tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64081677168798142302024-02-18T22:16:24.949-08:00Could we please have our country back now?Our kids are going to have to clean this mess up and we would just like to help them get started as soon as possible.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-79518471465033477412010-08-25T17:03:00.001-07:002010-08-25T17:12:06.419-07:00Moving Day<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4zKK-CafUozsuMjQW7TNH-hWytYck89sBmmCXXwhEtVtNNMdQkrefoTpvbBpHabSrkWu_DUqLuk2KA1hzfeTQuMss3bMVf0RferhFI9oIl0OEThqPN2T68LO6WsLjIgyMCARGsFw2zyd_/s1600/webbanner25.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 65px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4zKK-CafUozsuMjQW7TNH-hWytYck89sBmmCXXwhEtVtNNMdQkrefoTpvbBpHabSrkWu_DUqLuk2KA1hzfeTQuMss3bMVf0RferhFI9oIl0OEThqPN2T68LO6WsLjIgyMCARGsFw2zyd_/s400/webbanner25.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509503003749054130" /></a><div>We've moved our blog over to the website for The David Madeira Show. </div><div><br /></div><div>Lots of stuff to see and hear. S<a href="http://thedavidmadeirashow.com/">ign up and stay up to date.</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-34416826570944535802010-08-05T21:04:00.001-07:002010-08-05T21:18:34.305-07:00Facts are stubborn things<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlOEsotcNShwTx-ggQ1mRJWv-VxDOWI7lpuOzkcCAy4tRiG-VhdSAtLpqYgskVbLXQ-TO5tbmWd2ikwR2Y5GYKHeYdbscFofz-fbTbsViWJSVjsHS96SlW89ofeH6qY9MjwWEXg2QYtF4E/s1600/BabyMoney.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlOEsotcNShwTx-ggQ1mRJWv-VxDOWI7lpuOzkcCAy4tRiG-VhdSAtLpqYgskVbLXQ-TO5tbmWd2ikwR2Y5GYKHeYdbscFofz-fbTbsViWJSVjsHS96SlW89ofeH6qY9MjwWEXg2QYtF4E/s400/BabyMoney.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502143567356076402" /></a>The recent flap about Chris Carney not signing on as a <a href="http://www.timesleader.com/news/Marino-questions-Carneys-abortion-stand.html">sponsor of a bill to prevent taxpayer dollars from being used for abortion</a> is as predictable as it is perturbing. The story goes something like this:<div><br /></div><div>Politician gets elected because previous guy is caught in scandal. Says whatever his audience wants to hear to make them like him.</div><div><br /></div><div>Politician gets to DC and votes his true feelings when it matters, but votes the way his constituents want when it doesn't.</div><div><br /></div><div>Politician comes home and touts his (insert universally admired quality here) in mailers paid for by taxpayers. Upstart challenger calls him out on his record, but local press reports flap as more he said/he said.</div><div><br /></div><div>Incumbent expresses "outrage" at temerity of challenger and lies through his teeth: "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 23px; ">The Carney camp and Carney himself have repeatedly said the congressman is pro-life and took umbrage with Marino’s assertions."</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Constituents get frustrated because the truth isn't clear and vote for the devil they know. Incumbent gets reelected.</div><div><div><br /></div><div><div>But facts are stubborn things. </div><div><br /></div><div>Chris Carney is not remotely pro-life in his votes, his outraged rhetoric notwithstanding. But don't take my word for it. Ask the 3 top Pro-Abortion advocacy groups as reported at the <a href="http://votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=60032">non-partisan Project Vote Smart</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Chris Carney was rated 100% by <a href="http://votesmart.org/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=3920">National Abortion Rights Action League</a>, 100% by <a href="http://votesmart.org/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=4376">Planned Parenthood</a>, and 100% b<a href="http://votesmart.org/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=4470">y National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>When it really mattered, he voted "no" on an <a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll534.xml">amendment to prohibit tax dollars from going for overseas abortions</a>.</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Chris Carney is not even remotely pro-life.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-63583571838438935382010-06-16T11:24:00.000-07:002010-06-16T11:56:12.073-07:00Who are you?<div>Ever feel like your Congressman doesn't want to listen to you or even care who you are? Perhaps this campaign commercial from U.S. "Representative" Bob Etheridge will give you some comfort. Even from his apparently alcohol-soaked stupor, his first and only concern is "Who are you?"</div><div><br /></div><object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KqshOdRcSMc&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KqshOdRcSMc&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object><br /><br /><div>Apparently Representative Bob Etheridge has long been concerned with getting close to the <a href="http://generationengage.com/">youth of America</a> and encouraging them to get involved with<a href="http://www.mobilize.org/index.php?tray=topic_list&tid=top367&cid=22"> issues they care about</a>.</div><div><br /></div><object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/52EFsrW5D6E&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/52EFsrW5D6E&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object><div><br /></div><div>Since legal action against the sitting Congressman <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/14/law/index.html">has not been immediately forthcoming</a>, perhaps you would like to get to know his Conservative Republican opponent <a href="http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2010/06/14/meet-renee-ellmer-r-cand-nc-02/">Renee Ellmers</a> and throw some support her way.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-45687279429476349752010-06-15T06:36:00.000-07:002010-06-15T06:47:49.610-07:00Election reform error<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSc8_e2lhH5CFakx8TlfhK0Sbgu_ilDiDjtBmfiBSmF6VhlIWWp0glNdnErTPiQ7MMBVDEiimE4-YWow96x_f4_ccU3uVkKTHjmilJsGAutEo8mmgGgO1Nf6PAiFa_9H0vOEE28hmS6xv0/s1600/Arnold's+back.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 244px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSc8_e2lhH5CFakx8TlfhK0Sbgu_ilDiDjtBmfiBSmF6VhlIWWp0glNdnErTPiQ7MMBVDEiimE4-YWow96x_f4_ccU3uVkKTHjmilJsGAutEo8mmgGgO1Nf6PAiFa_9H0vOEE28hmS6xv0/s400/Arnold's+back.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482994389756322194" /></a><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Last week brought a new change to CA election law and showed that Arnold may still have some muscle. The "Top Two" primary means that the two highest vote getters in any primary race will face of in the general election. It's <a href="http://www.ldjackson.net/news-politics/california-passes-prop-14/">"run-off" elections</a>, California style. (To be fair, the left coast has others who <a href="http://www.ldjackson.net/news-politics/california-passes-prop-14/">adopted this in 2008</a>)</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Primary elections are where members of the political parties pick their team captains. Allowing non-party members to participate is akin to allowing the Dallas Cowboy's defensive line to participate in selecting the Pittsburg Steelers QB. It's an invitation to electoral mischief. </div><div><br /></div><div>Most election reforms claim to do one of two things that are widely popular:</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Increase voter participation (a questionable goal at best given the political knowledge of the average "<a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/148616/the-tonight-show-with-jay-leno-jaywalk-all-stars-top-model">Jaywalkers</a>").</div><div><br /></div><div>2. Decrease the influence of money in politics.<br /><div><br /></div><div>CA Prop. 14, while it MAY increase the # of people who vote, will certainly increase the cost of campaigns dramatically and reduce the number of "average citizens" who can be candidates. In Primary elections, the number of voters that a candidate must appeal to is limited to those who regularly vote in primaries (less than 20% of party registrants in many races). Under a "Top Two Primaries" system, every candidate will have to send mail to every registered voter, causing the average primary campaign direct mail budget to increase by as much as 10 times.</div><div><br /></div><div>"Open Primaries" are often advanced under the idea that they allow independents to participate in the electoral process, but the solution to independents not being able to participate in primaries is to make the <a href="http://www.paballotaccess.org/">rules for ballot access fair</a> across the board, party membership notwithstanding. This nutty California approach gives the appearance of a "run-off" style reform, but in fact it only ensures that money and political connections will be more important than ever in California elections.</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-31182156451375689572010-05-21T18:02:00.000-07:002010-05-21T18:08:58.403-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHdHlIZV3JTkrX161RfVlEwDmctDyKSazWpEtBe9iqdMvgYsBhYiovxwJsrDDmfNnWVnhJZsmE1rTa_X1PzRkjvaH43xxRT2uJfyIeRs5URGZ-bDTbueMEtHgClYE0rVxr-ZC3aJVQmd2m/s1600/John+Scott.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHdHlIZV3JTkrX161RfVlEwDmctDyKSazWpEtBe9iqdMvgYsBhYiovxwJsrDDmfNnWVnhJZsmE1rTa_X1PzRkjvaH43xxRT2uJfyIeRs5URGZ-bDTbueMEtHgClYE0rVxr-ZC3aJVQmd2m/s400/John+Scott.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473894693062667442" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">My dear friend and political mentor, NJ State Senator John Scott, just went home to be with Jesus. He fought for liberty with every fiber of his being, despised corruption and double dealing in politics and worked harder than anyone I've ever known for what is right and good about America. </span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><br /></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">He will always be an inspirat</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ion to me and my life is so much richer for having known him. </span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><br /></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I'll miss you my friend</span>.</span></span></h3></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-49638729604198593712010-02-12T18:19:00.000-08:002010-02-14T05:17:16.393-08:00Miss Me Yet? Constitution billboard in PA10<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpejraFlMZVwZ1CpOPiFIbYMA87heP5dS7ph8T7UoCGgtSjrnOxMxy_2983r_qdrwY344T_VaOwjv_Q4VvEnWkGSQvWEB0_ejapCmkNjHofZGYhDgBA20-I1QKfgAh_g_9xEfcSts6RXYp/s1600-h/DSCN1730.JPG.jpeg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpejraFlMZVwZ1CpOPiFIbYMA87heP5dS7ph8T7UoCGgtSjrnOxMxy_2983r_qdrwY344T_VaOwjv_Q4VvEnWkGSQvWEB0_ejapCmkNjHofZGYhDgBA20-I1QKfgAh_g_9xEfcSts6RXYp/s400/DSCN1730.JPG.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437843745838657890" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">This billboard in North Eastern PA highlights the voters</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">' concerns </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">over elected leaders violating and ignoring the constitution. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">If you want to see more of these billboards going up, go to </span></span><a href="http://www.madeiraforcongress.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">www.MadeiraForCongress.com</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"> and make a $20.10 contribution to liberty.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-79488362784582439222010-02-06T11:22:00.000-08:002010-02-06T17:45:54.766-08:00MadeiraForCongress.com now live<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX1p6qFYsJUMbg0C-kWa61Yx0_W41dQAJvlM8H9GWjUlWdHUQ2TpDu-GOi9fW1f16YBfnGC-GIncS2fP5MkHka4p4Bmrzg0vkGp17vY9jpALjP-BsyGjLSl7phqAAz-QnzTxIT1E0vTZ7P/s1600-h/slide01.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX1p6qFYsJUMbg0C-kWa61Yx0_W41dQAJvlM8H9GWjUlWdHUQ2TpDu-GOi9fW1f16YBfnGC-GIncS2fP5MkHka4p4Bmrzg0vkGp17vY9jpALjP-BsyGjLSl7phqAAz-QnzTxIT1E0vTZ7P/s400/slide01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435213442922706882" /></a><div>For the last year we've been politely asking "Could we please have our country back now?"</div><div><br /></div><div>With your help, we'll demand it be returned to "We the People" at the ballot box this May 18th and then again on Nov. 2nd.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'll continue posting my thoughts, but I'm going to do so <a href="http://www.madeiraforcongress.com/">here</a> at www.MadeiraFor Congress.com. Head over there and sign up so you can get updates on all that we are doing.</div><div><br /></div><div>I look forward to seeing you on the campaign trail as we take back our country.</div><div><br /></div><div>God Bless.</div><div><br /></div><div>David</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;"><b><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></b></span></p><blockquote><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whistle Stop Tour Kicks Off Congressional Campaign</span></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dallas, PA, - February 5, 2010 – An 8 a.m. breakfast stop at Cordaro’s, a family restaurant in Honesdale is the perfect start for a multi-county tour for Congressional Candidate David Madeira. The retired chiropractor is running as a conservative Republican, and will be joined by his wife and 6 children as they make their way through several of the counties that make up the 10</span></span><span style="font: 7.3px 'Lucida Grande'; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">th</span></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Congressional District meeting supporters. </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> After his 8 am start in Wayne County, he will make his way to Luzerne County to spend some time with voters at the Pierce Street Deli at noon. “I look forward to continuing the conversation I have been having with people in the district who want their government to work for them, not against them. Last summer I was asked to speak at a rally just over the river from the deli on the Square by voters who were concerned about some of the votes Chris Carney has taken.” </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The last stop on his day-long tour is Zelda’s Café in Lewisburg at 7 p.m. “I get energized talking with people who care about what’s happening to our country and want to get back to ‘We The People’ “ Madeira said, “and that’s what my candidacy is all about.” </span></span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal;font-size:11px;"><br /></span></span></div></b></span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-74498153465628041032010-02-04T02:42:00.000-08:002010-02-04T03:19:44.608-08:00Is "Obama's seat"......the next "<a href="http://couldwepleasehaveourcountrybacknow.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-so-brown.html">People's Seat</a>?" The <a href="http://giannoulias.nrsc.org/">NRSC is hitting hard and early</a> to insure that Republican <a href="http://www.myfoxillinois.com/dpp/news/illinois/02032010_Giannoulias_to_face_Kirk">U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk</a> has an early advantage in this race. Some pundits are even <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32454.html">hinting the Republicans may win the Senate this fall</a>.<div><br /></div><div>Now that's change we can believe in.</div><div><br /></div><div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eocJHtBVLyI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eocJHtBVLyI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-73075222964032290852010-02-03T00:35:00.000-08:002010-02-03T04:39:08.996-08:003 months too late<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAIdpTYXKXje6DuUN2qkVUneLerILwMUozfjmb94ATdPLeWoGQ3PYTCvWnoJ9G2eBSTSMqUYs7GYtH1KWJTNgQIoYMuvrvpPFjyzZmRWaF2xz_Ppv2Xyjq9L3SitRbUMy_CXn1gSvfdizD/s1600-h/ksm.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 334px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAIdpTYXKXje6DuUN2qkVUneLerILwMUozfjmb94ATdPLeWoGQ3PYTCvWnoJ9G2eBSTSMqUYs7GYtH1KWJTNgQIoYMuvrvpPFjyzZmRWaF2xz_Ppv2Xyjq9L3SitRbUMy_CXn1gSvfdizD/s400/ksm.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433888985197820802" /></a>Only 3 days after AG Holder unveiled President Obama's plot to bring KSM to NYC for a platform to put former President Bush on trial by proxy, Liberal NY Governor <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/nyregion/17paterson.html?_r=1">David Paterson came out</a> with his opposition to this crazy plan.<div><br /></div><div>So why did it take Congressman Chris Carney <a href="http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_034001221.html">the better part of 3 months </a>to go on record opposing this insane "show trial"?</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">“As the only member of Congress to have interrogated detainees at Guantanamo Bay, I know full well that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other terror operatives would be provided fair hearings and trying them there would protect our nation from harm,” he said.</span></div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/R0yROuKOZwE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R0yROuKOZwE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Seems after 3 years of hiding, Chris Carney may be finding that <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nysun.com%2Farticle%2F42019">strong voice for national security</a> he promised to use. It must be <a href="http://couldwepleasehaveourcountrybacknow.blogspot.com/2010/01/carney-admits-to-being-asleep.html">an election year</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-12901428118557802792010-02-02T21:09:00.000-08:002010-02-02T21:24:18.614-08:00What happens in Vegas...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisW7ZHjNupkkf7uvONemN270IMjxKWSXtrSFLnBt46u4M2iRF0iNdoun27R4j9jPwX_exT1JJkIxUpZg99Lw1on3UsphvdweCmZiAy0fFjVgexmIyirbSD5PxCrcGQ7K_zwMOOTl48VXb4/s1600-h/ID63783_1_depression.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisW7ZHjNupkkf7uvONemN270IMjxKWSXtrSFLnBt46u4M2iRF0iNdoun27R4j9jPwX_exT1JJkIxUpZg99Lw1on3UsphvdweCmZiAy0fFjVgexmIyirbSD5PxCrcGQ7K_zwMOOTl48VXb4/s400/ID63783_1_depression.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433882166730348194" /></a>...is unemployment. This according to U.S. Senator Harry Reid:<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 21px; font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:14px;"> "Las Vegas is suffering through one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, and we cannot afford for the President to bring us down any further,"</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 21px;font-size:14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 21px;font-size:14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:18px;">Apparently the President can't help <a href="http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=11922024">taking pot shots at Sin City</a> when he is not <a href="http://www.worldhum.com/travel-blog/item/hail-obama-20090601/">there</a>, leaving Harry Reid to wonder if he is <a href="http://eye-on-the-world.blogspot.com/2010/01/next-loser-obama-to-stump-for-reid.html">for him or against him</a>. Exchanging <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/senate/harry-reid-apologizes-for-ligh.html">insults</a> and <a href="http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=11922804">apologies</a> is like a hobby with these two.</span></span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-39577726092396311332010-02-01T19:52:00.000-08:002010-02-02T21:08:28.205-08:00Early polls are becoming less relevant...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc_zXDaqP6FUwP0cpIHgSMteStupn4N5hgjSAerzTa0CMbmXJPURKsy6vW6oDEsXcif4VJPjQRfd-DSUDJkxY0sk3__inTSAJ1I6whiV2U6zPLMu_Euzhg1zthJABd00ye2I_oznBHOBsF/s1600-h/no_more_stimulus_hugs.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 143px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc_zXDaqP6FUwP0cpIHgSMteStupn4N5hgjSAerzTa0CMbmXJPURKsy6vW6oDEsXcif4VJPjQRfd-DSUDJkxY0sk3__inTSAJ1I6whiV2U6zPLMu_Euzhg1zthJABd00ye2I_oznBHOBsF/s400/no_more_stimulus_hugs.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433489714053153666" /></a>..as voters learn that inevitable doesn't mean what it used to mean.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/florida/election_2010_florida_republican_primary_for_senate">Rasmussen reports</a> that Conservative "Tea Party" Candidate Marco Rubio has now passed the sitting Governor in the Republican Primary race for U.S. Senate.</div><div><br /></div><div>This sort of thing just never happened, but it's quickly becoming the new norm. This August primary has the Republican Party establishment befuddled, but they better get used to it as conservative Republican's are going to be zooming past their "establishment" counterparts in primaries all over the country in 2010. </div><div><br /></div><div>If Conservative Patrick Hughes wins <a href="http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/01/patrick-hughes-green-grass-not-astroturfer/">tomorrow's primary battle</a> against "Cap and Traitor" Mark Kirk, it will be another example of a last minute surge of "We the People"asserting themselves like never before.</div><div><br /></div><div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lVvKPePQd1Q&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lVvKPePQd1Q&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><div><br /></div><div>LATE BREAKING UPDATE: Kirk won the Illinois Republican Senate primary in a 6 way race by <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2010/02/illinois_senate_kirk_easily_ta.html">moving to the right</a>.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 33px; "><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Kirk, who has taken some positions over the decade he's been in the House that have dissatisfied party conservatives, moved noticeably to the right during the primary.</span></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-6406535924322017422010-01-31T05:59:00.000-08:002010-01-31T06:02:47.336-08:00Wow, it's cold!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF2k-xnoe9eqhdoo8Hm6wJbZkVWETI9dIctVErTFQ__i-HX5Wvp_jFPHEXVofgPc37BSLxxu93ck0g_OA9GYamndueWr2E97LQtICKjCCGWiPNyQ2MN9MXHP4_pEjLp0_gaIcUh1AEbaS6/s1600-h/cold.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF2k-xnoe9eqhdoo8Hm6wJbZkVWETI9dIctVErTFQ__i-HX5Wvp_jFPHEXVofgPc37BSLxxu93ck0g_OA9GYamndueWr2E97LQtICKjCCGWiPNyQ2MN9MXHP4_pEjLp0_gaIcUh1AEbaS6/s400/cold.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432903524841917298" /></a>As I was running across this frozen field this morning, it occurred to me that, given all the scandals surrounding "Climate Change" perhaps it's time to to re-examing the <a href="http://www.scottott.org/wordpress/?p=708">science and economics.</a><div><br /></div><div>Just saying...<br /><br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-70033154908820265252010-01-29T11:24:00.000-08:002010-01-29T13:23:27.199-08:00...and here is the exclamation point!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJVHKRyiIl52lQQNY-2lAxozVDzoQDxgE59pB2fi2QvGYdwmSpR2cIPQPFbhLhO5x_3Pflh_-mV-srYTJHN7KoSBDkaiicWG1iwYKKumK3AW72DTQm92msZLG6s1Jgsl_OTsPTYQSwOcDG/s1600-h/IBD+debt+projection.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJVHKRyiIl52lQQNY-2lAxozVDzoQDxgE59pB2fi2QvGYdwmSpR2cIPQPFbhLhO5x_3Pflh_-mV-srYTJHN7KoSBDkaiicWG1iwYKKumK3AW72DTQm92msZLG6s1Jgsl_OTsPTYQSwOcDG/s400/IBD+debt+projection.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432274025610510434" /></a><a href="http://crnblog.org/?p=5300">Fellow blogger</a> and fiscal conservative Bob Guzzardi called my attention to a graph that puts an exclamation point on my last post.<div><br /></div><div>It's from <a href="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=515428">IBD and shows the projected debt curve</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>Unprecedented!</div><div><br /></div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s3yzEfqgbOo&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s3yzEfqgbOo&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><div>IBD puts it in perspective:<br /><blockquote><i>And, yes, the size of the debt does matter. By 2018, at current spending trends, debt as a share of GDP will reach 85%. In 2022, it will hit 100%. And it will keep rising at least until 2038, reaching 200%.<br /><br />At that level, our fast-growing, high-innovation, high-wage economy begins grinding to a permanent slowdown. The accumulated debt will become a millstone around our necks. Fleeter, less-indebted competitors in the developing world will sprint right past us.<br /><br />If you don't think so, just look at Japan. It was the world's fastest-growing developed economy for most of the postwar era. But it stumbled in the late '80s and began a debt-financed binge of "stimulus" packages in the 1990s and early 2000s. Today, it has the worst of all worlds: a 200% of GDP debt load, and low or no growth.<br /><br />Recent debt debacles in Dubai and Greece, both of which are near bankruptcy, show what can happen to nations when they spend too much. Now, we're on the same path.<br /><br />It's no mystery why this happens. "Government borrowing reduces resources available for private investment, leading to lower productivity, wages, and economic growth," noted the Heritage Foundation in a recent study. So, yes, all this debt does matter.</i></blockquote></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-67979351284801885202010-01-28T04:37:00.000-08:002010-01-28T04:59:48.074-08:00Cold day in...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi64kNJW3gm5jpRnUWIFYSZDO-R_hvKiag-mpmv_XSxNlpN56-HtL3ESyC42hGOfTgaZJblYgy8Y2v0hFsa0wvxRlFx-cQi8P-HTR2_ygSQwmO92Ff03zlahbAvk8fTNUcQDc8Odmgrym3g/s1600-h/revoling3-debt-shed010810.png"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnC7aBTAiiALdofEYYNI47Z2Z-4PYGMIGpMLn-GjzJ7IwBYK35HWpk9s6u0qt2ueH-5XDlD8xzy53KC8INIWDb4FSI_Ch_IInc29YiKNqke2NLiKzbsNjNGPDY5JneVafQTe11B8KUYWmq/s1600-h/wapoobamabudget1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 330px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnC7aBTAiiALdofEYYNI47Z2Z-4PYGMIGpMLn-GjzJ7IwBYK35HWpk9s6u0qt2ueH-5XDlD8xzy53KC8INIWDb4FSI_Ch_IInc29YiKNqke2NLiKzbsNjNGPDY5JneVafQTe11B8KUYWmq/s400/wapoobamabudget1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431770087817551874" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"><div>The President's feint towards fiscal responsibility is laughable. $250 billion in "savings" over the next 10 years with plans to <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/">spend $48 trillion in the same time frame</a> is less than a 0.58 % cut. </div><div><br /></div><div>The equivalent for a working family that makes $50,000 a year would be like running up a one time credit card debt of $300,000. They decide to get "responsible" and tell their creditors that they don' t plan to increase their overspending and are going to make a downpayment.</div><div><br /></div><div>They are only going to add $300,000 debt every year for the next decade and they will pay $29 a year for the next 10 years. It's a joke and clearly the American people who are <a href="http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/federal-reserve-g19-consumer-credit-november-09.php">tightening their belt </a>aren't laughing.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi64kNJW3gm5jpRnUWIFYSZDO-R_hvKiag-mpmv_XSxNlpN56-HtL3ESyC42hGOfTgaZJblYgy8Y2v0hFsa0wvxRlFx-cQi8P-HTR2_ygSQwmO92Ff03zlahbAvk8fTNUcQDc8Odmgrym3g/s400/revoling3-debt-shed010810.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431773884463510722" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 244px; " /></span></div><div>As if to put an exclamation point on how <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/01/obama-spending-freeze-lands-on-hill-with-thud.html">out of touch with the American people</a> the Democrats in Congress are, they damned the proposal with faint praise:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; font-family:arial, verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><blockquote>Sen. John Kerry (D-MA): Said he likes the idea, but worries that a freeze “prevents you from doing what needs to be done,” in areas such as job creation and energy.</blockquote></span></div><div>or flat out said NO:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; font-family:arial, verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><blockquote>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT): “At a time when people are going hungry and our educational system is crumbling, do we want to cut back or freeze these programs? No.” </blockquote></span></div><div>Could this be the beginning of Obama's "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulation_(politics)">triangulation</a>"? His<a href="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/01/people-hate-congress-like-obama.php"> popularity is way above that of the Democrats</a>.</div></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-18489839842878994432010-01-27T11:00:00.000-08:002010-01-26T21:52:09.764-08:00got work?<div>Make sure you watch this before the State of the Union speech tonight. It's stunning.</div><div><br /></div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G9jBNyysbho&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G9jBNyysbho&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-79846565224018346322010-01-26T21:19:00.000-08:002010-01-26T21:36:47.184-08:00DE OPPRESSO LIBER<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDZXnwLmLvBpHRSEWIayROnznfVJKNatqP3QJcd-29U_nsqUqwcH3ytcz29eUixe6fUt6s4RZie7t1Z8fbqRpxdkgx2QaN_nnNqLxPlcJ10tk7bQtrEslpUI8irqzdTgFZEM05LFzzoBIb/s1600-h/SF_RI.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 172px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDZXnwLmLvBpHRSEWIayROnznfVJKNatqP3QJcd-29U_nsqUqwcH3ytcz29eUixe6fUt6s4RZie7t1Z8fbqRpxdkgx2QaN_nnNqLxPlcJ10tk7bQtrEslpUI8irqzdTgFZEM05LFzzoBIb/s400/SF_RI.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431286768393999506" /></a>I had every intention of going to bed early tonight, but after hearing this <a href="http://www.dennismillerradio.com/show?action=viewGuest&guestID=2501">Dennis Miller interview of Eric Blehm</a>, I couldn't sleep because I wanted to know more about the special men featured in the book "The Only Thing Worth Dying For."<div><br /></div><div>From the <a href="http://www.onlythingworthdyingfor.com/">book website</a>:</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(92, 58, 31); ">...the astonishing true story of the Special Forces A-team that helped conquer the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, and bring Hamid Karzai to power. In powerfully simple prose, Eric Blehm weaves together the unbelievable chain of events that intimately expose the realities of modern unconventional warfare and international politics during the critical months after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Following Captain Jason Amerine and his ten Green Berets, Blehm puts the reader on the ground alongside Hamid Karzai and his guerrillas as the men of two very different worlds unite to seek a reckoning for the horrors haunting both of their nations…</span><br /><div><br /></div><div>Wow. Can't wait to get my hands on this book. "<i>De Oppresso Liber</i>", the special forces motto, means "to free the oppressed." Thank you God for these special people.</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-57091867888950494382010-01-26T03:43:00.000-08:002010-01-25T20:48:37.948-08:00Declaration of Health Care Independence<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UWhCDdVynMs&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UWhCDdVynMs&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-448808243912617832010-01-25T20:01:00.000-08:002010-01-25T20:30:33.159-08:00HopeforChangen<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtftY2a-67tbmuBylxqanvytKLGbndt027C2o8uDAe4ypHiW3IltRfUXBZGnZ_7jsl-Hd2Btvm5hGU33vnvsUS_a80pIPSLY1i5Ofi5zj6m8fuV6M9RoLFo-MBU0qSbxMPedNOXfsn2u6_/s1600-h/copenhagen.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 190px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtftY2a-67tbmuBylxqanvytKLGbndt027C2o8uDAe4ypHiW3IltRfUXBZGnZ_7jsl-Hd2Btvm5hGU33vnvsUS_a80pIPSLY1i5Ofi5zj6m8fuV6M9RoLFo-MBU0qSbxMPedNOXfsn2u6_/s400/copenhagen.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430894213817303666" /></a>This <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/25/cbsnews_investigates/main6140406.shtml">story from CBS</a> about all the money elected and appointed Representatives from the US spent on the Global Warming.. er... Climate Change Summit makes me think that maybe they don't <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/77739-obamas-challenge-feel-the-pain-of-middle-class-in-address">feel our pain</a> as much as they might like us to believe.<div><br /></div><div>At an average cost of $2,200 a day per person for food and rooms, I hope they had a good time while the<a href="http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/ex-u-s-attorney-to-run-for-congress-1.571615"> hard-working families</a> politicians like to ramble on about representing <a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1952132,00.html">struggled to make monthly mortgage payments</a> that are only half that amount.</div><div><br /></div><div>The total bill was over $1,100,000 with more than half of that going for airfare. The story makes no mention of the <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121549568">carbon footprint created by all this travel,</a> but I bet it's more carbon than you generate in your entire lifetime. And of course, this doesn't include the <a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/10/president-obama-will-almost-certainly.html">President's travel costs </a>or environmental impact.</div><div><br /></div><div>Well, at least they got a <a href="http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/environment/Non-binding-Copenhagen-Agreement-Facing-First-Tests-82390827.html">great agreement out of it </a>to end global warming...er climate change! Or at least limit the warming to no more than 2 degrees.</div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4VPMenGYCik&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4VPMenGYCik&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-69458789412433320752010-01-24T22:00:00.000-08:002010-01-24T22:34:04.648-08:00Is someone hitting the snooze button?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLhcaW3uowK1PA3Ur6fQC7sWjzMDVtryuiPFHDwzEWUntyrFkIVdsdO7dlJ1pFwgV8Ln9-u2Xiv0snTi1qw7so9rnzD538mG_Ph_N3sEeKIZadH-S2darPWNPcpiuQvs-LqmNPx1rJl0__/s1600-h/comeback+america.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLhcaW3uowK1PA3Ur6fQC7sWjzMDVtryuiPFHDwzEWUntyrFkIVdsdO7dlJ1pFwgV8Ln9-u2Xiv0snTi1qw7so9rnzD538mG_Ph_N3sEeKIZadH-S2darPWNPcpiuQvs-LqmNPx1rJl0__/s400/comeback+america.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430557838646196642" /></a>Wednesday after the Democrats realized independent voters were fleeing them in droves, Congressman Carney said they had received a <a href="http://couldwepleasehaveourcountrybacknow.blogspot.com/2010/01/carney-admits-to-being-asleep.html">"wake-up" call</a>.<div><br /></div><div>Yesterday reactivated Presidential Advisor and 20o9 Obama campaign guru David Plouffe used the same words in an <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012204216.html">editorial in the Washington Post</a>, but drew a very different conclusion than <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6Q14HOBThM">David Walker did when he tried to wake people up</a> several years ago.</div><div><br /></div><div>Congressman Carney didn't say exactly what he took that wake up call to mean (no surprise there), but every paragraph of Plouffe's editorial makes it clear that President Obama intends to double down on the agenda that has failed to produce any results other than massive job loses for the<a href="http://www.jsonline.com/business/81053777.html"> American people</a> and <a href="http://faithfulprogressive.blogspot.com/2010/01/no-obama-magic-massachusetts-senate.html">Democrat politicians</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here are the titles of each section of his advice:</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman', times, serif;font-size:22px;"><i>Pass a meaningful health insurance reform package without delay</i>.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', times, serif;font-size:6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:22px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', times, serif;font-size:6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">We need to show that we not just are focused on jobs but also create them.</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', times, serif; font-size: 22px; "><i>Make sure voters understand what the</i> <i><a href="http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/home.aspx" target="" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(12, 71, 144); ">American Recovery and Reinvestment Act</a></i> <i>did for the economy</i>.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', times, serif;font-size:6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', times, serif;font-size:6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">Don't accept any lectures on spending.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', times, serif;font-size:6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', times, serif;font-size:6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>"Change" is not just about policies</i>.</span></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', times, serif;font-size:6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', times, serif;font-size:6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px;"><i>Run great campaigns</i>.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', times, serif;font-size:6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', times, serif;font-size:6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px;"><i>No bed-wetting</i>.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', times, serif;font-size:6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div>Bottom line? Probably not the <a href="http://theblackcommenter.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/hope-change-comes-to-the-bay-state/">change voters in MA were hoping for.</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-40110272262035273572010-01-24T01:00:00.000-08:002010-01-24T01:00:04.019-08:00Two wrongs don't make a right<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMWOqKN-M6gsPR59ZbXKMDtN-8LB__lFLBvmyApGl0VV-X7YzoIhCoSEX1qxRkTEkjLVw7FHml7JqRL0hW_6pfH7O_v2GgBwUZwBNm9tAqAF0CKS1pwvVvqWjvy4buLptOXsqVXh6nEF75/s1600-h/book+burning.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMWOqKN-M6gsPR59ZbXKMDtN-8LB__lFLBvmyApGl0VV-X7YzoIhCoSEX1qxRkTEkjLVw7FHml7JqRL0hW_6pfH7O_v2GgBwUZwBNm9tAqAF0CKS1pwvVvqWjvy4buLptOXsqVXh6nEF75/s400/book+burning.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429966022133624626" /></a>Thursday I wrote about <a href="http://couldwepleasehaveourcountrybacknow.blogspot.com/2010/01/carney-admits-to-being-asleep.html">Carney's awakening</a> to the American people's attitude towards more government involvement in their everyday healthcare decisions. How unpopular is it? It's so bad that <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform">Rasmussen says it will discontinue polling</a> Democrat's Health Care regulations regularly unless the Democrats come up with another approach.<div><br /></div><div>Carney's reflexively liberal reaction to the Supreme Court decision asserting the importance of First Amendment Rights illustrates another area where he is tragically ignorant or misinformed. The <i><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-32019-Scranton-Public-Policy-Examiner~y2010m1d22-Supreme-Court-reviews-Hillary-The-Movie-Campaign-finance-decision">Scranton Public Policy Examiner's</a></i> Steve Urbanski reports Carney tried to sound deeply populist by saying:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">“I strongly disagree with the Supreme Court’s decision. It puts democracy up for sale to the highest bidder and sets a very dangerous precedent that special interests and big corporations with the deepest pockets will be able to purchase their own members of Congress. This ruling throws out a century of precedent designed to keep democracy in the hands of citizens and protect the integrity of our political process."</span></blockquote></span></div><div>But what was the real argument before the divided Court? What evidence did the Justices hear and decide the case on? What were the implications of the Obama Administration's position on this case?</div><div><br /></div><div>This brief narrative <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/21/AR2010012103582_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2010012104871">printed in the Washington Post</a> shows how outrageously anti-free speech Carney's position is and why the majority of Justices were compelled to assert the supremacy of the people's rights over the government:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman', times, serif;font-size:19px;"><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR2009032400137.html" target="" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(12, 71, 144); "></a></p></span></div><blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman', times, serif;font-size:19px;"><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR2009032400137.html" target="" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(12, 71, 144); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">When the Supreme Court first heard the case in March</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">, Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm L. Stewart, representing the FEC, was pulled into a discussion of an issue that took him down a slippery slope: If the movie were a book, would the government ban publishing the book if it mentioned a candidate for office within the election time frame?</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Stewart said that it could.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">"That's pretty incredible," Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Then came questions about electronic devices such as the Kindle.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">"If it has one name, one use of the candidate's name, it would be covered, correct?" Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. asked.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">"It's a 500-page book, and at the end it says, 'And so vote for X,' the government could ban that?" Roberts asked."That's correct," Stewart replied.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Bossie said this was the argument that turned a majority of the bench against the FEC and in favor of Citizens United.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">"That sent a chill down the Supreme Court," Bossie said. The argument became a "point of demarcation."</span></p></span></div><div></div></blockquote><div>Does Chris Carney really agree with Solicitor General Malcolm L. Stewart that the FEC should be able to ban books? Ideas have consequences and the Justices weighed all the evidence and the stated intentions of the government and clearly decided for the people.</div><div><br /></div><div>But then how do we stop the corruption? <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-19/hes-done-everything-wrong/">Mort Zuckerman</a> said of the way the Washington politicians cut unfair deals during the health care takeover debacle:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"It’s a bizarre form of political corruption. It’s bribery. I suppose they could say, that’s the system. He was supposed to change it or try to change it."</span></blockquote></span></div><div>The solution to the government corruption is not to give the government more power to control what we read, but to limit their power to control all aspects of our lives. You can't sell influence if you don't have it.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>FYI - I was looking for a picture that showed Chris Carney with either the President or Speaker of the House, both of whom he supported. Does anyone have one of these? They are rare enough to be worth something, even in these tough economic times.</i></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-66365529512126024752010-01-23T03:37:00.000-08:002010-01-23T03:37:00.550-08:00Let the sun shine<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-_8Tf5YfVwg&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-_8Tf5YfVwg&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-87766695896208107172010-01-22T05:00:00.000-08:002010-01-22T05:26:13.203-08:00Two Men cut Obama in half?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3QLzPjclb3pKrGcVoAoq8Z3H4acMjz6OztafSKK7mfr_Jui2HnBe0vgZ2YBavtWKnobkR8Uvu1T69vCkInpeyRQo9dw1iOssJchtSx_2QBYmk9mNrA5S8n4ZVvXAP_NCy-8SeczuPuUQ3/s1600-h/jan20th.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 109px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3QLzPjclb3pKrGcVoAoq8Z3H4acMjz6OztafSKK7mfr_Jui2HnBe0vgZ2YBavtWKnobkR8Uvu1T69vCkInpeyRQo9dw1iOssJchtSx_2QBYmk9mNrA5S8n4ZVvXAP_NCy-8SeczuPuUQ3/s200/jan20th.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429554169256250082" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtsWuP8rAJp7GeeCOTh-hQPyt92mbMDXcqmG2MlDvJepQPp_MNka-_3A_hQU29BSfH6oupmnAQLhNK46ETCRsBbxgUk7pZjG9n90FBJBmLW8o7MYMyS0C0cWcFoyJRisKIkTUYFGx5J9lt/s1600-h/obama_approval_index_january_21_2010.jpg"></a>The Scott Brown election fallout is causing the committed leftists to turn against President Obama and his return to the tone he used right up to the day he got elected (<a href="http://newsmax.com/Politics/obama-saul-alinsky/2009/09/01/id/334732">which I don't trust</a> given his affinity for Alinsky):<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 23px; font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size:16px;"><blockquote>I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package that people agree on. We know that we need insurance reform, that the health insurance companies are taking advantage of people. We know that we have to have some form of cost containment because if we don’t, then our budgets are going to blow up and we know that small businesses are going to need help so that they can provide health insurance to their families. Those are the core, some of the core elements of, to this bill. Now I think there’s some things in there that people don’t like and legitimately don’t like.</blockquote></span></div><div><div><a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/he-wasnt-the-one-weve-been-waiting-for/">Krugman says</a>,</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 23px; font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size:16px;"><blockquote>I’m pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was ready to fight for what his supporters believed in.</blockquote><blockquote></blockquote></span></div><div><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-19/hes-done-everything-wrong/">Zuckerman</a> has a more moderate rationale for criticizing the President;</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><blockquote>In the campaign, he said he would change politics as usual. He did change them. It’s now worse than it was. I’ve now seen the kind of buying off of politicians that I’ve never seen before. It’s politically corrupt and it’s starting at the top. It’s revolting.</blockquote></span></div><div>He's right. It is revolting, and that's what's driving the disaffection with the public. They want honest transparent leadership.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtsWuP8rAJp7GeeCOTh-hQPyt92mbMDXcqmG2MlDvJepQPp_MNka-_3A_hQU29BSfH6oupmnAQLhNK46ETCRsBbxgUk7pZjG9n90FBJBmLW8o7MYMyS0C0cWcFoyJRisKIkTUYFGx5J9lt/s400/obama_approval_index_january_21_2010.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429552198813347138" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></div><div>If the President really moderates, he might be able to <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/25/climategate-hide-the-decline-codified/">hide the decline</a>. I'm skeptical.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-9426730912755385562010-01-21T17:56:00.000-08:002010-01-21T18:39:57.217-08:00Carney admits to being asleep?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikusIQSZ9AWIZ1JXDS6xDx0p-d5p05meu0YgjW6LuPHjEs0MZ6quZM39rfI67LyWL-OgCjF3JLOh466Rl-8a1vkqjXjTSWEXOnuQfSM8WiwNOh9cRRU4OTD9ITdIc5R_Flov0FmFRPu7p0/s1600-h/wildlife-monkeys-hear-no-evil-see-no-evil-speak-no-evil.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikusIQSZ9AWIZ1JXDS6xDx0p-d5p05meu0YgjW6LuPHjEs0MZ6quZM39rfI67LyWL-OgCjF3JLOh466Rl-8a1vkqjXjTSWEXOnuQfSM8WiwNOh9cRRU4OTD9ITdIc5R_Flov0FmFRPu7p0/s400/wildlife-monkeys-hear-no-evil-see-no-evil-speak-no-evil.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429378067622187730" /></a>Like many Democrats who spent 2009 ignoring the clear will of the American people, Chris Carney's 2010 is coming into sharp focus as a result of the <a href="http://couldwepleasehaveourcountrybacknow.blogspot.com/2010/01/brown-wins.html">Brown victory in MA</a>.<br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">“I think we certainly got a wake-up call last night,” Carney, a Democrat from Dimock, said Wednesday</span></div><div><br /></div>Ever the master of understatement, Congressman Carney <a href="http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_020234305.html">went on to say</a>:<br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">“While reform is necessary, it needed to be a different sort of reform.”</span></div><div><br /></div><div>You think?</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">From this point on, he said, “We need to look at what is very important.”</span></div><div><br /></div><div>So would that be his re-election? He voted <a href="http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_274001546.html">against the bailout before the 2008</a> election, then <a href="http://carney.house.gov/financialcrisis.shtml">voted for the renamed bailout</a> right after he was safely ensconced in his second term. I expect he will vote against socialized medicine till after the election this year for the same reason - he knows the people don't want it, but he does.</div><div><br /></div><div>Someone said to me yesterday that we need to have more time between elections so Congress can get more done. This "awakening" by Congressman Carney demonstrates just how important regular elections are to our Republican form of government. Perhaps if Carney had been awake and listening to his constituents <a href="http://couldwepleasehaveourcountrybacknow.blogspot.com/2009/08/lollipops-and-unicorns.html">at all those "town halls"</a> he would not have voted for this debacle in the first place.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-43094288281878136882010-01-20T18:06:00.000-08:002010-01-20T18:21:24.585-08:00Why so Brown?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1GQT_7xA_2S9KaXyaEdVbZ0xNqkBCP7DIABYK5dasJZGywpPEMRykqLNtHhFpF2Ban8ajok2UUPbgVPiHabZKMmbXRWuZ8L9432Hdn7KL_DDbgmfeR-PxpMjCw2lDQvr8DD8go8LceUl6/s1600-h/100120_brown_herald_ap_218.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 289px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1GQT_7xA_2S9KaXyaEdVbZ0xNqkBCP7DIABYK5dasJZGywpPEMRykqLNtHhFpF2Ban8ajok2UUPbgVPiHabZKMmbXRWuZ8L9432Hdn7KL_DDbgmfeR-PxpMjCw2lDQvr8DD8go8LceUl6/s400/100120_brown_herald_ap_218.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429011378005263314" /></a>Every pundit will have their explanation, but the <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31708.html#ixzz0dD0JfU09">empirical data is clear</a>. The people with the most experience with "<a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/03/02/mass_healthcare_reform_is_failing_us/">universal health care</a>" in America say "NO", according to exit poll data collected yesterday in MA:<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><blockquote>Fifty-two percent of Bay State voters who were surveyed as the polls closed said they opposed the federal health care reform measure and 42 percent said they cast their ballot to help stop President Obama from passing his chief domestic initiative.</blockquote></span></span></div><div>It wasn't the President himself or even his policies that drove them to vote for Brown, according to pollster Tony Fabrizio:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Obama's job approval rating even stayed at a respectable 55 percent as voters trekked to the ballot box to oppose the candidate he campaigned for just two days earlier. The president even earned a passing mark on his handling of the economy (50 percent approval) and received a clear majority's support for his work in the war in Afghanistan (59 percent approval)</span>.</blockquote><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; font-size:11px;color:transparent;"></span></span></div><div>So it's time to scrap the current bills and <a href="http://couldwepleasehaveourcountrybacknow.blogspot.com/2010/01/cspan-snub.html">keep the promise</a>.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6408167716879814230.post-70790892646688469052010-01-19T19:37:00.000-08:002010-01-19T18:27:17.301-08:00Brown wins!The <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform">American people have spoken</a>. It's time for Chris Carney and the Democrats to save face and back off socialized medicine.<div><br /></div><embed src="http://blip.tv/play/hJNRgb3iGQI%2Em4v" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="364" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> <div>We're sorry dear!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284140098980750290noreply@blogger.com0