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RedState Morning Briefing

For May 19, 2011

1. TODAY: Biggest Nomination Fight of 2011

Today the Senate Democrats will force a cloture vote on Ninth Circuit nominee Goodwin Liu, President Obama's most radical judicial nominee and the man whom Obama would dearly like to make the first Asian-American Supreme Court justice. Liu's left-wing agenda and outrageously activist view of the law makes this showdown a classic test of the bipartisan "extraordinary circumstances" standard for when judicial nominees can be filibustered. The standard originated in the 2005 Gang of 14 agreement.

Liu is a 40 year old Berkeley law professor whose vocal and unabashed championing of judicial activism has made him a star on the legal left. Liu "envisions the judiciary ... as a culturally situated interpreter of social meaning" and believes judges should create constitutional rights to "distributive justice," including welfare rights to "education or housing or medical care."

Liu has expressed left-wing views on virtually every hot-button issue likely to come before him on the bench, including the view that Americans are obligated to pay reparations for slavery, an obligation he would likely read into the Constitution. Liu is too far to the left for even Rahm Emanuel, who advised the President against making this nomination.

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2. Rick Perry Is Not Running for President. Mitch Daniels Is Running for President.

Rick Perry is not running for the Presidency.

There is a lot of buzz about what Perry has recently said, but he is not running. His key people are helping Newt. Behind the scenes, many have been pestering him, but he has been swatting them away.

Rick Perry is not running for President of the United States. The buzz is related to the continuing disappointment of many conservatives about the current crop of candidates and the wishful thinking of many.

But he's not running.

Now . . . I do think Rick Perry could be persuaded to run. In the next couple of weeks Mitch Daniels will announce he is running for President.

3. Mitch Daniels in 2009: Stop Disagreeing with Democrats

I am not really sure what is wrong with Mitch Daniels. Two years ago, you would not have found a bigger Mitch Daniels booster in the United States than yours truly. He had bucked national trends to win an landslide re-election and was doing all the right things to demonstrate administrative competence, which is something our party badly needed to demonstrate after the last two years of the Bush administration. Then he started saying crap like this.

So, as Republicans were gearing up for their biggest electoral victories in 16 years by fighting Obama and the Democrats tooth and nail on every aspect of their agenda, Mitch Daniels was telling everyone that the way to victory was to forget what a wedge issue even was, and just be nice so that people will like us again. Since then, Daniels has demonstrated that having a political tin ear in his case is a congenital defect rather than an isolated occurrence, telling social conservatives repeatedly to get to the back of the bus and indicating that he would pick Condi Rice - widely vilified as a miserable SecState by Republicans of all stripes - as his VP.

4. David Dewhurst Embraces The DewCrist Label And Openly Declares War on Conservatives

Next year's U.S. Senate primary in Texas offers a wide range of choices. RedState has previously noted our strong preference for either former Texas solicitor general Ted Cruz or former railroad commissioner Michael Williams - both of whom have proven themselves as articulate and reliable champions of conservative principles. On the next tier are former Texas secretary of state Roger Williams and current railroad commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones, whose commitment to conservative principles may be somewhat shakier but at least are mouthing the right words so far in this campaign.

And then there is Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, or as I like to call him, DewCrist.

Much like the former government of Florida turned ambulance chaser, DewCrist's conduct as lieutenant governor has been consistent: whatever advances his political aspirations at that moment, he's for. Obviously, it worked well for him during his first two terms. But in the first few months of his third term - the one in which his path toward higher office has finally cleared - his continuing to play both sides of the fence is costing Texas conservatives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make historic policy gains.

5. Turns Out Grover Norquist Lobbied For Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

While heading Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist founded the lobbying firm of Janus-Meritt Strategies with David Safavian, the former Chief of Staff of the General Services Administration (GSA) who was convicted of lying to prosecutors during the Abramoff scandal and sentenced to prison. Safavian's conviction was recently upheld.

One of the more interesting clients for Mr. Norquist was Fannie Mae. In 2000, Janus Merit received $120,000 in lobbying fees from Fannie Mae. Mr. Norquist, along with Safavian, was listed as one of the main lobbyists on the Fannie Mae account.

In disclosure records, Janus-Meritt says its lobbying activities related to a "Home ownership tax." It appears this lobbying work was designed to protect the homeownership tax credit, which Franklin Raines described as key to "increase homeownership in urban and rural areas." As many conservatives believe, this credit, which Mr. Norquist and Safavian apparently defended, was a major contributing factor in the housing bubble and mortgage crisis.

6. Oil Company Profits Are the Solution, Not the Problem

Left to its own devices, the oil industry is its own worst enemy. Relatively low barriers to entry have made the industry freely competitive. The reward goes to the quickest and the most efficient companies; just like in a Gold Rush, we remember the big winners and quickly forget the also-rans. Since the days of Colonel Drake, Patillo Higgins and Dad Joiner, twas ever thus.

The consumer ultimately benefits from a profitable and efficient energy business in the form of affordable and abundant energy supplies. This is because energy is essentially a "grow or die" business. An oil company that does not efficiently replace its production with new reserves is essentially holding a "going out of business sale" with every barrel of oil it produces.

7. Secretary Geithner, spending is not a problem of the past

Unless we reverse course from the Obama Administration's endless borrowing and spending policies, economic collapse is a certainty.

If our entitlement programs are not reformed, they will go broke and break their promises to millions of seniors, disabled and needy Americans. If the government never stops spending more than it takes in, it will go bankrupt. And, if liberals are successful in passing massive tax increases to continue their spending spree, millions more jobs will be destroyed, companies will ship new investments overseas, and our economy will be crippled for years to come.

None of these outcomes are desirable and all of them are preventable.

8. Where are the adult Wisconsin Democrats?

Because somebody in the Wisconsin Democratic party needs to be the adult in the David Prosser/JoAnne Kloppenburg state Supreme Court recount, here. This nonsense has gone on long enough: three weeks and a quarter-million taxpayer dollars later, it has - not 'become' obvious that Prosser has won. It's been obvious since they certified the results. What's more properly 'become' obvious is that the Kloppenburg camp has decided to simply wait until the recount is over, then challenge the results in court on the grounds of a Democrat lost/ they don't like the results/democracy. Which is why the Democrats are doing things like disenfranchising nuns; it's all about the narrative that they hope to present, at this point.

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Understanding Liberals

By Walter E. Williams · Wednesday, May 18, 2011

The liberal vision of government is easily understood and makes perfect sense if one acknowledges their misunderstanding and implied assumptions about the sources of income. Their vision helps explain the language they use and policies they support, such as income redistribution and calls for the rich to give something back.

Suppose the true source of income was a gigantic pile of money meant to be shared equally amongst Americans. The reason some people have more money than others is because they got to the pile first and greedily took an unfair share. That being the case, justice requires that the rich give something back, and if they won't do so voluntarily, Congress should confiscate their ill-gotten gains and return them to their rightful owners.

Say your personal liberal heroes are Ralph Nader and Michael Moore:

Without their help, the 2000 presidential election would have been won by Al Gore. 

**Action Alert**
New Video Exposes Islamists and "Journalism"
In Nashville, Tennessee
 By Kelly Cook, National Field Director
www.actforamerica.org

 Click Here to view this must see video produced by Americans for Peace and Tolerance on radicalism in the Nashville area. In it you will view the documented ties of several local Islamists to their radical counterparts in various parts of the nation and the world-all operating with the stated desire to bring down America's freedoms and replace them with Shariah Law!

Losing Our Community

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Arab Spring Turns to Fall (Winter to Follow?)

By Stanley Kurtz , NRO

The so-called Arab Spring is looking pretty parched right now. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood is on the rise and has struck up an electoral alliance with even more openly radical Salafis. Muslim attacks on Egypt's besieged Coptic Christians continue. Mass demonstrations by the secular (but often hard-leftist or Nasserist) Facebook revolutionists have sought to quell anti-Christian feeling by turning anger against Israel instead. This continues even today. (The Facebook revolution was supposedly not anti-American or anti-Israeli, but any serious study of the revolutionists background would have shown that hope to be false.)

The Syrian government, under siege from its own people, is permitting civilian attacks on Israel as a way of diverting attention, and to warn the West away from further pressure. Israel's foes have united and seem primed to provoke a war designed to tilt the Middle East's playing field toward Iran, and perhaps even draw in a...

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Debka: Obama to get tough with Assad.

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 17, 2011,

debkafile's Washington sources report exclusively that President Barack Obama has finally resolved to stamp down hard on Syrian President Bashar Assad in person as the man responsible for the inhuman Syrian crackdown on protest against his regime and the massacre of hundreds of dissenters. Before his much-awaited speech on US relations with Middle East Muslim nations Thursday, May 19, Obama is preparing to impose sanctions on the Syrian president. The White House is working on the final text of the announcement but has already decided to recall the newly-appointed US Ambassador to Damascus Robert Ford for consultations.

An American ambassador was last recalled from Damascus in 2005. It took five years for Obama to appoint Robert Ford to the post in late 2010.

The administration has also decided to authorize the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna to report to the UN Security Council...

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Thursday evening, the most prominent Muslim in news media today, Fareed Zakaria, CNN's top foreign affairs reporter and Editor-at-Large of Time Magazine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fareed_Zakaria), casually admitted to disgraced politician-turned CNN host, Eliot Spitzer, that he has been advising President Obama on foreign policy.  

This unwitting admission to regular face-to-face meetings, which you have to see Zakaria describe to appreciate (http://www.mrcaction.org/567/petition.asp? ), represents a "perfect storm" of conflicts of interest that pose a triple-threat to American principles of freedom:

1.      First, as a Muslim, Zakaria represents, at best, the "good cop" in a "good cop/bad cop" gambit where Muslim interests are advanced in an effort to accommodate or appease Muslims who might otherwise turn violently against the United States.  Why else would Barack Obama specifically need his input? 

2.     Second, Zakaria cannot possibly be expected to offer fair and balanced coverage on a U.S. foreign policy that he helps to shape behind closed doors.  The linkage between Obama and the mainstream media has once again stepped further out of the closet.

3.      Finally, Zakaria is in a position to coordinate, shape, and cover up (rather than cover) government policy and events in the Middle East in ways that directly advances Islamic interests.

This kind of collusion is a frightening development.  Please sign this petition to protest against it --> http://www.mrcaction.org/567/petition.asp?

 

A Bite from the Poisoned Apple

May 18, 2011 07:14 am | Coach Collins

 By Basil Irwin, staff writer

 Well, it looks like some more fascist roosters are coming home to roost. Apple, Google, and others have tricked the American public into buying a whole bevy of "smart" devices over which they have total control over which applications that you shall or shall not be allowed to install on a device you supposedly own.

 It would be as if you bought an oven from General Electric to cook your meals, but you could only buy your food for that particular oven from GE and, even worse, GE decided what food they would sell you. Oh, you wanted to buy some meat to cook? Well, sorry GE is opposed to meat-eating on "ethical" grounds, so they won't sell you any and, sorry, but your oven is tethered to GE and the door won't open unless it detects that GE food is going to be put into your oven.

 So, guess what? The government fascists like thuggish Democratic ... Continue Reading:A Bite from the Poisoned Apple

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May 17, 2011 03:25 pm | Coach Collins

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How about a National Obamacare Waiver?

If you knew a dangerous virus was about to hit America and that you could beg the government for a vaccine, you'd probably do it, wouldn't you? That's just what states and businesses alike are doing right now in preparation for Obamacare. But rather than seeking a vaccine, they're asking for waivers from the law's onerous requirements. 

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Malkin: Waive Me

GOPUSA | By Michelle Malkin | May 18, 2011 

Hear that? It's the escalating cry of American employers and workers trying to hold on to their health care benefits in the age of stifling Obama health insurance mandates: Gangway! Gangway! Save me! Waive me! 

 

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


Focus On Obama

The Republican presidential primary campaign has been scrambled over the past 72 hours. Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump took their names out of consideration, while Newt Gingrich dealt his own campaign a serious blow. Mitt Romney posted a blockbuster fundraising figure, raising $10 million in one day, but that may not have quelled the anxiety about his candidacy among party insiders and grassroots activists. In fact, it may have added to their concerns.

The headlines in Washington today say it all. "Gingrich Campaign Fights For Its Life." "GOP Elite See Mitch Daniels As 2012 Savior." "Rick Perry Presidential Push Quietly Gains Steam."

I know there is a lot of anxiety out there. I get emails every day from conservative activists and voters who desperately want to know who the nominee will be. I appreciate your frustration with the process, but it is still early. The first caucus and primary votes are more than six months away. We've had just one debate, and it did not include a full slate of candidates.

I want to offer this note of caution. Many conservatives are pining for the perfect candidate. My friends, there is no such thing. It goes without saying that every human being has flaws.

With the passage of time, there has been a lot of revisionist history about Ronald Reagan. There was no coronation of Reagan in 1980. He had to fight tooth and nail to win the nomination. He faced stiff competition as well as hostility from the party establishment. Ultimately he prevailed in the primaries, but the general election was a toss-up until the final week of the campaign. The left smeared him every chance it could, saying that he was dumb and too old and that he would get us into a war.

The same can be said for the Democrats. In 1992, after losing the New Hampshire primary, Bill Clinton came out of nowhere to capture the Democrat nomination. He went on to win the White House. In 2007, few thought Barack Obama (who also lost the New Hampshire primary) would actually beat Hillary Clinton.

My point is this: The race is likely to be unpredictable, and the Republican nominee, whoever it is, will be far more preferable to Obama. But every candidate has flaws. Our problem won't be the GOP nominee.

Our problem will be the Obama campaign and its left-wing media allies, who are increasingly influenced by George Soros. They will eagerly distort and magnify any flaw our nominee has. And they will probably even make things up, too!

In the days ahead, we will be doing more to bring you up-to-date, insightful information on the 2012 GOP race. But at the same time, we must keep our focus on Barack Obama. The ultimate goal is to take back the White House and stop Obama's socialism. Never forget that.

If we are going to succeed, everyone reading this daily report must be doing everything they can to make that happen. While the GOP race is sorting itself out, we must be reaching out to friends, family members and co-workers. We must be registering new conservative voters and organizing at the grassroots level.

Here is a specific goal for everyone: Find just one person who voted for Obama in 2008 but may be having second thoughts today. Perhaps it is a family member. Maybe it is someone who just didn't bother to vote in 2008. Use the information in these daily reports to bring that person over to our side. If every conservative could flip one voter or find one new voter, we would win in a landslide.


Democrat Energy Tax Hike Fails

Last night, Senate Democrats lost a vote to raise taxes on energy companies. Seeking cover for sky-high gas prices, Senate Democrats went on the attack, blaming the energy companies and vowing to take away tax credits that are used by many businesses. The result would have been a net tax increase that targeted just five American oil companies. Fortunately, this tax hike failed to overcome a conservative filibuster.

While the vote failed, it is illustrative of the left's economic ignorance and class warfare politics. In response to record gas prices, the Democrats' solution is to punish oil companies and raise taxes. What good would that do?

As Dan Kish, senior vice president of the Institute for Energy Research, explained, "If food prices are going up, would it make sense to tax farmers? ... If you make it more expensive in the United States to produce energy, it will be produced somewhere else."

The Democrats' energy taxes would also cost us jobs. In the past decade, the American energy industry has invested more than $1.5 trillion in domestic capital projects. Kish adds, "You're either going to have that investment here or you're going to penalize that investment, in which case it will go somewhere else. It means fewer jobs and more un-American energy."

The Senate is expected to vote today on a Republican bill that would expand offshore drilling and speed up the permitting process that the Obama Administration has brought to a grinding halt. Unfortunately, this bill is not expected to get past the Senate's liberal majority. Your pain at the pump will probably not diminish until we can elect 60 conservative senators who are truly committed to unlocking America's tremendous energy reserves.


What Will Obama Say?

President Barack Obama is set to deliver a major address tomorrow on Middle East policy. Israeli papers, citing leaks, are saying that Obama will demand Israel return to its 1967 borders and declare all communities outside those borders illegitimate and illegal.

It would be shocking if Obama would be so foolish as to adopt such a position -- especially coming so soon on the heels of an incident in which Palestinian mobs tried to breach Israel's borders. Their actions make it clear that for many Islamofascists the Jewish state has no borders they are willing to accept.

Many Israelis strongly believe that the 1967 borders are virtually indefensible from a military standpoint. Domestically, Obama would be making his already tense relationship with the American Jewish community dramatically worse.

I don't believe President Obama is willing to go down this road -- yet. I expect that his speech won't introduce major new proposals. But rest assured that we will be watching and analyzing it very closely.

 

 

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 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sent this bulletin on 05/03/2011 12:17 PM EDT

Issue Number:    IR-2011-50

Inside This Issue

Treasury, IRS Seek Public Input on Certain Employer Provisions of the Affordable Care Act 

WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service today requested public comment on issues relating to the shared responsibility provisions included in the Affordable Care Act that will apply to certain employers starting in 2014.

Under the Affordable Care Act, employers with 50 or more full-time employees that do not offer affordable health coverage to their full-time employees may be required to make a shared responsibility payment.  The law specifically exempts small firms that have fewer than 50 full-time employees. This provision takes effect in 2014.

Notice 2011-36, posted today on IRS.gov, solicits public input and comment on several issues that will be the subject of future proposed guidance as Treasury and the IRS work to provide information to employers on how to comply with the shared responsibility provisions.  In particular, the notice requests comment on possible approaches employers could use to determine who is a full-time employee.

Today's request for comment is designed to ensure that Treasury and IRS continue to receive broad input from stakeholders on how best to implement the shared responsibility provisions in a way that is workable and administrable for employers, allowing them flexibility and minimizing  burdens.  Employers have asked for guidance on this provision, and a number of stakeholder groups have approached Treasury and IRS with information and initial suggestions, which have been taken into account in developing today's notice.  By soliciting comments and feedback now, Treasury and IRS are giving all interested parties the opportunity for input before proposed regulations are issued at a later date.

Consistent with the coordinated approach the Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services are taking in developing the regulations and other guidance under the Affordable Care Act, the notice also solicits input on how the three Departments should interpret and apply the Act's provisions limiting the ability of plans and issuers to impose a waiting period for health coverage of longer than 90 days starting in 2014.  In addition, the notice invites comment on how guidance under the 90-day provisions should be coordinated with the rules Treasury and IRS will propose regarding the shared responsibility provisions.

There are three ways to submit comments.

• E-mail to: Notice.Comments@irscounsel.treas.gov. Include "Notice 2011-36" in the subject line.
• Mail to: Internal Revenue Service, CC:PA:LPD:PR (Notice 2011-36), Room 5203, P.O. Box 7604, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044.
• Hand deliver to: CC:PA:LPD:PR (Notice 2011-36), Courier's Desk, Internal Revenue Service, 1111 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

The deadline for comments is June 17, 2011.

Pennsylvanians need to be ready to replace all elected officials in Harrisburg who do not support a fiscally conservative agenda.

Big Spenders

State senate GOP leaders want to bust the budget

By: Lowman S. Henry

It is budget time in Harrisburg.  The deadline for approving the state's new spending plan is June 30^th.  With Republicans in control of the governorship and both houses of the legislature there is resolve to get the job done on time - something that never happened during the Ed Rendell years.

But Republican unity - at the moment - ends with the calendar.  Deep divisions are emerging between the decidedly more moderate senate Republican leadership and the conservative-leaning house GOP.  The house has sided with Governor Tom Corbett when it comes to holding the line on spending.

You may recall that Pennsylvania faces a $4.5 billion budget deficit and that Governor Corbett has proposed deep spending cuts, especially in education funding, to balance the budget.  The governor has said he won't accept any budget that spends more than $27.3 billion, which is the amount the commonwealth expects to have available to spend during the coming fiscal year without raising taxes.

Governor Corbett and Senate Majority Leader Domenic Pileggi (R-Delaware) have had a running feud over taxes.  During the campaign last year candidate Corbett pledged "no new taxes."  Pileggi said it couldn't be done.  Now Governor, Corbett has stuck to his pledge and Pileggi is trying every maneuver he can think of to take more money from the pockets of the state's recession ravaged taxpayers.

Oddly enough, the most recent point of disagreement is a surplus.  Revenues over the past couple of months have come in at $506 million more than projected.  The free-spending Pileggi wants to increase next year's spend figure by that amount.  Corbett and house Republicans are saying no; the improved revenue flow can't be counted on and it would be fiscally irresponsible to increase spending at this time.

This kerfuffle again exposes the degree to which the Senate Republican leadership has yet to get the repeated messages sent by voters that they want the days of profligate spending in Harrisburg to come to an end.  Recall it was Senate Republicans who caved into Governor Ed Rendell and provided the votes that passed the bloated budgets that gave us the current massive deficit.  House Republicans held firm against the Rendell spending spree only to be sold out by the colleagues in the upper chamber.

All this is happening because the GOP leadership in the senate remains a bastion of old-time pork barrel politics.  Despite the fact its current leadership came to power in the wake of voter outrage over the middle-of-the-night pay raise - which dispatched their predecessors into retirement - nothing has really changed in the senate.

There is growing restlessness among the grassroots over the lack of progress in Harrisburg toward enacting a conservative agenda.  Conservatives are looking wistfully at New Jersey, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia and other states where real progress toward reform is being made.  Five months into the legislative year next to nothing has been done in Penn's Woods. 

The bottleneck is the state senate.  On issue after issue the senate is frustrating the conservative agenda.  It has yet to pass even a watered down version of Senate Bill # 1, the school choice bill.  Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati (R-Jefferson) is pushing for a tax on Marcellus Shale drillers - a clear violation of the Corbett no tax pledge.  There is general apathy in the state senate toward privatizing the state's liquor stores, a top priority of House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny).  And House Bill # 1, a common sense lawsuit abuse reform that actually passed the legislature during Ed Rendell's term before being met with a gubernatorial veto, is still sitting in a senate committee.

And now, with the budget process entering a critical phase, the senate's GOP leadership once again is sounding more like the Democratic State Committee than a Republican-controlled legislative body.  Rather than working with the governor and their colleagues in the house to spend within our means, they are pushing for new taxes and higher spending. 

If Scarnati and Pileggi want new taxes and more spending then they should put the matter to a floor vote right now - today.  No cutting deals in the back rooms. If you want higher spending, then let's see if your caucus members will put up a recorded vote. That way we the people can find out who is on the side of the taxpayers and who is on the side of the spending interests. 

In the meantime, Governor Corbett and the House GOP are standing firm against raising taxes or increasing the spend number. Voters are watching this intramural dispute very closely.  Republicans were given control of state government to put a lid on spending - we will soon see if that promise is actually kept.

(Lowman S. Henry is Chairman & CEO of the Lincoln Institute and host of the weekly Lincoln Radio Journal. His email address is lhenry@lincolninstitute.org.)

 * * * HB 1330 (Real School Choice) * * * 

To Matt Kibbe, Freedom Works

I attended your forums on SB1 in Allentown, and Doylestown. At least in those forums you had one very outnumbered opponent panelist to SB1. Mind you, not an opponent to School Vouchers, but as with me,  a proponent of a Universal School Voucher System; not SB1 which, as it is currently written, constitutes a Social Engineering Entitlement program that prejudicially favors low income families in a dysfunctional neighborhood.

I had previously attended the Harrisburg Forum in January,2011  and most recently at the Harrisburg  Leadership Council. Both of these forums were SB1one-sided indoctrination venues, which never addressed my questions. In the latter forum, it degraded to the point of suggesting that opponents of SB1 are racist. Now I see that the next  two scheduled forums appear to only include panelist who favor SB1. In my opinion this is a misrepresentation of the Conservative Tea Party  free thinking principles and is more reminiscent of the Pelosi 'Vote the law in to see what's in it'.

A few days ago I received an e-mail from your superior, Dick Armey, asking me to call certain PA legislators to push for a vote on SB1. This is my response which is also applicable to  your request:

Let Dick Armey keep his Liberal Social  Engineering out of PA.

Dick, you don't have a groundswell of support for SB1, because PA conservatives are smart and can see beyond your Hype.

We need a real School Voucher System that will help all Pennsylvanians, for both financial and academic improvement. NOT THE CURRENT SB1.

Respectfully,

Carlo Grilletto

Steve Palmer has updated the status of the various 10th Amendment Legislation in Harrisburg.  There is alot going on across many fronts- state sovereignty, health care, TSA, 2nd Amendment.  Please pass this on to your groups and encourage them to contact their legislators to support this legislation.   Beside directly engaging DC to be accountable, our state government is key force in protecting us against unconstitutional overreach by the Federal Government.  There is a mindset change in progress in Harrisburg and other state capitols around 10th amendment assertiveness.   It is critical that we keep pressure on Washington through both citizen action and our state legislatures.

http://pennsylvania.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/05/pa-tenth-amendment-legislation-status-may-14/

 

Chronicle · May 18, 2011

The Foundation

"There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue." --John Adams

Editorial Exegesis

Newt stumbles

"The Republican Presidential campaign is off to a slow start, but judging by the last week not slow enough. First Mitt Romney defends his ObamaCare prototype in Massachusetts, and now Newt Gingrich has decided to run against House Republicans on Medicare. They must be loving this at the White House. Asked on NBC's 'Meet the Press' on Sunday about Paul Ryan's reform plan, Mr. Gingrich chose to throw his former allies in the GOP House not so much under the bus as off the Grand Canyon rim. The Ryan program 'is too big a jump,' he said. 'I think what you want to have is a system where people voluntarily migrate to better outcomes, better solutions, better options. Not one where you suddenly impose upon you -- I don't want to -- I -- I'm against ObamaCare, which is imposing radical change. And I would be against a conservative imposing radical change.' ... Our guess is that a politician as experienced as Mr. Gingrich knew exactly what he was doing and that as he runs for President, he wants to appear to be more moderate than he has sounded over the last, oh, 20 years, by suddenly triangulating against the GOP House he once led. ... The irony is that Mr. Gingrich's own history of political failure on health care has made Mr. Ryan's proposals all the more necessary. ... Yet now he is trashing Mr. Ryan for thinking far more deeply about health care, and in a far more principled fashion, than Mr. Gingrich ever has. The episode reveals the Georgian's weakness as a candidate, and especially as a potential President-to wit, his odd combination of partisan, divisive rhetoric and poll-driven policy timidity. ... Mr. Ryan speaks softly but proposes policies commensurate with America's problems. Mr. Gingrich speaks loudly but shrinks from hard choices. Who's the 'radical' and who's the real leader?" --The Wall Street Journal

 Editor's Note: It's worth mentioning that Gingrich did call Ryan to apologize for his ill-advised remarks, and has done his best to recast the discussion. Will it work?

Upright

"Gingrich is very wedded to the idea that he should be on the majority side of every major public policy issue. That's why he believes in framing policy questions so they become '70-30 issues' ... i.e. issues where he's on the side of 70 percent of Americans against the 30 percent 'elite.' As a political formula, there's much to recommend this. But there are a couple problems as well. First, simply rephrasing the issues so that 70 percent of those polled agree with you is not the same thing as actually finding a policy that a super-majority of the public will rally behind (or get through Congress). Polarizing rhetoric does not automatically yield support for polarized policy. So that's why -- or at least partly why -- Gingrich 'frames' things in such stark terms while adhering to fairly timid policies." --columnist Jonah Goldberg

"So here's the question for 2012: If we the people don't want the higher taxes that are needed to support not only ObamaCare but a growing federal government, are we willing to support the real cuts that go along with that choice? And if we decide we don't want these programs touched, will we accept the higher taxes that go along with keeping them, including for people making a lot less than $250,000?" --columnist William McGurn

"In the real world, debt ceilings are determined by the lenders, not the borrowers. In March, Pimco (which manages the world's largest mutual fund) calculated that 70 percent of U.S. Treasury debt is being bought by the Federal Reserve. So under the 2011 budget, every hour of every day, the United States government spends $188 million it doesn't have, $130 million of which is 'borrowed' from itself. There's nobody else out there. In other words, however Congress votes, we're rubbing up against the real debt ceiling -- the willingness of the world to continue bankrolling American debauchery." --columnist Mark Steyn

"The sane among us recognize that in a free society, income is neither taken nor distributed; for the most part, it is earned. Income is earned by pleasing one's fellow man. The greater one's ability to please his fellow man, the greater is his claim on what his fellow man produces. Those claims are represented by the number of dollars received from his fellow man. ... What's the case for being forced to give anything back? If one wishes to be charitable, that's an entirely different matter. ... If anyone is obliged to give something back, they are the thieves and recipients of legalized theft, namely people who've used Congress, including America's corporate welfare queens, to live at the expense of others. When a nation vilifies the productive and makes mascots of the unproductive, it doesn't bode well for its future." --economist Walter E. Williams

Insight

"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious." --Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC)

"Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny." --Sen. Barry Goldwater (1909-1998)

The Demo-gogues

The "step up" solution: "We've got a lot more work to do to get businesses to invest and to hire. It's going to take us several years for us to get back where we need to be. It is time for companies to step up. American taxpayers contributed to that process of stabilizing the economy. Companies have benefited from that, and they're making a lot of money, and now's the time for them to start betting on American workers and American products." --Barack Obama, who's never held a real job

Bring back that lovin' feeling: "When you think back to these last two and a half years, I want you to do so not with complacency, not with full satisfaction, but I want it to motivate you. Don't let people tell you that we can't bring about change. We have already brought about change. ... We're just a quarter of the way through. We've got to finish our task." --Barack Obama

Redefining terms: "When we're talking about Medicare, let me be very clear because we are open to many, we're listening to every suggestion, but one suggestion we are not open to is the abolishment of Medicare and that's what the Republicans have put forth in their budget.... Every initiative that we have where federal dollars are spent must be subjected to scrutiny to make sure we're getting our money's worth and the public is well served. But abolishing Medicare, that is not on the table." --House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

Deal with the devil: "Now that the U.S. has reached the debt limit [Monday], it is past time for Republicans to get serious and work with Democrats to ensure our nation pays its bills while laying out a path to reduce the deficit. The longer we wait to take responsible action, the more damaging it is to our economy. ... By choosing to hold the economy hostage by risking a default on our nation's debt, Republicans are endangering our economic recovery." --House Demo Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD)

Dezinformatsia

An argument on its head: "If the president and his allies operate on the principle that failure to raise the debt ceiling is an unthinkable outcome, to be avoided at all cost, then they have ceded all power to those willing to bring that outcome about. In effect, they will have ripped up the Constitution and given control over America's government to a party that only controls one house of Congress, but claims to be willing to bring down the economy unless it gets what it wants." --New York Times columnist Paul Krugman

Class warfare: "In essence, Republicans would break up the population between an I've Got Mine segment and The Left Behinds. ... Give the Republicans credit for honesty and showing their true colors. And their plan is at least a starting point compared with those Tea Party political illiterates who waved signs urging government to keep its hands off their government health care. ... There is a very simple way to make Medicare whole through the end of this century, far less complicated, and more of a bargain in the long run than the bizarre Ryan plan. Raise taxes." --New York Times correspondent Timothy Egan

Border insecurity: "[Barack Obama] got two-thirds of the Hispanic vote in 2008. He may get it up to four-fifths because he's the most prominent official on the Democratic side talking pro-comprehensive immigration. And you have Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona, the most prominent Republican official on the other side, sending out very negative attitudes when it comes to Hispanics. So I think, sure, there's a political benefit here for the president." --Newsweek's Eleanor Clift

Hate speech: "Why on earth would anyone marry someone, hitch up with them because of hatred? Well, this is the exact problem of the Republican Party today. It got married, hitched up politically with the Tea Party. But, not because the Tea Party loves the Republican Party. Don't even think about that happening this week. No, the marriage between the Republicans and the Tea Party is based on hatred, hatred of government, hatred of the Democrats, hatred of Barack Obama." --MSNBC's Chris Matthews

Newspulper Headlines:

Easier Than Being a Messiah Like Obama: "Bush Says He Still Prefers to Be a Saint" --Associated Press

'I Want to Spike the Football!': "Obama to GOP: Stop Moving Goalposts on Immigration Reform" --TheHill.com

Teresa Told Him She Needed Her Space: "Kerry to Visit Pakistan to Get Relationship on 'Right Track'" --TheHill.com

Questions Nobody Is Asking: "Will Christ Return May 21?" --Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking: "Why Zombie Ants Infected by Mind-Controlling Fungus Always Kill Themselves at High Noon" --Daily Mail (London)

Bottom Story of the Day: "Health Care Costs Continue to Rise" --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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

Village Idiots

Demanding more debt: "Even a short-term default could cause irrevocable damage to the economy. ... A default on Treasury debt could lead to concerns about the solvency of the investment and financial institutions that hold Treasury securities in their portfolios, which could cause a run on money market mutual funds and the broader financial system. ... A default would call into question the status of Treasury securities as a cornerstone of the financial system, potentially squandering this unique role and the economic benefits that come with it." --Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner

Loving Obama: "I mean, what [Obama] inherited as a president -- [Republicans] can't blame him for anything because they created all of the trouble for him. I think he's fine. I think he's great. What's wrong with having an intelligent man as president?" --Grammy award-winning singer Tony Bennett

Publicity stunt: "I maintain the strong conviction that if I were to run, I would be able to win the primary and ultimately, the general election. I have spent the past several months unofficially campaigning and recognize that running for public office cannot be done half heartedly. Ultimately, however, business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector." --Donald Trump announcing that he's firing himself from a run for president

Short Cuts

"The public relations campaign for President Obama's latest revival of 'immigration reform' makes one thing crystal clear: This is not, and never has been, about homeland security. This is not, and never has been, about economic security. It's about political security, plain and cynical." --columnist Michelle Malkin

"Illegal immigration has dropped not because of better law enforcement efforts, but because the Obama economy is so poor that even people trying to escape drug-related beheadings aren't trying to jump the border anymore." --columnist Ben Shapiro

"President Obama courted Hispanics Tuesday, offering citizenship to anyone who will register, pay their back taxes and learn English. The president and the crowd share an unbreakable bond. They all bought their birth certificates in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles." --comedian Argus Hamilton

"There's talk in Hollywood about doing another 'Mad Max' movie, where gas is so expensive that people steal and kill to get it. It takes place sometime in the future -- like July." --comedian Jay Leno

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
The Patriot Post Editorial Team

 

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 "Boots on the ground"-that's what President Barack Obama says is protecting our southern border-20,000 border patrol agents, 40,000 boots on the ground.

He said it last week during a speech in El Paso, Tex., and a new investigation by HUMAN EVENTS concurs.

Well, the boots on the ground part anyway, because Border Patrol agents have to abandon their vehicles at makeshift Normandy-style fences constructed by our own Park Service on the U.S. side of the border. They are then forced to chase illegal aliens on foot so as not to disturb the fragile desert ecosystem.

In one Arizona park, federal agents practically have to tiptoe through 40 acres to avoid disrupting a pond containing the endangered desert pupfish.

It's part of the agreements made between Homeland Security and the Interior Departments on how best to protect the environment, frustrating lawmakers who say it should not trump border security.

"Under Secretary Napolitano's leadership, we have strengthened border security beyond what many believed was possible," Obama said.

He continued, "They wanted more agents on the border. Well, we now have more boots on the ground on the southwest border than at any time in our history."

There are also more hooves on the ground. Border Patrol agents can mount a horse to give chase across the delicate territories, but the animals must consume weed-free-feed or their waste must be scooped up and disposed elsewhere to protect the fragile ecosystem against invasive weed species.

Some Republican lawmakers have had enough of what they call "arbitrary regulations," and are pushing legislation in the House and Senate to put border patrol agents back in the driver's seat.

- Audrey Hudson

 

Just Who Would Cosponsor HR870? A Bill Supported By The Democratic Socialists Of America

Posted by Justen Charters

May 18, 2011

To Liberals,

Every Woman Looks Like a Hotel Maid

Human Events | by Ann Coulter | May 18 2011

I suppose we'll know the truth when the DNA testing comes back, but close observers of privileged liberal men are not shocked by the accusations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the socialist head of the International Monetary Fund. (And you thought you were getting screwed by your banker!)

Only in Hollywood movies are handsome lacrosse players from nice families seen as likely rapists. In real life, they look more like the 5-foot-2-inch Roman Polanski or pudgy, unathletic Bill Clinton -- or the homunculus 5-foot-2-inch Strauss-Kahn.

But, it is argued, how could Strauss-Kahn possibly think he could get away with the violent rape of a chambermaid in a $3,000-a-night hotel room, booked in his name?

First of all, Strauss-Kahn has evidently gotten away with treating the fairer sex as his playthings for some time. No wonder his nickname among the French is "le grand seducteur," which I believe roughly translates to "the short, tubby serial rapist."

Click here to continue reading Ann Coulter's column 

Today's Headlines:  Wednesday, May 18, 2011

U.S.-Canada Border a Bigger Terror Threat Than U.S.-Mexico, CBP Chief Says

Financial Disclosure: Obama Not Bullish on Long-Term U.S. Debt 

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Labor Dept. Spending $76 Million on 'Career Fulfillment' for High School Dropouts

Sorry: Gingrich Apologizes to Rep. Paul Ryan

 Ryan On Newt: 'With Allies Like That, Who Needs The Left?'

Palin: Current Retirees 'Protected' Under Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare Reform

Tougher Steps Against Syria Expected in 'Coming Hours and Days'

Harry Reid on U.S.-Pakistan Aid: Not the Time to 'Start Flexing Our Muscles'

Fresh Calls for U.S. to Blacklist Pakistan As Religious Freedom Violator

Native Americans Sue Gov't Over 'Critical Habitat' for Polar Bears

Stop Picking on the Potato, U.S. Lawmakers Tell USDA

Flight Attendants Trained to Detect 'Sex Slaves' in Transit

Mexico Police Find 513 Migrants in Trucks Bound for U.S.

COMMENTARY:

No, Newt
By Terence P. Jeffrey

CNN's Obama Adviser
By L. Brent Bozell III

West Coast Liberals Catch the 'Waive'
By Michelle Malkin

If Nominated I Will Not Run...
By Rich Galen

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Chinese to view sensitive U.S. military sites; Some lawmakers object
Sen. Reid schedules Thursday cloture vote on judicial nominee Goodwin Liu
Prayer request for bin Laden shakes up West Palm Beach church
Four white Philadelphia teachers file racial-bias lawsuits
Politico: 'GOP elite see Mitch Daniels as 2012 savior'
La. Gov. Bobby Jindal praises President Obama on flood response
U.S. failing its young men, advocates say
Study finds men relax best when their wives are busy
Mexico may extradite gang leader in U.S. border agent's death
'Discouraged' Sen. Coburn takes a break from 'gang of six' debt talks
Restaurants, cafes in Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco District getting health care waivers
Study blames culture of '60s, '70s for Catholic Church's sex abuse crisis
New U.S. Navy radio system is jamming nearby garage doors
U.S. gives thousands of Haitians a deportation reprieve
Elaborate after-prom parties overshadowing prom itself
Fewer emergency rooms available as need rises
Electronic hotel keycard of IMF chief may back up maid's story
Obama to say U.S. is not an instigator in the Middle East

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I went to the Costco site, where you can look up any drug, and get its online price. It says that the in-store prices are consistent with the online prices. I was appalled. Just to give you one example from my own experience I had to use the drug Compazine which helps prevent nausea in chemo patients.

I used the generic equivalent, which cost $54.99 for 60 pills at CVS. I checked the price at Costco, and I could have bought 100 pills for $19.89. For 145 of my pain pills, I paid $72.57. I could have got 150 at Costco for $28.08.

United States Is a Dying Empire: Civil Rights Activist and Liberal Talk Show Host Openly Hope for American Revolution Because We Exploited People of Color and the Planet

The Blaze | by Naked Emperor News | Posted on May 19, 2011 

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New Dem Ad Likens Privatizing Medicare to Murdering Seniors

The Blaze | by Meredith Jessup | Posted on May 18, 2011 

The Agenda Project - the same progressive group behind the "Patriotic Millionaires" club and the uber classy "F*ck Tea" movement - are at it again, this time using their activist roots to drum up opposition to House Republicans' budget proposal.

Senate Blocks GOP Bid to Speed Offshore Drilling

The Blaze | by Scott Baker | Posted on May 18, 2011 

WASHINGTON (AP) - A GOP bid to expand and hasten offshore oil drilling in the face of $4-a-gallon gasoline prices suffered an overwhelming defeat in the Senate on Wednesday, four days after President Barack Obama directed his administration to ramp up U.S. oil production.

Five Republicans joined 52 Democrats or independents in rejecting a bill written by Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell to speed up decision-making on drilling permits and force previously scheduled lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and off the Alaska and Virginia coasts. The Obama administration suspended several lease sales after last year's massive BP oil spill.

May 18, 2011 

On Wednesday's Program 

Gregory, Matthews reveal their racism

In an interview on Meet the Press, David Gregory confronted Newt Gingrich saying, "you gave a speech in Georgia with language a lot of people think could be coded racially-tinged language," -- the 'racially-tinged' comments he is referring to were Newt's comments about Obama being a food stamp president. A fair political attack given America has more people on food stamps than ever -- and NO mention of race. Apparently, however, David Gregory believes only black people are on food stamps because he views the issue as a slam on African Americans. Matthews echoed the argument made by Gregory. So, who's really the racist? Get the answer HERE.

Lottery winner remains on food stamps

Why? Leroy Fik says he is completely justified to remain on food stamps because of all the money the IRS took from the winnings. Apparently paying your fair share doesn't count when winning the lottery? Fik won $2 million dollars and claims he paid more than half of his winnings in taxes. Fik is defending his choice to remain on food stamps - a wildly offensive stance to take - but even worse is the fact that government allows him to keep using them. How does that happen? Find out HERE.

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Glenn accuses Stu of being a coward

Glenn lashed out at Stu today for not speaking out after something unusual happened to him on the morning commute. Stu explained how a couple, seemingly conducting some sort of affair, was seated close to him on a crowded train. That didn't stop them from engaging in overt physical displays of affection. Stu described the couple as 'slurping' at one point. What Stu did next led Glenn to admonish him for 'lacking courage' and being a coward. Watch the argument HERE.

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Theft? Gas station owner loses $21k after pump glitch

A gas station owner in California lost $21,000 when a computer glitch set the price of gas to $1.10 instead of $4.29 a gallon. Instead of notifying the owner of the glitch or even thanking him -- customers spread the word and for 4 hours pumped over 7,000 gallons of gas before the mistake was caught. Should the customers have said something? Should they be forced to pay the owner back? Or is it the fault of the gas station? Glenn, Stu and Pat debate it on radio today. WATCH.

'How I changed the way I look at food'

Author Jeff Benedict may not have gone on the same hippie stick diet as Glenn, but he and his family have completely changed the way they eat over the past few years. How did the personal decision to go local and organic inspire his latest book on the American food industry? Find out HERE. To learn more about this topic check out Jeff's new book -  Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat. 

Really Arnold? Pics of mistress revealed...yikes.