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Pelosi: Unemployment benefits create jobs?
By Neil BraithwaiteFiled Under Congress, Domestic Policy on Jul 2
If I hadn’t seen and heard it myself I would have never believed it.
Nancy Pelosi – telling America that unemployment benefits are “One of the biggest stimulus’s to our economy.”
Wait – it gets better.
Speaker Pelosi went on to say that unemployment benefits are actually “Job creating” and that unemployment benefits “Create jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name.”
Let’s get this straight. When you lose your job and start collecting unemployment benefits, it stimulates the economy AND creates jobs?
So the logical conclusion is: the more people lose their jobs – the more jobs will be created – and the economy gets a big boost?
OK – I’m totally confident in Democrat leadership now.
A few weeks ago, Alaina commented on the “YouCut” program here.
To recap: the GOP introduces one of five spending cuts each week. The American people vote on which of the five options should be introduced.
Like a good little citizen I have dutifully placed my vote each week. Since votes are placed by email, I get a neat little form letter from Eric Cantor’s office regarding the vote. The past few weeks I have been disgusted as proposal after proposal has been defeated along party lines. This week, however, I have hope! No, the proposed spending cut to sell excess Federal lands did not pass. However, a smaller proposal was introduced by the President.
According to House Whip Eric Cantor “after this week’s YouCut proposal was unveiled to save $15 billion by selling excess federal property, President Obama announced his own version that would save $3 billion. The Majority recently called all of their committee chairmen together and told them they had to start finding ways to save money. A Capitol Hill newspaper cited YouCut as prompting the request!”
With enough pressure will members of Congress start listening to their constituency? Hope springs eternal!
Read Eric Cantor’s full letter.
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By Stephen Fountain, EditorFiled Under Congress, Media Clips and Issues, Races 2010 on Jun 17
From Rick Barber for Congress:
Hate to admit it, but me thinks Joe Sestak is screwed. Or maybe not—that I’d hate to admit it, that is, not that Joe’s going to get thrown under the bus. The only question he will be asking is, “do those all-season radials come with white walls?”
In case you’ve been hiding in a cave, or exploring the deeper part of Penn’s Woods for a week with the fam in a cabin like me (remind me to tell you about the personal encounter I had with a bat in my shower), by now you know that Joe has beaten the political equivalent of Freddie Krueger in the primaries – badly too, I might add. Arlen should have prayed for a sunny day in Philly, as well as a blizzard across the rest of the state, in order to win. But alas, like a 60 year-old woman working on a 30 year-old tan, his time in the sun is over (no cancer references intended).
Why protecting the border isn’t racism
By Troy La ManaFiled Under Congress, Domestic Policy, Media Clips and Issues on May 21
WSBTV Channel 2 in Atlanta Georgia spurred on by the Arizona immigration law issue went to that state to investigate the border issue. What they found shocked them and they had to show the facts to Georgia Congressman Paul Brown.
The station was able to obtain the Captured OTM list. What is the Captured OTM list? It is the list of people Other Then Mexicans that have been caught crossing the Southern border. They include countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan, Sudan, Yemen and other countries with terrorist activity. Congressman Brown is on the Homeland Security Committee and had never seen this list until shown in this investigation.
This issue isn’t about racism. This is about protecting our border and is a national security issue. The report is in two parts.
Part I is here.
And here is part II.
Dear reader, I’m sure you’re aware we live in troubling times. Our nation faces so many “unprecedented” challenges that The One has worn out the term “unprecedented”. Understanding this, I’m sure you’ll be comforted knowing that the United States Congress is at this very minute debating an issue which is vital to the national interests of this great nation. With so much focus on waste in Washington, Congress feels the need to take decisive action.
Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold hearings on an program designed to increase the effective elimination of waste in Federal Buildings around the country. In the hallowed halls of Congress, this legislation is commonly referred to as the “Potty Parity Act”.
No. I’m not making this up. And I do apologize if you’re now cleaning Diet Coke off your computer monitor.
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Tip O’Neil’s famous quote is a good barometer to measure the issue of illegal immigration. Up here in the great commonwealth of PA, we do not have anywhere close to the degree of issues that Arizonians face, at least not in my neck of the woods. So for me to render judgment upon the recent law in AZ by using my own local yardstick of experience would be a bit unreasonable. I simply do not face the same issues they do, from organized crime, health care, social services, etc. I’d need to know why the need for a law is so critical; that would be a job for the citizens of AZ to share.
They key thing is this: I think Arizonians need to speak up as to why they needed to craft and frame the law the way they did. Frankly, regardless of whether or not AZ was right to do this, they are getting creamed in the PR battle. People with agendas are successfully painting them as racists, which is a shame, because it tosses out any chance to dialogue about safety and security being just as important as encouraging legal immigration.
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Two questions about http://www.callaconvention.org:
1. Have you heard of it?
2. Would you support it?
From Call a Convention:
Democracy in America is stalled.
From the Right and the Left, citizens are increasingly coming to recognize that our democracy does not work as our Framers intended. Reform of any kind is stalled by a status quo that profits from blocking change—even the change of a smaller government, or simpler taxes. Neither side in the political debate benefits from this inertia.
This site will help organize the one method our Framers preserved for escaping from captured government—an Article V convention. If we can get 34 states to pass a resolution calling for a convention, then all sides will have the opportunity to argue for the changes they believe will restore our democracy. Any amendment proposed must then be ratified by 38 states to become law.
Visit http://www.callaconvention.org
Democrat “Race-Bait” falls off hook – Tea Party vindicated
By Neil BraithwaiteFiled Under Congress on Apr 3
If my mother told me once, she told me a dozen times, “One lie always leads to another.”
It looks like mom’s old adage has proven to be true in the alleged incident of “spitting” by a Tea Party member involving black Democrat Congressman Emanuel Cleaver on his walk to congress for a final health care vote.
Congressman Emanuel Cleaver’s office released the following “official” statement regarding the alleged incident.
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Try and find a Youtube link that will play U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson saying, “My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize,” You can’t.
Looks like Big-Brother put the kibosh on that classic Democrat moment.
My fifth grade daughter saw that last night, and still today, really thinks it was an April-fool joke. Sorry honey, he’s part of the crew that’s actually running the country now.
Looks like Rep. Johnson is not smarter than a fifth grader.
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart. – Proverbs 11:29
Memo to The One, The Pelosi, Senator Dusty Harry (D-Circus Circus), and especially my sorry excuse for a congressman, the (less than) honorable Gerry Connolly (D-Nancy Pelosi): The wind is coming in November. End Memo
A simple packaging of the health care vote
By Neil BraithwaiteFiled Under Congress, Healthcare on Mar 20
All that’s left to do is for the Rules Committee to figure out a way Democrats, who vote for the Senate health care bill, can tell their constituents that they did not vote directly for the Senate bill, but did vote to simultaneously to “fix” the Senate bill that they did not directly vote for.
After all, President Obama says no one really cares about process.
Which side in health care debate is bi-partisan?
By Neil BraithwaiteFiled Under Congress, Healthcare on Mar 18
All the news and drama about whether Pelosi and Obama can find enough votes to pass Obamacare in congress says more about Democrat partisanship and disunity than Republican obstruction.
In fact, there hasn’t been a whole lot of talk from either the media, the Democrat leadership, or the White House about Republican obstructionism since Obama gave the OK to use reconciliation to try and pass his signature initiative.
Looking at the health care battle in a purely political sense, there are two clear sides in this fight, the partisan Democrat support for the bill and the bipartisan effort by Republicans and Democrats to kill the bill.
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Combating Healthcare
By Alaina SegoviaFiled Under Congress, Domestic Policy, Healthcare, Policy on Mar 16
As you all know (and possibly never want to hear again), this is THE week for the Congress to pass the healthcare bill. Yes, yes, I know we’ve heard that before, but I’m really hopeful that this is it.
Do you want to know how you can stop the insanity? I have the solution (somewhat borrowed from Dick Morris). Call members of the House and tell them to vote no. Morris has compiled a list of House members that voted for the healthcare bill in November and are in jeopardy of losing their seats come November. Use the phone numbers provided and call them. You don’t have to be one of their constituients to give them your opinion. You may not be able to vote against them, but you can always threaten to support their opponent through donations, media, etc.
Nevada News & Views reports that Floyd Brown, producer of the now famous “Willie Horton” commercial that helped defeat Michael Dukakis and Gary Kreep the Chairman of the Republican Majority Campaign PAC, have teamed to launched a new independent expenditure ad campaign that exposes the corrupt connections between Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), MGM Mirage (NYSE-MGM) and the ruler of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
The Slaughter Rule
By Troy La ManaFiled Under Congress, Domestic Policy, Healthcare, Scandals on Mar 12
Listen to Rush Limbaugh explaining how the Democrats are going to ram this health care bill down our throats without even voting on it.
No federal funding for abortions? Think again
By Troy La ManaFiled Under Congress, Domestic Policy, Healthcare on Mar 9
If you thought there was no federal funding for abortions in the Senate health care bill think again.
What??? A Democrat that gets it!
By Troy La ManaFiled Under Congress, Domestic Policy, Policy on Mar 8
Michael Bennet – D Colorado is introducing a new bill forcing reform on earmarks, Lobbyists and procedure changes to get Congress back to work.
Specifically, Bennet’s Plan for Washington Reform would:
Salaries, Spending, and Perk
* Freeze congressional member pay until there are 4 quarters of job growth
*Freeze congressional office budgets until there are 4 quarters of job growth
* End the health care subsidy for Members of Congress until health care reform passes and eliminates discrimination based on pre-existing conditions, doesn’t cut guaranteed Medicare benefits, increases coverage, and is fully paid for
* Require full payment for the seat and disclose of those traveling with a Member of Congress on a charter jet
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Constitutional amendment to limit federal spending?
By Troy La ManaFiled Under Congress, Domestic Policy on Mar 5
Representatives Mike Pence and Jeb Hensarling appeared Wednesday on “The Kudlow Report” to discuss their new plan to pass a constitutional amendment to limit federal spending.
The rapid pace of growth of the federal government has increased 24.7% from 19.9% of the economy. That is the highest level since World War II. The debt accrued in the past five years, is the total of debt summed up from President George Washington to Bill Clinton.
Read the Wall Street Journal article here.
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