Its begun already...

Investigating a private citizen because what he says hurts the Obama campaign...I can only imagine what is going to happen when he is actually in charge!

Ya'll thought Big Brother was bad before...HA! Not only will you have no privacy with a fully Democratic controlled Congress and White House...you will have NO MONEY! As the social programs instituted by these evil people will strip you of what you have, to give to another...so life will be "fair" for all! Never mind that those of us NOT on welfare actually work real jobs for a living...sigh...

Maybe I'll quit too and join the ranks of the government's entitlees...after all, why should I work when I can sit at home, in a house provided for me by the government...eating food provided for me through the government (think WIC)? I can see it now...the unemployment rates will skyrocket...and in a few years, I can demand the government pay me for my retirement from unemployment too! Course, that is, if I don't find myself euthanized first!


What the hell has happened to my beloved America???

Checks on 'Joe' more extensive than first acknowledged
Tax, welfare info also sought on McCain ally
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:05 PM
By Randy Ludlow

A state agency has revealed that its checks of computer systems for potential information on "Joe the Plumber" were more extensive than it first acknowledged.

Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, disclosed today that computer inquiries on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher were not restricted to a child-support system.

The agency also checked Wurzelbacher in its computer systems to determine whether he was receiving welfare assistance or owed unemployment compensation taxes, she wrote.

Jones-Kelley made the revelations in a letter to Ohio Senate President Bill M. Harris, R-Ashland, who demanded answers on why state officials checked out Wurzelbacher.

Harris called the multiple records checks "questionable" and said he awaits more answers. "It's kind of like Big Brother is looking in your pocket," he said.

If state employees run checks on every person listed in newspaper stories as buying a business, "it must take a lot of people a lot of time to run these checks," he said. "Where do you draw the line?"

The checks were run after the news media reported that Wurzelbacher was considering buying a plumbing business with more than $250,000 in annual income, Jones-Kelley wrote.

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Republicans deserve to lose...

Want to know why we are in this "financial crisis"? You won't hear it from the mainstream media....you certainly won't hear it from the Democrats or Liberals and most importantly, you won't hear it from the Republicans, especially not Senator John McCain...sigh...

Republicans and Conservatives had a golden opportunity in this election to kick some tail and actually put into office some solid leaders...but of course, we failed. Anyone who's been following politics for the past few years could have fairly easily predicted that the economy was going to be the "major" issue of this election, yet Republicans kept insisting that it would have more to do with the war in Iraq than anything else. A war which is basically won...a war which hasn't been an issue since the surge was instituted last January!

Here we had one of the best CEO's in the nation as a possible candidate, Mitt Romney...a man who co-founded and led one of the nations largest investment firms, but who also took over the Salt Lake Olympics when it was about $379 million short and managed to turn it around to earning a $100 million profit! And to top all that off...as if it isn't enough, check this out...Upon entering the governorship of MA in January of 2003, Romney faced a projected $3 billion deficit through a combination of spending cuts, increased fees, and removal of corporate tax loopholes, by 2006 the state had a $700 million surplus and was able to cut taxes even further!

Oh...but, no...let's not look to this man to be the next leader to get us out of any sort of economic trouble...no...let's instead look for Senator John McCain to lead us...you know the man who's been in Congress for over 20 years, has little to no business experience and who's "pre-Congress" career was serving in the US Navy...great for a "war" president, not so great for an "economic" one...sigh....

It gets better though, everyone will applaud and cheer loudly when McCain picks a "conservative" running mate like Sarah Palin...course, never mind that she too has no business experience, afterall, she did manage to provide ONE tax break to the residents of Alaska...you know the state that has less population then the city I live in!!! And well, she did "fight" those big and evil oil corporations! What you may ask is her pre-political experience? Sportscaster...that should help out when it comes time to putting together a comprehensive economic plan, yes??

Well, her experience or lack there of, really doesn't matter anyway, since as a VP, she will have little to no Constitutional duties. She can try to "advise" McCain, but since he's a "maverick", its likely he won't listen anyway!

Does all this mean I will vote Obama...HELL NO!

Just means I am totally disgusted with both parties! Not that I ever believed in the one (Demoncrats). Just means that I have finally come to the conclusion that the only difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans will institute socialism at a slightly slower rate than the Democrats.

One look at the recent bailout bill and all the CRAP that was included in it, not refused by Republicans, but actually happily agreed upon...demonstrates what I am talking about!

Worst of all...not ONE Republican is actually YELLING about this outrageous bill...and NOT ONE has actually spoken out publicly to expose who's actually at fault for causing this "crisis"...in fact, we heard from Palin last Thursday that this whole "mess" is due to greedy "Wall Street"...that totally turned my stomach to hear! Now we (Republicans) even regurgitate liberal talking points!!!

How about ONE Republican actually having the cashews to go on TV and tell the real truth? You know, being a real "maverick" and speaking out against, not only this pathetic bill, but also exposing the facts that led us to this "crisis"???

Do Facts Matter?
By Thomas Sowell

Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time."

Unfortunately, the future of this country, as well as the fate of the Western world, depends on how many people can be fooled on election day, just a few weeks from now.

Right now, the polls indicate that a whole lot of the people are being fooled a whole lot of the time.

The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain— which is astonishing in view of which man and which party has had the most to do with bringing on this crisis.

It raises the question: Do facts matter? Or is Obama's rhetoric and the media's spin enough to make facts irrelevant?

Fact Number One: It was liberal Democrats, led by Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, who for years— including the present year— denied that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taking big risks that could lead to a financial crisis.

It was Senator Dodd, Congressman Frank and other liberal Democrats who for years refused requests from the Bush administration to set up an agency to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

It was liberal Democrats, again led by Dodd and Frank, who for years pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to go even further in promoting subprime mortgage loans, which are at the heart of today's financial crisis.

Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's Secretary of the Treasury, five years ago.

Yet, today, what are we hearing? That it was the Bush administration "right-wing ideology" of "de-regulation" that set the stage for the financial crisis. Do facts matter?

We also hear that it is the free market that is to blame. But the facts show that it was the government that pressured financial institutions in general to lend to subprime borrowers, with such things as the Community Reinvestment Act and, later, threats of legal action by then Attorney General Janet Reno if the feds did not like the statistics on who was getting loans and who wasn't.

Is that the free market? Or do facts not matter?

Then there is the question of being against the "greed" of CEOs and for "the people." Franklin Raines made $90 million while he was head of Fannie Mae and mismanaging that institution into crisis.

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I will not vote McCain...

I have been watching the debate tonight...and its taken both Palin and Biden all of 10 minutes to help me come to the conclusion that I won't be voting for EITHER Obama or McCain!

Honestly, I can't tell the difference between either of these two "bipartisan" politicians.

Palin had a perfect opportunity to explain exactly WHO is responsible for the current economic condition and she failed miserably...not even mentioning the outrageous "tweak" to the fair housing act that occured under Billy boy!

And then she dared to blame "greedy lenders and Wall Street"...sounds just like a liberal!

News flash for both of them...the middle class does well, when the wealthy...the owners of corporations and businesses of all sorts (you know...those who EMPLOY the middle class!) do well!

We have two parties now..."Liberals" and "Liberal Lite"...disgraceful!

There is no Republican party...let alone Conservative party left in this nation!

Then we have this...

The 50 richest members of Congress

Sure, we are keeping those in Congress wealthy, as well as employed!

We're becoming Socialist, like it or not!

"Government to the rescue!!!" Sadly, the reason that we are having economic issues is because the government got involved. Dictating that we had to institute "fair housing"...sigh...mortgage companies were told to provide loans, ANY WAY THEY COULD, to ensure that minorities had a "fair" chance at owning a home...and look where it has gotten us? And NOW the government calls it "predatory lending"...as if the mortgage companies really wanted to lose their businesses by offering loans to high risk clients!

Well, all I see is that we are being set up for a major tax hike, no matter WHO wins in November! McCain's just might not be as big as Obama's, but either way...our taxes are going to increase and MORE government involvement in our lives will be the norm!

The whole mentality of "government save me"...disgusts me, but sadly, Republican's and Democrats are all the same now - looking to increase government to retain their jobs. Telling us stupid lowly little people how much we "need" them, because we are too dang dumb to run our own lives and know when, what and how much we can spend!

Sadly, we don't have ONE true patriot in office who is actually willing to fight any of this...we just continue to give in on every principal, allowing more and more social programs, holding our hands out for "free" healthcare, housing, education, etc. Maybe those in office are right...we are too stupid to know that without US, the working class, the government HAS NO MONEY to provide all those "free" things to all those with their hands out!

Dow Plummets 373 as Markets Rethink Rescue
Matt Egan and Ken Sweet
FOXBusiness

The euphoria that swept Wall Street late last week evaporated Monday as the Dow plummeted 370 points, crude oil prices spiked $25, an all-time record, and the greenback suffered its worst day ever against the euro.

Today's Market
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 372.75 points, or 3.27%, to 11015.69. The broader S&P 500 Index closed down 47.96 points, to 3.82%, to 1207.12 while the Nasdaq Composite Index ended down 94.92 points, or 4.17%, to 2178.98. The consumer-friendly Fox 50 Index fell 28.21 points, or 3.13% to 873.24.

Turbulence continues to reign on Wall Street as the Dow closed with a triple-digit move for the sixth consecutive trading session. Monday's losses halve what was the largest two-day percentage jump for the S&P 500 since October 1987.

“Uncertainty breeds volatility. Until there is more clarity on the status of the U.S. financial system, there is going to continue to be volatility in both directions," said Michael James, senior equity trader at Wedbush Morgan Securities.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM: 40.80, -6.25, -13.28%), General Motors (GM: 11.58, -1.50, -11.46%) and Bank of America (BAC: 34.15, -3.33, -8.88%) were the biggest drags on the Dow. Microsoft (MSFT: 25.40, +0.24, +0.95%), which announced a $40 billion stock buyback plan, was the lone blue-chip stock closing in the green.

Crude, Dollar Set Records
Monday saw unprecedented moves in the currency and energy markets, weighing heavily on the markets.

Much of the action was related to the government's $700 billion rescue plan to buy toxic assets from financial companies. The plan, in addition to other measures taken by the government, helped raise hopes last week the credit crisis could be ending soon.

On Monday Wall Street was rethinking the implications of the plan, concerns that helped send the dollar to its worst one-day performance against the euro since the currency's debut in 1999, according to Bloomberg News.

"This just tells you there are major unintended consequences in what the government is trying to do," said Peter Boockvar, equity strategist at Miller Tabak. The currency action is "an indictment of what Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson are trying to pull off.”

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Any other citizen would be facing jail time...

But of course, he's not "any" citizen...he's the "esteemed" Charlie Rangel!! The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee...you know, the committee that actually writes the tax laws...sigh...

Course, if he had an R next to his name, black or white wouldn't be the issue...the only thing we would hear about is how corrupt Republican's are...he would have lost not only his chairmen's position, but would have been forced out of the House altogether and of course, the media would be crying "SCANDAL" all over the place!

But alas...he's a black democrat who will get an absolute pass, who will remain in office and in about 6 months will be hailed as a hero once again as he cries that the whole investigation was due to the fact that he's black...I can just hear him now playing the RACE card..."I was only investigated because I am black!!!"

I love the many excuses that Rangel has been stating since all of this began...especially the one in which he blames his wife as she's the "financier" in the family! LOL! So much for "female brain power!"

More Errors For Rep. Rangel; Hires New Account

Though Many Think Harlem Congressman's High-Powered Job Is Safe, House Speaker Pelosi Has Final Say

NEW YORK (CBS) ― Congressman Charles Rangel is under fire once again over questions about his personal finances.

On Monday, the chairman of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee was scheduled to meet privately with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, trying to deal with the ethics questions that just won't go away.

Rangel emerged from a private meeting with fellow lawmakers Monday night having survived another day as chairman of the tax writing committee despite lingering questions about his personal finances and unpaid taxes on a beach house.

"I am unable to say anything," the Democrat said, before rattling off his name, rank and serial number from his days as a soldier in the Korean War. "Do to me what you want, I'm not talking."

Asked if he was still the chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, Rangel smiled and said nothing.

"You're damn right he's the chairman," replied fellow lawmaker Sander Levin, D-Mich.

Rangel's meeting with fellow Democrats on the committee lasted nearly an hour. During that time, many lawmakers in the room voiced support for Rangel continuing in his high position while the House ethics committee probes his finances, according to people who were there and spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions were private.

Although he is one of the most powerful men in Washington, here in his own district -- to avoid yet another round of embarrassing questions from reporters -- Rangel had to be brought in through a back door on Monday, surrounded by children, no less. He did acknowledge that he was going to be asked about Speaker Pelosi, but said he did not want to take away from what was supposed to be the children's day.

"The feeling was it had to do with Speaker Pelosi, but I don't want to detract from this at all," Rangel said.

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Democrats used to be the only party of hypocrits in my mind but now...

Umm...the only hypocrits I see lately are of the Republican kind! As a devout Conservative and Catholic, I am disgusted at the way Palin's gender has been exploited for the sake of the "win".

Some of the "gear" that's being sold, t-shirts, thongs, dolls dressed as dominatrix and really disgusting slogans are being sold by so called CONSERVATIVES supporting Palin!

And since when did Conservatives throw out family values? I thought the reason we were so proud of soccer/hockey mom's...was because they actually were STAY AT HOME MOM's who chose the best job in the world...being a MOM rather than putting their career first?

Oh yea...she's a SUPER woman and can do it all! Fox News proudly showed a video two nights in a row this week of Sarah Palin, the good mother at home fixing, what looked like a burnt and at least day old hamburger for Piper, while casually chatting with the cameraman and interviewer.

When the interviewer decides to ask her 7 year old, "what do you want to be when you grow up?"...her response..."A BABYSITTER!"

Yea, she chooses to be a babysitter probably because she sees MORE of her babysitter than ANYONE else, including mother AND father!

It takes a LOT more to be a mother than just giving birth! Palin clearly put her career first...joining the PTA when her oldest son was only THREE!!!!

Sorry, but the whole celebrity circus of BOTH parties has completely turned me off of all politics!
I am sadly disappointed in the likes of Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and Michael Reagan....those who I dearly loved prior to their showing of true colors..."ANYTHING TO WIN!"

Remember...it was that same crappy attitude that put ARNOLD in office here in CA, rather than actually supporting, promoting and electing a TRUE CONSERVATIVE (Tom McClintock) and where did it get us? 40% MORE debt, more liberal laws then ever on the books and more businesses leaving CA then ever!

Yea...thanks for the "win"...sigh....so much for Conservative values...we have just thrown them all aside so we too, could have a "celebrity candidate", makes me sick.

Sarah Palin...she delivers a good speech, she's lovely to look at...she's not afraid to be direct and bold.

She will put the nail in the coffin of traditional family values, by becoming the new face of feminism.

Her "choice" to keep her Downs Syndrome baby is celebrated everywhere...Conservative pundits are hailing her as the new "Ronald Reagan" and the "savior" of the conservative base and the McCain campaign.

I hope she's prepared for the enormous expectations being lauded upon her.

As for my own personal thoughts...while I think picking her as the VP nominee was a brilliant political strategy and just may garner the "win" come November...I am sad to say, I believe Republicans have once again given in, we have allowed liberals to dictate our direction and we demonstrated we are willing to do ANYTHING simply to get the "win!"

Some have said to me..."well, as long as we get the win"...but I remember all too well many saying that during the recall election when Arnold was being pushed as the only candidate who could "win". What did that get us? A state that has 40% more debt then when we actually recalled Gray Davis! A state that has adopted more liberal policies and one that is losing businesses at a ridiculous rate! Are we better off since we got the "win"?

And how much can a McCain/Palin administration do when we continue to have the most liberal and ineffective Congress ever? If President Bush is currently unable to push any Conservative, yet alone Republican, legislation through this Congress what makes us think that we will be able to do so with a President who is currently a part of the problem?

Oh I know...McCain will "reach across the isle" to work with the Democrats...yea, the ones that I want to see completely defeated, not compromised with! We will see compromise on the Right...we will give in on all issues, heck, McCain has demonstrated his ability to "work" with the liberals...think Global Warming, Campaign Refinance Reform and Immigration. So why do Conservatives believe that this woman, alone, is going to make much of an impact? How will she be able to do what President Bush was unable to do even when he had a majority "Republican" Congress for his first four years?

Sorry, but I am just not ready to jump on the "celebrate Sarah the savior" bus yet. Does it mean I am willing to see Obama and his looney liberal clan win? HELL NO! But I am not going to pretend that I am suddenly overjoyed that my voice was totally ignored and that my party continues to go in its own direction, slowly conforming, to liberal ideas, policies and agenda.

Sarah Palin? What can I say? Republicans have now publicly and wholeheartedly embraced feminism. Sarah Palin can and has, had it all. I was going to reluctantly vote for moderate McCain. After Palin, I was not gunna vote at all. Now, considering how people are so happy to vote for McCain because he chose someone with a pussy as a running mate, I have decided to vote for Obama. Republicans have sold us out for moderates when we have a far left Congress. It is only a matter of time before they sell us out on the other issues as well. This nation is not worth it as it stands today. Let it fall. Let Obama have at it.


I, Leftistdestroyer, hereby renounce my involvement in the Republican Party and declare Conservatism, as I had belived it to be, dead. I have no plans to join any other party, nor declare myself an independant. I really do not care who runs the country anymore,(the similarities in the two party's are too close) just stay the fuck out of my way. No matter who is in charge, this once great nation steadily moves to the left and towards socialism, and in my opinion, is no longer worth defending. The history of our founding is just that, history.

So much for "Liberal tolerance and compassion"

So these protestors showed up to cry about the war in Iraq...to whine about the "violence" of war...to call our President a war monger...to declare their "upset" with the innocent victims of the war, to share their "outrage" over the loss of life of the brave military men and women who volunteered to make the ultimate sacrifice, etc., etc.

But isn't funny...they "hate" and "violence" so much except of course when they are the ones committing the very "crimes" they dare to say they are protesting against!!

Once again, demonstrating the hypocrisy of those on the left..."war is not the answer" unless you are going to "war" with 80 year old Republicans and Conservatives!!!!

Anti-War Protest at GOP Convention Turns Violent

by Stephen Clark
Monday, September 1, 2008

ST. PAUL –A protest near the site of the Republican National Convention gave way to violence Monday as demonstrators attacked members of the Connecticut delegation, smashed windows, slashed car tires and threw bottles during an anti-war march, St. Paul police said.

More than 80 people were arrested by police using pepper spray in some confrontations. Police were determining on a case-by-case basis how to process them.

Five people were accused of setting fire to a trash bin and pushing it into a police car, St. Paul police spokesman Tom Walsh said.

The violent demonstrators were mostly dressed in black and described themselves as anarchists. Most of the violence occurred in pockets of a neighborhood near downtown, several blocks from the Xcel Energy Center, where the convention was taking place.

At the request of police, 150 Minnesota National Guard soldiers helped control splinter groups near downtown long after anti-war marchers had dispersed.

Protesters attacked members of the Connecticut delegation when they got off their buses near Xcel Center, delegates told FOX News.com and a local TV station.

A group of protesters came toward the delegation and tried to rip the credentials off their necks and sprayed them with a toxic substance that burned their eyes and stained their clothes, delegate Rob Simmons told KMSP-TV.

One 80-year-old member of the delegation had to be treated for injuries, and several other delegates had to rinse their eyes and clothing, the station reported.

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Check out this video: Black & White on the Grey Matters 2 (War)

Nugent's take on the five traitors...

I am so glad to see that I am not the ONLY Conservative pissed off beyond belief at the five traitors who do nothing in Congress, other than "secure" their positions with the Dem's! Its LONG past the time to VOTE THEM ALL OUT!!!

Gang of Sellouts
08/13/2008

Joining five Democrats to make up the Gang of Ten, five Republican senators tossed Sen. John McCain under his Straight Talk Express Energy bus.

The five Republican senators (Graham, Thune, Chambliss, Corker, and Isakson) should be renamed the Gang of Sellouts.

The Gang of Ten is a bipartisan group of senators who recently offered an energy policy -- intentionally or stupidly otherwise -- that can only benefit Senator Obama, whose energy policy up until this point was to tell us to keep our tires just as liberals prefer Fedzilla: properly inflated.

McCain had Obama on the energy ropes and was scoring some big-time political points, but the Gang of Sellouts has let Obama off the ropes. Just when McCain was making headway, the Gang of Sellouts let the air out of his energy fight.

According to Kimberly Strassel’s August 8th article in The Wall Street Journal, the Gang of Ten’s energy policy is to allow four states to determine whether or not to allow drilling for oil on offshore federal land and deny drilling within 50 miles of our coasts and any drilling in ANWR. Oil companies would be allowed to explore for oil off Florida’s coasts. You know, like those stalwarts of environmentalism China, Cuba and India are planning to do in the next couple of years.

Additionally, the Gang of Ten would provide over $80 billion in tax credits for alternative fuels by eliminating $30 billion in tax breaks for oil companies, which of course ultimately comes out of American consumer's pockets. That’s right: raise taxes on the very companies that would invest in finding more real energy to help make America energy independent, while propping up more Fedzilla hoaxes like ethanol. The Emperor not only has no clothes, he's fat, wart-riddled and ugly.

Increasing taxes is never the right approach if the goal is to provide incentives to expand business, lower prices, and provide jobs. Only Democrats do not understand that raising taxes destroys incentives. One would think, even pray and dream, that Republicans -- even the Gang of Sellouts -- would know this.

The first rule of Republican economic politics must always be to never cut deals with the Tax Devil. The second economic maxim is that America can not tax and spend its way to prosperity. These two fundamental rules should be burned into the doors of all Republican senators and congressmen's offices. Even tattooed onto their foreheads.

Unable to drill within 50 miles of our coasts, we will not be able to tap into the rich energy reserves that lay just off of our coasts.

As George Will pointed out in his June 5th op-ed The Gas Prices We Deserve, the US Minerals Management Service restricted offshore areas may contain 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, which is ten times the oil and 20 times the natural gas Americans use annually. Read that again. Whose side are these numbskulls on?

The Gang of Ten’s proposal would restrict us from this energy -- energy that would help make America more energy independent. Thanks for nothing, Gang of Sellouts.

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When a picture is worth a 1000 words:

Republicans CAVE once again!

So finally, John McCain had an issue that was hitting home with, not only his supporters, but also the Conservative base and most importantly, every common sense thinking individual in the nation - we want DRILLING!

But...leave it to our weak spined, career protecting, Republican (and worse yet, supposed "Conservative") senators currently in Congress to BLOW IT!

• Lindsay Graham of South Carolina - (202) 224-5972


• John Thune of South Dakota - (202) 224-2321


• Saxby Chambliss of Georgia - (202) 224-3521


• Bob Corker of Tennessee - (202) 224-3344


• Johnny Isakson of Georgia - (202) 224-3643

The proposed bill by this "gang of 10" will limit drilling to FOUR states only and will continue to protect ANWR...in addition it will deny drilling offshore in the areas where we KNOW the oil can be found!

Per Saxby Chambliss, the hope is to force the Democrats to "allow" drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, but we all know that the Dems, unlike the cowards of the Republican party, are NOT going to give in and accept drilling in Mexico...once again, this bill is nothing MORE than stupid LIP SERVICE! This

I, for one, am totally sick of these career politicians and environmentalists holding us hostage...I believe we need a complete CLEANING of the HOUSE - I am ready to remake Congress, getting rid of absolute cowards like the five mentioned above! I am going to be calling, emailing and faxing, each of those pathetic senators mentioned above to communicate my outrage over this "compromise"...how about you?

Republican Energy Fumble
August 8, 2008

Politics has its puzzling moments. John McCain and most of the GOP experienced one late last week. That was when five of their own set about dismantling the best issue Republicans have in the upcoming election.

It's taken time, but Sen. McCain and his party have finally found -- in energy -- an issue that's working for them. Riding voter discontent over high gas prices, the GOP has made antidrilling Democrats this summer's headlines.

Their enthusiasm has given conservative candidates a boost in tough races. And Mr. McCain has pressured Barack Obama into an energy debate, where the Democrat has struggled to explain shifting and confused policy proposals.

Still, it was probably too much to assume every Republican would work out that their side was winning this issue. And so, last Friday, in stumbled Sens. Lindsey Graham, John Thune, Saxby Chambliss, Bob Corker and Johnny Isakson -- alongside five Senate Democrats. This "Gang of 10" announced a "sweeping" and "bipartisan" energy plan to break Washington's energy "stalemate." What they did was throw every vulnerable Democrat, and Mr. Obama, a life preserver.

That's because the plan is a Democratic giveaway. New production on offshore federal lands is left to state legislatures, and then in only four coastal states. The regulatory hurdles are huge. And the bill bars drilling within 50 miles of the coast -- putting off limits some of the most productive areas. Alaska's oil-rich Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is still a no-go.

The highlight is instead $84 billion in tax credits, subsidies and federal handouts for alternative fuels and renewables. The Gang of 10 intends to pay for all this in part by raising taxes on . . . oil companies! The Sierra Club couldn't have penned it better. And so the Republican Five has potentially given antidrilling Democrats the political cover they need to neutralize energy through November.

Sen. Obama was thrilled. He quickly praised the Gang's bipartisan spirit, and warmed up to a possible compromise. Of course, he means removing even the token drilling provisions now in the bill. But he's only too happy for the focus to remain on the Gang's efforts, and in particular on the five Republicans providing his party its fig leaf.

Equally gleeful was Louisiana's Mary Landrieu, the Senate's most vulnerable Democrat. She had been sweating the energy debate, especially after her vote against more oil-shale production -- a position her Republican opponent, John Kennedy, had used against her to great effect. Yet there she was, chummily standing with the Gang of 10 and boasting that she is working with "five Republicans" to "lower prices at the pump by increasing offshore drilling here at home."

Mr. McCain, who had been commanding the energy debate, was left to explain why he, of all people, wasn't more enthusiastic about a "bipartisan" effort on energy, especially one that includes "drilling." His camp was forced to take refuge in taxes, explaining that their boss couldn't sign up for a bill that included more. If this is what Mr. McCain's good friend Lindsey Graham considers "helping," somebody might want to ask him to stop.

And pity poor Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has been working overtime to stanch GOP losses this fall and head off a filibuster-proof Democratic Senate. His dogged efforts to highlight Democratic opposition to drilling has kept energy in the news and laid the groundwork for GOP candidates to use the issue to their advantage.

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Gotta LOVE Walmart!

Kudos to Walmart...I'll be sure to spend my hard earned dollars there before going anywhere else because they have the courage to SPEAK UP!

They know that if the Democrats take over the White House, as well as controlling Congress, businesses are going to be hurt severely and certainly, the consumer will PAY for it! Unionizing would be the worst thing to happen to Walmart, its employees and most of all, YOU and ME, consumer!

Wal-Mart warns managers about labor bill

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Friday it has warned U.S. store managers in recent weeks about the possible consequences of a labor-friendly bill backed by Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama that would make it easier for workers to form unions.
But the retailer, which has kept its U.S. stores free of unions, stressed it was not telling employees how to vote.

The Wall Street Journal reported that about a dozen employees who attended meetings in seven states said executives had told them that unionization could force Wal-Mart to cut jobs as labor costs rise, and that employees would have to pay hefty union dues and get nothing in return.

The Journal said Wal-Mart human-resources managers who run the meetings do not specifically tell attendees how to vote in November's presidential election, but they make it clear that voting for Obama would be tantamount to inviting unions in.

"If anyone representing Wal-Mart gave the impression we were telling associates how to vote, they were wrong and acting without approval," Wal-Mart spokesman David Tovar said.

Wal-Mart opposes proposed legislation called the Employee Free Choice Act that would make it easier for workers to unionize, by signing a card rather than holding a vote.

Obama, a co-sponsor of the original bill, has called for passage of the act. Last June, presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain voted against it.

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Do you have air in your head...err...tires?

Obama has air in his HEAD! Here we go again, the "savior" telling us exactly what we should be doing because we, the lowly little people, are just too damn stupid to figure it out on our own...sigh...

Obama says:

There are things you can do individually, though, to save energy. Making sure your tires are properly inflated — simple thing. But we could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling — if everybody was just inflating their tires? And getting regular tune-ups? You’d actually save just as much!

What CRAP! How the hell do people fall for this nonsense? Apparently, some ARE, in fact that damn STUPID!




Yep...its a good thing "B. Hussein Obama, Savior of us all" is smart enough to tell us the above...screw drilling for oil and increasing supply...oh no, we just need more "AIR!" (Course, that air has to be free of carbon dioxide or Global Warming will get us...so although you may ensure the four tires on your SUV are filled to the appropriate capacity, you still can't drive it...as the carbon "footprint" left in its wake will cause the next earthquake, flood, tornado, hurricane and whatever else the looney left can think of!)

America, you are in danger. Do not forget history.

A lie told often enough becomes truth.

Man made Global Warming, Newsweeks 1975 report on Global Cooling, Dead oceans in 10 years(10 years ago), Bird Flu.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism

Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid: $1.23 trillion 2008 Every year. Second Amendment bans. Food Bans. Smoking Bans. Etc.

Fascism is capitalism in decay
Second Amendment bans. Food Bans. Smoking Bans. Etc.


Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted (Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever)


Department of Education, Public Schools.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years

Department of Education, Public Schools.


It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed

Taxes, Second Amendment bans. Food Bans. Smoking Bans. Etc.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Second Amendment bans.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism

Liberalism, Darwinism, Public Schools, Banning religious monumnets on public ground, Ten Commandments Case, Judge Roy Moore.

The goal of socialism is communism

Kelo, Taxes, Second Amendment bans. Food Bans. Smoking Bans. Etc.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses

CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Media Matters, Huffington Post, Air America, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation

Chicago, IL 10.2% sales tax. Highest in the Nation. 1/3 of pay check goes to taxes. Federal, State, and Local tax, Sales tax, Estate tax, Inheritance Tax, etc.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state

Kelo, Taxes, Second Amendment bans. Food Bans. Smoking Bans. Etc.



All of the above, in bold, are quotes from Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. They do apply to the US.

KOMMUNIST KALIFORNIA at it again!!

Isn't it this rich..."Ahhnold", steroid boy, telling us what we can and can't eat! And worse yet...some stupid legistrative woman trying to push a bill that would limit the number of fast food restaurants in Los Angeles??? This state is turning to a completely government run, babysitting, enforcing of THEIR will upon the people, STATE! Its outrageous, disgusting and I for one am MAD!

I am so sick of politicians telling us, the people of the US, that we are too damn stupid to think for ourselves and do what we need to do to take care of our own families! This just demonstrates more of the "you need us" mentality that has warped our state AND federal governments within BOTH parties! When are people going to finally get fed up???

Schwarzenegger Terminates Trans Fat in Calif.
California Becomes the First State to Ban Trans Fats
By MOLLY HUNTER
July 25, 2008 —

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has made it official: California will be the first trans-fat free state in the nation.

All-natural palm, rice and soybean oils will soon be king, and life in the Golden State will be forever altered.

The California legislature pushed the bill through last week, and Schwarzenegger signed it into law Friday, July 25.

The ban will require food providers to begin phasing out trans fat oils by July 1, 2009. Thereafter, noncompliance with the ban will result in fines of up to $1,000.

Trans unsaturated fatty acids are the partially hydrogenated oils that result from a chemical process producing solid fats with a longer shelf life.

These so-called "trans fats" were once thought to be healthier than butter, but research in the last decade has shown that they are much more harmful to health than had been believed. According to the American Heart Association, trans unsaturated fatty acids are medically proven to increase the risk of coronary heart disease by raising bad cholesterol (LDL) levels and reducing good cholesterol levels (HDL).

With more than half a million Americans dying each year from heart disease, the switch may be coming not a moment too soon.

(And Lord knows, we the people are just too damn stupid and ignorant to know what's not good for us or what we should be doing to lower our OWN risk for heart disease, right?? )

This ban comes on the heels of the New York City's prohibition on trans fats in restaurants, which took full effect on July 1. But the wheels began turning in California before the Big Apple's eateries sought substitutes for their deep fryers.

Tiburon, a northern California town of about 8,700 people, has boasted trans fat-free restaurants since 2004. All 18 restaurants turned away, rather effortlessly and voluntarily, from partially hydrogenated oils at the urging of a lawyer, Steven Joseph, and his task force at bantransfats.com.

"The change has been very well received by our customers," said Carl Peschlow, owner of Sweden House Bakery in Tiburon. "Those so-called bad fats do, however, give our croissants a little oomph."

Peschlow said that while his bakery made the change relatively early, they still use a "tiny bit" of trans fat in their croissant recipe. Otherwise, Peschlow said, "the croissants just look like fat pancakes."

When New York City turned its attention to trans fats, they looked to Joseph's Project Tiburon for guidance. Joseph, a California transplant from Washington D.C., also led the fight against Kraft in 2003, asking the food giant to "cease and desist marketing and selling Oreo cookies to children in the State of California" until the popular chocolate sandwich cookie contained zero trans fats.

Kraft caved and has since become a leader in the industry, reducing or eliminating trans fats in 650 of its products. "Clearly that's what people wanted and that's what they care about," said Susan Davison, Kraft's director of corporate affairs.

Joseph and his team also prompted McDonalds to re-think its use of trans fats, and today Wendy's has gone completely trans fat-free. (California staple In-N-Out Burger has never used trans fats since opening in 1948.)

The California Restaurant Association along with other organizations has led the charge against the ban, claiming that many restaurants are making the shift without the government's help.

Chains including Taco Bell, Denny's, Burger King, Olive Garden, El Pollo Loco and Red Lobster have voluntarily pledged to fully or partially eliminate trans fats in their kitchens.

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Beware...cause very soon they, our saviors in government, will be going after the grocery stores next and all the processed foods carried in them!!! All you Costco "heat and eat" mom's better be careful...soon will be arrested for giving your kids microwaved chicken nuggets!!!!

Going to visit Iraq wasn't "unfair," BUT...

Going to show your gratitude, respect and honor to those who have been wounded defending your "RIGHT" to campaign...is...sigh...and never mind the simple fact that B. Hussein Obama is STILL a US Senator and should be ALWAYS be ready, willing and able to show his respect to the troops!!!

Obama scraps visit to wounded troops

Jul 24 04:09 PM US/Eastern

BERLIN (AP) - Sen. Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as part of his overseas trip, a decision his spokesman said was made because the Democratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on a campaign-funded journey.

The spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said Thursday that Obama made his decision out of respect for the servicemen and women, but Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign immediately criticized the move.

"Barack Obama is wrong. It is never inappropriate to visit our men and women in the military," said Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the Republican contender.

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