate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412726/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:45:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412571/posts RUSH: Waterloo, Iowa. Ann, I'm glad you waited. You're next on the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: Hello. RUSH: Hi. CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you for taking my call. RUSH: You bet. CALLER: I had a really rough couple of weeks trying to get some good night's sleep. I'm not talking about the bed, I'm just talking about looking and hearing and reading all the stuff going on, health care, all of these socialistic moves, the lying, I mean I wish people would just quit being so politically correct and start calling Obama what he is. He is a liar. Rush Limbaugh http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412571/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:32:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412306/posts Why did the Senate gather at 1 a.m. Monday for a vote to move ahead on the Reid Amendment to the Democrats' national health care bill? Democrats blame Republicans. "Everyone knows we're here at one in the morning because of my friends on the other side of the aisle," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said moments before the vote. On CBS Sunday, Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu said, "We don't have to vote in the middle of the night, but [Republican Sen. Tom Coburn] is the one making us do it -- not Harry Reid, not the Democrats. It is a... The Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412306/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:10:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412345/posts The Democrats have consistently cultivated a public image as the party of the little guy, the party that stands up against big interests and protects the rights of minorities. You would think that a program that helps minority students, lowers costs, and increases funds for public schools would be right up their alley. You would be wrong. The Democrats in Congress have essentially killed Washington D.C.’s Opportunity Scholarship Program effectively throwing nearly 2000 disadvantaged students back into one of the worst school systems in the country. The very popular program had a long waiting list and has strong support in... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412345/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:58:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412049/posts Did not see an official thread. If you are still awake-here it is. Watch live here. C-Span2 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412049/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:19:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411440/posts In the continually harsh public discourse over the President’s proposals for federally-managed healthcare, the Big Government progressives in both the Democratic and the Republican parties have been trying to trick us. These folks, who really want the government to care for us from cradle to grave, have been promoting the idea that health care is a right. In promoting that false premise, they have succeeded in moving the debate from WHETHER the feds should micro-manage health care to HOW the feds should micro-manage health care. This is a false premise, and we should reject it. Health care is not a... facebook http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411440/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:27:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411404/posts President Obama returned to the White House from the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen in the wee hours of this morning, having secured a modest, non-binding, three-page deal aimed at combating global warming. After getting a wee bit of rest, Obama by early afternoon had set his sights on getting a climate bill out of the Senate that, he claims, will curb carbon emissions and, to boot, create new jobs by fostering new industries. In a statement, Obama first lauded his accomplishments in Copenhagen and then focused his attention on Capitol Hill. "For the first time in history … the... npr http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411404/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:20:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411342/posts WASHINGTON – Jubilant Democrats locked in Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson as the 60th and decisive vote for historic health care legislation Saturday, putting President Barack Obama's signature issue firmly on a path for Christmas Eve passage.At the White House, Obama swiftly welcomed the breakthrough, saying, "After a nearly century-long struggle, we are on the cusp of making health care reform a reality in the United States of America."In the Capitol, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid smiled broadly when asked if Nelson's decision gave him the 60-vote majority necessary to overcome solid Republican opposition. "Seems that way," he said. The Nevada... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411342/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:55:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410344/posts Failure to reach a deal at the Copenhagen climate change talks would "waste many months" for businesses hoping to invest billions in the energy sector, according to the International Chamber of Commerce. World leaders now have less than 24 hours to secure an agreement, after days of deadlocked talks about how much rich countries should offer poorer nations in "climate aid" to tackle the effects of global warming. Political wrangling over the process and numbers has led negotiators to sideline discussions on how this would be financed. The latest draft text at the conference has watered down suggestions that all... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410344/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:00:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409945/posts (912 on the mall) The left's anti-American coup d'etat on America, made possible by the first radical Marxist in the White House, calls for distinctly American counter measures. Dr. Jack Wheeler has "a strategy for any Republican wanting to get elected or re-elected to Congress in 2010, and for any Tea Partyer wanting to take individual action now against a government that ignores the Constitution -- Defund and Disobey." Here's an excerpt of "The Double -D Strategy for rescuing America": Let's talk about the Defund D first. The Founders in their usual brilliance place the power of the purse in... Atlas Shrugs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409945/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:05:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408318/posts Quite an explosive leak! I wonder how this will affect things? It is certainly a thuggish and dangerous thing for Obama to play with National Security over this craptacular idea of socialized medicine. Quite a desperate move. According to a Senate aide, the White House is now threatening to put Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base on the BRAC list if Nelson doesn’t fall into line. Offutt Air Force Base employs some 10,000 military and federal employees in Southeastern Nebraska. As our source put it, this is a “naked effort by Rahm Emanuel and the White House to extort Nelson’s vote.”... stoptheaclu http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408318/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:07:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407504/posts December 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Population control groups have been using the hype surrounding the Copenhagen climate change conference to promote their solution to hypothetical impending environmental catastrophes. Earlier this month, two pieces appearing in the same edition of the Guardian revisited a report by Britain's Optimum Population Trust (OPT) that suggests that people in wealthy first-world countries should "offset" the carbon cost of their jet-setting lifestyles by paying to prevent the births of poor children in the developing world. John Vidal, the Guardian's environment editor, wrote that the OPT's report suggesting a "radical" plan to cut carbon emissions was... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407504/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:46:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407516/posts Upwards of 40 percent of all land in the United States is already under some form of government control or ownership -- 800 million to 900 million acres out of America's total 2.2 billion acres. The government now appears poised to wield greater control over private property on a number of fronts. The battle over private property rights has intensified since 2005, when the Supreme Court ruled in the Kelo v. City of New London case that the government could take property from one group of private landowners and give it to another. Outraged over that ruling and a series... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407516/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:03:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2405557/posts At the Heart of the Anti-Obama Protests Is the Scared White Man Overwhelmed by Change By Robert James Taylor Writing about the wave of anti-President Obama protests by white middle class Americans in recent weeks, conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan attributed what was taking place to the rise of “the angry white man.” Buchanan is only partially right. What we are actually witnessing is the near lunatic backlash of white conservatives who have been overwhelmed and frightened by change. Yes, there is definite anger at those anti-health care reform town hall meetings. But if you listen closely to what is being... National Black News Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2405557/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:28:38 GMT