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The Obama Way: ACORN and Brass Knuckles

When you can get it your way, start cracking heads. The country sinks lower and lower. (hat tip Armaros)

Winner: Secretary of Senate violated rules

Protesters closely aligned with Democrats nearly knocked a Republican senator to the floor and spit in the face of his chief of staff.

Sen. James Alesi, of Monroe County, walked out of the chamber later today, not seriously harmed. He said he was disturbed by the crowd of at least 150 people, including those from Citizen Action and ACORN - the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

Both groups deny their supporters spat on anyone, saying they were protesting the coalition of Republicans and two dissident Democrats who claim to have taken power of the Senate.

Republican Sen. George H. Winner Jr., of Elmira, blames Angelo Aponte, secretary of the Senate, for not preventing the protest. Winner says Aponte violated chamber rules by allowing it to go on.

Keep giving' em billions for new sets of brass knuckles. From  Newsreal:

Protesters who were part of an angry mob that included many ACORN activists nearly knocked New York state Sen. James Alesi, a Republican, down to the floor and also spat in the face of his chief of staff, according to reports.

The protesters were reportedly upset that two Democratic senators had decided to caucus with Republicans — a move that, when finalized by the state Senate, would hand Republicans control of that body. Majority Democrats have shut down the chamber to prevent the transfer of power.

ACORN’s aggressive, sometimes violent, tactics have been documented extensively here and here. Anything goes, from rude protests to crude intimidation and violence.

In 1995, for instance, ACORN attracted attention when about 500 of its activists stormed the Washington, D.C. Hilton, forcing then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia) to cancel a speech he was to give to county commissioners. Demonstrators chanting “Nuke Newt!” grabbed the microphone in the hall and took over the head table. When the speech was cancelled, ACORN activists cheered.

Later that year, ACORN mobilized when a congressional panel began considering reforms to the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which many blame for the subprime mortgage bubble and its subsequent collapse. Led by ACORN’s  national president, the ever-confrontational Maude Hurd, the activists commandeered the microphone and chanted, “CRA has got to stay!” and “Banks for greed, not for need!” Arrests followed, and efforts to free the activists were led by ACORN allies Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Massachusetts). The U.S. Capitol Police let the activists go only when Rep. Maxine Waters (D-California), exhibiting her characteristic defiance and political arrogance, showed up at the detention facility and threatened to stay put until the demonstrators were released.

Across the United States, ACORN activists have seized abandoned houses and encouraged homeless people to squat there, claiming these actions would convince authorities to convert the structures into low-income housing.

Meanwhile, Pennsylvania state Rep. Stephen Barrar, a Republican, is circulating a petition calling on his state’s attorney general to investigate ACORN.

OBAMA, YOU WANT TORTURE IMAGES? U.S. "TORTURE" VS ISLAMIC TORTURE

Obama's party wants to release the "torture" photos (Abu Ghraib redux). Why is this back again? Why do the Democrats want to put our soldiers and Americans worldwide in danger? Why does this return every couple of weeks?

This would be grist for the America hating world for months, years to come. Why not give worldwide media to Islamic torture? Here's a sample.

GRAPHIC GRAPHIC VIDEO! REAL TORTURE .... in Islam

Let me make this perfectly clear. For every photo the traitorous Obama thugs and America haters release, I will release 10 of these videos. I have hundreds, thousands. They make new jihad porn everyday.

This is what Obama wants you to respect. Demands that you respect.

They want to show the bad eggs in the US military at their worst. But the Western media will not show you the vile and depraved images of daily Islam. The West won't publish Islamic images or even the most benign images like the Danish cartoons. The West won't run the images of 911. The West is the gatekeeper for the fourth Reich. BASTA. Enough protecting Islam. Enough hiding the truth about Islam.

These radicals are throwing the world into chaos and handing the keys of the kingdom to Islamic jihad.

US Lawmakers Feud Over Legislation Banning Release of 'Torture' Photos

The debate over releasing photos that potentially show the abuse of detainees at the hands of U.S. troops is on the verge of exploding into a full-blown standoff on Capitol Hill.

House Democrats are threatening to defeat a war spending bill unless an amendment that prohibits the release of the so-called "torture" photos is removed.

But the authors of the amendment, Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., are threatening a filibuster if the provision, which passed unanimously in the Senate, is stripped out.

"Senator Graham and I will not go quietly in the night because the safety of our troops and our nation is on the line," Lieberman said at a news conference Tuesday alongside Graham.

Neither will Atlas go quietly.

Graham said U.S. troops have enough to do without "Congress adding to their burdens. So nothing's going forward until we get this right."

The question over the release of the photos is one of two key issues that is jamming up final consideration of a major, emergency spending bill to fund the war in Iraq, efforts in Pakistan and Afghanistan and prepare for the H1N1 flu.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was reportedly ready to kill Senate efforts to ban the release of the photos for three years, but only on the condition that a federal judge block an ACLU lawsuit asking for the pictures.

She's a pig.

I have access to heart stopping videos (dozens much worse than this one .... much worse). This treasonous administration wants to destroy the foundations of this country. These videos and others like them will put the administration and the vermin who are pushing this "torture" nonsense on notice, and their propaganda into perspective.

If they release those abu ghraib pics, I am going to release all my jihad videos. Word.

Lieberman, Graham Fight To Ban Release Of Abuse Photos

UPDATE: It's time to hold a drive to airlift the lefturds out of this terrible, oppressive, horrible country and drop them into the paradise of their choice. North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela ........yes. Out of the goodness of our hearts, let's remove the metastasizing cancer from the American soul. Leeches and the parasites embark on the  destinations of their choice.

Torture has consequences Daily Kos

These giant pussies don't know what torture is.

SENATE KILLS VITTER AMENDMENT TO BAN FUNDS TO CRIMINAL ORG ACORN

The VITTER (R LA - my hero) amendment: Ban any funds in bill form going to ACORN or its affiliates.

The Senate voted to kill the Vitter amendment that would ban the criminal org (responsible for massive voter fraud, thuggery, intimidation of banks and mortgage houses to make massive bad loans on a gargantuan scale) Acorn.

Senator Barbara milk the people Mikulski (Democrat Maryland) got up and roundly condemned the amendment that would deny Obama's thug army the funds to continue its illegal, criminal campaign to destroy the will of the American people.

Unbelievable.

Sunset in America! 3/26/09

OBAMA'S THUGS AT ACORN: "MUSCLE FOR MONEY" "PROTECTION RACKET" 3/26/09

BIGGEST FRAUD IN US HISTORY: MORE THAN HALF OF ACORN VOTER REGISTRATIONS INVALID 3/24/09

ACORN: OBAMA'S CRIMINAL GANG TO "HELP" WITH CENSUS

No Mo Money for Gangstas

ACORN: OBAMA'S GANGSTAS ON BAILOUT DOLE

More

Background, previously at Atlas:Prosecute ACORN With RICO Immediately

 Sordid Financial Details of ACORN’s Corrupt Network

ACORN'S White Horse Obama to the rescue By Andrew C. McCarthy

More ACORN FRAUD

Obama: ACORN will “Shape the Agenda” When I’m President

Obama's campaign paid ACORN $800,000 (more here)

The Weekly Standard:The Cleveland Leader reports that Barack Obama lied about his involvement with the group ACORN ....

DEFUND ACORN

OHIO MAN BRIBED BY ACORN ACTIVISTS TO REGISTER TO VOTE 72 TIMES - New York Post (hat tip aug)

1 VOTER, 72 REGISTRATIONS ACORN PAID ME IN CASH & CIGS' NY Post

OBAMA'S ACORN ORG:VEGAS OFFICE RAIDED

Barack Hussein Obama's Ties to Bill Ayers and ACORN are Exposed by Stanley Kurtz on "Fox and Friends"

Atlas Shrugs: ACORN'S SENATOR PLAN TO OVERTHROW AMERICA 

Atlas Shrugs: Why hasn't ACORN been stripped of its eligibility?Aug 28, 2008 ... ACORN has been caught red handed registering dead people many, many times, so why are they still allowed to do this? Why is anyone allowed to ...

Atlas Shrugs: INDICTED MASSIVE FRAUD GROUP ACORN TO GET 20% OF ... Regular righteous Atlas readers know I have been railing about the massive voter fraud over at ACORN for years. ACORN should have been indicted and had ...

Atlas Shrugs: ***ACORN OBAMA VOTER FRAUD ALERT*** I have repeatedly asked, why hasn't ACORN been stripped of its eligibility? Obama is poised to lose. He knows it. He also knows there is more than one way ...

Atlas Shrugs: ACORN and Obama's Democratic national [criminal ... Obama's Buddies At ACORN In Hot Water Over Fraudulent Voter ... Yesterday at Atlas: More ACORN Voter Fraud in Wisconsin Over at American Thinker: ACORN ...

Atlas Shrugs: STEALING THE ELECTION Sep 15, 2008 ... Every voter registered by ACORN should be voided. More ACORN Voter Fraud in Wisconsin Weekly Standard In light of the reports of voter fraud ...

Atlas Shrugs: I SEE DEAD PEOPLE..... Voting on Election Day 11/6/06

More posts: VOTER FRAUD: DEMOCRAT TOOL

Sunset in America!

ACORN'S OBAMAMERICA!

They want your money and they want it now! Poster and copy from ACORN website (hat tip Amaros)

Take Action: Tell Your Senator to Support President Obama's 2010 Budget!  [the Atlas strike on 'support']]

Call and do the opposite!

Call Your Senator Now on the Toll-Free Hotline at 1-866-544-7573!

President Obama just released his proposal for the 2010 federal budget. ACORN members are excited that the President has produced such a progressive budget proposal that resets America's priorities in historic fashion to provide real funding to programs that are extremely important to low- and moderate-income families.

[...]

Congress will start writing their version of the budget in the coming days. It is of utmost importance that the programs in President Obama's budget are included in the Senate and House's version of the budget. Particular pressure is needed in the Senate to guarantee that a progressive budget is passed that benefits low-and moderate-income communities.

Turn over your frickin wallets, homes, cars, futures and your first born!

BIGGEST FRAUD IN US HISTORY: MORE THAN HALF OF ACORN VOTER REGISTRATIONS INVALID

This is madness. What this constitutes is a coup on the American electoral system, a usurpation of the will of the people, a government by the people for the people made into a sham. It's a government by the moochers and the looters, for the moochers and the looters, stolen from the good, hardworking American. Do you see how tragic this is - and worse, the American people have sat by and let it happen. Drip drip drip drip ................ until what? President Hussein, that's what.

The Mansourian candidate was not accident of history. It was a very deliberate assault by the hard left on foundation of the greatest country in human history. The hatred of the good for being good.

If we purged the illegals, the dead and the fraudulent, this would be a different country, with honest leadership that reflected the real landscape of this great nation (look at the tea parties, for example). That criminal gang would not be running this country. Foeshizzle.  Do you expect the corrupt Congress to take action on this? And the "polite," aka weak and timid Republicans?

These pigs are stealing your money, robbing your wealth, bankrupting America and your children. What are you going to do about it?

I say we allocate a mere 50 million of O-bankruptcy's 7.8 trillion dollar rout and create an independent verifying  company that validates EVERY VOTER REGISTRATION IN THE USA - so that they are ALIVE, LEGAL, ..... AND EXIST! Create jobs in every state - with the "Legal Voter Defense of America Act" - this save America action will pay off in ways we cannot even begin to see. For every fraudulent registration - get a buck! You'll be a millionaire in no time!

Former ACORN Employee: More Than Half Voter Registrations Invalid Ron Kessler, Newsmax

More than half the voter registrations turned in by ACORN canvassers during the last election were not valid, according to testimony to be presented before a House Judiciary subcommittee.

The testimony is from Anita MonCrief, a former employee of an affiliate of the Association of Community Organizations. MonCrief, who was fired for improperly charging personal expenses to the ACORN affiliate, originally testified under oath as part of a request by the Republican State Committee in Pennsylvania for an injunction against ACORN. The request was denied. The FBI has been investigating the liberal community organizing group for possible voter registration fraud.

MonCrief will appear at the congressional hearing Thursday with Heather Heidelbaugh, who represented the Republican committee in the civil suit and is on the executive board of the Republican National Lawyers Association. She will provide a legal analysis of MonCrief’s testimony.

“We will be presenting evidence that ACORN is engaged in voter registration irregularities and fraud,” Heidelbaugh tells Newsmax,

According to MonCrief, ACORN considered 40 percent an acceptable level of accurate voter registrations turned in by its workers. She said ACORN barely trained its workers in how to register voters properly and would fire employees if they did not meet a quota of 20 new voter applicants daily. If the registration cards turned in did not meet the quota, supervisors were told to “fire them right there; don’t let them waste your money for the day.”

If a canvasser was caught committing fraud, ACORN threw the individual “under the bus,” MonCrief said. ACORN employees were briefed on how to deny that voter registration fraud existed, she said.

According to MonCrief, the Obama presidential campaign called her in October 2007 asking for coordination in soliciting donations from people who had already made the maximum contribution to Obama allowed by election laws. MonCrief testified that she was given a massive database of Obama donors who had already reached the limit. Her task was to cull it for potential donors who would then donate to Project Vote, an ACORN affiliate which targets individuals and entities to solicit donations.

If true, MonCrief’s allegations constitute violations of the Internal Revenue Code, federal campaign finance laws, and laws against voter registration fraud, according to a memo by Cleta Mitchell, co-chairman of the Republican National Lawyers Association.

ACORN: SEDITIONIST GANG

FBI ARREST TWO AFTER RAID OF OFFICE OF OBAMA'S PICK FOR CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

Is anyone not dirty in the Hussein administration? I ask you?!

FBI Arrests Two After Raiding Office of Obama's Pick for Information Officer Fox news hat tip Terri

FBI agents have made two arrests after raiding the D.C. office of the man tapped to be President Obama's chief information officer, sources told FOX News. 

The agents on Thursday morning raided the office of Vivek Kundra, who was leaving his post as the D.C. chief technology officer to join the administration. The investigation is related to allegations of corruption, one source said, but is not targeting Kundra. 

FBI agents arrested a District of Columbia government worker, Yusuf Acar, as well as Sushil Bansal, who works for a company called Advanced Integrated Technologies Corp, sources said. Both are expected in court later Thursday. 

FBI spokeswoman Lindsay Gotwin would not describe the nature of the probe. 

"It's an ongoing law enforcement investigation," she said. 

In a March 5 White House press release, the administration said it chose Kundra to be the federal chief information officer because of his "depth of experience in the technology arena and a commitment to lowering the cost of government operations to this position." 

The chief information officer is responsible for overseeing federal technology spending. 

GEITHNER & RANGEL TO BE SUBPOENAED IN TAX FRAUD CASE

I don't know this guy Jacquot, but I know he's being railroaded. It is painfully clear that these political thieving democrooks believe they are above the law.

GEITHNER & RANGEL TO BE SUBPOENAED IN TAX FRAUD CASE

Federal Case Alleges Political Elite Get Favorable Tax Treatment Over Ordinary Citizens

Why is it that political insiders get a pass on their tax problems when ordinary citizens get criminally prosecuted?

Tim Geithner, political insider: Back taxes owed, no prosecution

Charles Rangel, political insider: Back taxes owed, no prosecution

Tom Daschle, political insider: Back taxes owed, no prosecution

David Jacquot, ordinary citizen: NO taxes owed, PROSECUTION?!?

On 5 March 2009 a Motion was filed in U.S. v. David Jacquot, Case # CR 08-1171, in the Federal District Court, in San Diego, California seeking to dismiss a false tax return indictment on the grounds that the Defendant was not treated in the same manner as politically prominent individuals. A hearing on this matter is set for 30 March 2009 in San Diego and the Defendant in this case intends to subpoena Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, and others.

The Defendant in this case is David Jacquot, an attorney and retired Army Officer. He is a decorated disabled Desert Storm veteran living in rural Idaho with his family.

This “Geithner Motion” cites HR 735 titled the “Rangel Rule Act of 2009,” which if enacted, would eliminate penalties and interest for common citizens to allow them to be treated in the same manner as House Ways and Means Chairman Representative Charles Rangel. The Geithner Motion also quotes President Obama stressing the need to “treat common citizens in the same manner as politically prominent individuals in regards to tax matters”.

The Geithner Motion details how Mr. Jacquot was vindictively indicted in retaliation for his successful defense of his clients against the IRS. The tax returns of his corporate law firm for the four (4) years of 2001 to 2004 were investigated and the government alleges that the law firm declared almost $200,000 TOO MUCH income during this time period. The Geithner Motion contains descriptions of numerous actions by the government and Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) Faith Devine that are the basis for the claim of retaliation against Mr. Jacquot for his zealous representation of his client’s Constitutional and statutory rights. The improper actions of AUSA Devine have been reported to the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility for disciplinary action and are currently under review.

A copy of the Geithner Motion and the complaint against AUSA Faith Devine can be downloaded here.

DEMOCROOK RANGEL TO AMERICA, "MIND YOUR GODDAMN BUSINESS!"

Mattera rules! He best represents the future of the great American leadership, I tell you. Jason Mattera, who has exposed that fat bastard Jack Murtha, John Kerry, William “Cold Cash” Jefferson in truth ambushes, catches criminal non-parallel Charles Rangel in an uncharacteristically candid moment. (hat tip S)

9/11/2008 CATASTROPHIC FINANCIAL TERRORIST ATTACK CAUSED ECONOMIC MELTDOWN

The recent bombshell that Rep. Kanjorski dropped gets bigger and bigger. Atlas reader Suzanne picked up on a mindblowing "detail" in my blog post: "RIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT HUSSEIN: "A $550 Billion Electronic Run on the Banks". Paul Kanjorski describes the closed door session of Congress where it was revealed that there was a $550 billion electronic run on the banks and that was what caused the economic crisis.
In the video, Kanjorski says this occurred on Thursday, September 15, 2008. September 15th was a MONDAY.

THURSDAY was  .......SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This was a Financial Terrorist Attack on the seventh anniversary of 9/11. Aren't the American people entitled to know who was behind the run on the banks?

Why was this kept from the American people before the most important election in US history? And why did Obama treat it as an unimportant incident - accusing McCain of grandstanding when McCain left the campaign trail and flew to Washington? Remember what President Hussein said? "They'll call me if they need me."

FLASHBACK: "Call me if you need me"

When President Hussein was campaigning and the "economic crisis" hit, he did not think it pressing enough to leave the campaign trail, but now we should push through a trillion dollars in legislation without oversight because a few weeks later the King deems it urgent?

The financial crisis was deliberate, planned, staged. Who made the run? "Someone threw us in the middle of the Atlantic ocean without a life raft. We are trying to determine which is the closest shore and whether there is any chance in the world to swim that far. We don't know."

Electronic Run On Banks - $550 Billion Withdrawn In 1 Hour, Federal Reserve Halts Withdrawals - US Economy Would Have Collapsed Capitalism Gone Wild  hat tip Cathy

Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania explains what former Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke told congress during the September 2008 closed door session. During the first third of the video an enraged caller is ranting to Rep. Kanjorski about how wasteful the first $700 billion bailout was. The best part is 2 minutes and 15 seconds into the tape where Rep. Kanjorski reveals what Paulson and Bernanke told congress that shocked them into supporting the first $700 billion bailout.
[...]

"Why did we do that? Look I was there when the Secretary and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve came those days to talk to members of Congress about what was going on. It was about  September 15th. On Thursday (Thursday was September 11th] Here's the facts and we don't even talk about these things.

On Thursday [Thursday was September 11th] at about  11 o clock in the morning The Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw down of money market accounts in the USA to the tune of $550 Billion dollars in a matter of an hour or two. Money was being removed electronically."

The Treasury tried to help, opened their window and pumped in $150 Billion but quickly realized they could not stem the tide. We were having an electronic run on the banks. So they decided to closed down the accounts.

Had they not closed down the accounts they estimated that by 2 PM that afternoon. Within 3 hours. $5.5 Trillion would have been withdrawn and the entire economy of the United States would have collapsed, and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed.

Kanjorski also explains why Paulson spent the bailout money differently than he originally proposed.

Some other gems from the recording:

It would have been the end of our economic and political system.

We would have had to spend 3 to 4 Trillion dollars to buy up all the toxic assets. But we didn't have that much we only had 700 Billion.

Without a banking system you don't have an economy.

We are no better off now than we were three months ago.

Someone threw us in the middle of the Atlantic ocean without a life raft. We are trying to determine which is the closest shore and whether there is any chance in the world to swim that far. We don't know.

Read the rest of this

Smoking Gun: Democrat Insider Says "Obama Has Secret Plan to Fund a Patronage System"

 "Chicago Bob", calling into a radio talk show, explains the need to rush on the Stimulus package before anyone gets a good chance to review its sordid details.

The transcript: I was in a meeting after Obama got elected and I was told by the Democratic officials in that meeting that we were gonna give billions of dollars that was gonna come down the pike, our way, and what we were to with it was we were supposed to with it…

We are gonna build an army of Democratic patronage jobs…. gonna completely freeze up the Republicans forever and ever…

It’s a job-capturing system, the same one they have in Chicago… everyone’s asking ‘why isn’t that money being release until 2011 and 2012?’

Because it needs to be released at a time that’s close to the election, so that they don’t go blow the money and spend it. So they’re gonna hold some back and that’s where… the real bucks will be spend, right up close to the election.

…It’s not a stimulus package, it’s not pork! It’s a job patronage system… there’s gonna be more [people] working for the Democrats in a patronage system than the United States Army…

And the jobs are gonna be camoflaged in a million different ways, whether you’re workin’ for the city, or workin’ for the state, but when the election comes around, you’re gonna be obligated to go out and get that vote… …like ACORN, except the jobs will be larger scale. I just wanted to say that, because I was really depressed when they told me, because I really thought they’d be different. If I’ve done nothing else in my life, I’ve informed what that bill really is… it’s a job patronage system."

A highway robbery is being perpetrated on American public. With a resulting indentured servitude for next generations that would be paying for this patronage sinecure.

OBAMA THUGS: STRONG ARMING REPORTERS

Bet you this didn't make Chris Matthews' leg tingle and quiver (his leg is still tingling). Check this out. This happened after the "confirmation" (uh rubber stamp) hearings for Obama's pick for CIA director, Leon Panetta. This is the "transparent" pick of the racketeer President. Panetta received $700,000 from banks that were later bailed out.

Reporter restrained after Panetta hearing Michael Calderone, Politico (hat tip Fran)

Following Leon Panetta’s confirmation hearing Thursday, several reporters approached the CIA director-designate in the hallway outside room G-50 in the Dirksen Building.

There, CongressDaily reporter Chris Strohm — upon asking a question — was physically restrained by a man who accompanied Panetta at hearings both days.

Strohm, when reached by phone Friday, said he was unsure of the man’s role.

“I felt this hand grab my right arm and push me aside,” Strohm said.

By his account, Strohm told the man, “Please don’t touch me” more than once. Eventually, the man let him go. 

Tim Starks, a reporter for Congressional Quarterly, said he witnessed Strohm approach Panetta and ask a question, just before the man began “grabbing him by the arm and moving him away.”

“I said to the guy, ‘That’s not the way you do it,’” recalled Starks.

Starks said that he’s covered the CIA for years and had never seen a reporter strong-armed that way before, adding that the agency is typically respectful of journalists. 

O's "Stimulus" Suicide Bomb: Vanishing Point

Nancy Coppack explains President O's Alinsky strategy to bring America to its knees. There will be no turning back. Understand what you are dealing with.

Here are the GOP turncoats. Call now. Call back if it's busy.
Collins (202) 224-2523
 Snowe (202) 224-5344
Voinovich (202) 224-3353
Specter (202) 224-4254

THE CLOWARD/PRIVEN STRATEGY OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY The American Thinker

Using borrowed money for a band-aid bailout of the economy should seem backwards to most people. However, it likely is a planned strategy to promote radical change. Those naively believing that President Obama is simply rewarding his far-left base, and will then move to the political center, must wise up.

The assumption that Obama will need the nation to prosper in order to protect the 2010 mid-term election incorrectly assumes that he esteems free market capitalism. He does not. Rather than win through superior ideas and policies, the Democrat plan for success in the mid-term elections is to win by destroying political opposition.

Obama adheres to the Saul Alinksy Rules for Radicals method of politics, which teaches the dark art of destroying political adversaries. However, that text reveals only one front in the radical left's war against America. The Cloward/Piven Strategy is another method employed by the radical Left to create and manage crisis. This strategy explains Rahm Emanuel's ominous statement, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."

The Cloward/Piven Strategy is named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Their goal is to overthrow capitalism by overwhelming the government bureaucracy with entitlement demands. The created crisis provides the impetus to bring about radical political change.

According to Discover the Networks.org:

Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation... [Emphasis added.]

Making an already weak economy even worse is the intent of the Cloward/Piven Strategy. It is imperative that we view the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan's spending on items like food stamps, jobless benefits, and health care through this end goal. This strategy explains why the Democrat plan to "stimulate" the economy involves massive deficit spending projects. It includes billions for ACORN and its subgroups such as SHOP and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. Expanding the S-Chip Program through deficit spending in a supposed effort to "save the children" only makes a faltering economy worse. 

If Congress were to allow a robust economy, parents would be able to provide for their children themselves by earning and keeping more of their own money. Democrats, quick to not waste a crisis, would consider that a lost opportunity.

The Cato Institute reports that the plan will harm a faltering economy, intentionally causing increased job losses leading to increased demands for the aforementioned programs. Even the jobs to be created are set apart to render social justice, not economic revival. Robert Reich believes new infrastructure jobs should not go to white construction workers. Meanwhile, workers at Microsoft, IBM, Texas Instruments, and the retail market find themselves experiencing the life of the welfare poor.

If highly educated and trained workers continue to lose jobs and business falters as a whole, where will these jobless workers go? Could this be construed as revolutionary social reorganization that puts the underachiever above the achiever? Where is the future economic strength when jobless professionals collect welfare and unemployment while dreaming of a minimum wage job? For whites, there's not even the hope of a good paying construction job.

Please read it all.

UPDATE:The senators we need to target  Cassy Fiano hat tip Larwyn

We need to be calling all of our senators, folks. But some might need more attention than others. That said, I just finished calling every Republican in the Senate, plus Joe Lieberman. I kept a tally of who gave a firm no, and who seemed to be a little more on the squishy side. The ones who gave a firm no should still get phone calls, mind you, to make sure they don't change their position. But it's the squishy ones who really need our attention. Here's the tally:

FIRMLY OPPOSES:
I only put someone down in the "no" column if the response I got from the office was a firm no. Any wavering or talk of compromise and bipartisanship got them in the "squish" column. So, here are the senators currently planning on voting no:

Jeff Sessions

Kit Bond

Jon Kyl

John McCain

Mike Johann

John Ensign

Richard Burr

Tom Coburn

James Inhofe

Mike Crapo

James Risch

Jim DeMint

Lindsay Graham

Sam Brownback

Pat Roberts

John Thune

Jim Bunning

Mitch McConnell

Bob Corker

David Vitter

Robert Bennett

John Barrasso

Now, just because they're saying they oppose it right now doesn't mean that decision is carved in stone, so don't hesitate to continue contacting them. Let them know you support their decision and tell them that they're doing the right thing. Encourage them. Be nice.

Now, for the rest of the group.

THE SQUISHES:
These are the people whose votes are liable to change, along with any notes I wrote down about my conversations with them.

Richard Shelby — I got busy signals on both lines, so I just put him in the squish column.

Lisa Murkowski — definite squish; plus, her staffer was a huge asshat on the phone.

Thad Cochran

Judd Gregg — said he was abstaining from voting.

Joe Lieberman

Mel Martinez

Saxby Chambliss — said he currently opposed it, but was "open to compromise"

George Voinovich — voted no in appropriations but is still open to voting for the bill

Johnny Isakson

Arlen Specter — both of his lines were busy, I never actually got through

Richard Lugar

Chuck Grassley

Roger Wicker

Lamar Alexander — likely a "no" vote, but still possibly squishy

John Cornyn — no answer on either line

Kay Bailey Hutchison — busy on both lines

Susan Collins

Olympia Snowe

Michael Enzi — "leaning towards no"

So folks, that's where we stand right now on the positions of the Republican senators. Let's light up those phones now. You can get their phone numbers here.

DUMBER THAN SOAP

500,000,000 million - got that?

IF BLAGO WERE BLACK ....

They impeached the guy.

If Blago were black, this wouldn't be happening. The Democraps would be shagging that racism card. He'd be marching shoulder to shoulder with tax cheat Rangel, cold cash Jefferson, et al.

No Blago trial. No Blago jury. No justice! No peace! lol. But I got to tell you, I love this guy. He is my favorite Democrat. He has a big mouth and they are scared to death of him. If I were he I'd have an envelope hidden in a safety deposit box with all the names and the deeds - you know, a life insurance policy.
He embodies everything the party stands for - the only difference between him and the other crooks is that he is no longer their crook.
But they are scared of him. He knows where the bodies are buried, which is why he keeps calling for testimony from Valerie Jarrett, Rahm Emanuel and members of the racketeers party.

What a joke. All of it except the joke's on us..

PORK AND SOCIALISM MASQUERADING AS "STIMULUS" ACTION ALERT: CALL CONGRESS NOW~

The only thing the stimulus package is going to stimulate is the end of capitalism in America. It's not a stimulus package, it's a leftwing wish list of every commie leftarded social handout they couldn't get through in the last 20 years. This is an economic jihad and we are at the precipice of a meltdown.

And don't get me started on the death blow President Hussein delivered to the auto industry yesterday -- his new emission standards mean an additional $2,000 a vehicle. This is not the problem - energy is the problem. Getting off the jihad oil is the problem. Drilling and using our untapped resources is the answer.

And the racketeering ACORN is in the bill - the liars, crooks, and jokers are getting 4.1 billion.

BTW, the Dow is at new low ...............

CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN NOW: DON'T BE LAZY. YOU ARE AMERICA'S ONLY HOPE.

PENCE DENOUNCES DEMOCRAT STIMULUS BILL: "WON'T STIMULATE ANYTHING BUT MORE GOVERNMENT AND MORE DEBT"

Will Urge President Obama Today To Deliver on Promise of Bi-Partisan Solution

WASHINGTON – In response to the filing of the Democrat version of a stimulus bill, Congressman Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Conference, issued the following statement today:

"Our nation is facing a serious economic crisis but the Democrats in Congress have offered a purely partisan bill that does not incorporate bipartisan recommendations.

"The American people deserve to know that the President’s call for a compromise has been completely ignored by House Democrats who would use a time of national economic crisis to fund their big government priorities under the guise of stimulating the economy.

"House Republicans take President Obama at his word and will urge him to make good on his pledge to set aside partisan differences and bring the best ideas from both parties to bear on this economic crisis.

"The Democrat promises of change and bipartisanship ring hollow in the face of a stimulus bill that does little more than fund a wish list of longstanding liberal spending priorities.

"What does $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts, $200 million to plant sod on the National Mall, $400 million for climate change research, and $200 million for contraception have to do with creating jobs?

"The Democrat bill won't stimulate anything but more government and more debt. The slow and wasteful spending in the House Democrat bill is a disservice to millions of Americans who want to see this Congress take immediate action to get this economy moving again.

"House Republicans have a better solution. By enacting the Republican plan for fast-acting tax relief for working families and small businesses the American people will see immediate results that will put our nation on the road to recovery."

UPDATE: Big g government is where once successful nations go to die. Mark Steyn (read it all)

THIS IS SICK

Just Some of the Economic Stimulus Bill By Jamie Dupree

What follows are a number of the spending projects included in the economic stimulus bill filed by Democrats late on Friday, which will be voted on in coming days by the House of Representatives.

This is not a complete list. Instead, it is an overview of some of the major items found in this bill in terms of spending. No judgments are made about the need for these expenditures.

That is up to you, the voter, and your elected members of the House and Senate.

You can find the full text of the bill, H.R. 1 at http://www.rules.house.gov/111/LegText/111_hr1_text.pdf

Here is a sampling of what we found:

$44 million for construction, repair and improvements at US Department of Agriculture facilties

$209 million for work on deferred maintenance at Agricultural Research Service facilities

$245 million for maintaining and modernizing the IT system of the Farm Service Agency

$175 million to buy and restore floodplain easements for flood prevention

$50 million for "Watershed Rehabilitation"

$1.1 billion for rural community facilities direct loans

$2 billion for rural business and industry guaranteed loans

$2.7 billion for rural water and waste dispoal direct loans

$22.1 billion for rural housing insurance fund loans

$2.8 billion for loans to spur rural broadband

$150 million for emergency food assistance

$50 million for regional economic development commissions

$1 billion for "Periodic Censuses and Programs"

$350 million for State Broadband Data and Development Grants

$1.8 billion for Rural Broadband Deployment Grants

$1 billion for Rural Wireless Deployment Grants

$650 million for Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Program

$100 million for "Scientific and Technical Research and Services" at the National Institute of Standards And Technology

$30 million for necessary expenses of the "Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership"

$300 million for a competitive construction grant program for research science buildings

$400 million for "habitat restoration and mitigation activities" at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

$600 million for "accelerating satellite development and acquisition"

$140 million for "climate data modeling"

$3 billion for state and local law enforcement grants

$1 billion for "Community Oriented Policing Services"

$250 million for "accelerating the development of the tier 1 set of Earth science climate research missions recommended by the National Academies Decadal Survey."

$50 million for repairs to NASA facilities from storm damage

$300 million for "Major Research Insrumentation program" (science)

$200 million for "academic research facilities modernization"

$100 million for "Education and Human Resources"

$400 million for "Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction"

$4.5 billion to make military facilities more energy efficient

$1.5 billion for Army Operation and Maintenance fund

$624 million for Navy Operation and Maintenance

$128 million for Marine Corps Operation and Maintenance

$1.23 billion for Air Force Operation and Maintenance

$454 million to "Defense Health Program"

$110 million for Army Reserve Operation and Maintenance

$62 million for Navy Reserve Operation and Maintenance

$45 million for Marine Corps Reserve Operation and Maintenance

$14 million for Air Force Reserve Operation and Maintenance

$302 million for National Guard Operation and Maintenance

$29 million for Air National Guard Operation and Maintenance

$350 million for military energy research and development programs

$2 billion for Army Corps of Engineers "Construction"

$250 million for "Mississippi River and Tributaries"

$2.2 billion for Army Corps "Operation and Maintenance"

$25 million for an Army Corps "Regulatory Program"

$126 million for Interior Department "water reclamation and reuse projects"

$80 million for "rural water projects"

$18.5 billion for "Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy" research in the Department of Energy. That money includes:

$2 billion for development of advanced batteries

$800 million of that is for biomass research and $400 million for geothermal technologies

$1 billion in grants to "institutional entities for energy sustainability and efficiency"

$6.2 billion for the Weatherization Assistance Program

$3.5 billion for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants

$3.4 billion for state energy programs

$200 million for expenses to implement energy independence programs

$300 million for expenses to implement Energy efficient appliance rebate programs including the Energy Star program

$400 million for expenses to implement Alternative Fuel Vehicle and Infrastructure Grants to States and Local Governments

$1 billion for expenses necessary for advanced battery manufacturing

$4.5 billion to modernize the nation's electricity grid

$1 billion for the Advanced Battery Loan Guarantee Program

$2.4 billion to demonstrate "carbon capture and sequestration technologies"

$400 million for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (Science)

$500 million for "Defense Environmental Cleanup"

$1 billion for construction and repair of border facilities and land ports of entry

$6 billion for energy efficiency projects on government buildings

$600 million to buy and lease government plug-in and alternative fuel vehicles

$426 million in small business loans

$100 million for "non-intrusive detection technology to be deployed at sea ports of entry

$150 million for repair and construction at land border ports of entry

$500 million for explosive detection systems for aviation security

$150 million for alteration or removal of obstructive bridges

$200 million for FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter program

$325 million for Interior Department road, bridge and trail repair projects

$300 million for road and bridge work in Wildlife Refuges and Fish Hatcheries

$1.7 billion for "critical deferred maintenance" in the National Park System

$200 million to revitalize the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

$100 million for National Park Service Centennial Challenge programs

$200 million for repair of U.S. Geological Survey facilities

$500 million for repair and replacement of schools, jails, roads, bridges, housing and more for Bureau of Indian Affairs

$800 million for Superfund programs

$200 million for leaking underground storage tank cleanup

$8.4 billion in "State and Tribal Assistance Grants"

$650 million in "Capital Improvement and Maintenance" at the Agriculture Dept.

$850 million for "Wildland Fire Management"

$550 million for Indian Health facilties

$150 million for deferred maintenance at the Smithsonian museums

$50 million in grants to fund "arts projects and activities which preserve jobs in the non-profit arts sector threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn" through the National Endowment for the Arts

$1.2 billion in grants to states for youth summer jobs programs and other activities

$1 billion for states in dislocated worker employment and training activities

$500 million for the dislocated workers assistance national reserve

$80 million for the enforcement of worker protection laws and regulations related to infrastructure and unemployment insurance investments

$300 million for "construction, rehabilitation and acquisition of Job Corps Centers"

$250 million for public health centers

$1 billion for renovation and repair of health centers

$600 million for nurse, physician and dentist training

$462 million for renovation work at the Centers for Disease Control

$1.5 billion for "National Center for Research Resources"

$500 million for "Buildlings and Facilties" at the National Institutes of Health in suburban Washington, D.C.

$700 million for "comparative effectiveness research" on prescription drugs

$1 billion for Low-Income Home Energy Assistance

$2 billion in Child Care and Development Block Grants for states

$1 billion for Head Start programs

$1.1 billion for Early Head Start programs

$100 million for Social Security research programs

$200 million for "Aging Services Programs"

$2 billion for "Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology"

$430 million for public health/social services emergency funds

$2.3 billion for the Centers for Disease Control for a variety of programs

$5.5 billion in targeted education grants

$5.5 billion in "education finance incentive grants"

$2 billion in "school improvement grants"

$13.6 billion for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

$250 million for statewide education data systems

$14 billion for school modernization, renovation and repair

$160 million for AmeriCorps grants

$400 million for the construction and costs to establish a new "National Computer Center" for the Social Security Administration

$500 million to improve processing of disability and retirement claims

$920 million for Army housing and child development centers

$350 million for Navy and Marine Corps housing and child development centers

$280 million in Air Force housing and child development centers

$3.75 billion in military hospital and surgery center construction

$140 million in Army National Guard construction projects

$70 million in Air National Guard construction projects

$100 million in Army Reserve construction projects

$30 million in Navy Reserve construction projects

$60 million in Air Force Reserve construction projects

$950 million for VA Medical Facilities

$50 million for repairs for military cemeteries

$120 million for a backup information management facility for the State Department

$98 million for National Cybersecurity Initiative

$3 billion for "Grants-in-Aid for Airports"

$300 million for Indian Reservation roads

$300 million for Amtrak capital needs

$800 million for national railroad assets or infrastructure repairs, upgrades

$5.4 billion in federal transit grants

$2 billion in infrastructure development for subways and commuter railways

$5 billion for public housing capital

$1 billion in competitive housing grants

$2.5 billion for energy efficiency upgrades in public housing

$500 million in Native American Housing Block Grants

$4.1 billion to help communities deal with foreclosed homes

$1.5 billion in homeless prevention activities

$79 billion in education funds for states

DEMOCRAT MAYOR BUSTED FOR CHILD PORN

Get used to the freak show. They are going to shove their lack of morality and responsibility, and their culpability, down our throats - with a propagandized media telling us how much we like it. Cold cash Jefferson, Blago, Frank, Obama .... it's a freakin circus. But if you're a Republican - you are doomed. Tom Delay, forced to resign and no charges ever brought. Who can forget macaca? Or Trent Lott? Or Mark Foley.

Welcome to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Mayor Gary Becker (Democrat) Charged, Child P0rn Involved

Let’s play name that Party affiliation! While some other news outlets finally get to Becker being a Democrat, usually deep within the story, MSNBC fails to mention the D word

The man who has taken over for Racine Mayor Gary Becker after his arrest on probable charges of pornography and solicitation of a minor say he needs to resign.

“I think it would be in the best interest of the city of Racine,” said City Council President David Maack in an exclusive interview on Newsradio 620 WTMJ. “We need to put this behind us.

Ever notice that when it is a Democrat involved, they always need to move on? If it is a Republican, they always say there needs to be more investigation, preferably back to 1st grade.

There's more. GO!

CONGRESS VOTES ON ISRAEL - LOOK HOW THEY VOTED

This afternoon Congress passed a resolution on Israel's right to defend herself.

Know thy enemy - study the list. If Israel can't defend herself according to these jihad tools, then they will stand in the way of America defending herself as well. You shall see.

Members Of Congress Who Believe That Israel Has NO Right to Defend Herself  Yid with lid

This afternoon Congress Passed a Resolution:

Recognizing Israel’s right to defend itself against attacks from Gaza, reaffirming the United States’ strong support for Israel, and supporting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. (Full resolution below)

Out of all of the Congressmen who were present, twenty-seven did not support the resolution. Five Voted NO and twenty-two didn't have the guts to vote yes or no, just present.

Below is a list of those members of congress. Note that all but one (moonbat Ron Paul) are members of the Democratic party. California accounted for 25% of the group of 27:


Members Of Congress Who Believe That Israel Has NO Right to Defend Herself

--- ANSWERED "NO" 5 ---
Dennis J. Kucinich (D - OH)
Gwen Moore (D-WI)
Ron Paul (R - Saturn TX)
Nick Rahall (D-WV)
Maxine Waters (D-CA)


---- ANSWERED “PRESENT” 22 ---
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) [Hamas lover - a dangerous leftard)
Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
Peter DeFazio (D-OR)
John Dingell (D-MI)
Donna F. Edwards (D-MD)
Keith Ellison (D-Muslim Brotherhood MN)
Sam Farr (D-CA)
Raul M. Grijalva (D-AZ)
Maurice Hinchey (D-NY)
Henry Johnson (D-GA)
Carolyn C. Kilpatrick (D-MI)
Barbara Lee(D-CA)
Betty McCollum (D-MI)

James McDermott (D-WA)
George Miller (D-CA)
James Moron  Moran(D-VA)
John Olver (D-MA)
Donald Payne (D-NJ)
Loretta Sanchez (D-CA)
Pete Stark (D-CA)
Lynn Woolsey (D-CA)

 

If you want to read the Resolution click below:

http://tinyurl.com/7vqfp8

PIGS AT THE TROUGH

Disgusting. The system is broken. The whole idea of America is but a frickin distant memory. What the hell happened to a government by the people, for the people? These sequestered thieves are living in a broken reality financed by our hard earned dollars. Who do they answer to? Not us.

Bailout? This frickin blog needs a bail out. I work harder than the whole of DC. Basta!

The Republican party is in a shambles and who can blame them? Who would want to be be a Republican and subject themselves and their families to such abuse. Any party affiliation or position not in line with the left is criminalized. Tom Delay, forced to resign, NEVER INDICTED. Trent Lott, forced to resign, for a remark that pales next to what Biden, Jackson, et al utter regularly. Foley, forced to resign. Craig, forced to resign. But Barney Frank runs a gay prostie ring out of his apartment, Chris Dodd oversees the massive ripoff of the American people, Jefferson stores $90,000 of embezzled cash in his freezer, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac -- failed Democrat socialist policies, David Gregory's (chief asshat at MSNBC) wife was a major Fannie Mae fixer and on no one says BOO! But the decent, delicious, smart, ethical, hardworking folks like Sarah Palin or Joe the Plumber get tarred and feathered, their families put through the meat grinder.

And don't even get me started on Obama's Chicago gangsta criminal political machine in Chicago. We are a frickin banana republic. No shame.

With economy in shambles, Congress gets a raise hat tip Clyde

A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay.

Instead, they will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to an additional $2.5 million that taxpayers will spend on congressional salaries, and watchdog groups are not happy about it.

CHUCK SCHUMER: FREE SPEECH = PORNOGRAPHY

This parasite must go. Schumer must be targeted in 2010. How can we make this happen?  Email me any and all ideas. I consider it a righteous goal to spare my state, my country, and my fellow Jews (remember how he helped to undermine Israel's great friend John Bolton) from this evil hack.  I have a friend who worked in his office years ago in Brooklyn when he would pretend to be religious to con the orthodox in the nabe. The man is scum.

Who is with me? Who will help me rid the state of Schumer? Who can we run who will win?

WATCH THIS VIDEO ON SCHUMER PROJECTILE VOMITING THE SPIN ON THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE

UPDATE: SCHUMER MUST GO. Van reminded me of Schumer's role in the financial meltdown:

Schumer Caused Banking Crisis, Not O.T.S. Posted by Hans Bader

Senator Charles Schumer recently triggered a massive bank failure by publicizing a letter claiming IndyMac Bank was on the verge of collapse.  That caused a run on the bank by its panic-stricken depositors.  (Taxpayers may end up paying up to $8 billion to bail out the bank).  He's been criticized for that by many, including the Wall Street Journal.

Schumer, target number 1. I will not stop until he is thrown out on his corrupt, decayed ass.

DEMOS WANT TO STEAL OUR SAVINGS ACCOUNTS

Carpetbagging Democrats want to pilfer our hard earned savings accounts ......and they haven't even taken the oath yet. They'll have to pry my 401k from my cold dead hands I tell ya.

If this is in the works I strongly urge readers to take the penalty hit (10%) and keep your own dough. Or check this out, there are ways to avoid the penalty.

Democratic leaders in the U.S. House discuss confiscating 401(k)s, IRAs hat tip Tom

RALEIGH — Democrats in the U.S. House have been conducting hearings on proposals to confiscate workers’ personal retirement accounts — including 401(k)s and IRAs — and convert them to accounts managed by the Social Security Administration.

Triggered by the financial crisis the past two months, the hearings reportedly were meant to stem losses incurred by many workers and retirees whose 401(k) and IRA balances have been shrinking rapidly.

The testimony of Teresa Ghilarducci, professor of economic policy analysis at the New School for Social Research in New York, in hearings Oct. 7 drew the most attention and criticism. Testifying for the House Committee on Education and Labor, Ghilarducci proposed that the government eliminate tax breaks for 401(k) and similar retirement accounts, such as IRAs, and confiscate workers’ retirement plan accounts and convert them to universal Guaranteed Retirement Accounts (GRAs) managed by the Social Security Administration.

Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, in prepared remarks for the hearing on “The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Workers’ Retirement Security,” blamed Wall Street for the financial crisis and said his committee will “strengthen and protect Americans’ 401(k)s, pensions, and other retirement plans” and the “Democratic Congress will continue to conduct this much-needed oversight on behalf of the American people.”

On behalf of the American people, now that's rich.

UPDATE: Rick queries,

Back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it closed. Now we are trusting the economy of our country to a pack of nit-wits who couldn't make money running a whore house and selling booze? "

THE DEMOCRATS TAKE OFF THE MASK: IF YOU LOVE AMERICA, YOU ARE THE ENEMY,ASK JOSH MANDEL

Watch this. NOW. Ohio Democrats attacks Josh Mandel's Iraq War military service.

The hate America party has taken its mask off. If Josh Mandel (check out the Jewish remark in the video) doesn't take it in a landslide, I'll blame voter fraud. No American would support this suicidal bile.

Iraq War vet’s service attacked in Ohio campaign Joel Mowbray (hat tip Dave)

When Josh Mandel got a call from the Marines last year asking him to return voluntarily to Iraq, he had much more to contemplate than when he first enlisted in 2000. He had just been elected to the Ohio state legislature. Family considerations were also important to him. He ultimately decided to serve a second tour in Iraq “because I didn’t join the Marine Corps to say no when my country called,” Mr. Mandel explains.

Of all the factors he weighed, Mr. Mandel says political concerns were not among them. Now he has been forced to deal with the politics of that decision. The opponent in his tough re-election fight, trial attorney Bob Belovich, is attacking Mr. Mandel’s service, arguing that he abandoned voters. Mr. Belovich’s wife, Barbara, acknowledged in an interview for this column that she has told voters that Mr. Mandel “went AWOL” (a military term for desertion) by fighting in Iraq.

Even Mr. Mandel’s motives for serving in Iraq are being questioned. Mrs. Belovich claimed in an interview with this columnist that Mandel “put his personal ambitions ahead of his constituents.” Asked why anyone would enter a war zone out of “personal ambition,” Barbara Belovich replied curtly, “Certainly he wasn’t serving our needs.”

UPDATE: China Confidential is all over it

SPEAKER OF THE SEWER PELOSI PAYS HUSBAND BIG PAC DOUGH

Further decay of our system. The Democrat rule is power without accountability. They answer to no one and the press gives them a get out of jail free pass.

Pelosi' s corruption is something of an obvious joke but the joke is on the American people. Check my Pelosi VLOG - I made it back in February 2007.

The funny thing is they railroaded Tom Delay out of leadership and finally out of DC and he did nothing. Nothing. No charges, no trial .... nothing. Just destroyed him. Why? Because he was guilty of being an effective Republican leader.

More from Miss 'CULTURE OF CORRUPTION!"

EXCLUSIVE: Pelosi paid husband with PAC funds $99,000 for rent, utilities, accounting fees Jennifer Haberkorn (Contact)  Washington Times Exclusive

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has directed nearly $100,000 from her political action committee to her husband's real estate and investment firm over the past decade, a practice of paying a spouse with political donations that she supported banning last year.

Financial Leasing Services Inc. (FLS), owned by Paul F. Pelosi, has received $99,000 in rent, utilities and accounting fees from the speaker's "PAC to the Future" over the PAC's nine-year history.

The payments have quadrupled since Mr. Pelosi took over as treasurer of his wife's committee in 2007, Federal Election Commission records show. FLS is on track to take in $48,000 in payments this year alone - eight times as much as it received annually from 2000 to 2005, when the committee was run by another treasurer.

Lawmakers' frequent use of campaign donations to pay relatives emerged as an issue in the 2006 election campaigns, when the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal gave Democrats fodder to criticize Republicans such as former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas and Rep. John T. Doolittle of California for putting their wives on their campaign and PAC payrolls for fundraising work.

Last year, Mrs. Pelosi supported a bill that would have banned members of Congress from putting spouses on their campaign staffs. The bill - which passed the House in a voice vote but did not get out of a Senate committee - banned not only direct payments by congressional campaign committees and PACs to spouses for services including consulting and fundraising, but also "indirect compensation," such as payments to companies that employ spouses.

"Democrats are committed to reforming the way Washington does business," Mrs. Pelosi said in a press release at the time. "Congressman [Adam] Schiff's bill will help us accomplish that goal by increasing transparency in election campaigns and preventing the misuse of funds."

How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis

BUMPED UP!

UPDATE 11:46 pm: Check this out. Obama is sending this around in his daily email. Now this is chutzpah. Someone ought to get access to his email list and send around the enormous dollars that this political corrupt Chicago hack took from the Fannie Mae, Freddie mac, Goldman et al

The failed economic policies and the same corrupt culture that led us into this mess will not help get us out of it. We need to get to work immediately on reforming the broken government -- and the broken politics -- that allowed this crisis to happen in the first place. (from Barack Obama our plan)

UPDATE 12:20pm HIGHLIGHT OF THIS MORNINGS HEARINGS AND THE ONLY HONEST MOMENT: As Dodd adjourned the hearing a great American was heard shouting  about the “fox guarding the henhouse”. The blood drained from doddering's face.

READ A PHONE CALL TO THE FED

UPDATE 11:30: BAIL OUT HEARING: CHRIS DODD IS BRINGING DOWN THE GAVEL? WTF is Dodd doing there? That's like Lucky Luciano presiding over the Al Capone trial. Fookin nutz! As chairman of the Senate Banking Commitee , Dodd  insisted that these ridiculous loans be made over the past 10 years!

UPDATE: Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, has emerged as one of the most strident enemies of the bailout proposal  “It’s financial socialism, and it’s un-American,” he said in his opening statement. On Friday, he offered a eulogy for the economy, saying, “The free market for all intents and purposes is dead in America.”

Are Americans, who are footing perhaps a trillion dollar bill, even remotely interested in how it really happened? I ask you. When we may very well be working 40-45% of the time for the government, will they inquire - how did I get here or will they listen to the complete line of bullshit the Obama, a chief moocher and looter, is inventing? I have to know.  The mainstream media is depraved. It does not do investigative journalism save to smear folks on the right.And even then it is invented. They should aspire to the journailstic standards of the Enquirer. Instead,  they have 14,000 trolls in Alaska tracking what feminine protection Sarah Palin uses so that they might tie her to global warming.

In his incredibly short stint in politics, Obama was the second highest recipient of  Fannie Mae/ Freddie Mac lobby dollars. Why isn't the media ripping him a new %$#hole?

Why is a first term Senator pulling down almost $300,000 a year from Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Countrywide Financial, and Washington Mutual? He has not even completed his fourth year in the Senate and received a total of $1,093,329.00 from these eight companies and their employees. (all data from OpenSecrets.org). John McCain’s numbers, according to OpenSecrets.org for the period 1990-2008 (i.e., 18 years worth of data) only collected $549,584.00. In other words, Barack is receiving $273,582.25 (and 2008 is not over) per year while McCain raised a paltry $30,532.44.

Want another shocker? Barack Obama has received more from one source–Goldman Sachs $542,252.00–than McCain has from all of the companies combined. Who the hell is more beholden to lobbyists? And why does a junior Senator from Illinois rate this kind of dough? (more here)

If shock of the crushing blow of 9/11 didn't wake America up to Islam, will this crushing financial implosion? McCain must take the damn gloves off. This is a good beginning: Steve Schmidt, a McCain campaign senior adviser, on a conference call with reporters Monday said  that The New York Times “is not a journalistic organization.”

“Whatever The New York Times once was, it is today not by any standard a journalistic organization,” Schmidt said. “It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization that every day impugns the McCain campaign, attacks Senator McCain, attacks Governor [Sarah Palin]. It excuse Senator Obama. …

“Everything that is read in The New York Times that attacks this campaign should be evaluated by the American people from that perspective – that it is an organization that has made a decision to deemphasize its journalistic integrity and tradition, to advocate for the defeat of one candidate – in this case, John McCain – and to advocate for the election of the other candidate, Barack Obama.”

Schmidt said later that the Obama campaign has been “abetted” by a compliant media that gives more scrutiny to the Republican than to the Democrat. (more here)

Schmidt is going to easy on the NY Crimes. Check out the financial back story.

How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis Kevin Hassett Bloomberg hat tip JM

Back in 2005, Fannie and Freddie were, after years of dominating, on the ropes. They were enmeshed in accounting scandals that led to turnover at the top. At one telling moment in late 2004, captured in an article by my American Enterprise Institute colleague Peter Wallison, the Securities and Exchange Comiission's chief accountant told disgraced Fannie Mae chief Franklin Raines that Fannie's position on the relevant accounting issue was not even ``on the page'' of allowable interpretations.

Then legislative momentum emerged for an attempt to create a ``world-class regulator'' that would oversee the pair more like banks, imposing strict requirements on their ability to take excessive risks. Politicians who previously had associated themselves proudly with the two accounting miscreants were less eager to be associated with them. The time was ripe.

The clear gravity of the situation pushed the legislation forward. Some might say the current mess couldn't be foreseen, yet in 2005 Alan Greenspan told Congress how urgent it was for it to act in the clearest possible terms: If Fannie and Freddie ``continue to grow, continue to have the low capital that they have, continue to engage in the dynamic hedging of their portfolios, which they need to do for interest rate risk aversion, they potentially create ever-growing potential systemic risk down the road,'' he said. ``We are placing the total financial system of the future at a substantial risk.''

What happened next was extraordinary. For the first time in history, a serious Fannie and Freddie reform bill was passed by the Senate Banking Committee. The bill gave a regulator power to crack down, and would have required the companies to eliminate their investments in risky assets.

Different World

If that bill had become law, then the world today would be different. In 2005, 2006 and 2007, a blizzard of terrible mortgage paper fluttered out of the Fannie and Freddie clouds, burying many of our oldest and most venerable institutions. Without their checkbooks keeping the market liquid and buying up excess supply, the market would likely have not existed.

But the bill didn't become law, for a simple reason: Democrats opposed it on a party-line vote in the committee, signaling that this would be a partisan issue. Republicans, tied in knots by the tight Democratic opposition, couldn't even get the Senate to vote on the matter.

That such a reckless political stand could have been taken by the Democrats was obscene even then. Wallison wrote at the time: ``It is a classic case of socializing the risk while privatizing the profit. The Democrats and the few Republicans who oppose portfolio limitations could not possibly do so if their constituents understood what they were doing.''

Mounds of Materials

Now that the collapse has occurred, the roadblock built by Senate Democrats in 2005 is unforgivable. Many who opposed the bill doubtlessly did so for honorable reasons. Fannie and Freddie provided mounds of materials defending their practices. Perhaps some found their propaganda convincing.

But we now know that many of the senators who protected Fannie and Freddie, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Christopher Dodd, have received mind-boggling levels of financial support from them over the years.M/P>

Throughout his political career, Obama has gotten more than $125,000 in campaign contributions from employees and political action committees of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, second only to Dodd, the Senate Banking Committee chairman, who received more than $165,000.

Clinton, the 12th-ranked recipient of Fannie and Freddie PAC and employee contributions, has received more than $75,000 from the two enterprises and their employees. The private profit found its way back to the senators who killed the fix.

There has been a lot of talk about who is to blame for this crisis. A look back at the story of 2005 makes the answer pretty clear.

Oh, and there is one little footnote to the story that's worth keeping in mind while Democrats point fingers between now and Nov. 4: Senator John McCain was one of the three cosponsors of S.190, the bill that would have averted this mess.

UPDATE: Doug over at Director Blue put this excellent photo journalistic montage together:

Any Questions? hat tip Larwyn

Five years ago, Republicans proposed "the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry [in a decade]." (Source: New York Times)

Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee blocked efforts at fixing Fannie and Freddie. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) said, "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... are not facing any kind of financial crisis,"

At least 18 times since 2001 Democrats blocked efforts at overhauling Fannie and Freddie even as accounting scandals and executive ripoffs became public.

Why? For starters, the top two recipients of Fannie and Freddie campaign donations were Democrat fatcats Chris Dodd ($165K) and Barack Obama ($126K) (Source: Open Secrets)

And Fannie Mae paid well. Clinton-era Democrats, serving as the CEO, CFO and Vice Chairman, paid themselves $200 million in only six years even while a $10 billion accounting scandal was exposed. (Source: Wall Street Journal)

And Democrats like Chris Dodd also got favorable loans under a "VIP program." Dodd alone saved over $75,000 on his mortgage payments. (Source: Conde Nast Portfolio)

So where are former Fannie Mae CEOs like Franklin Raines ($90 million in salary) and Jim Johnson ($21 million in salary in one year)? As you might expect, they're serving as Barack Obama's key economic advisers. (Source: Washington Post)

Hiring Fannie Mae's two former CEOs as economic advisers? Barack Obama: not ready to lead.

UPDATE: MUST READ: Barack’s Wall Street Problem is Now America’s Larry Johnson

REID TO USA: DROP DEAD REID (IN CAHOOTS W/BHO) TELLS MCCAIN, DON'T COME BACK TO DC

AMERICA, ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION? Harry Reid is putting his own agenda first (shocka!). Reid is a pig.

Reid to McCain: Don't Come Back to Capitol ABC News

A Democrat tells ABC News that in a phone call late this afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that it would NOT be helpful for him to come back to Washington, DC, to work on the Wall Street bailout bill.

McCain this afternoon suspended his campaign and said he would skip the first presidential debate in order to return to Capitol Hill to work on the log jammed Bush administration legislation, which as of Wednesday afternoon was in peril.

When contacted, the McCain campaign did not have any comment.

McCain had phoned Reid to ask about the prospects of him, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and others to sit down and work together on hammering out a bipartisan proposal.

"Sorry," Reid said to him, a Democrat close to Reid says.

Sorry?

CORRUPT, RANCID RANGEL CALLS PALIN "DISABLED"

This corrupt pig Rangel, protected by the most corrupt Democrat leadership in modern US history (sanctioned by fellow crook Pelosi), debases himself even further and calls Palin disabled.
Mind you, Rangel is under investigation and will soon be indicted. Rangel has refused to resign his chairmanship of the The Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee refuses to resign the fact that he is guilty of tax evasion on unreported income  and he owes back taxes on rental income beach house in the Dominican Republic. The beach house issue is one of several involving Mr. Rangel that are being investigated by the House ethics committee.
Imagine that, this gauging porkster wants to tax the life out of hardworking Americans but refuses to pay his own.  He deserves hard ti,e my friends. He steals from the working and gives to his own fat ass. Think about it, this fat bastard who will answer to the tax collecter  writes the tax code.

Further, Rangel's Mercedes-Benz was towed yesterday from the House of Representatives parking space he had been using for years in violation of congressional rules.

As a tow truck pulled away the 1972 silver sedan under the watchful eyes of five Capitol police officers, House Republicans voted almost unanimously to oust the Harlem Democrat from his chairmanship of the powerful Ways and Means Committee in the midst of several ethics scandals. The measure, however, failed.(more here)

ASTONISHING: Rep. Rangel Calls Palin 'Disabled' Marcia Kramer, CBS

Already under fire for his tax troubles, Manhattan Congressman Charles Rangel really put his foot in his mouth on Friday.

In a CBS 2 HD exclusive interview, Rep. Rangel called Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin "disabled."

The question was simple: Why are the Democrats so afraid of Palin and her popularity?

The answer was astonishing.

"You got to be kind to the disabled," Rangel said.

That's right. The chairman of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee called Palin disabled -- even when CBS 2 HD called him on it.

CBS 2 HD: "You got to be kind to the disabled?"

Rangel: "Yes."

CBS 2 HD: "She's disabled?"

Rangel: "There's no question about it politically. It's a nightmare to think that a person's foreign policy is based on their ability to look at Russia from where they live.

Republicans think Rangel's comments are insulting as well as shocking.

"Charlie Rangel's comments are clearly disgraceful," Rep. Peter King, R-Long Island, said. "This is just another liberal Democrat who can't accept an independent woman running for president."

King, who is co-chair of the McCain-Palin campaign in New York, watched Rangel's comments with CBS 2 HD. He was particularly upset because Palin's 4-month-old son, Trig, is disabled. He has Down's syndrome.

"We should be sensitive to her or any woman who has a child or family member who has any affliction at all," King said. "And so to use the word disabled in the context of a female candidate for vice president who has a child who is disabled really is wrong. Charlie owes her and the entire disabled community and apology."

Advocates for the disabled are also upset.

"It makes me feel as if he's trying to put her down, trying to say she's not good for the presidency or the vice presidency," said Michael Imperiale of Disabled In Action Of Metropolitan N.Y.

"A disabled president ran this country. He was disabled. His name was Roosevelt."

A spokesman for the McCain-Palin campaign also piled on, saying that this kind of rhetoric has no place in politics.

FINANCIAL MELTDOWN: BLAME NEED, NOT GREED

UPDATE:Explosive Video, Fannie Mae CEO calling Obama and the Dems the "Family" and "Conscience" of Fannie Mae (hat tip Larwyn)

The mortgage crisis is not the product of self-interest. It is the product of an anti-self-interest morality in which responsible individuals are required to sacrifice to the needs of those who are not responsible.

Robert Tracinski of The Individual Activist is one of the free world's  leading thinkers (the slave world has no thinkers).  I am a subscriber to TIA daily (daily news and analysis from a pro-reasoned, pro-individualist perspective) and while his daily column is always smart, fresh, and reasoned sometimes Tracinski is so spot on a white hot issue, I run his whole column and run the risk of getting into copyright trouble and incurring his wrath - although he is always a perfect gentleman about it :)

This is one of these times. (PAID subscription. No link)

Moral Hazard

Blame Need, Not Greed, for the Mortgage Crisis

by Robert Tracinski  

The mainstream media and Democratic politicians—is there a difference between the two any more?—have been trying to exploit the mortgage crisis to convince the public that free markets have been discredited. A particularly obnoxious writer with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution even goes to far as to demand to know, "What happened to…[those] who denounced government regulation and read from the holy scriptures as recorded by Ayn Rand?"  

Well, here we are—or at least, here I am—and I am not impressed by the bluster of the anti-capitalists, because they are the ones who are getting this story completely wrong.  

Both Barack Obama and John McCain agree that, in McCain's words, the basic cause of the financial crisis is "self-interest, greed, irresponsibility, and corruption" on Wall Street—as if it is in a Wall Street firm's greedy self-interest to go bankrupt.  

It reminds me of the old joke from the 1939 film Ninotchka, in which a Soviet official misunderstands a basic business transaction and explains it to his comrades: "Capitalistic methods—they accumulate millions by taking loss after loss." Sadly, most politicians are just as helpless in trying to understand the workings of the private economy.  

In reality, the real culprit behind this financial crisis is not the morality of greed, but the morality of need. And speaking of Ayn Rand, what came to my mind in surveying this crisis is a passage from her masterwork, Atlas Shrugged. When the South American copper magnate Francisco D'Anconia is asked about the spectacular failure of a giant mining venture, he explains that he ran it according to the moral principles everyone kept telling him to follow: he worried only about providing employment to his workers, not about producing an actual product, and he hired his employees only the basis of their "need." For example, when he hired a mining specialist to run the operation, D'Anconia explains that "He wasn't a very good specialist, but he needed the job very badly."  

The same pattern applies to the current mortgage crisis. Mortgage lenders made a lot of loans to people who weren't very good credit risks, but who needed the loans very badly. And like D'Anconia, these lenders were merely acting according to the moral principles that everyone kept telling them to follow—as well as the policies that were required of them by government regulators and congressional leaders.  

For more than a decade, the explicit purpose of legislation and regulation coming out of Washington has been to force lenders into extending more loans to financially unstable borrowers. All of this was done for the purpose of providing "affordable housing"—to borrowers who we now know couldn't really afford it.  

The assault on lending standards began in the early 1990s, when the Community Reinvestment Act was invoked to fight alleged discrimination by lenders against minorities and residents of inner-city neighborhoods. It turns out the claims of bias were based on a faulty study, but the damage was done. To redress the supposed discrimination, lenders were encouraged to use "flexible underwriting standards."

A Federal Reserve "guide to equal opportunity lending" for example, offered banks the following advice on how to adjust their lending standards to avoid being punished. Banks should throw out the usual formula for the maximum ratio between the mortgage payment and the borrower's income, because "Many lower-income households are accustomed to allocating a large percentage of their income toward rent." Smaller down payments and closing costs should be accepted because "Accumulating enough savings to cover the various costs associated with a mortgage loan is often a significant barrier to homeownership by lower-income applicants." No comment is necessary for this next one: "Policies regarding applicants with no credit history or problem credit history should be reviewed." And the document urges a more flexible approach to verifying the borrower's income, including giving credit for "welfare payments and unemployment benefits"—which actually count as proof of the borrower's lack of income.  

All of this was meant to increase the number of loans to impoverished blacks in inner-city neighborhoods. But banks were warned that "If an institution permits flexibility in applying underwriting standards"—as they were being required to do by the government—then "it must do so consistently." Which means that the same debased lending standards were encouraged and required for everyone.  

Commentators are now complaining that lenders failed to inquire about the risks of the loans they were making—but in fact they were vigorously discouraged from making such inquiries, or from acting on that knowledge if they discovered it.  

The charge of racial discrimination was the stick the government used to drive down lending standards. But we didn't hear much complaint from the lenders after a while, because the government was also busy doling out carrots.  

Lenders became accustomed to originating loans, then selling them to third-party buyers who packaged the income from these loans into "mortgage-backed securities." This meant that the original lender could make a riskier loan without the fear that he would still be holding the mortgage when the borrower defaulted. But why weren't the buyers of these mortgage-backed securities stricter in their standards regarding what they would buy?  

Here is the next piece of the puzzle. As part of the same "affordable housing" crusade, Congress has systematically encouraged the expansion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two "government sponsored enterprises" that were formed precisely for the purpose of buying mortgages from the original lenders, guaranteeing the income from these mortgages, and then re-selling them to other investors. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could keep on guaranteeing these mortgages without trashing their own credit rating because they were backed by the federal government, which put taxpayers on the hook for all of the risks involved.  

This turned out to be a honey pot for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Their government backing allowed them to raise money at lower interest rates than other lenders. This meant they could buy a mortgage originated at a higher interest rate with funds they raised at a lower interest rate—and pocket the difference between the two interest rates.  

Financial analyst Bill Burnham, who consulted for Fannie Mae in the 1990s, describes the consequences of this scam:  

Fannie began a series of largely successful political campaigns to increase the volume of mortgage securities available to fund their habit…. [I]t quickly found…[a] politically palatable way to increase the pool of mortgages it could buy: it dropped underwriting standards under the guise of increasing "home ownership" and "affordability."…  

Fannie Mae began a campaign to increase "home ownership" and "affordability." It created a home ownership "foundation" which opened offices in almost every congressional district and promptly set about mobilizing all the local advocates for "affordable" housing to put pressure on their elected representatives to let Fannie Mae offer "affordable housing programs."…  

This proved to be a highly effective political coalition for Fannie Mae. Not only did they build a huge network of grass roots political supporters through their "foundation," but politicians saw political advantages in supporting the programs because it cast them in the role of trying to help families buy a new home (as opposed to lowering underwriting standards to help a giant corporation keep up its earnings growth by taking a free ride on the US government's guarantee).

But not all of this pressure for lower standards was originated by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. Some of it came back down from Congress. A recent New York Times article describes how "executives of both companies maintain that one of the reasons the firms hold so many bad loans is that Congress has leaned on them for years to buy mortgages from low-income borrowers to encourage affordable housing." In fact, "Once, a high-ranking Democrat telephoned executives and screamed at them to purchase more loans from low-income borrowers, according to a congressional source."   

OBAMA: YOU CAN PUT LIPSTICK ON AN EARMARK, BUT IT'S STILL PORK

Do the Dems and leftard media dare question Palin and McCain's sterling record on earmarks while giving porksters Obama and Biden? What chutzpah! Talk about pigs…this says a lot. hat tip the peach

By Drew Griffin and Scott Bronstein (CNN) -- Last year Sen. Barack Obama, submitted a laundry list of federal funding requests, known as earmarks, to the Senate Appropriations Committee: 112 earmarks totaling more than $330 million in taxpayer funds. McCain does not ask for earmarks.

Business Wire,  Feb 1, 2008 

Long-Time Porkbuster Deserves to Be President

WASHINGTON -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste Political Action Committee (CCAGWPAC) today endorsed Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) for the office of President of the United States.

"Senator McCain is not just a war hero, he is a taxpayer hero. He has fought government waste, fraud, and abuse in Washington for 26 years. He has never requested a pork-barrel project. There is nothing the big-spending politicians in Washington, D.C. fear more than a McCain presidency," said CCAGWPAC Chairman Tom Schatz.

"Congressional earmark reforms and President Bush's executive order telling agencies to ignore earmarks in report language would not have occurred without John McCain," Schatz added. "He fought a lonely and courageous battle against pork for many years and exposed the corrupting influence of earmarks. These wasteful projects are now at the forefront of the debate in Washington. In the past week, House and Senate Republicans called for additional reforms as more members of Congress pledge to stop requesting new earmarks."

While Senator McCain's national security credentials are well-known, he has long had concerns over the impact of pork-barrel projects on the Pentagon's priorities. For the past decade, Senator McCain has compiled a list of pork-barrel projects for spending bills and offered amendments to eliminate such waste. His leadership on spending and tax issues is demonstrated by his Council for Citizens Against Government Waste 2006 vote rating of 95 percent, which was tied for the highest in the Senate.

"The key word in the presidential campaign is 'change,'" said Schatz. "If the American people really want to change business as usual in Washington, D.C.; if they really want change in America, they should vote for John McCain. The special interests don't like John McCain because he has stood up to them throughout his career, and as President he will continue to fight for what's best for the national interest."

CCAGWPAC is affiliated with the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste, a 501(c)(4) organization. CCAGWPAC's mission is to support political candidates who will fight to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in government and represent the best interests of taxpayers.

Paid for by the Council for Citizens Against Waste Political Action Committee. http://www.ccagwpac.org . Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

John McCain is a “hero” to U.S. taxpayers for his lifetime record of resisting earmarks, while Barack Obama and Joe Biden are “hostile” and “unfriendly,” a government spending watchdog group has concluded. (FOX News)

In its new report, the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste gave the Republican presidential nominee a 100 percent rating for his votes in the Senate last year, and a lifetime score of 88 percent.

By comparison, the nonpartisan, nonprofit group, which is the lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste, assigned Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, 10 percent last year and a lifetime score of 18 percent. Biden, Obama’s running mate, scored 0 percent last year and an overall score of 22 percent.

“In spite of a growing recognition that earmarks are a problem, Congress still spends more than is necessary,” CCAGW President Tom Schatz said in a written statement. “Taxpayers would be wise to hang onto their wallets and demand that Congress refocus its priorities and cut wasteful spending.”

The group has analyzed roll call votes since 1991 to distinguish members of Congress whom it describes as taxpayer advocates from those it says favor wasteful programs and pork-barrel spending. In the last year, the group rated 100 House votes and 35 Senate votes.

McCain scored 100 percent [...]

Obama voted against prohibiting Congress from borrowing from the Social Security Trust Fund to finance other government programs (Biden and McCain did not vote). Obama and Biden voted against barring non-defense earmarks in spending bills for ongoing combat operations while McCain voted in favor of it.

How is the race even a contest? Obama is such a full of shitnik.

Who and What is behind the financial crisis?

The financial news is unsettling to say the least. The thought that the government is going to get involved, regulate and put its choke hold on free markets is more disturbing.

It never ceases to amaze me that incompetents rush in where pros fear to tread. I don't think a bunch of bloviators who haven't ever run a successful business for the most part, are going to solve our business problems. Leeches and moochers whose only skill appears to be a propensity for spending other people's money (namely yours and mine) are not going to solve our financial problems.
Any business that made bad decisions, any individual that took a loan he/she couldn't pay, should suffer the fate of their own recklessness. Why should we bail out the drunken sailor?

I like this editorial in the NY SUN: In Defense of Markets

Every policy decision made by the Dems has hurt the American people. Certainly the ban on drilling for oil and gas, our own natural resources, is the most obvious example.

Over at Hot Air (hat tip Clyde)

The New York Times reported this five years ago:

The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.

Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry.

The new agency would have the authority, which now rests with Congress, to set one of the two capital-reserve requirements for the companies. It would exercise authority over any new lines of business. And it would determine whether the two are adequately managing the risks of their ballooning portfolios.

The plan is an acknowledgment by the administration that oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — which together have issued more than $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt — is broken. A report by outside investigators in July concluded that Freddie Mac manipulated its accounting to mislead investors, and critics have said Fannie Mae does not adequately hedge against rising interest rates.

This should have been a no-brainer, right?  With hindsight, we can see that the Bush administration had accurately diagnosed the problem in the lending market and had a plan to address it.  Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reluctantly supported the plan.  However, Democrats objected (emphases mine):

Among the groups denouncing the proposal today were the National Association of Home Builders and Congressional Democrats who fear that tighter regulation of the companies could sharply reduce their commitment to financing low-income and affordable housing.

”These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ”The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”

Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed.

”I don’t see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,” Mr. Watt said.

There's more. Read it all. And then there is this.

Most damning: (hat tip cathy)

Fannie Mae is the biggest single source of money for mortgages in the United States. From 1998 to 2004, the years covered by the OFHEO investigation, it was headed by former Clinton budget director Franklin Raines, whose top management team included former Clinton Justice Department official Jamie Gorelick, sometimes mentioned as a future attorney general in a Democratic administration. During that period, the report says, Raines and his team grossly overstated Fannie Mae’s earnings — to the tune of $10.6 billion — for the purpose of paying themselves big bonuses. “By deliberately and intentionally manipulating accounting to hit earnings targets,” the report says, “senior management maximized the bonuses and other executive compensation they received, at the expense of shareholders"…

In doing so, the report says, Raines and his team steered Fannie Mae far afield from its original mission, transforming it from a stable business into a risky one…

Fannie Mae and Freddoe Mac Invest in Lawmakers (hat tip rut)

When the federal government announced two months ago that it would prop up mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, CRP looked at how much money members of Congress had collected since 1989 from the companies. On Sunday the government completely took over the two government-sponsored enterprises, and we've returned to our data to bring you the updates, this time providing a list of all 354 lawmakers who have gotten money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (in July we posted the top 25). These totals are based on data released electronically from the FEC on Sept. 2 and include contributions to lawmakers' leadership PACs and candidate committees from the floundering companies' PACs and employees. Current members of Congress have received a total of $4.8 million from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with Democrats collecting 57 percent of that. This week we also wrote about how much money lawmakers had invested of their own money in the companies last year--a total of up to $1.7 million.

All Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008

Check out the top three:

All Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008

Name	Office	State	Party	Grand Total	Total from PACs	Total from Individuals
Dodd, Christopher J	S	CT	D	$165,400	$48,500	$116,900
Obama, Barack	S	IL	D	$126,349	$6,000	$120,349
Kerry, John	S	MA	D	$111,000	$2,000	$109,000

 

Deadly Dems Gushing, Giggly over Gustav

In case you thought the moral depravity of the left was only part of the DNA of the radical fringe, check this out from RedState: (hat tip Jeremayakovka)

On a plane from Denver to Charlotte following the Democrats' convention, I found myself seated behind former National Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Don Fowler and Congressman John Spratt of South Carolina. Their conversation was interesting to say the least.

For example, they made fun of Sarah Palin for several minutes, Fowler calling her "Dan Quayle" on steroids and Spratt creatively describing her as "just terrible." They both agreed that, "Other than the simple fact that she's a female," she has nothing to offer.

Watch how the former National Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Don Fowler is laughing about a hurricane hitting ..........

So you see, it's funny. That New Orleans will get a hurricane. That's funny because it is due to hit when President Bush is scheduled to speak. Isn't that cool? Fowler isn't the only one who thinks so, just ask Michael Moore.

We all know Democrats used and use Katrina as a political football as callously as possible. Here's a candid moment showing some can hardly wait for another one.

All Class.

More DEMOCRAT VOTER FRAUD

Just who is watching the damn store? It's hell on wheels here in the good ol' USA. Obama grabbing illegal donations from Gaza, from Doodad, an gibberish,altered COLBs, ACORN is registering dead people and now this. Where is the rule of law? It's the frickin wild wild west ....

McCain will have to win in a landslide in order for the vote to even look close.

MORE VOTER FRAUD - CHECK THIS OUT IN DENVER! (FROM NO QUARTER ) hat tip Cathy

Voter Registration alive and well in Denver! Several PUMA members were out and about in Denver trying to savor some of the ambiance when they were approached by a group of young people registering voters in Denver. They tried to register this group to vote — all of them are registered voters in other states. The young people never asked where they lived, only if they wanted to register to vote.

These PUMAs caught up with me in between gigs….excited and confused, they needed to tell me the story of voter registration in Denver. These ladies poliely declined to re-register but asked a question of these young people. They asked, where are these voter registration forms going….. the answer: MoveOn.org!

They have endorsed Obama and promised to mobilize their members on Obama’s behalf.

Why are voter registration forms being sent to MoveOn.org?

Why hasn't ACORN been stripped of its eligibility?

ACORN has been caught red handed registering dead people many, many times so why are they still allowed to do this? Why is anyone allowed to do this? Why the need for corrupt organizations to "register voters"?

If it were done properly, as it should be, every voter would register to vote on their own. Voting is a privilege. If you won't get off yer fat keyster to register, you don't deserve the honor of voting of a free republic. Remember those women in Afghanistan crossing over mountains and valleys just to vote? And Iraq?  Think about it.

Organizations such as ACORN seem to exist to hijack the system. As early as  Novemer 2006, I ran it post, "I SEE DEAD PEOPLE...  voting on election day" - appararently  a federal grand jury in Kansas City indicted four persons working for the group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), accusing them of submitting more than 40,000 voter registration forms with fictitious names, phony signatures and bogus addresses.

Is this the kind of "change" Obambi" is shilling for? Tell me what he brings that is not evil and marxist?

Like I said, why is this group still allowed to register voters?

Democrats for MCain sent me this post with this terse warning, "Republicans should watch their backs.  Obama will pull the same voter fraud crap on you guys".

Read the following comment on another PUMA blog and bear in mind that BTW, Obama has paid SEIU over a quarter of a million dollars in "canvasing expenses" and they have dumped big bucks in support of Obama but through independent campaigning for Obama--as in over $125,000 [corrected]  in the last FEC filing.

The Obama campaign is not worried by the polls. I wouldn’t either if I were them.
Dead and nonexistent people can’t be polled, but they do vote.

Soros in Control of National Voter Mobilization Efforts August 26, 2008 –George Soros is the prime mover behind America Votes, an umbrella organization of 48 entities involved in various voter-registration and mobilization drives in 14 states. America Votes received $2.15 million from George Soros and $854,000 from co-conspirator Peter Lewis (total over $3 million) in 2006, and $1.25 million (from Soros), along with $1.25 million from the SEIU and $1 million from (Democracy Alliance) Fund for America, in 2007. The Center for Responsive Politics says that, in 2006, they were the second best-financed election committee behind SEIU. In total, America Votes spent over $7 million in 2007, and has already spent $10 million this year. Reading their website, however, it is very unclear as to exactly what they do with all that money.

The board of America Votes (not to be confused with ACORN’s “Project Vote”) is loaded with Soros-connected operatives, including: SEIU director Anna Burger; Paul Booth operative Larry Scanlon; Howard Dean/MoveOn operative Arshad Hason; Center for Community Change director and Open Society advisor Deepak Bhargava; ACORN President Maude Hurd; and former senior advisor to Nancy Pelosi, Shamina Singh. Martin Frost, a former long-term Democratic Congressman from Dallas, is the titular President of the operation.

This money-stuffed Soros-ruled apparatus is perched in an advisory and intelligence-gathering role with various Democrat-affliliated entities. With ACORN’s “Project Vote,” it is to take the place of the moribund regular Democratic Party apparatus.

In May, much was made of Barack Obama’s public call to stop funding “outside organizations,” which he made following a meeting with his finance committee in Indianapolis. The coverage played this as a loss for David Brock’s Progressive Media USA and John Podesta’s Fund for America. Reading the fine print, however, this call indicated a Soros-led shift away from the public media, and toward more covert “voter registration” effort, all the time under his control. “We’re continuing with our fundraising and things have been going well for us,” Frost told an interviewer at that time.

Cuyahoga board probes ACORN voter registration drive Count Us Out blog

A national organization that conducts voter registration drives for low-income people has curtailed its push in Cuyahoga County after the Board of Elections accused its workers of submitting fraudulent registration cards.

The board is investigating the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Results of the inquiry could be turned over to the county prosecutor.

Board employees said ACORN workers often handed in the same name on a number of voter registration cards, but showing that person living at different addresses. Other times, cards had the same name listed, but a different date of birth. Still another sign of possible fraud showed a number of people living at an address that turned out to be a restaurant.

“I’m obviously very concerned,” Board Chairman Jeff Hastings said. “This goes to the essence of our democracy.”

ACORN had a part-time staff of 30 who worked five days a week to find unregistered people. The workers made $8 an hour and were required to sign up 20 voters in each five-hour shift.

The elections board’s registration department said in a report that ACORN’s quota contributed to the possible fraud.

ACORN stopped the registration efforts of the part-timers on Aug. 15. Three salaried employees continue the drive to sign up voters.

Kristopher Harsh, head organizer for the agency’s Cleveland office, said it is unlikely a full-fledged movement will resume before the Nov. 4 election.

ACORN has submitted about 75,000 voter registration cards to the Cuyahoga board this year.

Board employees are unsure how many of the cards are fraudulent. But the voter registration department received so many suspicious cards that it began compiling a binder with evidence. The binder grew to be an inch-thick.

OT but related: Some Clinton Donors Are Contributing to McCain Dozens of Prominent Fundraisers Have Donated over $200,000 in Last Few Months  ABC news

Some of Hillary Clinton's most fervent supporters are taking their enthusiasm  and their campaign contributions -- to John McCain.

More than 85 of Clinton's fundraisers, including Donald Trump, Univision chief executive Joseph Uva, cable mogul Charles Dolan, philanthropist Norma Hess and one of Florida's biggest lobbyists appear to be skipping Barack Obama when it comes to writing checks for the general election, according to an ABCNews.com review of campaign finance records.

These Clinton donors have contributed at least $200,000 to McCain's campaign in the last few months, an amount which doesn't include larger contributions to the Republican joint fundraising committees.

LIVE AT THE DNC: Obama Biden Laden with Demagoguery

LIVE AT DNC. Biden video is on. Biden is talking about Bush and abuse of power. WTF?  Bush went to Congress and to the UN every time to the consternation of America firsters, internationalists lasters. Abuse of power is the "fairness doctrine". Abuse of power is Obama going to the Department of Justice to get a conservative advertisement off the air. Abuse of power is Obama going to the Department of Justice and trying to instigate an investigation of the conservative funder of those ads -- but its ok for Barack to suck at Soro's teet.

Why was Biden chosen. The guy was done. Toast. He was retiring from the Senate. He gave the presidency his last shot. He got 9,000 votes. His career was over. how did he get here?

Biden is speechifying. He starts off folksy. He is welling up ..... "proud to share the stage with President B"... almost said Bush .. "Clinton".

Back to Scranton Pa ....... snooze button.

Lots of squareball jazz ............. snooze.

UPDATE: The American dream is slipping away. Ugh. The is party of the clinically depressed. They are the party of no, no, no. Man they love bad news.

He is ranting ... "Good people asking how am I going to retire? How am I going to pay my bills? He called McCain Bush. "Freudian slip".

"The promise of tomorrow will be better than their yesterdays. And that's in trouble. And McCain doesn't know it. Barack Obama knows it. He worked hard." He did? WTF did he do?

Bush McCain. Bush McCain. That's not change. That's more of the same. This is the mantra. That's not change. That's more of the same.

"Millions of Americans have shipped their jobs offshore". Yeah, thank big labor and unions for that big boy. You have to stay competitive. You can't make it impossible to do business. You must help business, unshackle business not over tax businesses, raise minimum raise and force them to pay health benefits.

"Barack Obama will bring down healthcare costs". WTF is this clown talking about?

"Equal pay for women!" Good luck with that.

"We have so few friends" [in the international community]. The party of pessimism.

"We will hold Russia accountable for their actions." Uh, how you going to make friends doing that Joe? Isn't that unilateralism? What about making friends?

Biden is now making the case for talking to Iran. NUTS! "After 7 long years, even Bush recognizes that Barack Obama is right". "We have to tell Iran they have to change" Oh yeah, that's the ticket, that will work.

Why am I watching this?

THE MESSIAH HAS ARRIVED! HE IS CRASHING THE PARTY! CROWD GOES WILD

Obama is talking without a teleprompter - he is screwing up. First line -- started stammering. "Now you know why I am SO PROUD to have Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Beau Biden, Mama Biden, as my vice- President".

"We're gonna take America back" From who?

Top down bottom up .... stammering.

Explaining why he moved the convention out of the center and down to the stadium - so he could open it up to  all the people.

Everyone on stage except Michelle, she is looking on from the stands. Why?

UPDATE: Joe Biden Convention Speech transcript. hat tip Indigo Red

WITH BIDEN ON BOARD, CAN OBAMA BE TRUSTED? Caroline Glick

But while Biden's rhetoric on America's relationship with Israel is firm, his positions on issues critically important to Israel's national security call into question his willingness to stand by Israel. He is a staunch supporter of an Israeli transfer of the strategically critical Golan Heights to Syria and has harshly criticized the Bush administration for its refusal to support Israeli negotiations with Syria. At the same time, he downplays the significance of Syria's strategic alliance with Iran and its sponsorship of terrorists in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority. Belittling those ties, Biden has claimed repeatedly and without a shred of evidence that the Syrians really want to put all of that behind them.

Biden's positions on Iran are even more troubling. Over the past decade, since Iran's ballistic missile program and its nuclear program came into full view, Biden has distinguished himself both for his refusal to support tough U.S. diplomatic moves against Iran and for his absolute opposition to the notion of a U.S. military strike on Iran's nuclear installations. In 1998, Biden was one of only four senators to vote against the Iran Missile Proliferation Sanctions Act, a bill that punished foreign companies or other entities that sent Iran sensitive missile technology or expertise.

In February 2005, at a speech before the global Davos Conference, Biden said that Iran's quest for nuclear capabilities is understandable and called on the U.S. to address Iran's "emotional needs by signing a non-aggression pact with the mullocracy.

In September 2007, Biden was one of just a handful of senators who voted against a Senate resolution calling on the State Department to classify Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps a terrorist organization. The Revolutionary Guards is responsible for the insurgency in Iraq and for commanding, financing, arming and training Hizbullah, Hamas and other international terrorist groups. It is also responsible for securing and developing Iran's nuclear weapons project and its ballistic missile arsenal.

For his part, Obama managed to be absent from the Senate during the vote last year, though he stated his objection to the resolution referring to it as "excessively provocative.

As to attacking Iran's nuclear installations, though Biden has claimed he would not take the military option "off the table, he has spoken of impeaching President Bush if he attacks Iran's nuclear installations. Late last year the New Hampshire Seacoast Online reported, "Biden said that the best deterrent to prevent pre-emptive military action n Iran is to make it clear, even if it is at the end of [Bush's] final term, action will be taken against Bush to ensure 'his legacy will be marred for all time.'

In the weeks after the September 11 attacks, Biden was already thinking about appeasing Iran. In a New Republic profile in October 2001, Biden was quoted raising the following suggestion to his Senate staffers: "Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran.

Bill Clinton's Statism: A Speech only a Commie Could Love

By g-d, it shocks me that this socialist pablum is still being sold to an unsuspecting public. Sucking at the teet of the state, that's all the Democrats know. Failed. Communism. Failed. Socialism failed. Just look to their idols across the pond. Europe failed.

Internationalism and multi-lateralism - the very failed policy of Condi and Bush 2 is being trotted out, yet again. It's why we are in the pickle we are in - in Iran and Georgia.

Cliton: Our position in the world has been weakened by too much unilateralism and too little cooperation; a perilous dependence on imported oil; a refusal to lead on global warming; a growing indebtedness and a dependence on foreign lenders; a severely burdened military; a backsliding on global non-proliferation and arms control agreements; and a failure to consistently use the power of diplomacy, from the Middle East to Africa to Latin America to Central and Eastern Europe.

It's all we've been doing with the damn EU, the perm 5, and UNSC. Bloody bullshit.

He will work for an America with more partners and fewer adversaries. He will rebuild our frayed alliances and revitalize the international institutions which help to share the costs of the world’s problems and to leverage our power and influence. He will put us back in the forefront of the world’s fight to reduce nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and to stop global warming.

Show me one war won by appeasement. Oybambi is going to get the barbarians to throw their nukes away? Put down the bong.

He will continue and enhance our nation’s global leadership in an area in which I am deeply involved, the fight against AIDS, TB and malaria, including a renewal of the battle against HIV/AIDS here at home.

Uh, Bush did that. "President Bush's sense of mission to improve the lives of the people of the Middle East has attracted so much attention that the Wall Street Journal called him "Bush of Arabia" the other day over an article by Fouad Ajami. Less widely appreciated are Mr. Bush's achievements in Africa, which are worth marking as the president embarks today on a visit that is scheduled to include trips to Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Liberia. Mr. Bush has committed $15 billion to fight AIDS and HIV in Africa, and the result is that the number of Africans benefiting from anti-retroviral drugs has soared to 1.3 million today from 50,000 a few years ago. A similar effort is under way to fight malaria, with similarly promising results." Read Bush of Africa here

He spoke a having a strong defense. Ha! Who did more to decimate our defense and armed forces?

Clinton's full speech here.

UPDATE: Melissa liveblogged it over at Right Wing News

BIDEN'S CLOSE TIES TO REZKO: MORE OF THE SAME "CHANGE"

Is anyone clean in that party? Change? Yeha how about change from gansta politics? How about change from a corrupt poltical machine? What full of shitniks.

Biden has deep ties to Rezko accomplice JOSEPH CARI Sun Times hat tip Dee

30-year friend of VP pick guilty in kickback scheme

DENVER -- No matter what help Barack Obama might get from Sen. Joseph Biden, his newly named vice presidential running mate won't give Obama much cover on the Tony Rezko front.

Biden has described himself as a 30-year friend of a key figure in the Rezko trial who's pleaded guilty to a federal extortion charge in Chicago and is awaiting sentencing.

When the Delaware senator began contemplating his own 2008 presidential run, he initially was helped by Chicago lawyer Joseph Cari Jr., who also served as Biden's Midwest field director in his failed 1988 bid for president.

In 2005, Cari admitted to taking part in an $850,000 kickback scheme that prosecutors say was part of a larger political fund-raising operation for Gov. Blagojevich overseen by Rezko, who was convicted in June of wide-ranging corruption involving state deals.

On the day Cari's name first surfaced in the federal probe of the state Teachers Retirement System, the former finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee and for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee was to have hosted a Biden fund-raiser in Chicago. Cari was a no-show at that July 25, 2005, event.

Offering Cari a vote of confidence at the time, Biden said, "All I know is Joe Cari is a friend, and he's an honorable guy, but I don't know anything beyond that."

Leader of Muslim Brotherhood-linked organization gets standing ovation at Democratic Convention

The other day I called for the removal of Ingrid Mattson from the DNC platform: THE DNC INVITES TERROR SYMPATHIZER, JIHAD APOLOGIST MUSLIM KEYNOTE SPOT.

Of course, they did no such thing. Not only did this pro-jihadi speak, she received a standing ovation.

The party of sex, drugs, rock and roll, "womens rights", sexual liberation, blah blah blah bowing to the burka.The differences in parties could not be more obvious.

Leader of Muslim Brotherhood-linked organization gets standing ovation at Democratic Convention Jihadwatch

The Brotherhood document from which this quote is taken concludes with “a list of our organizations and the organizations of our friends.” Among these organizations is the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Ingrid Mattson is the President of the Islamic Society of North America. ISNA was also named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case.

Mattson herself has made a series of highly questionable remarks.

"Dems' message: 'Faith is what we live,'" by Aaron J. Lopez for the Rocky Mountain News, August 25 (thanks to Paul):

[...] "With all due respect to the commentators, we don't need to bring faith to the party. Faith is what we live," pronounced the Rev. Leah Daughtry.

"Democrats are, have been, and will continue to be people of faith. And people of faith are, have been, and will continue to be Democrats."

Daughtry, CEO of the Democratic National Convention Committee, served as emcee of an interfaith service - Faith in Action - that attracted about 3,000 people of various ages, races and religions to the Colorado Convention Center.

Among those in attendance were Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn and Gov. Bill Ritter, who welcomed the congregation to the first official event of the DNC.

"There is a tremendous intersection of faith and politics," Ritter said. "Politics at its deepest root is moral." [...]

Speakers included Rabbi Steven Foster, of Congregation Emmanuel in Denver; Bishop Charles Blake, of the Church of God in Christ; and Dr. Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America. [...]

[Blake] received one of several standing ovations.

Another was reserved for Mattson, who said she tells Islamic leaders abroad that Muslims in the United States still face discrimination constantly.

Despite the difficulties, Mattson said she remains convinced that the United States "is still the best place in the world to practice our faith."

Muslims in the United States still face discrimination constantly? Muslims in the United States enjoy more rights than they enjoy in many majority-Muslim countries. And CAIR's attempts to document "hate crimes" against Muslims in the U.S. have been shown to be tissues of fabrications.

But in making this wild claim before the Democratic Convention, Mattson is laying claim to Protected Victim Status for Muslims, which would place them beyond the scrutiny and criticism that is necessary today to head off the Brotherhood's "grand jihad."

BLACK REPUBLICANS PLASTER BILLBOARDS IN DENVER" MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS A REPUBLICAN!

How great is this? The National Black Republican Association is running 50 billboards across lunatic central - Denver, host to the DNC.  How many people know Martin Luther King was a Republican?  Or that the Republican party was the party of the abolition of slavery?  Or that the Republicans were the party of civil rights? Check out some of these leading lights of the GOP through American history.

You must read:The Democrats' Missing History

A Walk in the Democratic Party’s Racist Graveyard  By Frances Rice

Unveiled: Democrats’ Racist Past by Frances Rice

If you missed my coverage of the Black Republican Forum you can watch it the whole thing here.

50 MLK WAS A REPUBLICAN BILLBOARDS WELCOME OBAMA TO DENVER                                                      

We have put up more than 50 Martin Luther King Was A Republican billboards in Denver, Colorado to welcome Senator Barack Obama to the Democratic National Convention!

They are a reminder -- Obama is no MLK. 

Click here to read "A Covenant With Life: Reclaiming MLK's Legacy", in which MLK's niece, Dr. Alveda C. King, affirms that her uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican.

Click here to watch a video of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican

Click here for a map of the locations of MLK Was A Republican billboards in Denver, Colorado.

Click here for more information about the National Black Republican Association

Click here to donate to the National Black Republican Association

UPDATE: RACIST DEMOCRATS: Rep. Jones calls black Hillary Supporter "Uncle Tom"

DENVER - A black delegate for Hillary Rodham Clinton says she was called an "Uncle Tom" by Illinois Senate President Emil Jones, one of Barack Obama's political mentors.

Chicago political consultant Delmarie Cobb says Jones made the remarks Saturday night while discussing her support for Clinton. She called the remark "fighting words" and unacceptable.

Ingrid Mattson: THE DNC INVITES TERROR SYMPATHIZER, JIHAD APOLOGIST MUSLIM KEYNOTE SPOT

Once again the Dhimmicrats give a platform,  legitimacy and credence to the jihad. America will have to stop the Democrats if we hope to win the war on the West by Islamic jihad. Obama's convention. Carter and Matteson. Perfect.

The Democratic National Convention Committee today announced the program for its first-ever interfaith gathering, which kicks off at 2 p.m. Aug. 24 at Wells Fargo Theater in the Colorado Convention Center. A keynote speaker is unbelievably Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America. (More here)

ANTI-HATE GROUP CALLS ON DEMOCRATS TO DISINVITE RADICAL MUSLIM LEADER FROM CONVENTION

Once again the Dhimmicrats give a platform,  legitimacy and credence to the jihad. America will have to stop the Democrats if we hope to win the war on the West by Islamic jihad. Obama's convention. Carter and Matteson. Perfect.

The Democratic National Convention Committee today announced the program for its first-ever interfaith gathering, which kicks off at 2 p.m. Aug. 24 at Wells Fargo Theater in the Colorado Convention Center. A keynote speaker is unbelievably Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America. (More here)

ANTI-HATE GROUP CALLS ON DEMOCRATS TO DISINVITE RADICAL MUSLIM LEADER FROM CONVENTION

Jew hater Jimmy Carter to Speak at Obama's Convention

It is almost unbelievable, but it's Obama, so it's not. Has there ever been a high profile ex-pres that has done more to ease the way for a second holocaust. It is appalling that a blatant racist should speak at the Democrat National Convention.

Could you imagine having the Klu Klux Klan as the face of a political party -- oh, the Democrats have already done that - Robert Byrd, never mind, the left can get away with anything.

The Democrats - the party of racists, haters, moochers, looters ............... a party most foul.

Yid with lid has the story here:

Obama's ANTI-ISRAEL Feelings Slip Through Again This item was SHOCKING in its stupidity:

Jimmy Carter, John Kerry and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley will be among the speakers at next week's Democratic National Convention, organizers announced today.......

 

Former president Carter also is scheduled to speak Monday night, as is Jerry Kellman, a mentor to Obama during his days as a community organizer in Chicago source

So the question is...which is it. Is Senator Barack Obama TOTALLY insensitive to the Jewish Community or is he just BRAIN DEAD. If the Democratic candidate is trying to court the Jewish vote he has a funny way of showing it.

JIMMY CARTER IS THE MOST ANTI-ISRAEL AND ANTI-SEMITIC PRESIDENT SINCE ISRAEL WAS CREATED IN 1948. And now Senator Obama is giving the bigot, a NATIONAL STAGE at the convention.

Ambassador Marc Ginsburg who was Jimmy Carter's deputy senior adviser on the Middle East, and from 1977 through 1980 was White House liaison to the State Department. He has a unique perspective of Jimmy Carter's Middle East dealings. According to the Ambassidor, the reason that the Peanut President goes out of his way to bash Israel is that he feels American Jews did not kiss his butt enough for all that he did for Israel. Let me put it another way Carter Screws Israel to Get Back at American Jews. You get Obama? The man doesn't like Jews.

Jimmy Carter says America Should Negotiate with Hamas. Is That YOUR position?
Jimmy Carter Says Israel is an Apartheid State. Is That YOUR Position?
Did you read one newspaper last year when he was prancing around the world trying to de-ligitimize Israel?

SHILLING FOR HILLARY? No more

Pro- Hillary blog's are reporting: *BREAKING* Barry Soetoro’s Birth Certificate in Republican Hands [UPDATE]. Just for knowing, it's total bullshit.

This "Republican Operative" meme  is being spread by Hillary's camp. Operative? Ha! Republicans can barely find their ass with both hands. They are so politically correct they are afraid of their own shadow. They have not touched any of the O-bombshells.

This has Clintonostra written all over it. But she wants/needs clean hands should she manage to wrest the nomination away from the Obama. I am not sure Hillary wants 2012. We do know she is a Force of Nature, let's see if she is content to just wound Barack, or wants the nomination. All her actions are beginning to suggest the latter.

The African American constituency of the Democrat party is not gonna be happy if the nomination is "stolen" from Obama.  Hillary wants to deflect blame and direct the nasty anger towards the Republicans. Clearly she does not want to be the object of their angst and hostility. She needs their vote, badly.

It ain't the Republicans behind this story. Believe me,  Hillary's people are behind the "Soetero" birth certificate story as they have been behind a good deal more. Surely this was no accident.

"He [Obama] is just words and she is a lifetime of action.... She is the one who is ready to fill the big shoes of this job and he is an inspiring speaker who isn't, and whose background you are beginning to wonder about. She has brought real results and even his words today are in doubt, invented for a campaign. Ultimately he cannot win against John McCain."

Clinton's campaign, he argued, "must now in earnest show that their image of Obama Camelot is simply nothing but campaign pitter-patter."

Who could buy media like this?

During the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Rodham Clinton's top strategist urged her to portray her rival Barack Obama as someone with questionable roots in American values. She rejected the advice.

The Penn memo was leaked, deliberately. And ys the Clintonostra is that machiavellian.

I will not publish against Barack Hussein until we see IF he gets the nomination.  BHO is McCain's dream opponent, HRC his nightmare. McCain's 96-year-old mother could beat BHO.  The Republicans cannot even run a campaign.  HRC is competent, which makes her so dangerous, should she get elected.  And she is a lot more ruthless than competent.

Rush revealed today that HRC's people were out there long before the Rev. Wright thing got traction, trying to get Republicans to push it forward, so they could keep their hands clean.  GET IT?   The same movie is repeating.

Hillary can at least hide her hatred for America, BHO can not.  If she wins the nomination, she could well win in November. Despite the media's fawning, Barack's nomination is not a done deal.She  "suspended" her campaign, she didn't concede, remember?

The Democrat presidential nominating convention is August 25-28.  The number of delegate votes needed to win the nomination is 2118. According to the tabulations of  Real Clear Politics, Egobama has 1766.5 elected or "pledged" delegates, while the PIAPS has 1639.5 (half-delegates because the Florida and Michigan delegations' votes were cut in half).

These are delegates the candidates won in the primaries and for whom they are legally bound to vote in the first ballot.  Should no candidate win a majority of votes on the first ballot, these pledged delegates can vote for whomever they want.

What gives Egobama a winning majority of convention delegates is 463 "Superdelegates" who have promised to vote for him (as opposed to 257 for Clinton).  These folks are Democrat Congressmen, Senators, "Distinguished Party Leaders," and other convention invitees. 

Unlike pledged delegates, superdelegates can switch their promise to vote at any time, right up to the convention's first ballot.  Which means if 112 of Egobama's 463 decide to vote for Clinton instead, she wins.

There's more.  Note an interesting discrepancy in the RCP superdelegate tally.  A total of 823 will be voting at the convention, yet 463 (O's) and 257 (C's) add up to only 720.

Which means 103 superdelegates have yet to commit to either candidate.  All of them must be getting phone calls from both candidates on the hour.  But you can bet the Clintonistas are going after them hard-ball, enticing them with every carrot and threatening with every stick found in FBI files.  Every one of the 103 they get after 51.5 (some have half-votes) is one less of the 112 they have to peel off from O's 463 to win.

We all know how Egobama is tanking in the polls.  It's the timing that's so beautiful - just before the Olympics, when everyone stops paying any attention to politics to watch sports instead.  This, plus Egobama going off to vacation in Hawaii, locks in the poll momentum of McCain going up and O going down.
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Then the day after the Olympics end on August 24, the Dem convention begins in Denver.  It is going to be chaos, outside with protestors of every moonbat stripe, inside with delegates at each other's throats, and everything egged on by fanatically angry pro-Clinton women calling themselves Pumas (PUMA stands for Party Unity My Ass).

No way this convention won't end ugly.  O will come out of it seriously if not mortally weakened if he gets it, with millions of Puma-type women voting for McCain.  If H "steals" it, millions of blacks will want to burn Denver to the ground and certainly won't vote for her.

Do NOT support anything prior to Denver which would further weaken BHO in the event that HRC has plans.

UPDATE 8/14/08: Clinton Will Be Put Up for Nomination

MURTHA'S MURDEROUS BLOOD LIBEL: GO RUSSELL

American Thinker is running this dead on  political ad (go here). Atlas has been ACTIVELY ENDORSING BILL RUSSELL for months despite Murtha's skulduggery to keep him off the ticket. If you missed my radio show with Russell go here.

Rep. John Murtha's disgrace in denouncing the Marines of the Haditha incident is not going to fade away gently into the night. William Russell, has returned from a tour of duty in the military and is running against him. His campaign has produced this video featuring Darryl Sharratt, the father of one of the Marines accused by Murtha of being a "cold-blooded killer." His son Justin Sharratt has subsequently been fully vindicated, and all charges dropped.

Watch the ad.

Dhimmi Governor Rendell Bows to Nation of Islam, Does Bidding

  Ed Rendell was Mayor of Philadelphia. It was 1997. It is a bright, shining example of Democrats putting political correctness over all.  Party before country, political expediency over decency. It is why there is no "center" of the Democratic Party. Ed Rendell calls himself a centrist. He also calls himself a Jewish American. He is neither. He is a pig. Watch it and weep.

Pennsylvania Governor Rendell Praises Farrakhan and N.O.I. (Watch the video) hat tip Patti

Islam is a faith that respects their women"

Tell that to the thousands of dead victims of honor killings and the millions of women who have had their clits cut off, you silly tool.

Strong supporter of Obama and leading  Obama Vice-presidential candidate contender has a long, cozy relationship with the Nation of Islam.

He has shared a podium with Farrakhan,  praised the Nation of Islam with Farrakhan nodding in approval, and described Islam as "a faith that doesn't just talk about family values, it lives family values. A faith where men respect thier women and children."

He kisses CAIR's ass and he's a Jew. They'd slit his throat first. The definition of a modern dhimmi.

Remember this April 2007 post: CAIR's King Governor of the Jewicidals

Pelosi Scrubs Bad Book Reviews at Amazon

Pelosi adheres to her illiberal fascism in every aspect of her life. It seems she wields her totalitarian "fairness doctrine" far and wide. Lone Pony is reporting that she is scrubbing Amazon of bad reviews - were there any other kind?

Nancy Pelosi had over 100  BAD reviews of her failed  book disappear from Amazon's site yesterday! Ironically, the name of the book, "Know your Power" ... appropriate and is eerily Chavez-like.  She must have been inspired by Obama's meticulous scrubbing of his website, the surge, and google's removal of  images of his birth certificate.
Boy, they sure can clean for folks so dirty.
Ain't free speech grand.
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Corrupt Jew Hater Klein Forces ZOA Member to Resign: FLA Jews are you listening

FLORIDA VOTERS: VOTE THIS JEW HATING JEW OUT OF OFFICE. When will the Jewish lay leadership stop acting like the damn Judenrat of Germany and start actively advocating and campaigning for  great Americans - lovers of Israel, America and the those unafraid to confront our mortal enemies. American Jewish lay leadership seem to be escorting us onto the trains (excluding ZOA of course).

How fortunate for Florida that they could throw that bottom feeder Klein out and have an extraordinary thinking hero take over the helm of the 22nd district.

BTW, What Are You Doing Tuesday the 5th? Join us here. GO WEST!

Klein Out of Line: Does this help West?

by John Gizzi (07/31/08)

Ron Klein forces ZOA member to resign...

Last Thursday (July 24th), the president of the Zionist Organization of America, one of America’s the most respected of  Jewish-American organizations, called ZOA South Florida organization chairman Alan Bergstein and gave him an ultimatum:  stop his volunteer work for West or resign from his ZOA post. According to the West campaign, “it was made clear to Bergstein that Ron Klein was necessary to pass congressional legislation important to ZOA and to Israel.  ZOA has an obligation to its membership to ensure that their issues are considered, so the national office clearly felt it had no choice but to deliver the message to Mr. Bergstein.” 

Think about it for a minute, experts:  if Klein is sending a signal for someone to do give an ultimatum to a campaign volunteer for West, does it not follow that he is somewhat concerned about the Republican challenger?

In March, ZOA had arranged a joint appearance between Klein and West.  Two days before the scheduled event, Klein said he was unable to attend and asked ZOA to cancel the event.  The group refused, the event was held, Allen West did speak, and it was very well-attended.

And Bergstein?  Upset that (in his words) “a Jewish congressman has to threaten Israel and world Jewry by whining over one person’s activities, Bergstein chose the better part of valor, resigned his position with ZOA, and will work hard on the West campaign.

I have passed the report of the ZOA and West on to others, including the Republican Jewish Coalition and Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the lone Jewish Republican in the House.  Their response will be interesting—as will those of the political “experts” the next time we review the races.

Allen West responds:

We believe that Mort Klein was put in an untenable position by Ron Klein or his supporters.  Alan Bergstein was given the choice of resigning from either the ZOA or from his volunteer support for Allen West.  We are not aware of any Ron Klein supporters who received a similar phone call.

Mr. Bergstein resigned under protest from the ZOA.  To our knowledge, no mention was made of tax status concerns but even if the question had been raised, the remedy offered was an over-reaction.

Mr. Bergstein honored the group's rules when he set up the candidate forum that started this ball rolling.  Allen West appreciated the hospitality extended to him by the local ZOA and also honored their rules in his comments to them.

This argument is not--and should not be--between Allen West and the ZOA.  It is more properly directed at Ron Klein, without whose inappropriate pressure this would not have occurred.

WEXLER'S RESIDENTIAL FRAUD

One of the most liberal members of Congress in Florida Robert Wexler (Obamapropagandist and notorious leftist)  is not a resident of his district. He has lived in Maryland since the late 90s.  He claims to live in a  house in Del Ray (owned by his mother-law)  in an active adult community  where no children are allowed, though he has three children). You can't live there with kids, it's against the rules of the community.

Another example of Democrat hubris  - I am above the law. It seems he has no connection to Florida at all. Clearly it's a phantom residence, he ain't sleeping on monster-in-law's  couch with his three children.John Fund wrote earlier today (hat tip Larwyn)

An opponent of U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Delray Beach, has accused the six-term congressman of playing a residency shell game, saying Wexler pretends to keep an address in Florida while flagrantly making his home in Maryland.

Edward Lynch, a Republican running for Wexler's congressional seat

"The house he lists on his voter registration is his in-laws' house in a gated 55-and-older community," Lynch said this afternoon. "Legally, he can't move back with children under 18."

Lynch said Wexler's three children attend Charles W. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Md... Lynch, meanwhile, said he intends to file legal papers about the issue in the coming weeks.

[Since his children can't even legally live there] "...it is not truly his home, and it can't be his home, and he's using that address as his address to vote from," Lynch said... Lynch faces Wexler and no-party candidate Ben Graber in the Nov. 4 election for Florida's 19th Congressional District.

Everyday we have to slog through Democrat skulduggery. Where does he pay his taxes? The man has a giant house in the tony suburb of Potomac where he lives with his wife and family. This is typical democrat behavior - think Charles Rangel  with his 4, yeah 4, rent stabilized apartments in NYC where it is impossible to find housing.

Florida while there is still time! ALLEN WEST'S TIME HAS COME: FLORIDA GO WEST!! ROBERT WEXLER & RON KLEIN: ET TU BRUTE JEWS  ...

ROBERT WEXLER, FLA IS A LIAR AND A KAPO

CLICK ON CONTINUE TO WATCH THE VIDEO OR CLICK HERE.

Here's more from the lowlife Wexler blatantly lying to his constituents, lying to the old people in the Florida community.

Robert Wexler, Barack Obama's leading Congressional cheerleader and the man who has worked mightily to convince supporters of the American-Israel alliance that Obama can be relied upon to enhance Israel 's security against Iranian threats to destroy it, indicates he may very well oppose a Congressional Resolution meant to pressure Iran to comply with international demands regarding its nuclear program.

He willfully misleads -as others on the left have done- on the nature of this resolution. They, and Wexler, believe that the Resolution calls for a naval blockade and characterize this as an act of war. They are wrong. The Resolution merely calls upon the President to initiate an "international effort to impose stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains and cargo entering or departing Iran ". This is not a blockade and willfully misinterpreting it to be so is wrong and this interpretation is supported by very clear language in the rest of the Resolution that expressly states that "nothing in this Resolution should be construed as an authorization of the use of force against Iran ". Inspections are not an uncommon feature of non-proliferation efforts. The Proliferation Security Initiative recognizes the importance of being able to interdict and inspect suspect shipments.

The discovery of a ship containing nuclear research material on its way to Libya was key to the discovering and unraveling of the A.Q. Khan nuclear smuggling network and the terminating of Libya 's nuclear program.    Regardless, how reliable Wexler's assurances are regarding Barack Obama when he advocates, even at the expense of honesty, an appeasement approach that will strengthen Iran .

Of course, Wexler makes this announcement on the left-wing Huffington Post  where he has  a column.   To wit, Wexler writes:   

    In the coming weeks, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, of which I am a member, may vote on House Concurrent Resolution 362. Given my growing concerns regarding this resolution, including its failure to advocate for direct American engagement with Tehran and open language that could lead to a US blockade of Iran, I will lead an effort to make changes to this resolution before it comes to the Foreign Affairs committee for a vote. Despite being a cosponsor of this resolution -- these changes will ultimately determine whether or not I will continue to support H. Con. Res. 362.

So Barack Obama's chief supporter in the House, a man who the Senator has all but appointed as an Ambassador to the Jewish community, seems willing to misinterpret a Resolution in such a way to serve the interests of Iran .

Jews wake up! You have six million to answer to.

Wexler is a Jewicidal whore for the left who cloaks himself in orthodoxy. He would sellout his mother (and his mother in-law - which is invariably what this is, the sellout of Jewish mothers) to further his leftist, socialist agenda.

UPDATE: Lasky over at American Thinker does some investigating. Wexler is in trouble:

Residency issues/tax issues dog Wexler (extensively updated)

Clarice Feldman adds:

It occurs to me that he's in some big trouble.

It will be interesting to see if he paid income taxes in Md. If he did, he clearly lied when he claimed Fla residence. If he said he was a resident of Fla where there is no income tax, Md should have a tax fraud claim against him.

 

Here is what I found on MD residency:

 

Maryland Residency

What establishes whether or not you're considered aMaryland resident? The answer seems to depend on what the issue is. The Maryland MVA requires you to obtain a MD drivers license 60 days after you become a resident of the State. So, when are you a resident of the State? COMAR11.11.06.02 defines a resident as someone who: (1) Owns, leases, or rents a primary place of residence  in Maryland for more than 6 months; (2) Has no other residence in any other state or country (see COMAR section for further details). For income tax purposes, the definition is similar. There, a resident is defined as:

1. is domiciled in this State on the last day of the taxable year; or 2. for more than 6 months of the taxable year, maintained a place of abode in this State, whether domiciled in this State or not (Tax General Article of the MD Code 10-101). Finally, as far as voter registration, the Maryland Law Encyclopedia quotes Roberts v. Larkin, 340 MD 147, 1995 as defining residence as "the place of a person's fixed domicile." "

posted by Trevor Rosen at 3:30 PM 0 comments

 

Florida's residency requirements:

 

President of the United States: a natural born citizen and resident of the U.S. for the last 14 years.

• United States Senator:a citizen of the U.S. for at least 9 years and resident of the state when elected.
• Representative in Congress: a citizen of the U.S. for at least 7 years and resident of the state when elected.
• Governor and Lieutenant Governor: an elector and resident of the state for the preceding 7 years.
• Cabinet Members: an elector and resident of the state for the preceding 7 years.
• Public Defender: an elector and resident of the circuit upon taking office.
• State Senator: an elector and resident of the district upon taking office and a resident of the state for at least 2 years prior to election.
• State Representative: an elector and resident of the district upon taking office and a resident of the state for at least 2 years prior to election.
• Justice of the Supreme Court: an elector and resident of the state upon taking office.
• Judge, District Court of Appeal: an elector and resident of the state upon taking office.
• County Offices: (See DEO 94-04).

I called Congressman Wexler's office (202) 225-3001 and spoke to a man named "Josh" , asking if the Congressman has issued a formal statement on the issue and whether he has or would make public his income tax returns so we could see if he paid Md taxes or claimed Fla residency. He transferred me to the Congressman's voice mail where I repeated the questions.

The voice mail message says the Congressman regularly listens to his voice mail.

I think the House Ethics Committee ought to be opening a file on the Congressman to see if he has evaded applicable tax laws and violated Florida's residency requirements for running for office. 

Update 4 PM EDT

Here it appears is the relevant Fla law dealing with election fraud:

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• Elections Fraud Complaint Form(pdf,98kb) Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Rule 1S-2.025 Elections Fraud Complaints(pdf,13kb)

"A person who commits or attempts to commit any fraud in connection with voting, votes a fraudulent ballot, or votes more than once in an election can be convicted of a felony of the third degree and fined up to $5,000 and/or imprisoned for up to 5 years."

Elections fraud can rob many Americans of their voice in government and greatly impact the results of elections across the nation. It is the active participation of citizens, like yourself, which aid in our mission to eliminate elections fraud.

Elections fraud means any irregularities or fraud arising out of or in connection with voter registration or voting, or candidate petition or issue petition activities that may constitute a prescribed offense Chapter 104, Florida Statutes. "Elections fraud" does not include violations of Chapter 106, F.S.

Should you observe or witness a potential case of election fraud, we ask that you complete the Complaint Form the form so it may be further investigated (see Rule 1S-2.025, Elections fraud Complaints).

The Division conducts preliminary investigations into any irregularities or fraud involving voter registration or voting, or candidate petition or issue petition activities, in conjunction with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. If there is probable cause that a violation occurred, the Division will report its findings to the statewide prosecutor or the state attorney for the judicial circuit in which the alleged violation occurred for prosecution, where warranted.

Therefore, in order for us to be able to conduct preliminary investigations, it is imperative that you provide us with the date, time, place and any specific circumstances that are witnessed. We need credible evidence (this does not mean suspicion). We also need a means of contacting you to obtain additional information. If you believe you have witnessed elections fraud, please contact our Elections Fraud Hotline at 1- 877-868-3737.

I called an attorney at the General Counsel's office to see if anyone has filed a complaint and if there are any cases dealing with perjury on candidate petition forms.

They responded and said it was a federal matter, not a state one. That as to his present eligibility inquiry should be made to the Speaker of the House of Representatives or a challenge can be made iin federal district court in Florida.

As to whether he is liable for past election fraud, inquiry should be made to the Florida Attorney General.

Read it all over at The American Thinker

UPDATE: Cindy sent me this: "Wexler reacts here (like a crying little girl) Like I posted in the comments, they didn't have any problem ripping apart Rick Santorum for pretty much the same thing."

UPDATE: Corrupt  Wexker is scamming the tax code. That is so ....... Democrat.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESS: HIDES, RESTRICTS COVERAGE - FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK AGAIN

Why wouldn't Democrats want the American people, the folks,  to see them at work in Washington. This is an affront to every tenet of AN American government by the people, for the people .... yes, yes the little people.

This is works in tandem with the Democrat's venal Fairness Doctrine that seeks to shut down the few outlets right of center voices have to express their views. No radio station owner is going to run content that no one ants to hear (see Air America for the abject failure of liberal talk radio. Owners will switch formats. Business in business to make money. hello. )  Liberal fascism.

YOU CAN"T POST THIS!

Breaking News: Free Speech Under Attack Congressman John Culberson hat tip David

Today House Republican Leader John Boehner issued a statement indicating that Democrats are seeking to quash the right of Members of Congress to have free speech. According to the statement, the Democrats are looking at restricting Member content on websites outside the house.gov domain. Congressman Culberson is quickly becoming a "real time representative" by posting on Twitter.com, where he sends regular updates from the House floor and the halls of Congress, and on Qik.com, where he films and posts video updates on the Internet. This new technology allows him to bypass the mainstream media and shine sunlight into the darkest corners of Congress. If the Democrats strong-arm this rule, he would no longer be able to use these websites and our fundamental right to free speech will be taken away.

The following is Mr. Boehner's statement:

I’m writing to alert you to an attack on free speech that is making its way through Congress. This attack, which should concern activists of all political affiliations across the ideological spectrum, comes in the form of a new congressional rule that would prohibit Americans from viewing content published by Members of Congress on websites that are not “approved” by the Committee on House Administration, the panel that creates rules governing the internal operations of the U.S. House.

Millions of Americans today utilize free, unregulated and uncensored websites like YouTube on a daily basis to not only obtain information from their elected leaders about what’s going on in their government, but to also give feedback and easily share that information with others. The advent of new media technology has empowered American citizens with real-time information about the policy debates and actions being undertaken by Congress. This has increasingly forced Congress to become more transparent and made it easier for American citizens to hold their elected leaders accountable.

The Committee on House Administration is considering a new rule that could bring this trend to a screeching halt. The Committee is considering the adoption of new rules that would require outside websites such as YouTube to comply with House regulations before Members of Congress could post videos on them. Under the proposal, the House Administration Committee would develop a list of “approved” websites, and Members of Congress could post content only such websites.

If the proposed rule is adopted, the free flow of information over the Internet between Americans and their representatives will be significantly curtailed. Americans who currently use free websites like YouTube to obtain uncensored daily information about congressional policy debates will instead be forced to go to websites “approved” by the House Administration Committee in order to continue getting such information. This would amount to new government censorship of the Internet, by a panel of federal officials that is neither neutral nor independent.

House Republicans, led by Reps. Vern Ehlers (R-MI), Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and Tom Price (R-GA), have expressed their opposition to this attack on Internet freedom and proposed an alternative solution that would allow Members of Congress to continue posting content at sites of their choosing. I will continue to keep you updated as this situation unfolds. 

UPDATE: Democrats strike again! Rep. Mick Capuano (D-MA), who calls the internet a "necessary evil." (more at Redstate hat tip Van)

ANWR, THE DEMOCRATS AND THE BIG LIE

I received this from George whose brother worked in D.C. for a firm that helped companies and other entities present their views on public policy issues with printed materials, speeches and congressional testimony. "The pictures below are some of the ones he used on behalf of his client (not these exactly as these were forwarded to me from a friend who did not identify the source). His client was the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Their headline was “If you care about Mother Earth, you should support opening ANWR.” They went on to explain in detail about the methods and care taken to protect the environment while drilling for the energy that is the lifeblood of our economy –and way of life.    I was surprised, too."

Bottom line. When you hear Demoncrats saying ANWR won't solve all of our oil problems. Let me say - no one answer will (until some genius scientist develops a synthetic oil). Until such time, we must take many proactive actions. ANWR, shale, coastal drilling etc. -- altogether these solutions will relieve us of the horrible dependence we have on jihad oil.

Who the hell are the Dems working for? We elected them - they are public servants. They work for us. /not.

ANWR = Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Now… A comparison

And some perspective…

NOTE WHERE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AREA IS…

(it's in the "ANWR Coastal Plain")

THIS IS WHAT THE DEMOCRATS, LIBERALS AND "GREENS" SHOW YOU WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT ANWR …and they are right… these ARE photographs of ANWR

ISN'T ANWR BEAUTIFUL? WHY SHOULD WE DRILL HERE (AND DESTROY) THIS BEAUTIFUL PLACE?

WELL… THAT'S NOT EXACTLY THE TRUTH

Check the map .....the map showed that the proposed drilling area is in the ANWR Coastal Plain  

Do those photographs look like a coastal plain to you?  

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE…

THAT IS NOT WHERE THEY ARE WANTING TO DRILL!

THIS IS WHAT THE PROPOSED EXPLORATION AREA ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN THE WINTER

AND THIS IS WHAT IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN THE SUMMER

HERE ARE A COUPLE SCREEN SHOTS FROM GOOGLE EARTH

AS YOU CAN SEE, THE AREA WHERE THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT DRILLING IS A BARREN WASTELAND.

OH… AND THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE EFFECT ON THE LOCAL WILDLIFE…  

HERE IS A PHOTO (SHOT DURING THE SUMMER) OF THE "DEPLETED WILDLIFE" SITUATION CREATED BY DRILLING AROUND PRUDHOE BAY*… DON'T YOU THINK THAT THE CARIBOU REALLY HATE THAT DRILLING?

HERE'S THAT SAME SPOT DURING THE WINTER.

HEY, THIS BEAR SEEMS TO REALLY HATE THE PIPELINE NEAR PRUDHOE BAY*…

*The Prudhoe bay area accounts for 17% of U.S. domestic oil production

NOW, WHY DO YOU THINK THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE LYING ABOUT ANWR?

REMEMBER WHEN AL GORE SAID THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD WORK TO ARTIFICIALLY RAISE GAS PRICES TO $5.00 A GALLON?

WELL… AL GORE AND HIS FELLOW DEMOCRATS HAVE ALMOST REACHED THEIR GOAL!

You may want to give credit where credit is due to Al Gore and his global warming campaign the next time you fill your car with gasoline, because there is a direct connection between Global Warming and four dollar a gallon gas.  It is shocking, but true, to learn that the entire Global Warming frenzy is based on the environmentalist’s attack on fossil fuels, particularly gasoline.  All this big time science, international meetings, thick research papers, dire threats for the future; all of it, comes down to their claim that the carbon dioxide in the exhaust from your car and in the smoke stacks from our power plants is destroying the climate of planet Earth.  What an amazing fraud; what a scam. (more from John Coleman herer)

* The New Hampshire Union Leader: “It is conveniently forgotten today that former Vice President Al Gore, among other leftists, once advocated that the government artificially raise gas prices to discourage oil consumption." hat tip Tim Blair

NOW THAT YOU KNOW THE TRUTH, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

UPDATE: Stogie has this:

ANWR Exploration
House Republicans: 91% Supported
House Democrats: 86% Opposed

Coal-to-Liquid
House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 78% Opposed
Oil Shale Exploration
House Republicans: 90% Supported
House Democrats: 86% Opposed
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Exploration
House Republicans: 81% Supported
House Democrats: 83% Opposed
Refinery Increased Capacity
House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 96% Opposed
SUMMARY
91% of House Republicans have historically
voted to increase the production of American-
made oil and gas.
86% of House Democrats have historically
voted against increasing the production of
American-made oil and gas.

Another Democrat Abomination: Censure Congressman William Delahunt!

]Where the hell were the Republicans?  Keith Ellison (who took his oath on the Koran) and vile Conyers were interrogating  these fine men like they were Bin Laden.
If you do one thing today, Censure Congressman William Delahunt! Now.
Redstate has the whole thing here:

Damn us all and our party if we let this go
Congressman Delahunt can be reached at 202-225-3111 and by fax at 202-225-5658
By The Directors

It is no secret that public discourse in this country has become very shrill. Blogs on the left regularly feature vulgar diatribes against the right. Some on the right do the same. Keith Olbermann tells the President to "shut the hell up" on his television program. The New York Times publicly reveals the name of a CIA agent who did the dirty work of interrogating captured Al Qaeda operatives. The left says, "So, the right did it to Valerie Plame," treating as morally equivalent the disclosure of the spy no longer spying and the disclosure of one of the men Al Qaeda would love to behead.

Dismissive of the fact that it was Armitage all along.

While Congress has also descended into a more shrill style, until yesterday it had not crossed one line of civility that never should be crossed on either side.

David Addington is the Vice President's Chief of Staff. Yesterday, he testified before Congress.

During the course of the hearing, Congressman and Obama Superdelegate William Delahunt (MA-10) asked Mr. Addington about water boarding. Mr. Addington responded that he would not go into details because Al Qaeda is probably watching.

Congressman Delahunt's response was, "I'm glad they finally have a chance to see you."

Mr. Delahunt now denies he meant what he said. But what he clearly said was "I'm glad they finally have a chance to see you." Al Qaeda now knows the face of one of the men who relentlessly pursues its henchmen and deals with their interrogations. Mr. Addington volunteered for public service, not a death sentence with Congressional encouragement. Mr. Delahunt is both a vile liar and a cowardly lion willing to roar down at Mr. Addington while encouraging terrorists to do his dirty work in a war he has been ineffective at stopping.

The left, while attacking Charlie Black for stating the obvious -- that a terrorist incident helps the GOP politically because they are seen as more competent in the national security arena -- is defending this degradation of congressional discourse and vile swipe at Mr. Addington.

This discourse — a member of Congress glad Al Qaeda has a face it can pursue — is beneath the dignity of the Congress and beneath the dignity of civil discourse in this country.

If you do not call your Congressman today and demand the House of Representatives, at the very *least*, censure Congressman Delahunt, well damn us all. We have no right to carry on our fight.

The number is 202-224-3121 and Congressman Delahunt's email address is william.delahunt@mail.house.gov.

And some intrepid reporter should ask Mr. Obama what he thinks of this. After all, Mr. Delahunt was one of Mr. Obama's early supporters and is now an Obama superdelegate. Of course, you can ask Barack Obama yourself at (866) 675-2008.

UPDATE: From RightMarch.com:

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! We need to DEMAND that the U.S. House CENSURE this Congressman for inciting Al Qaeda to murder, NOW!

https://secure.responseenterprises.com/addington/?a=7

Thanks to Rep. Delahunt's despicable comments on broadcast television, David Addington and his family will probably need protection from now until the War on Terror is over!

Patriotic Americans MUST demand ACTION from Congress on this outrage -- and we've got just the way to do it!

TAKE ACTION: Rep. Delahunt is now trying to "backpedal" on what he said, denying that he didn't mean what his statement plainly inferred. He's even trying to say that he said "I" and not "they" in his statement – when all we have to do is go to YouTube to watch EXACTLY what he said!

Delahunt, at the very LEAST, must be censored by Congress for his remarks. To make sure this happens, we've set up our website so that you can send "Blast Faxes" to EVERY SINGLE U.S. Representative AT ONCE, urging that they CENSURE Delahunt for his outrageous comments TODAY!

For about what it would cost you in time and telephone charges, you can send Blast Faxes to ALL 435 members of Congress – RIGHT NOW: Go Here.

Obama/Gore/Soros/UN= Loss of sovereignty

The one worlders will have you by the throat and suck the life out of it. I hope McCain doesn't squander this opportunity I would bash Obama with this dreck.

Obama's Global Tax Bill Coming Soon Lee Cary, American Thinker

The Global Poverty Act of 2007 (S.2433) is coming up for a Senate vote sometime after the July 4 recess, according the office of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Once Harry Reid and the Democrat leadership put it on the calendar, we could have as little as a week to prepare for the vote.

The bill is sponsored in the Senate by Barack Obama.  Read about it here.

If passed, it will cost taxpayers $845,000,000,000 over the next 13 years, in addition to our current foreign aid expenditures. 

And the best part is that it will be administered in conjunction with...brace yourselves...the United Nations. The same one of "Food-for-Oil" fame.

It passed (H.R. 1302) earlier by a unanimous voice vote in the House. 

It's about global income redistribution. Their distribution - our income.

Heard much debate about it?   Ah, it's only 8.5 tenths of a trillion.

Liberal Fascism: PELOSI SUPPORTS CONTROLLED SPEECH

Speaker Pelosi made some stunning comments to a group of journalists yesterday regarding her support for the Fairness Doctrine:

“Do you personally support revival of the ‘Fairness Doctrine?’” I asked.

“Yes,” the speaker replied, without hesitation

Of course if this meant that the right would get equal time in and on the mainstream media, then the choke hold the media has in the big message and the national dialogue would forever change. And perhaps America would stay true to her fundamental values. NC, ABC, CBS, New York Times having to give eual time to every leftist position and slant would be the greatest thing that could happen to America. This sadly is not the case. The fairness doctrine would usher in a dark age. The American people have no clue what is going down.

The name itself is Randian "fairness doctrine". It is so Ellsworth Toohey. These folks are frightening, really scary.

 

Pelosi on 'Hush Rush,' and Filibustering FISA

by John Gizzi (more by this author)

The speaker of the House made it clear to me and more than forty of my colleagues yesterday that a bill by Rep. Mike Pence (R.-Ind.) to outlaw the “Fairness Doctrine” (which a liberal administration could use to silence Rush Limbaugh, other radio talk show hosts and much of the new alternative media) would not see the light of day in Congress during ’08.  In ruling out a vote on Pence’s proposed Broadcaster's Freedom Act, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-CA.) also signaled her strong support for revival of the “Fairness Doctrine” -- which would require radio station owners to provide equal time to radio commentary when it is requested.

Experts say that the “Fairness Doctrine,” which was ended under the Reagan Administration, would put a major burden on small radio stations in providing equal time to Rush Limbaugh and other conservative broadcasters, who are a potent political force.  Rather than engage in the costly practice of providing that time, the experts conclude, many stations would simply not carry Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and other talk show hosts who are likely to generate demands for equal time.

At a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor yesterday, I asked Pelosi if Pence failed to get the required signatures on a discharge petition to get his anti-Fairness Doctrine bill out of committee, would she permit the Pence measure to get a floor vote this year.

“No,” the Speaker replied, without hesitation.  She added that “the interest in my caucus is the reverse” and that New York Democratic Rep. “Louise Slaughter has been active behind this [revival of the Fairness Doctrine] for a while now.”

Pelosi pointed out that, after it returns from its Fourth of July recess, the House will only meet for another three weeks in July and three weeks in the fall.  There are a lot of bills it has to deal with before adjournment, she said, such as FISA and an energy bill.

“So I don’t see it [the Pence bill] coming to the floor,” Pelosi said.

“Do you personally support revival of the ‘Fairness Doctrine?’” I asked.

“Yes,” the speaker replied, without hesitation

Obama's Oil Idiocy

Why does it seem like the Democrats are doing everything in their power to actually prolong the energy crisis?

Not content with hamstringing US oil exploration, they are against Iraq handing out contracts: Senators seek to stop Iraq oil deals

Mustn't let ANYONE provide more oil!  Not us, not Iraq.  I'm surprised they haven' t leaned on OPEC to cut production.

Ben explains:

Note the Dems are a day late and a dollar short, as usual:  Total, a FRENCH corporation, just scored a deal with Iraq.

Obama's ignorance is astounding.  Try applying his "We can't drill our way out of an oil shortage!" logic to any other commodity, and you get:

"More construction of new homes will NOT reduce the housing shortage!"  and

"Increased farming will not ease the food shortage!"

Nothing ever misspoke by Bush has ever been so utterly stupid.  It is one thing to fumble the words while processing a coherent thought.  Obama is a guy who will clearly and plainly speak words of absolute idiocy.