Surprise!!

Remember back when Nancy Pelosi told us that we needed to pass Obamacare so we could see what's inside of it?

Well SURPRISE!!! The New York Time today did some actual reporting for a change and came out with the following exposures of some interesting little provisions in the obamacare bill.

[ * A new federal mandate on businesses of 51 or more employees to provide a private area (not a bathroom) for nursing mothers to pump breast milk for up to a year after giving birth. This means that businesses have to plan for mainly unused floor space in every facility, or face federal sanctions.
* Tanning salons now have to charge a 10% excise tax on their services. That should help the local economies!
* W-2s must now declare “informationally” the value of health-care benefits. This means that W-2s will become even more complicated and will cost businesses billions each year in extra accounting and reporting, which will hit smaller businesses most. ]

Wow. Even tanning salons are now regulated in some way by the federal government...

When Calling The President A Nazi was Patriotic

So all we here from the media is that the tea baggers are just spewing hateful political rhetoric that is unpatriotic.

Yet believe it or not, there was once a time in the media and for liberals, when calling the president a nazi, carrying signs of the president with a hitler mustache was patriotic.

Not So Fast Mr. Gore

Today in Minnesota where i am, thermometers hit up to about 70 degrees! Ok, here comes Global Warming. We had 60 degree weather for the last two weeks, it's sunny, and very warm.

Now before we here Al Gore shoot his mouth off about Global Warming, let's look at the record high temps for March, which in Minnesota, is 80 degrees! So i don't want here him blabbering about "global warming." It's not happening. is it above average? Yes, but does the weather get funny sometimes? Absolutely, it has since the beginning of time!

Keep in mind while it is warmer than normal (slightly) now here, it snowed in the first week of October.

70 degrees today, record, 80+ degrees...yeah not so much.

"Oh but it's getting warmer, its' 70 De!-"

No. Not even close.

Who's Calling Who Hitler?

Today i saw a video form Chris Matthew's show the other day where he had a Tea Partier on. Now his only question really was about the "racism" and "hate" towards Obama and the democrats. He was all like; "well what do you think about all the signs with hitler mustaches and 'obama is hitler.'" and stuff like that.

So i did some research, something i'm sure Chris Matthews never does. So i googled two things. The first; Obama hitler. The second; Bush hitler.

Look at what i found:





Now the key is to look at the search results number. How many cam up for Obama, vs, how many came up for Bush. Also i'm pretty sure that no Tea Party group has made a fake-documentary of Obama's assassination like the left did with Bush.

My Morning At The Post Office

Well where do i begin. I went to the post office this morning because i needed to renew my passport. So i reluctantly took a trip to the PO where i entered into, big surprise, a lengthy line. Fortunately it went somewhat quick, but when it came time to me to do my thing, i was asked a question regarding paper work. I said i already did it, they were flustered by this and told me wait over where someone would they there right away to help while they dropped papers and sorted through things scrambling to do something. After what seemed like forever of waiting for the "help" someone finally came. One of the people i was with finally blurted out "some time today please!"

So i got picture taken and was standing in line to get my stuff mailed away when i was told i need this. Oh ok, now i need that, then i needed this again. "oh that doesn't work, no you need this." How's this? "nope that one, sure ok." Just then, someone came from the back room to the register next to me and said "so they aren't working?" and the person there said "no they aren't working, and they're slow." Ok well we'll try and get em fixed eventually." How reassuring.

After more waiting i finally mailed off my thing and was paying, after of course getting a full lecture about how i was going to pay. The person at the register next to me was still telling, well i guess she thought that they were jokes. So she would say things like "ah well if you get this it will arrive by Thursday, or around thursday at least, i don't really know when, they aren't that accurate." And i'm thinking, this is the government?

Broken machines, long lines, unorganized, and inaccurate and unreliable services. Good God almighty. If this is just the post office, then i can't wait to see Obamacare.

Florida Senate Showdown Review

I don't know if any of you watched the florida senate candidate debate last night with gov. Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio but, it was, very revealing.

I think the case is clear. If you want another Sue Collins, or an Arlen Specter than Crist is you guy. But if you want another Demint or some one who will stand for real values and not cave and flip flop like a spineless moderate, than Rubio is your guy.

On Fox News sunday with Chris Wallace yesterday gov. Cris told us his favorite senators currently, were John McCain, and Lidsay Graham. Not what is wrong with that picture? He is a total progressive. He supported the stimulus and he passed a bill with massive tax increases after making the George H.W. promise of 'no new taxes.'


He said everything he needed to when he (gov. Crist) said he was proud to be a Republican in the party of Lincoln and TEDDY ROOSEVELT and others who have championed the cause of liberty (that was paraohrased but...) Oh my God. Teddy Roosevelt and others who have supported freedom or the freedom cause or what ever he said. Teddy Roosevelt didn't even believe in private property! Teddy Roosevelt started the Progressive Party! He was the first real progressive president we had. And Crist says he is a conservative, and then is drawn to people like him.

The choice is clear to me. Rubio 2010!!!

Palm Sunday Sermon: Was Jesus a "Teabagger?"

A sermon by Rev. Max, blogger at Culver's Conservative.

Today in the Christian tradition is 'Palm Sunday.' The day when Jesus road into town riding on a donkey a week before his death.

So let's take a look at the text:

[ 1Then the whole assembly rose and led him off to Pilate. 2And they began to accuse him, saying, "We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Christ,[a] a king."

3So Pilate asked Jesus, "Are you the king of the Jews?"
"Yes, it is as you say," Jesus replied.

4Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."

5But they insisted, "He stirs up the people all over Judea[b]by his teaching. He started in Galilee and has come all the way here."
--Luke 23:1-49 ]

Whoa, wait, hang on a second. Back up to that very first complaint. He opposes the payment of taxes to Caesar. Now Caesar would be the government, who is historically know for being, well, a tyrant. So he would be the big government. Now Jesus would come out and say "stop paying taxes to him. This man is a tyrant who is running an out of control government. You do not get your rights from this tyranny, but from God." Isn't that a key message from Jesus, that we get our rights from God.?

THen they complain that he stirs up people all over Judea. Ok stop. He stirs up people, into what, large crowds protesting? When you picture that, does it look anything like this,



This is a tea party. This is a protest against big taxes, and out of control government. Leader groups such as Freedom Works and Tea Party Patriots were definitely "stirring up people" there. As they started back in California on the Tea Party Express and came all the way to D.C. where 2 million protesters sat outside the capitol.

"The conservatives, they oppose paying taxes to fund our big government and claim to be patriotic [...] they stir up people all over the country. The 9/12 project started in California and has come all the way here."

So just think about that, what were the complaints of Jesus, he was against paying taxes to their massive government, the Pharisees all hated him because he rebelled against them. Ok so who were the pharisees? They were those who supposedly upheld the law, and the leaders. The Bureaucrats. He was against them, and he led protests that were "stirring up people," against the government!

That was what the Roman's complained about, when it came to Jesus. Organizing protests, and opposing taxes.

Hmmm, sounds like a "teabagger" to me.

Now i'm gonna get lots of criticism from lots of progressive Christians for this one. But this is the Bible, not my twisted right wing opinion. I simply read the text and thought, "gee, that really sounds like a tea partier, not a liberal." They always make Jesus out to be a liberal, so i thought i would share this counter view to that. That's all.

Silent Majority No More

This health care legislation that was just passed last weekend, uh, i believe is exactly what we needed to really awaken the American people.

If you look at the numbers, the public, is hugely against this bill.

The opposition is now at 60% (CNN), 62% want the GOP to keep fighting this (Gallup), and Rasmussen Reports, says that 55% want this bill repealed.

I believe that if we expose this bill, if we point, to the new taxes and fees, and if we shout this threw the roof top, we can take back the house in 201.

This bill is widely unpopular. At least, by the American people. Abroad it has recently been endorsed by Fidel Castro. Ya know the former communist dictator of Cuba!

People are waking up. The polls are showing it, Obama took a dip in his poll numbers, are down a little bit, Quinnipiac, has him with a 45-46 negative rating, Rasmussen has an even grimmer tale for the president, in their poll his down 45-53%!

And his RCP average is 47.1% approval, which is around the second or third wost ever from RCP average.

So the people are waking up, and this should be an interesting november.

Cheney Helps Rand Paul in Kentuky

The other day former VP Dick Cheney was a huge help to the Rand Paul campaign by endorsing his primary opponent Trey Grayson.

This will surely help Rand lock the primary nomination.

Rand for US Senate!

You Gotta Have A Strong Arm To Do That

Lately in the media, mainly on Tuesday and Wednesday, we heard a story about a congressman, who's office window had a rock throw at it and was smashed. The media of course reported it as an act by some deranged Tea Bagger.

So this is the media, uh trying to, to discredit the Tea Party movement. This is their desperation shot. It was very convincing until one reporter actually called the congressman and said, ya know, did this happen, and he said 'no.'

What is amazing about this is how many people believed it. How many people acted as though it were true, and the Tea Party movement has now been demonized like crazy over the last week.

Although the best part of this is that, the congressman who's window was supposedly smashed, his office is on the 30th floor! So you would have to have a pretty strong arm to do that. I mean to shatter a window with a rock, on the 30th floor of a building. Ah but that's the media for you. Desperate.

Health Bill Is the Spark to the Conservative Movement

The battle is lost, but the war is far from over. Today 14 attorney generals have joined together to file suit against the Federal government for their unconstitutional act to force citizens in their state’s to buy health insurance.

This bill being passed may actually have been a good thing. The conservative revolution has been loud for a while now but this health care reform may have been our holy grail. Not the lefts but ours. This has sent the public into a revolt. A recent CNN poll said 60% are opposed to this bill. Rasmussen says that 44% want the GOP to keep fighting this, and another 40+% want this bill to be repealed. The American people are angry. This is exactly what we needed. Something to light the spark to our rocket that will blast us to victory in 2010.

Is Obama Dictatorial?

Over the weekend the health care bill passed, with Stupak support. The president agreed to find an executive order banning federal funs for abortion and restricting certain abortions under provisions in the bill.

Now Roe V. Wade is now rearing its head into this. Roe V. Wade says that woman have a right to abortions. They are legal. That is constitutional, the law of the land. So now Obama, decides “oh no, I’m just gonna sign an executive order, and completely override Roe V. Wade.” So with the stroke of a pen he has violated the law of the land, and it’s perfectly ok. This congress, if the president now has the power to sign a piece of paper and override the constitution and overrule the law of the land, this congress has created dictator. This is exactly what our founders broke away from. This president has become a King.

We are no longer a constitutional republic; we’ve known that for a while now. But I never imagined it would come to this. I knew he would be radical. I knew he was going to be socialist. But a dictator? Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine such a thing to happen.

If this president gets away with this, if he can usurp the law like this, and no one challenges him on this, we are in big trouble. So just sit back and watch your country wash away. Your voice doesn’t matter any more. That’s what congress just told you, “sit down, and shut up! We’re in control!”

Blogging from high above the twin cities in mid-town st. paul, welcome to the USSA.

Notice

I have not blogged this week. I am on vacation and have no internet. I am bloggin now on a Window's sotre computer.

I will be back on saturday and sunday with full thoughts on the passage of Obamacare, Stupak, The Executive order, the State's suing, immigration reform and more.

MSNBC host Blasts Baier Interview

On his show 'Hardball' the other day Chris Mattews criticized Bret Baier's interview with president Obama, saying that he interrupted him too much and said it was rude.

Now, interrupting? Hmm that never happens on MSNBC does it? Especially not on Hardball.

Perhaps Chris, you may want to take a look at this old clip from YOUR show:

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Dems: Obamacare WILL Create Jobs!, Caterpillar: Not So Fast

Remember back last winter when Obama gave his stimulus pitch to the construction equipment company, insisting that they would be able to hire workers that the just laid off with the porkulus?

With the health care debate escalating to higher levels, the dems are doing everything they can to get this passed. They are insisting that it will create millions of jobs. So now, who of all people should challenge this claim? Caterpillar.

Listen to what they have to say about the presidents job creating health care "reform."

AP:

[Caterpillar Inc. said the health-care overhaul legislation being considered by the U.S. House would increase the company’s health-care costs by more than $100 million in the first year alone.

In a letter Thursday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio, Caterpillar urged lawmakers to vote against the plan “because of the substantial cost burdens it would place on our shareholders, employees and retirees.”
Caterpillar, the world’s largest construction machinery manufacturer by sales, said it’s particularly opposed to provisions in the bill that would expand Medicare taxes and mandate insurance coverage. The legislation would require nearly all companies to provide health insurance for their employees or face large fines.

The Peoria-based company said these provisions would increase its insurance costs by at least 20 percent, or more than $100 million, just in the first year of the health-care overhaul program.]

This contradicts many promises made by the dems about their bill. It will cause Caterpillars insurance costs to go up by at least 20%!!!

Obama's Big Dip

Today for the first time ever Obama's RCP approval average has dipped into the negative territory.

Currently now 47.3% approve while 47.8% disapprove. This, while during what he calls one the most important week in his administration and a crucial moment in America.

Hey Mr. President, there's this great knew thing that they came out with, it's called LISTENING

Choose Wisley This Fall

David Boaz from the Cato Institute this morning had a great summary of what kind of candidates he is supporting. His description meets mine 100%.

[It’s that time of year again, when friends start telling me about this or that candidate I should support because he or she is a dedicated defender of liberty and limited government. I’m a political junkie, so I love getting these recommendations. But I don’t end up supporting or contributing to many candidates. In my view, it’s not enough for a candidate to say that he’s ”committed to slashing wasteful spending, providing tax relief, and eliminating red tape.” What’s your actual tax plan? What spending do you propose to cut or eliminate? Not many of them offer clear answers to that.

And liberty involves more than just economics. Often I’m told, “Congressman X is a libertarian.” I always check, and then I say, “He voted for the war, the Patriot Act, and the Federal Marriage Amendment. Sounds like a conservative.” Now a conservative who opposed President George W. Bush’s trillion-dollar spending increase, his Medicare expansion, and his stepped-up federal involvement in education is a lot better than your average member of Congress. But those votes do not a libertarian make.

This year I’m looking for candidates who stand for freedom across the board, who want government constrained by the Constitution, who believe in the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace.

And that means I don’t want to back candidates who support

* the war in Iraq
* the war in Afghanistan
* war with Iran
* the war on drugs
* the constitutional amendment to override state marriage laws and make gay people second-class citizens
* the president’s power to snatch American citizens off the street and hold them without access to a lawyer or a judge
* new restrictions on immigration]

There's Nothing Conservative About the War

Here is a video where Rep. John Duncan (R-TN) explains why there is nothing conservative about the war in Afghanistan:

States Suing the Federal Government Over Health Care

AP:

[BOISE, Idaho — Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance.

Similar legislation is pending in 37 other states.]

Federalism in action. State's are fed up with this unconstitutional health care crap.

Correcting Obama's Statements

As i have said before, Obama has a gift. Most people can agree with that. His gift is that he can look you straight in the face and lie. He can tell a complete lie, that everyone knows is a lie, and go on to his next remark.

Now the other night when Obama was speaking, he made the ridiculous claim that his reform would lower premiums by double digest. Actually he said 14-20%. This claim is simply false.

The Congressional Budget Office scored the health care bill and concluded that premiums would rise by 10-13%.

The reason it would appear to be less is that they could be offset with a tax credit, making it seem to be lower.

Obama later suggested that employers would see their premiums go down by 300%. Wow, that's shocking alright. It is also a lie. Later that night the White House Spokesman said that Obama meant to say that anual premiums would drop by about $3,000.

Keep in mind, this does not figure the new taxes, and regulations that will surely drive up costs.

Both of Obama's claims the other night, are widely inaccurate.

Car Insurance Mandate

Here is an excerpt from CNN's American Morning:

[ROBERTS: But why is it mandate for having health insurance a bad thing? There's a mandate for having car insurance.

ARMEY: Well, first of all, you have to understand, America is a nation that was founded on the concept of personal liberty, that liberty is a gift given to mankind by the Lord God Almighty and it's the duty of governments to protect your liberty.

ROBERTS: Do you have car insurance?

ARMEY: Not to trespass against your liberty.

ROBERTS: Do you have car insurance?

ARMEY: Do I have car insurance? Of course, I have car insurance.

ROBERTS: You have to have car insurance.]

Now this would be a very good argument, if car insurance and health insurance mandates were the same. In this case Washington D.C. is mandating that people buy something. Whereas for car insurance the state is mandating it. Also not every state does it either. The government can't tell you to carry a baby to full term if you choose not to, so why then do they get to decide that you must purchase health insurance?

This argument falls apart once you start dissecting the car insurance mandate. The car insurance is a high risk catastrophic plan. Much like the GOP idea of 'high risk pools.' But that idea has been shot down by democrats. Back to the main point, one's car insurance does not cover their tire changes, tune ups, car washes or oil changes. One's car is not covered for windshield replacements or, for getting gas.

Thus these are thus two different and incompatible concepts.

Constitution Rips The Health Care Bill

Article 1, Section 7 of the US constitution says that in order for a bill to "become law" it must "have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate." Thus, unless a bill is passed in both the house and senate it cannot be presented to the president.

Now the constitution also says that the bill cannot be deemed to be an enactment of another.

The Heritage Foundation has exposed the plan to pass this bill in Washington:

[Here’s the idea: (1) pass a rule to bring to the floor a “reconciliation” measure that would detoxify certain provisions in the Senate-passed health-reform bill, and (2) insert in the rule a sentence that “deems” the Senate bill to have passed the House.]

BUT if you look at what the constitution says about a bill being deemed an enactment of another, this plan is unconstitutional. This bill cannot go through without violating the constitution

For the "Slaughter Rule" to pass the House would pass the senate bill adding amendments to it. The senate would then vote on that amendatory bill only. Thus no single bill would pass both houses, but instead two variations of a bill.

Heritage also pointed out that in 1998 in Clinton v. NYC the supreme court ruled that, a bill containing the “exact text” must be approved by one house; the other house must approve “precisely the same text.”

Therefore the Slaughter Rule, which would allow the house to pass the senate and the senate to vote on the amended bill would be breaking that law as they do not contain the exact same text.

Dems Embrace Evil

Here is a memo that was sent out to Democrats in regards to the Tea Party in Washington tomorrow:

[In a memo sent to freshman and sophomore lawmakers, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the House leadership, urges lawmakers to make special accomodations to prepare for the protesters, ranging from refreshments to extra staff members…

Among the suggestions:

Consider having some light snacks, H2O, and coffee available;

Have multiple guest books/comment sheets available for all visitors to sign-in and leave comments;

Have a Capitol Directory and map available to direct visitors to their Member of Congress and written instructions on how to get over to the Senate side of the Hill]

Wait. I thought the tea partiers were just evil racists who are joined in an angry klan like mob?

Why are the democrats catering to them? Are the democrats embracing this evil?

Why Tax Cuts Do Create Revenue: My Response to Edward Lotterman

In an article i read yesterday entitled "Economists Agree: Tax Cuts Don't Create Revenue" the author, Edward Lotterman, insisted that reductions in tax rates do not, as many economists and politicians say "pay for themselves."

Lotterman wrote; "University of Michigan economist Joel Slemrod is adamant on one of the key economic issues of our day: 'Tax cuts don't pay for themselves! Period!'

Hardly any economist would disagree. This is true for Republicans as well as Democrats. It is also true regardless of whether they describe themselves as NeoClassical, New Classical, Rational Expectations, Monetarist, Keynesian, Austrian or New Institutional economists."

There you have it. All economists. All economists except for; Larry Kudlow, Stephen Moore, John Rutledge, Jude Wanniski, Bruce Bartlett and other notable Supply-side economists and economic insiders such as Alan Greenspan, Steve Forbes, Arthur Laffer, Robert Mundell, and past supply-siders like Adam Smith, and Alexander Hamilton. Since hardly any economist would disagree. Who are these people then?

The article went on to say that; " For 90 years, virtually all have agreed that the way to deal with external costs like pollution is to tax whatever causes it."

Yes this is true. The best way to curb things, such as pollution, is to tax what causes it. To best way to curb smoking as they learned in New York, is to tax it. As a result the Washington Post says smoking has gone down in New York. Now, to me, this argument seems counter productive for some of Mr. Lotterman's views. For using his own argument, i can then make the case that the best way to curb economic activity and growth, is to tax what causes it, which would be people's income. Like taxing non-fuel efficient cars and energy usage if i tax income and investments, just like pollution, economic activity will go down.

However the point that he misses in his claims are that tax cuts generally increase economic activity. The more energy usage and the more non-eco friendly devices, the more pollution. So the more income, the more economic activity. So if people have more money, they will spend more, which, leads to more revenue. This is why many are attracted to what is known as the 'Fair Tax' which is a 25% national sales tax in substitute for the income tax.

Lotterman rambles on saying that: "...and the idea that a tax cut would increase tax revenue is particularly dangerous. Since the federal budget was last near balance a decade ago, we have been running persistent deficits that increased the national debt, adjusted for inflation, by 57 percent from 2001 to 2009."

Perhaps Mr. Lotterman would like to dive into how that surplus turned into a deficit? It's very simple. Government spending. The truth is from 2003-2006 we had solid economic growth. The problem, and why we didn't have more growth, was spending. We had a multi trillion dollar war, a 7 trillion dollar RX drug, and a 400 billion dollar stimulus.

Listen to this from the Tax Foundation: "...I'm not sure what Bernstein's definition of "high economic growth" would be, but if he's implying that there is no evidence that lower tax rates help promote economic growth, he's way off the mark. Of course, it's not always the case that a tax rate cut will promote economic growth given that there must be some spending offset, but I could come up with a pretty good list of tax rate cuts financed by spending cuts that would increase economic growth."

The Bush tax cuts greatly helped the economy, but i suppose Mr. Lotterman isn't interested in seeing the facts.

Fact: GDP grew at an annual rate of just 1.7 percent in the six quarters before the 2003 tax cuts. In the six quarters following the tax cuts, the growth rate was 4.1 percent.

Fact: The economy lost 267,000 jobs in the six quar­ters before the 2003 tax cuts. In the next six quarters, it added 307,000 jobs, followed by 5 million jobs in the next seven quarters.

This shows that the economy greatly improved after the tax cuts. Yet again spending is the problem. You don't have to be an economist to known that no matter how much money you rake in if you blow it all you want find much revenue.

The article goes further to say: "The Reagan administration did cut corporate and personal income tax rates and closed loopholes, thus broadening the base of income subject to taxation. And government revenues at the end of the administration were higher than at the beginning. However, they would have risen even more without the tax cuts."

Well that is like saying you lose a game but you would have won if this or that had happened. Well i didn't happen. So how can you say that revenue would've been higher? That's like "I would've done better if it was indoors." Really would you have been better? You have nothing to compare it to so you don't know.

I go back to my original point. In New York they increased their already highest cigarette tax in the country tax. As a result, they got less smoking. So less cig 'revenue.' If they lowered it, they would get more smoking revenue off of cigarettes. The same applies to income and taxes.

Case closed. Game over Lotterman.

Read the article here: http://www.twincities.com/ci_14665516?IADID=Search-www.twincities.com-www.twincities.com

Some Where Buried in the Rubble of the Unemployment Benefits Bill, is Health Care Reform

The senate has recently passed an unemployment benefits bill. Great huh? Yet somewhere deep down, buried in all the rubble is a provision for health care. Snuck in through the back door health care reform is being implemented. These provisions are again, taking health care the wrong way. Here are some of those provisions:

* COBRA or Nothing. The bill would give premium relief only to those unemployed workers who opt for COBRA coverage. It is well documented that COBRA coverage is one of the most expensive options available to those who lose their jobs. Workers would be better served if they were able to decide whether to use this temporary assistance on COBRA or another more affordable option, including policies available in the individual market.
* Another Medicaid Bailout. The bill would continue to use federal taxpayer funds to bailout state Medicaid programs. While state budgets are crippled by Medicaid, the solution is not to transfer the cost on the federal taxpayers. Instead, Congress should get serious about Medicaid reform and grant states the flexibility they need to fix the program.
* More Delay on the Doctor Fix. The bill would delay automatic Medicare reimbursement cuts to doctors. Cleverly, Congressional leaders removed this costly fix from their health care overhaul and instead have kicked the can down the road one more time. This will enable them to say that the health care legislation is deficit neutral. Senate Congressional leaders should get serious about a permanent fix of the Medicare reimbursement for doctors once and for all, and find some way to offset its cost, rather than adding the additional costs to the deficit.

So this is the box car legislation option. To sneak it through in separate legislation pieces. Of course not meaning snuck into other non-related legislation. This just goes to show, that we need to be very careful what we pass. Just because the bill might get shot down, doesn't mean that health care reform is dead.

Minnesota Tea Party

Today, about an hour ago, thousands of people gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol to protest the health care reform bill.

Star Tribune Reported:

[The message that echoed across the State Capitol grounds Saturday couldn’t have been simpler: “Kill the bill!”

A day after congressional Democratic leaders announced their final legislative push to enact a bill to overhaul the nation’s health care system, opponents rallied to send a noisy contrary message. Rally organizers said 4,000 people attended, but Capitol police estimated the crowd at 2,000 or less.]

So even deep blue Minnesota is protesting against this bill.

Thousands of patriots gathered to here today and it was right in my back yard. As a Minnesotan i was shocked to see this. Most of you known that Minnesota is severely liberal. in 84 when Reagan took 49 states, the one that didn't, was Minnesota.

For once i am proud of Minnesota politics and activists. A rare moment of truth for the political landscape of Minnesota. This is much greater than the 1,000 people who protested last spring on Tax Day. My how the Tea Party Movement has grown.

Here are some photos..

Your Tax Dollars Hard At Work

Here is a list of the top 102 ways government is wasting your money. Brought to you by Sean Hannity's TV Special, Waste 102.

102: Protecting a Michigan insect collection from other insects ($187,632)

101: Highway beautified by fish art in Washington ($10,000)

100: University studying hookup behavior of female college coeds in New York ($219,000)

99: Police department getting 92 blackberries for supervisors in Rhode Island ($95,000)

98: Upgrades to seldom-used river cruise boat in Oklahoma ($1.8 million)

97: Precast concrete toilet buildings for Mark Twain National Forest in Montana ($462,000)

96: University studying whether mice become disoriented when they consume alcohol in Florida ($8,408)

95: Foreign bus wheel polishers for California ($259,000)

94: Recovering crab pots lost at sea in Oregon ($700,000)

93: Developing a program to develop "machine-generated humor" in Illinois ($712,883)

92: Colorado museum where stimulus was signed (and already has $90 million in the bank) gets geothermal stimulus grant ($2.6 million)

91: Grant to the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance to support the traditional arts apprenticeship program, gathering and festival ($30,000)

90: Studying methamphetamines and the female rat sex drive in Maryland ($30,000)

89: Studying mating decisions of cactus bugs in Florida ($325,394)

88: Studying why deleting a gene can create sex reversal in people, but not in mice in Minnesota ($190,000)

87: College hires director for a project on genetic control of sensory hair cell membrane channels in zebrafish in California ($327,337)

86: New jumbo recycling bins with microchips embedded inside to track participation in Ohio ($500,000)

85: Oregon Federal Building's "green" renovation at nearly the price of a brand new building ($133 million)

84: Massachusetts middle school getting money to build a solar array on its roof ($150,000)

83: Road widening that could have been millions of dollars cheaper if Lousiana hadn't opted to replace a bridge that may not have needed replacing ($60 million)

82: Cleanup effort of a Washington nuclear waste site that already got $12 billion from the DOE ($1.9 billion)

81: Six woodlands water taxis getting a new home in Texas ($750,000)

80: Maryland group gets money to develop "real life" stories that underscore job and infrastructure-related research findings ($363,760)

79: Studying social networks like Facebook in North Carolina ($498,000)

78:18 North Carolina teacher coaches to heighten math and reading performance ($4.4 million)

77: Retrofitting light switches with motion sensors for one company in Arizona ($800,000)

76: Removing graffiti along 100 miles of flood-control ditches in California ($837,000)

75: Bicycle lanes, shared lane signs and bike racks in Pennsylvania ($105,000)

74: Privately-owned steakhouse rehabilitating its restaurant space in Missouri ($75,000)

73: National dinner cruise boat company in Illinois outfitting vessels with surveillance systems to protect against terrorists ($1 million)

72: Producing and transporting peanuts and peanut butter in North Carolina ($900,000)

71: Refurnishing and delivering picnic tables in Iowa ($30,000)

70: Digital television converter box coupon program in D.C. ($650 million)

69: Elevating and relocating 3,000 feet of track for the Napa Valley Wine Train in California ($54 million)

68: Hosting events for Earth Day, the summer solstice etc. in Minnesota ($50,000)

67: Expanding ocean aquaculture in Hawaii ($99,960)

66: Raising railroad tracks 18 inches in Oregon because the residents of one small town were tired of taking a detour around them ($4.2 million)

65: Professors and employees of Iowa state universities voluntarily taking early retirement ($43 million)

64: Minnesota theatre named after Che Guevara putting on "socially conscious" puppet shows ($25,000)

63: Replacing a basketball court lighting system with a more energy efficient one in Arizona ($20,000)

62: Repainting and adding a security camera to one bridge in Oregon ($3.5 million)

61: Missouri bridge project that already was full-funded with state money ($8 million)

60: New hospital parking garage in New York that will employ less people ($19.5 million)

59: University in North Carolina studying why adults with ADHD smoke more ($400,000)

58: Low-income housing residents in one Minnesota city receiving free laptops, WiFi and iPod Touches to "educate" them in technology ($5 million)

57: University in California sending students to Africa to study why Africans vote they the way they do in their elections ($200,000)

56: Researching the impact of air pollution combined with a high-fat diet on obesity development in Ohio ($225,000)

55: Studying how male and female birds care for their offspring and how it compares to how humans care for their children in Oklahoma ($90,000)

54: University in Pennsylvania researching fossils in Argentina (over $1 million)

53: University in Tennessee studying how black holes form (over $1 million)

52: University in Oklahoma sending 3 researchers to Alaska to study grandparents and how they pass on knowledge to younger generations ($1.5 million)

51: Grant application from a Pennsylvania university for a researcher named in the Climate-gate scandal (Rep. Darrell Issa is calling on the president to freeze the grant) ($500,000)

50: Studying the impact of global warming on wildflowers in a Colorado ghost town ($500,000)

49: Bridge built over railroad crossing so 168 Nebraska town residents don't have to wait for the trains to pass ($7 million)

48: Renovating an old hotel into a visitors center in Kentucky ($300,000)

47: Removing overgrown weeds in a Rhode Island park ($250,000)

46: Renovating 5 seldom-used ports of entry on the U.S.-Canada border in Montana ($77 million)

45: Testing how to control private home appliances in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts from an off-site computer ($800,000)

44: Repainting a rarely-used bridge in North Carolina ($3.1 million)

43: Renovating a desolate Wisconsin bridge that averages 10 cars a day ($426,000)

42: 4 new buses for New Hampshire ($2 million)

41: Repaving a 1-mile stretch of Atlanta road that had parts of it already repaved in 2007 ($490,000)

40: Florida beauty school tuition ($2.3 million)

39: Extending a bike path to the Minnesota Twins stadium ($500,000)

38: Beautification of Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard ($1.1 million)

37: Colorado Dragon Boat Festival ($10,000)

36: Developing the next generation of supersonic corporate jets in Maryland that could cost $80 million dollars each ($4.7 million)

35: New spring training facilities for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies ($30 million)

34: Demolishing 35 old laboratories in New Mexico ($212 million)

33: Putting free WiFi, Internet kiosks and interactive history lessons in 2 Texas rest stops ($13.8 million)

32: Replacing a single boat motor on a government boat in D.C. ($10,500)

31: Developing the next generation of football gloves in Pennsylvania ($150,000)

30: Pedestrian bridge to nowhere in West Virginia ($80,000)

29: Replacing all signage on 5 miles of road in Rhode Island ($4,403,205)

28: Installing a geothermal energy system to heat the "incredible shrinking mall" in Tennessee ($5 million)

27: University in Minnesota studying how to get the homeless to stop smoking ($230,000)

26: Large woody habitat rehabilitation project in Wisconsin ($16,800)

25: Replacing escalators in the parking garage of one D.C. metro station ($4.3 million)

24: Building an airstrip in a community most Alaskans have never even heard of ($14,707,949)

23: Bike and pedestrian paths connecting Camden, N.J. to Philadelphia, Penn. when there's already a bridge that connects them ($23 million)

22: Sending 10 university undergrads each year from North Carolina to Costa Rica to study the rainforests ($564,000)

21: Road signs touting stimulus funds at work in Ohio ($1 million)

20: Researching how paying attention improves performance of difficult tasks in Connecticut ($850,000)

19: Kentucky Transportation Department awarding contracts to companies associated with a road contractor accused of bribing the previous state transportation secretary ($24 million)

18: Amtrak losing $32 per passenger nationally but rewarded with windfall ($1.3 billion)

17: Widening an Arizona interstate even though the company that won the contract has a history of tax fraud and pollution ($21.8 million)

16: Replace existing dumbwaiters in New York ($351,807)

15: Deer underpass in Wyoming ($1,239,693)

14: Arizona universities examining the division of labor in ant colonies (combined $950,000)

13: Fire station without firefighters in Nevada ($2 million)

12: "Clown" theatrical production in Pennsylvania ($25,000)

11: Maryland town gets money but doesn't know what to do with it ($25,000)

10: Investing in nation-wide wind power (but majority of money has gone to foreign companies) ($2 billion)

9: Resurfacing a tennis court in Montana ($50,000)

8: University in Indiana studying why young men do not like to wear condoms ($221,355)

7: Funds for Massachusetts roadway construction to companies that have defrauded taxpayers, polluted the environment and have paid tens of thousands of dollars in fines for violating workplace safety laws (millions)

6: Sending 11 students and 4 teachers from an Arkansas university to the U.N. climate change convention in Copenhagen, using almost 54,000 lbs of carbon dioxide from air travel alone ($50,000)

5: Storytelling festival in Utah ($15,000)

4: Door mats to the Department of the Army in Texas ($14,675)

3: University in New York researching young adults who drink malt liquor and smoke pot ($389,357)

2: Solar panels for climbing gym in Colorado ($157,800)

1: Grant for one Massachusetts university for "robobees" (miniature flying robot bees) ($2 million)

GRAND TOTAL: $4,891,645,229

Milton Friedman Tell It Like It Is About Minimum Wage

To further express the point i made in a previous post today here is the one and only, Milton Friedman

Minumum Wage Sparks Unemployment

The Cato Institute:

[Three years ago, then-Sen. Obama and prominent African-American organizations thought a hike in the minimum wage would empower minorities.

So how much should workers be paid? $100 per hour? $25 per hour? $7.25 per hour (the current federal rate)? Or zero? For 95 percent of workers a wage of a $100 per hour would be a significant raise. But most people understand that very few people would have jobs at a minimum wage of $100 per hour — so there are few, if any, advocates for that rate.

After a nine-year battle, when July's increase in the minimum wage took effect, the Democratic Policy Council declared, "This was a long overdue raise for American workers." Maybe for some workers, but the 3 million blacks currently unemployed are now feeling the pain.

The minimum wage hike has cost employers more, an additional $2.10 per hour, and forced employers to lay off many minimum-wage workers — most of them young people who had their first real job — causing for an overall rise in black unemployment.]

Ok so what we have here, is that classic case, that no job is better than a lower paying job. Sounds crazy doesn't it. And no one would ever openly argue that. Yet the left does all the time. They just have better ways of phrasing it such as, a minimum wage for workers.

As this begins to point out, employers pay extra for minimum wage workers, so an increase means layoffs, and who do you think are the first to go? Young, sometimes poor, maybe black, people who now instead of having a low paying job, have no job. Now honestly, which sounds better? Having a job earning lets say $6.00 an hour, or being unemployed earning no money an hour?

Now first, i think there is a huge connection, between minimum wage, and welfare. Here's the game. Raising minimum wage will surely pass as they have a monopoly argument that if you oppose this you hate poor people and don't want people to survive. Then when it does pass, and they are laid-off, where do they go? Oh they go the welfare state where they learn to become dependent on the government. And then who do they vote for? That's the trick. You get more people dependent on the government.

Abortion Battle Leading To, Eugenics?

[ Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes to pass the Senate’s health-care bill without us. At this point, there is no doubt that they’ve been able to peel off one or two of my twelve. And even if they don’t have the votes, it’s been made clear to us that they won’t insert our language on the abortion issue.”…

What are Democratic leaders saying? “If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more. That’s one of the arguments I’ve been hearing,” Stupak says. “Money is their hang-up. Is this how we now value life in America? If money is the issue — come on, we can find room in the budget. This is life we’re talking about.” ]

Eugenics have come to America. The practice of killing off people for the sole sake of money and ridding us of the undesirable. This is like the Nazis in the 1930s. It began with claiming that children, babies and elderly were a waste of money. This is how it began. Now Democrats are telling us, that some babies aren't worth the costs to the health care system. Thus we should support abortion, and kill them. Now for the most part i consider my self to be rather pro-choice, but this is beyond anything i ever imagined. This health care bill has made me more pro-life than i ever thought i would be.

While this claim has pissed me off to no end, i do recognize that while the abortion window seems to be closing, perhaps this is the wedge we need to shove through and block this bill. Stupak and other pro-life house democrats can, no, MUST scream this through the roof tops. This claim is radical and fascist. Such a claim could surely run a nice TV ad.

Levin: Expell Slaughter From the House!

Conservative talk host Mark 'The Great One' Levin blasts congresswoman Louise Slaughter for claiming that a bill could be deemed "passed" without a separate vote if the bill B is pushed through.

All Time Low For Mr. O

Today's Gallup tracking poll for the presidential approval rating reached an all time low today.

46% said they approved while Obama's disapproval was at 45%. At this rate we could soon see a flip in ratings where disapproval is higher than approval.

Interesting how the more the President and the senate are pushing for health care the lower his ratings get. You'd think he could take the hint.

Although i suppose all those people are racist and don't known any better. I'm sure it's something like that. Perhaps they just haven't explained it well enough.

Pro-Life Dems: Health Care Bill DEAD on Arrival

From Fox News:

[The health care reform bill passed by the Senate on Christmas Eve appears to be dead on arrival in the House, as seven anti-abortion Democrats intend to join the ranks of lawmakers who plan to vote against the legislation, Fox News has confirmed.

Seven new no votes would be enough to kill the Senate bill, and several more fence-sitting lawmakers are under pressure from both sides of the aisle.]

I never thought i would see the day when i am applauding the democrats for voting a certain way. Especially given the current political climate.

A Clean Case Against Hate Crimes

I ask this not as a talking point for an argument but as a philosophical question for proponents of hate crime legislation.

Regardless of race, or sexual preference or religion, isn't a human always a human. So then for one to hurt another human is always a hateful thing. To harm another human without reason is always a hate crime.

The fascists are at large in this country indeed. The left propagandists are not just satisfied with control of our free speech and limitations of property, but now they seek control of our thoughts. It is like i have said before, in Nazi Germany crime punishment would be much higher if one was a Jew supporter. So if you thought, ok remember these are your thoughts, if you THOUGHT that the Jews were good, you would pay a higher price for your crime. This is pure fascism as the government then intervenes and attempts to direct your thoughts. Now the US has never stooped to this level of fascism, yet with hate crimes that day has come. We now are telling you what you think and trying to alter your views.

What hate crimes do is say that it is better to kill some one who stole your wallet, but it is not okay to kill or harm some one who is black. If it's because he is black or Jewish, or gay, then that is the end of the world. But oh, he just broke into your car last night that's fine go ahead.

So that leads me to this question: Is it any more wrong to kill some one for any reason, no matter what? Isn't killing still killing. The point is you are taking a human life. So then since certain killings are worse than others, are certain people better than others? Are some worth more? Are some people more or less human than others that we need to make these distinctions?

Now as far as law goes, every "hate crime" or "act of hate" already has law against it. You cannot murder by law, you can not steal by law, you may not harass another person, you may not abuse or sexually assault some one by law. Thus every "act of hate" is already covered. The only difference is the law does not make a distinction of race or sexuality. The law says that you can't kill people, it does not say that you can't kill gay people. Gays are people too right? Isn't that what GLBT groups say? So then why do they require distinctions? They are humans just as straight people.

This legislation also denies equal protection under the law since two people who commit the same crime may depending on the circumstances of the crime (ie orientation or race of victim) suffer two very different punishments.

In short, hate crime legislation is unfair and makes it appear as if some are more human than others that they require distinctions to be made when the victim of a crime. It is not any better to kill some one based on "hate" or based on personal conflict or no reason at all. Considering serial killers simply kill who ever the hell they want, are those people worth less, are they less human than gay people who are killed. Also since many people in this country are gay or black or mexican, or jewish, or muslim than who decides weather it is a hate crime or not. A family could decide their victim was gay, therefore it was a hate crime, even if the criminal was unaware of that.

Hate crime legislation is fascism at its best. it promotes favoritism and deems people more human than others. It is legally unnecessary and denies equal protection under the law. All reasons why we should get rid of hate crime legislation.

Health Reform Runs Into A Brick Wall

Today the 41 GOP senators signed a pledge to vote against any effort to reinstate the 'public option' in the health care reform bill. They will all vote against any effort to overturn the Bryd Rule (reconciliations may only be used for budgetary provisions.) It would take 60 votes to overturn that which they will not get as all 41 Republicans would vote no.

[ The GOPers’ pledge amounts to a threat to block any changes sought by Senate Democrats on issues like abortion or immigration, or perhaps the reintroduction of the public option to the healthcare bill.

“We wish to inform you that we will oppose efforts to waive the so-called Byrd Rule during Senate consideration of any reconciliation bill concerning health reform,” the senators wrote. “As it takes 60 votes to waive the Byrd Rule, we can ensure that any provision that trips the Byrd Rule will be stripped from the bill, which will require that the bill be sent back to the House for further consideration and additional votes.”

The letter has the effect of putting Reid and Democrats on notice that any attempt to go beyond the scope of budget reconciliation rules will be met with fierce GOP opposition. ]

BAM! Didn't see that one coming did ya Democrats?

Yes, We Do Need Tort Reform

This is from Redstate.com this morning:



An 8 year old girl was behind a truck hauling a load of product destined for market. The truck driver put his truck in reverse without checking to see if anything was behind him and ran over the 8 year.

The 8 year old survived, but will be permanently physically disabled. She won $24.3 million in damages.

Sounds relatively reasonable, doesn’t it?

Now, let’s add some facts. The girl was the daughter of the truck driver. The truck driver loaded the girl and her mother into his big rig for a long haul trip for work, with a stop over to visit relatives. The shipping company had no idea and did not give its permission.

When the truck driver decided to leave a stop, he did not bother to make sure his daughter was in the truck with him. He backed up and ran over his own daughter.

So he does what people in California apparently do. He sued someone else. And the people of California did what they apparently do. They gave him money. Of course the jury was not told any of the facts below paragraph 2 of this post. The judge wouldn’t let them.

It is the liberal dream that we can no longer be held liable for our own actions and choices in life. All of us are destined to live together tangled on the government safety net because we might injure ourselves swinging from the trapeze of life.

Ain’t life grand in the Obamatopia? Because California is where we’re all headed on the road to hell.

The Winds Are Turning in Chicago

Days after Bill Brady is announced the GOP challenger for Illinois Governor, Rasmussen shows Brady leading Democrat incumbent Pat Quinn by 10 points!

If Illinois goes Red, this is a clear rejection of the left's (Obama's) policies, if after just one year, his own state turns the other direction.

Here is how the field looks in Illinois right now:

Brady (R) 47%
Quinn (D) 37%
Other 6%
Undecided 9%

He's Back

In politics rarely does one get a second try or a 'do-over.' Yet this fall conservative Doug Hoffman who narrowly lost this past fall will make another go at the NY-23 as he seeks to defeat Bill Owens again. This past fall the drove out the Republican and ran as the Conservative Party candidate. This time around after gaining popularity in the Tea Party movement and the Republicans he will run as for the GOP.

In a letter to supporters Hoffman said this:
Dear Friends and Supporters:

Since early January I have been weighing the idea of once again running for the 23rd Congressional District seat. During that time I travelled throughout the district, meeting and speaking with men and women who supported me in last fall's hard fought campaign. I did a lot of listening. Their words of encouragement and continued support touched my heart and soul. Their kind thoughts are often repeated to me by total strangers who have approached me while I am at the gas station, in the grocery store, or out to dinner with Carol, my wife.

Back in January I commissioned a poll. The results were encouraging. The poll showed that 74% of Republicans who vote in primaries thought I should run again. 71% thought I could win back the congressional seat in next November's election. But, perhaps more importantly, the vast majority of Republicans said they would cast their vote for me in a Republican primary.

But, perhaps, what has influenced me the most is what I have seen and heard in my professional life, not my political one. As many of you know I am a Certified Public Accountant. My firm has five offices across the Congressional District and literally thousands of clients. January through April is our "busy season" as we prepare tax returns for clients that represent an economic cross cross-section of New York and the nation.

The words repeated by client after client were that the tax burdens and government regulations they face are breaking their back and that the direction this nation heading is breaking their spirit. The dysfunction and corruption in Albany and Washington is filling them with disgust and they are worrying what will be the future for their children and grandchildren.

Their words of despair have filled me with resolve. They made me realize the fight we face is bigger than any one individual. If we do not shift the balance of power in Washington and Albany this year, our chance may be lost.

I have discussed my decision with my family and they are totally supportive. I now want to take this opportunity to let you know that I will be formally entering the race for the 23rd Congressional District seat and this time we will defeat Bill Owens!

The months ahead will be filled with hard work; because, I realize you don't inherit a nomination...you have to work for it. I plan to work hard to deserve the nomination of the Republican, Conservative and Independence Parties and unite them, as one team, to defeat the agenda of Nancy Pelosi and Bill Owens.

I will champion the fight for less spending, lower taxes, and shrinking the deficit. I will speak out about the need to defend our nation and the freedoms of its people. And, I will never back down from taking on the career politicians who conveniently forget that they represent and work for you; average American citizens, not the Special Interests who fill the back rooms of Washington with lobbyists and fill the campaign coffers of elected officials with money.

I will fight hard for our soldiers at Fort Drum, our dairy farmers, our small business people, our children and our seniors; all the people who live and work in our district.

I hope I can once again count on your support and hopefully have the opportunity to speak with you between now and Election Day.

Sincerely,

Doug Hoffman


Good luck Doug, you have my support.

Bad Omen for Crist

Florida Governor Charlie Crist has just received a very bad Omen from Public Policy Polling over the weekend. Their polls show today that of GOP primary voters:

19% would like to see him governor a year from now. Only 14% want him in the US senate, and a whopping 56% want him out of public office.

I think, Marco Rubio can at the very least claim the GOP candidacy now. Sorry Charlie.

Start Cleaning Out Democrats

Some recent governor race polls are out and the results...not really what the Democrats wanted.

COLORADO (March 4, 500 LV, MoE +/- 4.5%)
McInnis 48 (+3 vs. last poll, Feb. 4)
Hickenlooper 42 (-7)
Und 6

OHIO (March 4, 500 LV, MoE +/- 4.5%)
Kasich 49 (+2 vs. last poll, Feb. 6)
Stricland 38 (-3)
Und 7

NEBRASKA (March 4, 500 LV, MoE +/- 4.5%)
Heineman 61
Lakers 23
Und 14

That's Colorado, ya know the blue state, where Obama gave his big acceptance speech not too long ago. And uh let's see oh, Ohio. The big swing state. The liberal democrat Ted Strickland who won in 2006 is not in the hot seat. If Ohio goes red then the ObamaExpress will slowly begin to derail and crash. Nebraska, well not much of a swing state but it certainly would be another red state.

No Obama, THIS is Unsustainable

As of 6:51 pm tonight, Monday March 8:



It's not health care costs (school tuition costs are rising faster than health care costs, it's YOUR spending and your debts.

Note, a few things i would like to point out, are the cost fer person, which is about 40,000 dollars. Then i would like to draw your attention to the cost per tax payer, which is 114,000. Now still on tax payers. As of today their are almost 110 million tax payers. This is a nation with 3.5 million people. And only 110 million them, are paying taxes! This is crazy! This is insanity and it is unfair, and unsustainable.

Also note the savings per person was 984 dollars! Ha! What a joke.

More ACORN Problems

The Washington Examiner:

Five Wisconsin residents have been charged with criminal counts of voter fraud in the November 2008 general election, state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today.

Two of those charged, Maria Miles and Kevin Clancy, are workers for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the embattled community group.

"The complaint alleges that Miles and Clancy submitted multiple voter registration applications for the same individuals, and also were part of a scheme in which they and other (special registration deputies) registered each other to vote multiple times in order to meet voter registration quotas imposed by ACORN," Van Hollen states in the release.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Wisconsin-AG-charges-ACORN-workers-with-voter-fraud-86924587.html#ixzz0hdTQmFdM


Justice. Sweet Justice, that's all i have to say.

Massa-Gate

Today democratic Congressman Eric Massa officially resigned due to an 'ethics violation.'

Yet was this the true reason he "resigned." And why so quickly? Well of course he faced massive pressure from fellow democrats. Gee I wonder why.

On his weekly radio show yesterday he explained:

“I was set up for this from the very, very beginning," this is very revealing, yes please do tell me more, "You think that somehow they didn’t come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what’s going on in Washington, D.C.”

Mkay so this is a democrat. Alright, so a democrat, one of the Stupak democrats i suppose, or just a democrat who, wasn't gonna vote for this bill. So the democrats, threw him out. No Eric Massa did not resign due to a massive ethics violation, the dems could care less about ethics, trust me. He was instead shoved out the door and sent packing due to his stance on the health care bill. The dems sacrificed one their own, for a vote.

So now, New York has to decide, do we want a special election, or not? Do we want to face another election debacle and give the 'Nos' one more vote, or do we wait until fall, and while we don't get another vote, they also don't get another vote. So either way, they will not get another vote. They lose that vote. BUT the bad side is, now the communists, only need 216 votes to pass it! So in other words, instead of trying to reform politics in Washington and come up with some sort of "compromise" (which the left seems to like to do) they start hacking away and cheating their way to victory. In short, Obama has not changed Washington, but instead escalated politics to its worst it has ever been. So much for hope and change.

This is the time, when we will see the full arm come slamming down from the left, as they need a few more votes, and our nation as we know it will begin on a downward spiral.

The democrats have bribed for votes, they have lied for votes, and now they have sent their own party members packing for the vote.

Massa finally made this scaling remark about Rahm Emanuel, “He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.”

Point & Counter Point: Big Oil

...Lib: So i mean we are just helping the big rich oil companies destroy our wild life and environment.

Me: Wait, wait, wait. Big, Rich, Oil companies?

Lib: Well yeah Oil companies are just greedy and make tons of money and don't do anything to help our country-

Me: Except, ya know, provide us with gas and allow us to get from A to B.

Lib: What ever, but they are way to money concerned anyway. Now i know that you aren't as sensitive on these things, but it is outrages that the oil companies make so much in profit.

Me: Ok so how much do they make?

Lib: Well Exxon Mobile makes-

Me: Exxon Mobile, who by the way, is leading the way in natural gas innovation, just pointing that out. Alright Exxon makes...

Lib: They make about 45 billion dollars a year.

Me: Oh, i know and it's so terrible that they make so much money right?

Lib: Well that's 45 billion dollars that they just greddily pocket for themselves-

Me: ooh greedily. I'm gonna have to start using that.

Me: Ok, but what if i told you that Exxon Mobile doesn't just, pocket all of that for themselves.

In fact, here is a nice statistic for you, last year "big oil" made, yes 45.2 billion dollars, yet of that their profit margin of that, was only 9%. Of that "outrageous" 45 billion, they profit 9%.

Lib: Oh, so well, that is still-

Me: Not, even close to what you thought?

Why don't you go after "big internet?" Last year Google's profit margin was 25%. Now that is 16% higher than Exxon Mobile who just, makes, obscene amounts right? How about we take a look at the "Big Beer Brewers" who also hulled a 25% profit margin last year?

Lib: but-

Me: Or how about Microsoft? Last year Application Software around a 20% profit margin. More that Exxon Mobile.

Lib: Right but they still make a ton of money and a lot of it is just saved for themselves.

Me: Let me ask you, if you get some money, say from your parents or something, do you just go to school the next day and just hand it out all over? Do you just walk up to your classmates and teachers and go "here have money?"

Lib: No, but like if some one asks for some money i mean i guess i would but otherwise not-

Me: So no.

Lib: No, well right no i don't. Oil companies still make a lot of money. The point isn't compared to who-

Me: No, no, no, no your argument was Oil Companies make way too much money, and i told you they don't make all of it, hardly, any of it, and then i said, even that is not much at all compared to things like Google. Or Nike, a shoe company, who had a profit margin last year of 10.7%

Lib: I still...uh...

Me: uh... let's see Disney had 15.5% profit margin last year and Coke-

Lib: Ok! ok! I get it.

Obama Steering the Sinking Ship

Just 25% think that the country is headed in the right direction says a new Rasmussen Poll. This in contrary to the 69% who think we are headed in the wrong direction.

The 25% number, is the lowest percentage since Obama took office. Only 1/4 the the country believes that we are headed in the right direction. The other 3/4th agree that we are like a headed for a disaster.

Voter confidence is way down. So who do you think will pay the price this November? Put simply, some politicians, (they know who they are) better start packing.

On The Coffee Bagger Movement

http://blog.buzzflash.com/analysis/1000

SO recently, i've read in blog threads and heard on the radio, about this new 'Coffee Bagger' movement.

http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=coffee+party&init=quick#!/coffeeparty?ref=search&sid=749247884.489416486..1

This is a progressive, counter movement to the Tea Party movement. Uh, this, i have to say, is the best thing that has happened in politics, for the right wing, in a long time. I thought the economy, and the soaring unemployment would do it, no. This is fantastic.

This is basically, all the progressives, who are so critical of the 'tea baggers' and think they are loud angry racists, they're are saying, "look ya know it worked for them, maybe, maybe we should try to create a bagger movement." Now, first, is this then, an Astro-Turf movement? Nancy Pelosi? Is this astro-turf? A fake movement that was deisgned not to support anything and certainly didn't rise up from the 'grass roots' but was simply made up on the spot and just came out of nowhere like that.

This is great. I hope this gets bigger. It will just show that the left is giving in. They are desperate. That is what is comes down to. The left is desperate. Why else would they attempt a protest style activist movement to try and gain votes. Because they have run out of options.

Second, is this not the left, conceding? They know the Tea Party is effective, so they try their own, thus giving in to the Tea Party style protests. Copying the right's strategy. This is like the two kids in school who have to build some sort of device for say science class. And the one is very critical of the other's. "What a stupid idea! That'll never work! You suck!" Then when the due date rolls around and all of the kids are showing their device, the one kids, the critical one, has the exact same design as the other who was initially so critical of! "Well maybe, it does work. I thought i'd give it try."

Silly White House, Math Is For Kids

Washington Post:

[President Obama's proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday. Proposed tax cuts for the middle class account for nearly a third of that shortfall.

The 10-year outlook released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is somewhat gloomier than White House projections, which found that Obama's budget request would produce deficits that would add about $8.5 trillion to the national debt by 2020.

The CBO and the White House are in relative agreement about the short-term budget picture, with both predicting a deficit of about $1.5 trillion this year -- a post-World War II record at 10.3 percent of the overall economy -- and $1.3 trillion in 2011. But the CBO is considerably less optimistic about future years, predicting that deficits would never fall below 4 percent of the economy under Obama's policies and would begin to grow rapidly after 2015.

Deficits of that magnitude would force the Treasury to continue borrowing at prodigious rates, sending the national debt soaring to 90 percent of the economy by 2020, the CBO said. Interest payments on the debt would also skyrocket by $800 billion over the same period. ]

At this point, i think even my math is better than the White House. And trust me i stink at math. This is not the first projection that is wrong. If you recall earlier this past summer the White House had a debt estimation wrong, that one by 2 trillion.

This article, points out that by 2020, if we continue down this path, the national debt will be at 90% of our economy. Have you people all lost your minds!? 90%. That is unheard of. 90% of the US economy. Well, at least it's a good thing Obama is cutting the national debt in half like he promised.

Reid Celebrates Job Losses

Harry Reid, today, essentially stabbed himself, with a knife. If he wasn't finished, if he wasn't out this fall already, this clip will be used to bury him and i guarantee you this is the end of Harry Reid.

Unemployment Not As Good As It Seems

Today the Census Bureau released the unemployment report for February. The result was quite pleasing at a first glance. Unemployment for last month remained steady at 9.7%. Every field except construction has been adding or remained level at jobs.

Yet while it is tempting to rejoice over this and the fact that only 36,000 jobs were shed last month the actual unemployment rate is much worse. in the last two months 250,000 people left the workforce completely. So the fact that 64,000 jobs were lost in the last two months is widely inaccurate. When you factor in the people who left the workforce, in the last two months we have lost 310,000 jobs. The president thus still has a lot of work to do in order to 'fix' our economy.

In fact the most likely reason unemployment stayed the same this month is due to the large number of people who became 'discouraged workers' (left the workforce.)

In short, despite the report from the Census Bureau today, unemployment is still a major problem and is not getting much better.

Paul Ryan On Health Care Bill

* Budget Gimmicks Galore: “[W]hat has been placed in front of [CBO] is a bill that is full of gimmicks and smoke-and-mirrors…first off, the bill has 10 years of tax increases, about half a trillion dollars, with 10 years of Medicare cuts, about half a trillion dollars, to pay for six years of spending…Now, what’s the true 10-year cost of this bill in 10 years? That’s $2.3 trillion.”
* Double-Counted Savings: “It takes $52 billion in higher Social Security tax revenues and counts them as offsets. But that’s really reserved for Social Security. So either we’re double-counting them or we don’t intend on paying those Social Security benefits…It takes $72 billion and claims money from the CLASS Act. That’s the long-term care insurance program. It takes the money from premiums that are designed for that benefit and instead counts them as offsets.” Later, Rep. Ryan went on to point out, “You can’t say that you’re using this money to either extend Medicare solvency and also offset the cost of this new program. That’s double counting.”
* Medicare as a Piggy Bank: “Now, when you take a look at the Medicare cuts, what this bill essentially does — it treats Medicare like a piggy bank. It raids a half a trillion dollars out of Medicare, not to shore up Medicare solvency, but to spend on this new government program…Now, when you take a look at what this does…as much as 20 percent of Medicare’s providers will either go out of business or will have to stop seeing Medicare beneficiaries.”
* Ignoring the Doc Fix: “…[T]he doc fix, according to your numbers, costs $371 billion. It was in the first iteration of all of these bills, but because it was a big price tag and it made the score look bad, made it look like a deficit, that bill was — that provision was taken out, and it’s been going on in stand-alone legislation. But ignoring these costs does not remove them from the backs of taxpayers. Hiding spending does not reduce spending.”

Progressivism At Its Best

This is an excerpt from an argument i got into last week about the Patriot Act:

[The Patriot Act is necessary to safeguard the lives of American citizens and stop domestic terrorism. Many people are ignorant of this, but there are many, many Islamic radicals every year who attempt terrorist attacks here but are stopped literally hours before they are able to by brave men and women who are willing to do what's right. This includes torturing, wiretapping, and other methods you find "unconstitutional." The people that we're dealing with are quite different from your redcoats. They don't care about our laws, our rules, so why should we? We have to adapt to the enemy and stop them at all costs.]

Now what comes to my mind after reading this? Progressive. One word. only a progressive, remember a progressive, or rather the progressive movement is all about moving beyond our founding principles. The same rhetoric, "Oh that was a long time ago. Oh they don't know what they are talking about. Oh that, that's two words, In Dependence. Let's move beyond the constitution, progress past the bill of rights." Now when he says, that it (patriot act) is necessary and says that in order to have security we need to give up liberty, and do things like "torturing, wiretapping and other methods you find unconstitutional." Are you sure this is a Republican talking? Uh, the friends was in fact a Republican, although he is a big George W. Bush supporter, so he is not exactly a conservative or freedom guy yet a Republican none the less. So this means, 'oh forget the constitution, who needs that old thing we need security.' Now this is some one who once in order to win an argument made all of his points from the constitution, such as states rights, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, right to bare arms etc. He seemed to find the constitution very useful then. But then when it comes to right to a fair trial no matter what, or the freedom to be secure in your houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, oh well maybe it's not so great after all.

And this person calls me a flip flopper. This guy is a total squish. This just strengthens my view that the 'big tent' Republican party, is a little too big, if we can have radical progressives in it.

"They don't care about our laws, so why should we?"

Translation, they are a select group of people, not an entire nation, and we should thus completely burn our laws to fight them. We don't need laws. Freedom can be curbed for this good intention. Freedom isn't important anymore.

I mean, i don't really know how to respond to that. "They don't care about our laws, so why should we?" That is, it basically means our laws are irrelevant now days. We don't need the constitution, the government can do what ever it decides is right. A very progressive thing.

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Benjamin Franklin

That is liberty, that is freedom. That is standing up for we the people and the rights of the individual.

"things you consider unconstitutional...is necessary."
--That is Saul Alinski.

That is the face of tyranny. Something our founders ran from and now, we are re-enslaved by a powerful force.

It's funny that the same person who once said "Thomas Jefferson was a true conservative [...] Thomas Jefferson was right [...] well according to Thomas Jefferson, that government is best which governs least, so there. Take that!"

Then when i say that back to him (that government is best which governs least) he answers; "Yeah, yeah i've heard that before, the founders weren't always right.

He's A PROGRESSIVE!!!! And he has the gull to call me a flip-flopper.

The US Constitution Vs. The Patriot Act

This is some great stuff from the CCAPA (concerned citizens against the patriot act)

Constitution:

Amendment IV: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Patriot Act:

Freedom from unreasonable searches: The government may search and seize Americans' papers and effects without probable cause to assist terror investigation.

Constitution:

Amendment VI: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

Patriot Act:

Right to a speedy and public trial: The government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial.

Constitution:

Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Patriot Act:

Freedom of association: To assist terror investigation, the government may monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity.

Constitution:

Amendment I: Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech ...

Patriot Act:

Freedom of speech: The government may prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation.

I think it goes without saying, that the Patriot act is unlawful, unethical, and a complete disgrace to freedom and our founders.

Pro Life Victory in Texas

Thanks to Judge Kevin Fine who ruled the Texas death penalty unconstitutional, we can like New York work to abolish this in Texas. Killing people to teach them that killing is bad is hypocrisy on a level of the dems wanting reconciliation on health care now after bitching about judicial nominees under Bush and the using of it then.

From the Houston Chronicle:

A Houston judge this afternoon declared the death penalty unconstitutional in a pretrial hearing in response to a motion from defense lawyers.

State District Judge Kevin Fine's ruling is unlikely to withstand appellate review.
Fine granted a motion from defense attorney Bob Loper to declare Texas' death penalty unconstitutional.

From the Houston Press:

Fine was hearing motions Thursday from accused killer John Green's attorneys, and unpredictably granted a motion asking the court to declare the death penalty unconstitutional. Green is suspected of shooting a woman in 2008 and could be executed if found guilty.

"In every capital murder case," Green's attorney, Casey Kiernan, tells Hair Balls, "lawyers always ask the court to rule that the death penalty is unconstitutional. And this time the judge did it. I don't know that this has ever happened before in Harris County. It may be the bravest decision I've ever seen a judge make in more than 30 years as a defense lawyer."

and

Kiernan says the next move belongs to the prosecution. DA Pat Lykos will have to decide whether to appeal Fine's ruling. Phone calls to the DA's office have so far gone unreturned. Kiernan says he plans on meeting with prosecutors tomorrow to plot out the next steps.
Though it is doubtful that Fine's ruling would pass muster upon appeal, Kiernan is hopeful.
"What the judge is saying is that the system is broken in the state of Texas," says Kiernan. "And he really made a point of saying that more than 200 people have been exonerated. We won a big battle here today."

Updated: DA Pat Lykos has issued her statement.



Words are inadequate to describe the Office's disappointment and dismay with this ruling; sadly it will delay justice for the victims and their families. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and other appellate courts have consistently rejected the same issues raised in the Green case.

The decision of whether to seek the death penalty is a solemn and profound responsibility. After a deliberative and thoughtful process this Office reached the conclusion to prosecute Mr. Green for the horrific capital murder he committed and to ask the jury to assess the death penalty. We respectfully, but vigorously disagree with the trial judge's ruling, as it has no basis in law or in fact. We will pursue all remedies.

Now They need 217

Here is some exciting news from; Nomentum:

[ U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal will delay his resignation from Congress by three weeks, citing intense pressure from House Republican leaders to remain and vote against President Barack Obama’s plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system…

News of Deal’s decision was inadvertently broken by U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey, who congratulated Deal on his decision.

On Monday, before 100 supporters at the Gainesville Civic Center, Deal said he would leave Congress, effective March 8, in order to devote all his time to his campaign for governor. ]

A Lesson on Taxes

This is from the Washington Times today:

[If New York City decided to increase its cigarette tax by another $5 per pack, would it gain more or less revenue from the extra tax?

Before you answer the question, you should know that New York City already has the highest combined state-local tax rate of $4.25 per pack while the national average state tax is $1.34 per pack, and South Carolina has the lowest tax in the nation of only 7 cents per pack. The bet is that New York would receive less rather than more tax revenue, because some smokers would decide to quit and many others would acquire their cigarettes legally or illegally from low-tax states (New York already has an enormous cigarette smuggling problem). The citizens, and even most of the politicians in New York City, understand that their cigarette tax is already too high to maximize tax revenue, but they argue the high tax discourages smoking and thus is justified on that basis.

The point is, you don't have to be an economist to understand that if you tax something, you tend to get less of it. Thus it makes good fiscal sense to tax products perceived as harmful, such as tobacco and alcohol, up to the point where the tax becomes so high that people engage in large-scale smuggling or produce the product themselves - moonshine stills, etc. Responsible government officials understand the behavioral response to tax rates and thus adjust their tax revenue forecasts to consider the economic disincentive effects as well as the tax avoidance and/or evasion effects. ]

Now that is very telling. I think most of you can figure out where i am going on this one. The hypocrisy in that is, the politicians raise taxes, on cigarettes, understanding that this will lead to people quitting smoking. Knowing that they will get less revenue and people will be discouraged from smoking. However these same politicians fail to recognize this straight forward logic when it comes to income. For decades conservatives and libertarians have said that high income tax rates will discourage earnings and therefore revenue and will cause people not to employ or innovate. And then all the liberals say 'oh no that won't happen.' Well if we use their logic in New York, they want to increase cigarette taxes to discourage smoking. They realize if they make smoking cheaper, more people will be inclined to stay or start smoking. That is more smokers, saved or created. Now back to out analogy, if you lower the income tax rates, what will happen? You will get more money, more wealth and success being generated which will lead to more jobs.

See how that works? That ladies and gentlemen right there is a simple but powerful lesson. See what smoking has helped us learn? However, politicians are not stupid. They know the flaw in their logic yet they some how use catchy phrases like; 'Change' or 'Hope' to draw away from those things.

Ask any liberal this, with the WaTimes excerpt and ask them what they think. Trust me they won't know how to answer. Or they'll tell you, here, i bet this is what they'll say. They tell you that it is some how different. Nope, it's simple economics.

Angry White Men Screaming

No this is not about the Tea Parties but ironically from the left wing smear machine MSNBC. One of the most critical of the Tea Parties. A network that has declared all tea parties old white angry men. White? Old? Angry? Men?

You mean like uh, this guy:



amazing. See how the old white guy gets angry and starts shouting. Using terms like "killing jews and blacks." He must be a racist! Hey Dylan, look in the mirror.

While i hate to see things like this i realize that this is what the Democratic Party is now. These people you see, be it Ratigan, Olbermann, or "i forgot he was black for an hour" Mathews, these people are the face of the Democratic Party. Keep talking.

Hypocrisy May Cost You Tons At The Pump

hypocrisy is the act of saying not to do something, and then you yourself do that.

Example, careless wasteful democrats have for years bitched about the free market and big oil like Exxon Mobile. This bitching is a result from the gas prices that they deem to high. Two summers ago when gas prices hit $5.00 a gallon in some states all the democrats railed against oil companies.

So then they decide, oh well let's do the opposite of the free market, let's regulate the oil industry, let's reduce CO2. In their hellraising plot to cut CO2 they will in fact do to Americans exactly what they have been bitching about, all along.

This is an excerpt from the Heritage Foundation article today:

[ To meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon. To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving must simply increase, according to a forthcoming report by researchers at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. The 14 percent target was set in the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget for fiscal 2010.”

If you think it’s out of the question, it’s not. Members of Congress are working with oil companies now to levy a carbon fee on the transportation sector: “Key senators are weighing a request from Big Oil to levy a carbon fee on the industry rather than wrap it into a sweeping cap-and-trade system that covers most of the U.S. economy. If accepted, the approach — supported by ConocoPhillips, BP America and Exxon Mobil Corp. — could rearrange the politics of the Senate climate debate and potentially open up votes that may not be there otherwise.”]

Who's raising gas prices now?