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April 14, 2011 

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"Energy in government is essential to that security against external and internal danger and to that prompt and salutary execution of the laws which enter into the very definition of good government. Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society" 


~ James Madison, Federalist No. 37, 1788 

 

"Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason." --Benjamin Franklin 

 


 

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The Heritage FoundationOn April 27th Senator Pat Toomey will help us cut through the left's hysterical rhetoric on the debt ceiling, be sure to save the date. The facts are clear, and the Obama administration is wrong. America will not default because the federal government would have more than enough revenue coming in to pay the interest on our nation's debt. Join us to get the facts before Members of Congress rush through any more "emergency" measures that come at the expense of our children and grandchildren. Senator Toomey will be joined by J.D. Foster of The Heritage Foundation for what is sure to be an informative evening. Let us know to expect you by submitting your RSVP via our event page on Facebook, or through the heritageaction.comevent page.

 

 

Please RSVP through only one site only so we can keep an accurate count. This event starts promptly at 7:00pm and will take place at the Fort Washington Holiday Inn.

 

I look forward to seeing you there.

Leo Knepper

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Heritage Action for America

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Cutting through the Debt Hysteria with Senator Pat Toomey

Wednesday, April 27 Ft. Washington, PA

Senator Pat Toomey will help us cut through the left's hysterical rhetoric on the debt ceiling. The facts are clear; The Obama administration is wrong. America will not default because the federal government would have more than enough revenue coming in to pay the interest on our nation's debt.

Join us to get the facts before. Members of Congress rush through any more "emergency" measures that come at the expense of our children and grandchildren.

In addition to Senator Toomy, guests will include Rick Hellberg (Congressional candidate in 2010 in Philly), J.D. Foster from the Heritage Foundation.

This event is a joint project of The Kitchen Table Patriots, Heritage Action for America, Lehigh Valley Project 9-12 Tea Party Group, Thomas Jefferson Club, 9/12 Patriots of Lower Bucks County and The Loyal Opposition

Facebook Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165686890153727

Location: Fort Washington Holiday Inn, 432 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Fort Washington, PA 19034

 

 



 Valley Forge Patriots

VFP Host TAX DAY PROTEST !!!!

 

 

3rd Annual April 15th Tax Day Protest

 

 

Free:  Tax Day Protest - Open to the Public - join us as we protest high taxes & big government spending !!!

5pm - 7pm

Bridge & Main St, Phoenixville,PA

 

 

$15 on the 15th 

 

7pm  -  9pm  $15 Dinner Buffet:   Open to the first 75 people who RSVP at the VFP Meetup Site.                                        http://www.meetup.com/VFP-TeaParty09/events/16956456/

Join us for some food and discussion after the protest.  P J Ryan's will do a $15 all you can eat buffet which includes salad, roll, baked ziti - vegetarian, meatballs, Sheppard's Pie, soda, tea, coffee.  That price also includes one alcoholic drink of your choice, tax & tip. 

P J Ryan's, 231 Bridge Street, Phoenixville

Please RSVP names are needed for seating and payment is due at the door of P J Ryan's. 

 

Valley Forge Patriots Meetup site -http://www.meetup.com/VFP-TeaParty09/events/16956456/

 

 

 


 

 

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An Online Town Hall
Saturday, April 16, 2011

"Economic Liberty and the Constitution"

  

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"Economic Liberty and the Constitution" is an online town hall brought to you by Hillsdale College's Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship. The town hall will be aired as a live webcast on April 16, 2011. Archived recordings of the event will be available on April 18, 2011, also accessible after registering.

 

 



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Go See Atlas Shrugged on April 15th


 

Click Here To See Atlas Shrugged

As many of you know, the much-anticipated April 15th release of the Atlas Shrugged film is less than a week away! Based on Ayn Rand's classic novel which celebrates limited government, free markets and individual liberty, Atlas Shrugged is being called a made for Tea Party film.

Find a theater near you showing Atlas Shrugged!

 Maybe that's because as millions of Tea Party supporters have rallied over the past two years, many have brought with them signs like those above-referencing Atlas Shrugged. As you rally on April 15th for your local Tax Day protest, I urge you to go see this important film.

The film is set in a not-so-distant future in which government has taken control of the means of production, bureaucrats have impose harmful regulations on businesses and turmoil in the Middle East has sent oil prices skyrocketing. Sound familiar?

On April 15th, Atlas Shrugged will be released in 300 theaters across America-but even more theaters are lined up if we can demonstrate our support for this film.

Click here to see where the film is playing near you! If you can't find a showing close to you, demand that the film is shown in your town.

I urge you to take your family, friends, neighbors and coworkers to see this important film on April 15th. Many activists are already organizing to go see the film right now on FreedomConnector. Atlas Shrugged has the opportunity to introduce millions more around the world to the philosophy of freedom. But if that's going to happen-if this life-changing film is going to be shown in thousands of theaters-we need your help.

As thousands of liberty-minded grassroots activists gather across America for Tax Day protests on April 15th, go see Atlas Shrugged. If it's not yet being shown near you, demand that your theater shows Atlas Shrugged. Thank you for all your efforts a nd tireless support.


In Liberty,


Matt Kibbe
President and CEO, FreedomWorks

 



 

 

 

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 Act! for America

Breaking News - Wednesday, April 13 - 2:00 pm

 
House Intelligence Sub-Committee Convenes Hearing on Muslim Brotherhood Today


 
(Capitol Hill) The House Intelligence subcommittee on terrorism, human intelligence, analysis and counter-intelligence (TAHCI) will be holding a public hearing on the Muslim Brotherhood for two hours today beginning at 2:00 pm EDT.

US Rep. Sue Myrick chairs this committee so you know this will be good.

Rarely does the Intelligence Committee or its subcommittees hold public hearings, so we have dispatched our Government Affairs Director, Lisa Piraneo to the committee hearing room to tweet out the highlights and then to issue a report for our members as soon as possible.

To follow Lisa's tweets and receive breaking reports like this go to http://www.twitter.com/lisapiraneo

We have learned that the following people will testify today:

Dr. Ahmed Subhy Mansour- President, The International Quranic Center (IQC)
Nathan Brown- GWU
Tarek Masoud- Kennedy School
Robert Satloff- Washington Institute
Lorenzo Vidino - RAND

Will send out more info as it is available.


 

 

 



 

Muslim-American Group Issues Anti-Democracy Fatwa

Apr 11 2011

The Assembly of Muslim Jurists in AmericaThe Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America (AMJA) has issued a fatwa that puts Sharia law above democracy, causing some experts to call on the House Homeland Security Committee to subpoena the organization and testify.

 

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 NewsMax

 

Egypt's ElBaradei Threatens War With Israel

Tuesday, 05 Apr 2011 12:36 PM

By Jim Meyers

 Troubling signs are beginning to emerge from post-Hosni Mubarak Egypt: The prime minister is making new overtures to Iran - and a leading presidential candidate is threatening war with Israel.

Mohamed ElBaradei, the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency who has announced his candidacy for president in Egypt, said on Monday that "if Israel attacked Gaza we would declare war against the Zionist regime."

The Digital Journal observed: "In the world's first glimpse of the policies that may emerge from the results of the upcoming Egyptian presidential election, one candidate for president outlined his insistence on protecting Palestinians in Gaza from Israeli military assaults. Mohamed ElBaradei's position on the matter is clear: An Israeli military strike against Gaza would result in a declaration of war from Egypt."

 
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RedState

RedState Morning Briefing

For April 14, 2011

 

 

1. Bipartisan Mendacity

If House Republicans vote for the bipartisan compromise, they should be driven into the street by the tea party movement and horsewhipped - metaphorically speaking. In reality, they should be primaried.

What started out as $38.5 billion in cuts, turned into around $14 billion in cuts and a bunch of accounting gimmicks. Each new day brings new disgusting revelations. According to the Congressional Budget Office, "total federal outlays will still rise by approximately $177 billion." Yes, that says "rise" not "decrease."

More startling, the Congressional Budget Office reports that the deficit will only be cut by $352 million. That's million with an "m". The budget deficit will be $1.6 trillion this year.

Republicans who vote for this compromise are lying to the American people that they get how serious the problem is. But it's not just Republican mendacity the republic must be worried about. Barack Obama spoke yesterday in a speech filled with lies, half-truths, and enough class warfare rhetoric to make Karl Marx blush. The mendacity of Obama's class warfare is designed to distract from the fact that under Obama, gas prices have risen more than 100% from when he took office, food prices have gone up, and every dollar every American brings home buys less and less.

The man started his speech praising the free market and the rugged individualism of the American people, while ignoring that under his Presidency more Americans are on food stamps than at any time in American history and it is the Obama administration, not the free market, that is picking winners and losers in the marketplace.

Paul Ryan, on the Mark Levin Show last night, called Obama "a pyromanic in a field of straw men." Obama's mendacity goes deep - even to the point of lying about the national debt.

 

2. Barack Obama Fully Embraces Death Panels

While everyone else was focused on Barack Obama bashing Paul Ryan, I noticed that he took full ownership of death panels yesterday. Naturally, Obama did not call them death panels. He called them "an independent commission of doctors, nurses, medical experts and consumers." But his description hits dead on with what his death panels will do.

According to Barack Obama yesterday, the death panels "will look at all the evidence and recommend the best ways to reduce unnecessary spending while protecting access to the services seniors need."

We already know what they'll recommend as "the best ways to reduce unnecessary spending". Barack Obama's own advisers have told us. They will prioritize giving health care to healthier people and let sicker people die. At end of life, they will deny people life sustaining treatment because, after all, they're going to die anyway. Note his phrasing: "protecting access to the services seniors need." Dying people, according to Obama's advisers, need hospice not hope. They certainly do not need expensive treatments that may buy them time to see the birth of a new grandchild or other reasons.

3. Is Unofficial Inflation Present In The Economy?

In the late 1970's and early 1980's, inflation became a crippling detriment to the American Economy. Federal Reserve Chairman, Paul Volker, showed remarkable patriotism for a Democrat. He brought down the hammer athwart this scourge. He raised interest rates through the roof and forced down the price of most consumables to acceptable levels. As a result of Paul Volker's courage and love for America, the fixed-income consumer was temporarily spared great misery and deprivation.

Of course Fed Chairman Volker's policy decisions were kryptonite to elected officialdom. They solved a long-term Seldon-Crisis of political economy with little or no concern for short-term public opinion. The primary measure that set off Paul Volker's alarm system was the CPI (Consumer Price Index). Sadly, the CPI referenced today would not mathematically map to the CPI Volker relied upon back in the day. Therein lies a tale of statistical machination and nerdacious skullduggery.

4. Questionable Visitors' Log Reveals AFL-CIO Boss Made Four Dozen White House Trips

In a critical report published by the Center for Public Integrity regarding the White House visitor log, one of the more peculiar items noted was the amount of visits that AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka has made to the White House. While the Center's criticism centers around the lack of (or missing) data provided by the White House, the records did reflect that Trumka has visited the White House an astonishing four dozen times.

5. Planned Parenthood Clinics Help Statutory Rapists Cover Their Tracks

Planned Parenthood claims to support women's health. Their institutional actions, though, indicate they support criminal activity that would harm a child. How? By facilitating abortions for children raped by adult men. Fully 91% of the abortion clinics contacted would help an underaged girl receive an abortion even when the clinic counselor knew the father was an adult male.

6. Nancy Pelosi Is Right: Elections Shouldn't Matter As Much As They do

Speaking at Tufts University on April 8th, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi had one of those marvelous moments of self-revelation in which a usually polished politician speaking casually and without a script among like-minded friends says what everyone is thinking-what everyone knows to be true-in this case what is considered an unquestionable "fact" by their audience. As you can see from the video, there was not a murmur when Pelosi circled around to her punch line that "elections should not matter as much as they do." She went on to lament that the lack of "shared values" had lead to the unpleasantness of last Friday in Congress with all the shouting and staying up late and worries over who would get to keep their Blackberrys.

The thing is, Pelosi is right. Elections are burdensome things. They are expensive, intrusive and all too frequently unfair. Even when you win, the cycle of fundraising and campaigning distracts from the business at hand.

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Barack Obama leaves GOP in no mood to deal
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Medicare at the center of budget debate
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U.S. Warns of Mexico Peril
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US missiles hit Pakistan despite request to limit
The Associated Press


Holder's Justice Department defies the Supreme Court
The Washington Times



 
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Do These Numbers Show the Budget Deal Was a 'Gigantic Fraud?'

The Blaze | by Jonathon M. Seidl | April 14, 2011

 

Mark Levin has already called the budget deal an "historic scam." Now, respected website Business Insider and its number cruncher Joe Weisenthal have dubbed it a "gigantic fraud," while conservative cornerstone National Review calls it a "fake." And when you see the numbers, you might agree.

 

Weisenthal had a look at the analysis put out by National Journal (via the CBO) that says the total savings from the new deal (possible pun) are nowhere near the touted $38 billion. That number is only reached by numbers gimmicks. Rather, the number is closer to $352 million. NJ explains:

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In Their Own Interchangeable Words: Soros, Piven and SEIU Working to Destroy Americas Financial System & Create a Revolution

The Blaze | by Naked Emperor News | April 14, 2011 

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MSNBC's Mika: Obama Isn't Cowardly Like Republicans Because He Called Paul Ryan's Plan Un-American To His Face

The Blaze | by Naked Emperor News | April 14, 2011

 

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The Patriot Post 

 

 

Chronicle ˇ April 13, 2011

The Foundation

"Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason." --Benjamin Franklin

Editorial Exegesis

"My budget will cut spending this much."

"With his speech Wednesday, President Obama will try to claim leadership in the fight against the debt tsunami. But he's already had his chance to lead -- many of them, in fact -- and he blew it. According to White House aide David Plouffe, Obama's speech will 'lay out his approach ... in terms of the scale of debt reduction he thinks the country needs so we can grow economically and win the future.' That's a bit odd, since just two months ago Obama claimed that his 2012 budget plan 'lays out a path for how we can pay down these debts and free the American economy from their burden.' Is he now admitting what everyone else quickly figured out -- that his last budget was a complete sham? It isn't just that the president hasn't been leading the fight for fiscal responsibility. It's that he's been consistently misleading the country about what he's doing. For more than two years, he has constantly talked about cutting spending and deficits while doing nothing to achieve those goals. ... The topper came this February, when Obama produced a budget that he claimed (and the media mindlessly repeated) significantly cut federal spending. It didn't. In fact, Obama proposed spending $252 billion more in 2012 than the feds spent in 2010 -- at the height of the stimulus spending spree. ... Obama might think that, with a nice new speech, he can wipe this sorry slate clean and redraw himself as a responsible and reasonable fiscal hawk. Republicans, and the public at large, would all do well not to take him at his word." --Investor's Business Daily

 Upright

"Now that Obama is acknowledging the need for budget cuts and the role of entitlements in the deficit/debt crisis, he's stuck. The White House has to offer a plan that actually cuts entitlement spending enough to close the deficit gap, or they have to raise revenues. The question isn't whether a machete gets used, it's a question of where they plan to use the machete -- on entitlement spending, or on taxpayers? Now that Obama has engaged on the issue, those are the only two choices he has." --blogger Ed Morrissey
 

"From the moment they passed their first budget, Republican insiders decided to run the contest as a numbers game, and this may have been a classic miscalculation. Republicans promised $100 billion in cuts even before Rep. John Boehner was handed the speaker's gavel, but it has never been clear where this $100 billion number originated. Nevertheless, it became the standard for judging success. Unless Republicans change their spending narrative away from numbers, they will lose the larger budget debate: only a focus on themes and values will win the hearts and minds of Americans. Unless the GOP can touch independent Americans who are fearful we are moving towards national bankruptcy, they will lose the most important political cause of our generation." --Pajamas Media editor Richard Pollock

 

"President Obama has dedicated his time in office to soaking up applause and shifting blame. Last year, when Democrats owned the White House, the House and the Senate, Congress didn't even bother passing a budget. Obama didn't seem to mind. But when Republicans put together a stopgap measure to fund the military and prevent a government shutdown, Obama promised to veto it. Obama called the measure 'a distraction from the real work that would bring us closer to a reasonable compromise for funding the remainder of fiscal year 2011.' There must have been a lot of distractions last year." --columnist Debra Saunders

 

"America, 2011: A man gets driven in a motorcade to sneer at a man who has to drive himself to work. A guy who has never generated a dime of wealth, never had to make payroll, never worked at any job other than his own tireless self-promotion literally cannot comprehend that out there, beyond the far fringes of the motorcade outriders, are people who drive a long distance to jobs whose economic viability is greatly diminished when getting there costs twice as much as the buck-eighty-per-gallon it cost back at the dawn of the Hopeychangey Era. So what? Your fault. Should have gone to Columbia and Harvard and become a community organizer." --columnist Mark Steyn

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Insight

"There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge." --English philosopher Roger Bacon (1220-1292)

"Nothing is going to be stopped anywhere that there is any money in." --American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)

The Demo-gogues

Such leadership: "Both sides had to make tough decisions and give ground on issues that were important to them. But beginning to live within our means is the only way to protect those investments that will help America compete for new jobs. ... Some of the cuts we agreed to will be painful. I would not have made these cuts in better circumstances." --Barack Obama, taking credit for the spending cuts but also acknowledging that he didn't really want them

 

"What we have here is a flea, wagging a tail, wagging a dog. The flea are [sic] the minority of House Republicans who are hard right, the tail is the House Republican caucus, and the dog is the government. My experience is they lose politically, but much more importantly, they do what is wrong for the country substantively." --Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (At least he got one thing right -- government is the dog!)

 

Elections do matter: "To my Republican friends: take back your party. So that it doesn't matter so much who wins the election, because we have shared values about the education of our children, the growth of our economy, how we defend our country, our security and civil liberties, how we respect our seniors. ... [E]lections shouldn't matter as much as they do." --House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who owes her current position to the last election

Class warfare: "We don't hear anybody saying -- and the president has not been saying what he should have been saying -- which is the country is not broke. We're simply not taxing the big corporations enough. ... We're not taxing the millionaires and billionaires enough." --Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)

 

Nothing to fear but fear itself. And Republicans: "The Republicans are trying to ... destroy the whole, wide world." --Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA)

 

Fundamental change can be hard: "I just miss -- I miss being anonymous. I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks. I can't take a walk." --Barack Obama (We would love to give him the opportunity to take a walk, if you know what we mean.)

 

 

 

 

Dezinformatsia

Using class warfare to warn about class warfare: "I just don't see why with top earners doing better than ever, why they can't be a part of this equation [in addressing the budget crisis]. ... [I]f you looked at the New York Times [Sunday], and you saw the top 30 earners, and how much money they are making all over again, including some of the people who drove us into the ditch -- all white men, by the way, just one woman -- and I didn't see any African-Americans -- I think we have a problem that we need to address as a society. ... [W]e need to balance things out [or] you're going to have class warfare on its worst level." --MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski

 

"The rich get off like scoundrels. ... [Paul Ryan is] not doing anything in terms of raising taxes." --Fox News' Juan Williams

 

Speaking truth to power: "Mr. Obama not only helped avoid the first government shutdown in 15 years, but also pressured Republicans to remove provisions intended to restrict financing for Planned Parenthood and to limit environmental regulations. In doing so, he assumed the role of a level-headed referee, rising above the squabbling to take ownership of a solution rather than a problem. 'He's the undisputed grownup in the group,' said Jim Jordan, a Democratic strategist who has managed Senate and presidential campaigns across the country." --New York Times' Jeff Zeleny

 

Non Compos Mentis: "Will the Congress ever adopt a combination of some modification or cost-cutting, which we know has to come into place, somehow squeeze the costs of Medicare -- medical costs, and a tax increase for people who can afford it, as a -- as a more democratic, a more fair way to deal with this problem? Will they get that through and signed by the president, or is that just a posture? ... So, the plan is the president says, look, let them offer a big slash in Medicare, which is going to kill half the people who watch this show." --MSNBC's Chris Matthews (Out of five or six people, half really isn't all that many.)

Newspulper Headlines:

We Doubt Those Low-Flow Models Would Be Up to the Task: "Rand Paul Uses Toilets to Argue Energy Department 'Could Be Gotten Rid Of'" --TheHill.com

 

How Are They Going to Find Someone Else With the Same Name?: "Glenn Beck Is Leaving Fox's 'Glenn Beck'" --CNN.com

 

We Blame Global Warming: "Mix of Weather to Continue in Region" --Reno (NV) Gazette-Journal

 

Questions Nobody Is Asking: "Why Do Sea Turtles Need Solar Panels?" --San Francisco Chronicle website

 

News You Can Use: "Don't Let Your iPhone See You Naked" --Forbes.com

Bottom Story of the Day: "Dems Banking on Obama Re-Election" --Boston Herald

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto)

Village Idiots

Talking points: "The only real solution is to cut spending and raise taxes. Until Republicans recognize that, they really aren't being serious, they're just being politically provocative." --former DNC Chief Howard Dean

 

Over the top: "I hope the president decides he has to take a stand, and the sooner the better. Last December he caved in to Republican demands that the Bush tax cuts be extended to wealthier Americans for two more years, at a cost of more than $60 billion. That was only the beginning. ... [Friday] night he gave away more than half the sandwich -- $39 billion less than was budgeted for 2010, $79 billion less than he originally requested. Non-defense discretionary spending -- basically, everything from roads and bridges to schools and innumerable programs for the poor -- has been slashed. The right-wing bullies are emboldened. They will hold the nation hostage again and again." --former Clintonista Robert Reich

 

Bad advice: "The country could, actually, absorb some more debt in order to get the economy going." --billionaire leftist financier George Soros

 

It's the spending, stupid: "[W]hen you come into office and you want to put your mark on things ... you want to be able to spend. And what's crippled Obama's administration, as far as I'm concerned, is the financial crisis and it's prevented him from doing any new spending." --actor Alec Baldwin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

  

GRASSFIRE NATION
URGENT BUDGET DEBATE UPDATE

WEDNESDAY EVENING

Patriot,

The budget compromise struck last weekend

has been exposed by the Congressional Budget

Office as a SHAM. The CBO reports that the alleged

$38 billion in cuts actually amounts to just $353

million in real cuts!


The rest of the alleged "cuts" were accounting tricks

and supposed "future" cuts!

 

And when the full effectof all the increases in spending

are taken into account,Politico reports that "CBO now

says that total discretionary outlays for 2011 are higher

-- not lower -- by about $3.3 billion than it had estimated

in December."


So instead of the "compromise" total of $38 billion in spending cuts,

Congress is actually voting on a budget deal that has NO REAL CUTS AT ALL!

 

THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE OUTRAGE!

          We've been asked to "go along" with the budget debate,

          but now that the latest deal has been exposed as a

          BOGUS BUDGET DEAL, it's time for patriotic citizens

          to let their voice be heard!


++ FAX CONGRESS NOW AND SAY "NO DEAL" TO THE BOGUS BUDGET DEAL!


If you are outraged that the miniscule $38 billion in "cuts"
actually amounts to NO REAL CUTS, then take action right

now by faxing your Senators, Representative and key members

of the House and letting them know what you think of their

BOGUS BUDGET DEAL.


As soon as we learned of the CBO report, our team immediately

went to work setting up this FAXFIRE so your faxes could get

delivered immediately to Congress before the key votes start THURSDAY.


            GO HERE RIGHT NOW TO SEND YOUR FAXES OPPOSING
            THE "BOGUS BUDGET DEAL":

http://www.grassfire.com/3146/offer.asp?ref_id=500062


    Again...

          The budget deal has been exposed as SHAM.

          There are NO REAL CUTS this year.

          The House is VOTING TOMORROW!


If you are outraged, please take action by going here:

http://www.grassfire.com/3146/offer.asp?ref_id=500062

 

Your friends at Grassfire Nation and Patriot Action Network

 

 

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Politico: Small Payoff

http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=40362&RID=597715


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 Campaign for Working Families


Wednesday, April 13, 2011

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer



Obama's Plan: Gut Defense & Raise Taxes

Today President Obama outlined his plan for tackling the nation's fiscal crisis. It is difficult to take him seriously. On his watch, annual deficits have tripled. His most recent budget proposal included no spending cuts and, according to the Congressional Budget Office, would add nearly $10 trillion to the national debt over the next ten years. But today "Mr. Stimulus" did his best to convince us he was serious about reducing spending.

As expected, today's speech was short on specifics, and it was largely more of the same from Obama. Whenever the president is in trouble with the voters, he rushes out to deliver a few well-scripted lines that have been thoroughly focus group tested for maximum effect. Once again, he tried to position himself as the responsible adult in the room, seeking a "balanced approach" -- as opposed to the "extremism" offered by congressional Republicans.

While today's speech lacked substance on spending cuts, there were two unmistakable promises: higher taxes and gutting the defense budget. We've been down this road before, and it doesn't end well.

Obama is morphing into Jimmy Carter. Carter slashed the defense budget at a time when the Soviet Union was on the march. Ronald Reagan had to run deficits to rebuild our military, but he helped win the Cold War, and the evil empire that was the Soviet Union is gone. The next Democrat to take the White House slashed defense spending and left George W. Bush with a much smaller military in the aftermath of 9/11. Now Obama, who just volunteered us for a third war in Libya, wants to repeat the mistakes of his predecessors while Iran and China are on the march. But it doesn't end there.

Obama vowed to raise your taxes. He suggested he was forced into signing a renewal of the Bush tax cuts last year, but promised he would not do so again. He blamed much of the deficit on "unpaid for tax cuts" and went on to say that he would find "spending reductions in the tax code."

Translation: Raising taxes results in government spending reductions. Only a liberal would consider allowing you to keep more of your hard-earned money as government spending. That logic works only if you assume that all money belongs to the government!

Of course, he says he wants to raise taxes on only the rich, just like Bill Clinton promised to make the rich "pay their fair share." But what exactly is their "fair share"?

Pretend for a moment that you are a socialist who wants to "spread the wealth around." What percentage of all tax revenue should the wealthiest Americans pay to support Big Government? Should the wealthiest ten percent of Americans pay 25% of all taxes? Should they pay 50% of all taxes?

In 2008, the top one percent of earners paid 38% of all income taxes. The top 10% of earners paid roughly 70% of all income taxes. Meanwhile, the bottom 50% of earners paid just three percent of all taxes.

My point is simply this: There are not enough rich people, however you define "rich," in America to pay for the government we have today. That point is illustrated well in this video. Spending simply has to be cut.

Obama insisted today that conservative spending cuts would destroy Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. But the reality is that out-of-control liberal spending has pushed the country to the brink of bankruptcy and created the crisis we face today. Responsible spending reductions are the only thing that can save these programs.

Obama's call for higher taxes was preemptively rejected by GOP leaders before today's speech. As word spread yesterday that the president would repeat his call for higher taxes, Speaker Boehner responded, saying, "We don't have deficits because Americans are taxed too little. We have deficits because Washington spends too much." Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said, "There's no way to tax our way out of this problem. From my point of view, taxes are not on the table because we don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem."

Again, the battle lines are clearly drawn for the 2012 campaign. One party is defending big government and is determined to take more of your money to "spread the wealth around." The other party wants to shrink government and lower taxes so that businesses and families can thrive. America is at a tipping point. We are rapidly running out of time to address these issues. The next election could permanently decide which vision prevails.

 

 

 



 

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Just minutes ago, President Obama delivered what was billed as his "new" vision on the budget. But, watching it I realized his speech was the same old big government path of higher spending, more debt, and massive tax increases. If President Obama wants us to believe he now wants to reduce deficits just 2 months after submitting a budget with red ink as far as the eye can see, then he should propose a new and complete formal budget.

Instead, like his friends on the Left, Obama has launched a full-throated attack on leaders like Congressman Paul Ryan who stand for real budget reform and genuine spending cuts.

Meanwhile, the House Budget Committee led by Chairman Ryan is expected to put a budget bill on the floor of the House for a full vote most likely this Friday afternoon.

Please CLICK HERE to tell your member of Congress to vote to CUT SPENDING NOW by supporting both the Ryan budget and the Republican Study Committee budget.

Neither budget is perfect; for example the Death Tax is not fully repealed in either plan. But, both budgets put our nation on a path toward economic prosperity and genuinely smaller government. That's why the Left is attacking them so viciously.

Key provisions in Chairman Ryan's Budget Proposal Include:

ˇ         Cuts $6.2 trillion of government spending

ˇ         Collects $1.8 trillion less in taxes

ˇ         Cuts $4.4 trillion from the national debt compared to the President's budget over

ˇ         the next ten years

ˇ         Dramatic overhaul of Medicare which is heading toward bankruptcy while sticking our seniors with fewer and fewer medical options

ˇ         Defunds ObamaCare, saving $677 billion over ten years

Key provisions in the Republican Study Committee's Proposal Include:

ˇ         Cuts over $9 trillion in spending over the next decade

ˇ         Makes the deepest cuts to discretionary spending of any detailed
House budget plan out there

ˇ         Balances the budget by the year 2020

ˇ         Defunds ObamaCare, saving $677 billion over ten years

Both Chairman Ryan's and the RSC's budget proposal include Medicaid reform. Under these proposals, Medicaid funds will be block-granted to the states, which are then responsible for structuring their own programs and tailoring them to their particular needs. Click here to read more about Medicaid reform.

Still wondering if we're making a difference for our values?

It is clear we have dramatically changed the policy debate in our country. A majority of our fellow citizens now agree with us that government spending is too high and the massive budget deficits threaten our economic prosperity. And, do you think President Obama would even be talking about cutting the budget if it were not for us?!

But frankly, it is much harder to pass good legislation than it is to oppose bad bills. That's why it is crucial for you to get involved now in this budget battle.

CLICK HERE to tell your member of Congress to CUT SPENDING NOW by voting YES on the Ryan budget and the Republican Study Committee budget.

By the way, this Friday, the day when we expect the vote by the full House of Representatives on the budget blueprint for our nation, is April 15 - tax day.

What a great day to send a message that we're through with the job-killing, prosperity-draining, big government agenda that has for so long animated politics in Washington!


Sincerely,

Tim

PS: Last week during our rally at the Capitol an elderly man from eastern Pennsylvania came up and shook my hand. He was wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers baseball cap and man do I hate the Steelers and he had his grandson with him. His grandson looked about my daughter's age. He said "Tim, I still believe in my country. I still believe my grandson will live in a better, stronger place where he can be anything he wants to be." That grandfather who took a day away from home to bring his son's son to Washington said it better than I ever could.

Let's keep doing our part to make it so. Click here to tell your member of Congress to CUT SPENDING NOW!

 

 



 The American Civil Rights Union

Death Trap Democrats

 

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 13 on The American Spectator website.

 

Despite November's New Deal magnitude political earthquake, surviving House Democrats just laughed off their historic 63 seat loss and reelected ultra-left San Francisco Democrat Nancy Pelosi as House Minority Leader, a position she will now apparently hold for life. Somehow Democrats are convinced that the American people will come to realize the error of their ways and turn to embrace taxation that seizes most of their money for the government to spend, rejecting traditional American prosperity. Good luck with that.

 

But Democrats have now repeated the folly by choosing Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) to head the Democratic National Committee. Schultz is just as left wing as Pelosi, but less soft spoken and even more transparently unreasoned.


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The Welfare Reform Model for Medicaid

 

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara and Vice President for Policy at Americans for Prosperity Phil Kerpen was published April 13 in The Wall Street Journal.

 

One of the greatest bipartisan policy successes of recent decades was welfare reform, enacted into law by a Republican Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996. As House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) has proposed in his budget, those reforms should now be extended to Medicaid and beyond.

 

The 1996 reform of the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) returned the share of federal spending on the program to each state in the form of a block grant. 


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No More Czars for the President

 

As a member of the Conservative Action Project, ACRU CEO Susan Carleson and leaders of 28 other organizations representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement are united in opposing the creation of more unaccountable "czars."

 

MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT: Senators Schumer and Alexander want to reduce the number of presidential appointments subject to Senate confirmation. This process undermines Advice & Consent role and weakens congressional oversight responsibility. 

 

No More Czars for the President---It is a Bad Deal!

 

RE: A proposal by Senators Schumer, Alexander and others to eliminate the confirmation process for hundreds of political appointees and basically create more executive branch "czars." Eliminating the confirmation process removes the only check the legislative branch has over many presidential appointments.

 

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Waging War, Union-style, in Wisconsin

 

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 8 on The Washington Times website.

 

It seems like only yesterday that progressives were warning us about "politicizing the judiciary." That was after Iowa's voters declined last November to retain three Supreme Court justices who had ruled to overturn the state's marriage law. Today, after a feverish and expensive campaign by unions to remove conservative  

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, you'll hear no such talk. With last Tuesday's election between Judge Prosser and liberal JoAnne Kloppenburg possibly headed for a recount, the progressive view can be summarized as follows: "Take that, Walker!"

 

That would be Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who signed a law on March 11 ending much of collective bargaining for the government employee unions that are bankrupting the state.


 

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President Obama's vision for America: higher taxes, economic malaise.

Sign the Anti-Obama-Tax Petition



Surprise! President Obama wants to raise your taxes. That is his solution to America's dangerously high debt.

>> Tell President Obama: Don't Raise My Taxes.

For years, President Obama ignored calls to end Washington's reckless spending binge. Two months ago, President Obama released a budget that continued the status quo and enormous deficits. Now, he realized his reckless spending must be paid for; and he wants YOU to do it.

>> Sign our petition: tell President Obama enough is enough.

America has a spending problem, not a tax problem. Tell President Obama that punishing the taxpayers will not create jobs or solve our debt crisis.

Join us by signing the petition,

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Heritage Action for America

 

 



 Business Insider

HOLD EVERYTHING: There's No Budget Deal, And The Government May Still Shut Down

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On Friday, The White House and the GOP came to a budget agreement to fund the government for the rest of Fiscal Year 2011, averting a government shutdown.

 

But they didn't actually vote on the deal. They voted on a 1-week continuing resolution so they could wrangle up the details for an official vote this week. And that might not work out.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-budget-deal-may-fall-apart-2011-4#ixzz1JSKg6n5h

 

 



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Help us Tweet Spending Cuts!

We would like your assistance right now...

 

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If the answer is Yes we would like to start a Tweeting Campaign to the House Floor, Speaker Boehner and Leader Cantor.

 

Go to your acct and enter anything similar to this:

 

Deeper Cuts, Stand Your Ground GOP @speakerboehner @leadercantor @housefloor #pan #tcot

 

You can say CUT CUT CUT! and add the hash tags

 

Here are the hash Tags... Feel free to add your reps or senators hash tags if you have them:

 

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Let's get a major buzz going around Cut Spending, deeper cuts, cut, cut, Stand your Ground GOP, etc...

 

Do you follow Patriot Action Network on Twitter? If not please add us and retweet anything we send out... that helps with the cause and site promotion!

 

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Now, let's get busy for the next two days and tweet tweet tweet........CUT CUT CUT!

 

 



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Taxes and Politics

By Thomas Sowell

4/13/2011

 

  

 

Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected.

 

That's not the worst of it. We may think of taxes as just a source of government revenue. But tax rates are a big political statement on the left, whether they bring in any revenue or not.

 

For more than 80 years, the political left has opposed what they call "tax cuts for the rich." But big cuts in very high tax rates ended up bringing in more revenue to the government in the Coolidge, Kennedy, Reagan and Bush 43 administrations. This included more-- repeat, more-- tax revenue from people in the highest income brackets than before.

 

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Morning Bell 

 

Read Before You Vote

A budget agreement that fell short in dollars but was advertised as "the largest spending cut in history" is being challenged by new reports that the old ways of Washington have yet to be overcome. News outlets such as The Washington Post, Fox News and the Associated Press suggest "creative accounting" may have been used to get to the figure of $38.5 billion in cuts. We're still pouring through the numbers, but this is a good time to remind the public that Congress needs to do the opposite of what former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) recommended last year when she said "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." 

 

 

Recent Entries 

 

Brace for Larger Deficits as Lawmakers Rethink Health Care Law's Medicare Cuts

 

Pennsylvania Pushing for Educational Opportunity

 

How High Will Gas Go?

 

Obama Circumvents State Department, Supports Plan to Give BBG $10 Million

 

City Tells Tea Party Group "No Free Speech Here!"

 

 

QUICK HITS

Ahead of President Obama's address today on the national debt, lawmakers in both parties say they will not accept new debt unless the president agrees to mandatory restraints on future spending.

T

he U.S. government issued a little-noticed warning to U.S. citizens and government employees that they could be targeted by drug gangs in three Mexican states south of the border.

 

Two suspects have confessed to the Monday subway bombing in Minsk, Belarus, that killed 12 people and left 200 wounded.

 

Britain says it is impossible to forecast when the NATO operation in Libya would achieve results, as NATO, Arab and African ministers met with Libya's rebels in Qatar on Wednesday.

 

Obamacare was already going to cost Americans trillions of dollars, but now it looks like it could cost even more. Find out why on Heritage's Foundry blog.

 


CNSNews.com 

Today's Headlines:  Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Sen. McCain: 'Unless We Enact Draconian Measures,' America Faces a 'Fiscal Meltdown'
 
(CNSNews.com) - "No country can borrow 40 cents out of every dollar it spends - even the largest and most powerful nation in the world. No nation can continue on that track. So, tough medicine is required," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on Tuesday.  

 

Sen. Kerry: Budget Deal Makes America Look 'Silly in a Lot of People's Minds'
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CNSNews.com) - "I think it's no secret that I didn't like the process," Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said at a Capitol Hill press conference on Tuesday. "I don't think it served the United States Congress or Senate well to have that fraction of the budget, with 100 percent of the cuts coming from 12 percent of the budget, threaten to hold up the government of the United States to the point of shutdown."

 

Liberals Blast 'Immoral' Republican Budget Cuts: 'Feeding the Rich and Starving the Poor'
 
(CNSNews.com) - A liberal advocacy group says more than 30,000 people have joined a "rolling fast" to protest the "immoral budget cuts Republicans are pushing in Washington." Republicans, on the other hand, insist the government cannot continue spending money it doesn't have. 

 

  2011 Funding Bill Doesn't Cut Spending Enough, Tea Party Republicans Say
 
(CNSNews.com) - A small but growing number of conservative Republican Senators say they'll vote no on the compromise bill that will fund government operations for the six remaining months of fiscal 2011. On Wednesday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said he'll be among the "nays." He says lawmakers "must do better."

 

House Republicans Expected to Fall Billions Short of Their Fiscal 2011 Spending Pledge
 
(CNSNews.com) - In their 2010 Pledge to America, House Republicans promised that "with common-sense exceptions for seniors, veterans, and our troops, we will roll back government spending to pre-stimulus, pre-bailout levels." But it won't happen in the current fiscal year. 

 

Boehner-Obama Deal Leaves FY11 Spending $773B Above FY08 Level-About As Big an Increase As Obama's Stimulus
 
(CNSNews.com) - The budget deal cut late Friday by President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) will allow $3.7555 trillion in federal spending in this fiscal year. That is $773 billion more than federal spending was in fiscal year 2008 -- the fiscal year before Congress enacted a bailout for the banking industry requested by President George W. Bush and a $787-billion economic stimulus law request by President Barack Obama.

 

Designate Mexican Cartels as Terrorist Organizations: 'If Decapitating Police Officers Is Not Terrorism, What Is?' Sheriff Says
 
Washington (CNSNews.com) - The federal government should designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations under U.S. law, according to the Republican sheriff of an Arizona county near the U.S.-Mexico border. But a Democratic judge in Texas disagrees, saying such a designation would achieve little. Instead, said the judge, attention should be focused on illegal drug consumption by Americans.

 

Mexican Drug Cartels Using American Kids for Operations 'Not Something New,' Arizona Mayor Says
 
(CNSNews.com) - Arturo Garino, the Democratic mayor of Nogales, Ariz., says there's nothing new about Mexican drug smugglers using U.S. juveniles for their operations.  It's been happening since he was a deputy back in the 1980s, Garino told CNSNews.com.

 

Top Military Officer Cites 'Global Threat' Posed by Pakistan-Based Jihadist Group
 
(CNSNews.com) - As the Obama administration seeks "renewal" in its strained relationship with Pakistan, a top U.S. military officer warned Tuesday of the growing threat of a Pakistan-based terrorist group that has declared "jihad" on America and is carrying out attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan. The freedom of movement and speech enjoyed by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, head of Jamaat ud-Dawa (JuD), reinforces the perception that Pakistan is supporting terrorists when it suits its strategic purposes, particularly in Afghanistan and India.

 

 

OTHER HEADLINES:

AP: 'Most People Won't Notice These Big Budget Cuts'
House Republicans Vehemently Oppose Tax Hikes
Obama Now Eyeing Medicare Changes, Tax Increases
House Republicans Retain Democratic Medicare Cuts That They Previously Criticized
Pew Study: Prison Recidivism Rates Remain High
U.S. Missile Attacks Kill Six in Pakistan Near Afghan Border
Suicide Bomber Targets Meeting of Tribal Elders in Afghanistan
Libyan Rebels Urge Stronger U.S. Military Role in Their Fight
Syria Denies Wrongdoing, Blames Foreign Countries
Mexico Finds 28 More Bodies in Border Pits
Museum Reinstalls Founder's 'Peacock Room'
Chinese National Accused in Army Recruiting Scam
College Students to Protest Higher Ed Budget Cuts
Hillary Clinton Presses for Reform Across the Arab World
 
In New Protest, Syrian Women Block Main Highway
Presidents of Pakistan and Turkey Discuss Afghan War

 

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Gay group complains it was excluded from military event at White House
Border fence in Nogales to be taller, see-through; 'Newest generation of fencing'
Justice Department to intervene in lawsuit against SC jail's Bible-only policy
D.C. will be first U.S. jurisdiction to offer Internet gambling
U.S. Border Patrol agent in Yuma sector indicted on drug charges
Some Senate Democrats willing to consider Social Security reforms
Hoyer joins Obama in calling past vote on debt ceiling 'a mistake'
Boston has 3 new luxury hotels -- for pets; Includes spa services, flat-screen TVs
Left's angst grows over Obama's shift to the political center
Budget cuts show Democrats paid a steep price to avoid a government shutdown
Landmark online privacy legislation is introduced in U.S. Senate
Voter ID billboard irks Latino advocates, who see it as intimidation
Bill would give all in N.H. the right to fly a flag at their home
House bill would force firing of federal employees who fail to pay federal taxes
Colorado committee to unveil complex definition of "effective educator"
Rand Paul says he's considering filibuster of budget agreement
Wash Post: Obama risks losing liberals with talk of cutting budget
Libyan rebels: Colombian female snipers fighting for Gadhafi
Robin Hood tax: Economists urge G20 to tax speculators to help the world's poor

 

 

COMMENTARY:

 

Jeffrey Commentary: Obama Said 'Nope,' So Republicans Caved
By Terence P. Jeffrey
House Speaker John Boehner agreed to a deal to fund the government for the rest of fiscal 2011 that will permit continued federal funding for Planned Parenthood, a group that says it did 332,278 abortions in 2009 -- or about 910 per day. Boehner had a massive bipartisan majority of the House behind him on defunding Planned Parenthood -- but he still caved.

 

Bozell Commentary: No Shutdown for Biased Media
By L. Brent Bozell III
The ominous threat of a government shutdown dominated the news last week. Instead of fighting over who's the "winner" in this small skirmish, let's just focus on a few obnoxious shutdown spins by the media. 

 

Was Obama Stampeded Into War?
 
By Patrick J. Buchanan
It now appears that if the U.S. military does not re-engage deeply and actively in Obama's war in Libya, the rebels could go down to defeat. And we will be blamed. How did Barack Obama get us into this box? Because, quite clearly, he did not think this thing through.

 

Make 70 the New 65
By Michelle Malkin
It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? There is simply no good reason 21st-century workers should operate under obsolete 1930s-era expectations and 1970s rules. We're living longer, working longer and, in general, holding down jobs that are far less physically taxing than those of previous generations. Raising the traditional and early retirement ages will mean extending workers' taxable earning years, fueling economic growth and putting a dent in our unfunded-liabilities crisis by delaying payouts

 

Is Late Really Better than Never?
By Rich Galen
House Budget Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal has been bitterly criticized by the Left and by the Tea Party Right, so maybe it's headed in the right direction.

 


 
NumbersUSA 

 

'Spring Into Action' Begins Tomorrow

Every NumbersUSA Member Will Get an Assignment to Wake Up Congress

Live Webcast This Thursday, 3 p.m. Eastern

We need $119,638 to pay for this effort! Help us!

Congress has put off acting on immigration long enough. Tomorrow, with the launch of our "Spring Into Action" campaign, we're going to re-focus their attention on immigration.

"Spring Into Action" is the biggest coordinated blitz on Congress we've tried yet. All of our 1.1 million members are urged to participate.

The strategic goal is simple: get Congress to focus on and pass immigration this year that will further squeeze illegal immigration and will begin moving legal immigration down to traditional levels.

Congressmen and Senators will be on recess and back in their district offices for two weeks beginning Friday, April 15. Our goal is to turn up the volume on each of them while they are at home and listening to their constituents.

Every NumbersUSA member will have an assignment, and we need everyone to DO their assignment. Here are some of the assignments:

  1. Our traditional faxes--but this time the faxes will be sent to the local (district) offices of the Members of Congress, while the Reps. and Senators are there to be bugged by them;
  2. Phone calls to the district offices. Let's really turn up the volume and make Members of Congress know their constituents care about more than budget matters (as critical as those obviously are);
  3. Visits to district offices. For those being asked to do this, complete instructions will be sent, including addresses of the offices near you. Not everyone will be asked to do this, but those asked really need to consider it;
  4. Watching our Live Webcast tomorrow (Thursday, April 14), at 3 p.m. Eastern Time (2 p.m. Central, 1 p.m. Mountain, 12 noon Pacific). Here's the link. The webcast is critical, because it will explain what legislation is being pushed, how to make a phone call, how to conduct a successful office visit, etc. NumbersUSA founder and president Roy Beck will be featured, along with the members of our local activism (LEAP) team;
  5. Again, Here's the link you'll need to press to see the webcast tomorrow. The link will also be sent to you again in a reminder email tomorrow morning, and it will also appear on our regular home page. So if you lose it, don't panic!
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You know that we must raise a significant amount of money each month to keep the faxes going and the staff working. The "Spring Into Action" campaign raises our expenses even higher than normal. But we have to ask ourselves, do we want to take advantage of the better political climate brought by November's election? How badly do we want to win?

Many new Representatives and Senators were swept into office while promising they would start to work on immigration. Now that the budget has been settled for the rest of this year, Congress has a chance to look at some other issues. It's up to us to make sure immigration is one of those issues!

We will show you how to make yourself heard to Congress with our "Spring Into Action" campaign. Today I need you to make a donation to help us pay for this effort. Has it been a while since you hit that red button? We need to hear from you.

Tomorrow (Thursday), be sure to watch our Live Webcast 3 p.m. Eastern time. The webcast will last one hour. We will also be sending you an email with your specific assignments for the "Spring Into Action" campaign.

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Quote of the Day

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."

            -Thomas Paine

 

NYC Tea Party Pre-Party

 

 The Patriot Saloon 

 

Friday, April 15

3:30pm-6 pm

  

110 Chambers St
New York, NY 10007
212.748.1162

  

For cheap eats and drinks and a jukebox blasting Johnny Cash, look no further than this two-story Tribeca haunt. This bar's patriotic-frat house décor feels strangely appropriate. (We're talking light-up beer signs and bras hanging from the rafters next to American flags.) While you're getting down to some boot-knocking country music, you can order a pitcher of beer for the price of a Bud Light bottle at your standard NYC nightclub (No kidding!) Their $2 frozen margaritas, $3 Heinekens and $1.25 sliders are other wallet-happy specials.

The Patriot is a big space, but don't be fooled-it gets pretty crowded and rowdy, especially Thursday-Saturday.

 

 

Click here to view map of Thomas Paine Park and Foley Square: The location of the New York City Tea Party April 15, 2011

 

Obama first to put tax increases on budget table

President to talk up more taxes

 

Higher taxes have been missing from the fierce budget battle that nearly shut down the federal government. But President Barack Obama is about to put them on the table - at least a modest version that he had pushed before and then rested on the shelf.

 

Most economists and budget analysts say a comprehensive mix of spending cuts and tax increases is essential to any viable deficit-reduction plan. Yet few players in the negotiations have gone there.

 

 

Click here to read the full article at Yahoo News

 

Boehner tells Obama tax increase is unacceptable

Speaker tells Obama 'No'

 

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, sent a warning to President Obama about his Wednesday speech on reducing the deficit that the GOP will not consider a tax hike.

 

"If the President is willing to offer serious proposals that grow our economy, preserve and protect programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, and set us on a path to pay down the national debt, we're open to hearing them," Boehner said in a statement. "However, if the President begins the discussion by saying we must increase taxes on the American people - as his budget does - my response will be clear: tax increases are unacceptable and are a nonstarter." 

 

 

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UN document would give 'Mother Earth' same rights as humans

Really?

 

Bolivia will this month table a draft United Nations treaty giving "Mother Earth" the same rights as humans - having just passed a domestic law that does the same for bugs, trees and all other natural things in the South American country.


The bid aims to have the UN recognize the Earth as a living entity that humans have sought to "dominate and exploit" - to the point that the "well-being and existence of many beings" is now threatened.

 

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Former Sen. Alan Simpson: "We have homophobes in our party"

Nobody misses this guy

 

Alan K. Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming known for being an outspoken centrist, laid into his party on Monday during an appearance on MSNBC's Hardball, criticizing conservative Republicans' position on abortion and homosexuality.

  

"Who the hell is for abortion?" said Simpson."I don't know anybody running around with a sign that says 'have an abortion, they're wonderful.' They're hideous. But they're a deeply intimate and personal decision and I don't think men legislators should even vote on the issue."

  

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'Yes Men' claim hoax GE tax press release

Too good to be true

 

General Electric Co., embroiled in controversy over its low 2010 U.S. tax bill, was the subject of a hoax press release claiming it would donate billions of dollars to the federal government.

  

The "Yes Men," an activist group known for issuing false statements claiming major attitude changes in corporate America on Wednesday sent media outlets an e-mail claiming to be from the largest U.S. conglomerate saying that GE would send its $3.2 billion tax refund from 2010 back to Washington.

 

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Why tax rates are low but opposition is high

Taxes too low?

 

Republicans have waged a ferocious and largely successful battle against raising taxes. Democrats seem to be falling in line. Many have taken to calling for a tax overhaul--lowering tax rates but also ending tax loopholes--as the only politically safe way to raise revenues. Otherwise, the sentiment for closing the nation's budget deficits, in part through higher taxes, has been as tepid as the Tea Party has been hot.

  

Meanwhile, public attitudes about taxes and a look at tax rates tell a surprisingly different story. The American Enterprise Institute has issued a comprehensive look at public opinion polls showing Americans' attitudes toward all sorts of taxes during the past 75 years.

  

 

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 State Rep. Curt Schroder's Fair Share Act Wins House ApprovalA major reform to Pennsylvania's legal system has been approved by the state House by a 112-88 vote.
House Bill 1, prime sponsor Rep. Curt Schroder,  the "Fair Share Act1,".

 

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The Fair Share Act eliminates joint liability for defendants in civil cases found to be less than 60 percent liable and implements a system of comparative responsibility in which a defendant is responsible for paying only his fair share of the damages. Pennsylvania is one of only nine states without a "Fair Share Act"

All but three of the 112 Republicans (Kate Harper, Tim Hennessey and Dennis O'Brien ) in the House voted yes on HB 1 and they were joined by three Democrats to pass it. HB 1 now goes to the Senate for approval. Gov. Tom Corbett promised while campaigning last year to sign a lawsuit abuse reform bill if the Legislature sends it to him.  The Vote HB 1 April 11, 2011

Representative Kate Harper voted with the Democrats and Trial Lawyers.       Rep. Tim Hennessey votes with Democrats and the Trial Lawyers.

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The Bob

dr. bob and Guzzardi

[two minds, one voice]

-independent of any candidate, campaign or organization-

promoting Truth, Justice and the American Way.

 

 



 

 

 

Agree wholeheartedly with the "Precautionary Principle."

Argue fervently for the passing of national laws enforcing the wearing of tin foil hats as a precaution against the possibility of aliens from outer space trying to control our minds. Argue too for a massive government spending program to build mighty death lasers at strategic points around the United States, so as to stave off possible alien invasion and/or asteroid strikes. Say: "It might never happen. But it's like global warming: the hazards in the very unlikely event that it IS true are so great, we simply CAN'T AFFORD NOT TO ACT!" 
 

 


Glenn BeckApril 14, 2011 

On Wednesday's Program 

 

U.N. Treaty would give Mother Earth same rights as humans

Bolivia is drawing up a U.N. treaty which would give Earth the same rights as humans. These rights include but are not limited to life, pure water and clean air. This is a new attempt at an old U.N. desire: to impose global environmental regulations. Glenn reacts to the plan on radio today.

Congresswoman mocks Constitution (audio)

Just a few short years ago it would have been unthinkable to have an elected member of the United States Congress openly mocking the U.S. Constitution and those who support it. But that's exactly what happened when Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez appeared on a radio program and, in a horrible southern accent, mocked 'Moe' who thinks everything is unconstitutional. Glenn has the audio and reaction HERE.

Jihad Jams: The worst rapper ever?

A rapper who claims to be a part of radical Islam is enjoying 15 minutes of fame as his rhymes are making the rounds on the Internet. Hopefully this guy is as bad a terrorist as he is a rapper because it's quite possibly the worst rap music ever recorded. Glenn plays the music and reacts on radio today.
 

 

Pelosi: Elections shouldn't matter as much as they do

A shocking (even for Nancy Pelosi) piece of audio from the House Minority Leader is making news today. She was recorded explaining that the GOP needs to 'take their party back' so that it doesn't matter who wins elections. That's not a ringing endorsement for establishment GOP -- it's an admission that they are all big government progressives. Their shared enemy? The Tea Party. Watch the segment HERE.
 

 

Author: Jesus was a drug addict

Judgment is reserved for God because only He knows what is in the heart of man. But sometimes man makes it pretty obvious to predict what their judgment will bring. For James Frey (yup, the guy who Oprah busted for writing a phony memoir) his judgment seems apparent after writing a book depicting Jesus as a druggie. Glenn has the story (and Pat has the judgment prediction) on radio today.

Obama's economic plan? More taxes!

Obama is getting a lot of heat from the uber left who are charging that Obama is moving to the 'center' politically. That should demonstrate just how far left this President really is - and if it doesn't, his latest economic plan should. Tax the rich MORE! Even though the rich already pay far more than their fair share. Get the story at The Blaze.

The Ohio Project: How is Ohio working to defeat Obamacare and big government progressivism? Get all the info HERE.
 

 

Harry Reid: Out of context or not?

Glenn & Pat get into an argument on the air about a recent sound bite from Senator Harry Reid. Glenn is actually defending the Senator and believes the clip was taken out of context. Pat believes Reid wasn't taken out of context and it was just another Reidtastic gaffe. Early odds are that Pat is correct, given Reid's past. But Glenn would never defend Reid unless he absolutely had to. Watch the clip and decide for yourself...

Most transparent administration ever?

There is a report out today that thrashes the administration's boastful claim that they have a list of every visitor to the White House. Turns out that's not exactly true. There are hundreds of thousands of meetings, visitors, and information on visitors left blank or missing critical details. If the White House has no problem revealing that communists like Andy Stern and Trumka visit -- who are they hiding? More details HERE.
 

 

 



 
Eat the rich!
Eat the rich!
 


 
or just destroy small business
or - just destroy small business
 


Trump's first endorsement  


the real cause of the civil war
States Rights Revisionists
  


  Gadhafi no Trump


dragged to the table of debt reduction  


  daddy


deficit meltdown  

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