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"If the Tea Party was terrorists' Obama would be hanging out with them." ~ Sarah Palin

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Debt Deal Could Cut $1T From Defense 

Military Money on Chopping Block as Lawmakers Seek Savings 

Associated Press | Published August 04, 2011 

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon got nearly everything it asked for during a decade of two wars shadowed by the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the rise of Al Qaeda. No more.

It's a reality that new Defense Secretary Leon Panetta acknowledged Thursday, saying he "recognizes the Department of Defense has to do its part" to meet the public clamor for spending cuts.

Reflecting the widespread demand for fiscal austerity, the compromise debt deal struck by President Obama and congressional leaders this week will slice $350 billion from projected military spending over the next 10 years, and it leaves open the possibility of up to $500 billion in additional reductions.

The prospect of nearly $1 trillion in cuts unnerves military leaders, troubles members of Congress protective of the Pentagon and has touched off a scramble in the defense industry as contractors look to spare their multibillion-dollar weapons programs.

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Illinois School Cuts Crossing Guards, But Spends $120k For 'Chief of Equity And Social Justice'

The Blaze | by Mike Opelka | Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:47am

The U46 School District in Elgin, Illinois is the second largest school system in the state and U46 has dealt with the same financial strain facing many districts around the country. Budgets have been cut to the bone, programs like physical education and art have been eliminated, but that did not prevent the school board from hiring Ushma Shah as "Chief of Equity & Social Justice," at a cost of $120,000 a year (plus another $12,450 in benefits).

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Press Release:

AFDI/SIOA 9/11 Freedom Rally: 

Stand Against Ground Zero Mosque, and Durban III, Stand for America

NEW YORK, July 6: The human rights organization American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) will be hosting its second annual 9/11 Freedom Rally on September 11 at 3pm at Park Place and West Broadway.

Free citizens are coming from all over the U.S. to attend the rally. "It is crucial to stand for freedom on this tenth anniversary of the heinous 9/11 jihad attacks," said AFDI Executive Director Pamela Geller. "We must show the jihadists we are unbowed in the defense of freedom."

AFDI and its Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) program are encouraging all Americans to stand against the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero and the anti-Semitic Durban III conference that will be held in New York City at the same time, and for American values on the tenth anniversary of the worst attack ever on American soil.

The confirmed list of speakers includes 9/11 family members Alexander and Maureen Santora, who lost their firefighter son Christopher; Sally Regenhard, whose son Christian was killed on 9/11; Nelly Braginsky, who lost her son Alexander; and others.

Other speakers include former U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton (video message); the courageous ex-Muslim human rights activist Wafa Sultan; war hero and North Carolina Congressional candidate Ilario Pantano; former prosecutor and bestselling author Andrew C. McCarthy; popular radio host Joyce Kaufman; Darla Dawald, National Director of the Patriot Action Network; James Lafferty of the Virginia Anti-Sharia Taskforce (VAST); Coptic Christian activist Joseph Nassralla; Iraqi ex-Muslim Paul Gaynos.

Hosting the rally are Pamela Geller, publisher of the acclaimed AtlasShrugs.com blog, executive director of AFDI and SIOA, and author of Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance (WND Books); and AFDI/SIOA associate director Robert Spencer, the bestselling author and director of Jihad Watch.

Building the Ground Zero mosque is not an issue of religious freedom, but of resisting an effort to insult the victims of 9/11 and to establish a beachhead for political Islam and Islamic supremacism in New York. Cordoba Initiative board member imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is an open proponent of Sharia, Islamic law, a system that denies the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and the equality of rights of all people before the law. Given the thousands of triumphal mosques that have been built on the cherished sites of conquered peoples throughout Islamic history, the mosque leaders' claim that this mosque would be understood differently by Muslims worldwide lack foundation.

The Durban III conference follows upon two previous conferences that scapegoated and demonized the state of Israel in service of Islamic jihad and Islamic supremacist interests. The rally will defend Israel against the defamation to which it will be subjected at this conference. It will also call upon the city to remove roadblocks to the reconstruction of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was destroyed on 9/11 and since then mired in bureaucratic red tape that has prevented its rebuilding - in stark contrast to the help Mayor Bloomberg and other city officials have given to the Ground Zero Mosque project.

AFDI/SIOA is one of America's foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.

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   Glenn Beck Restoring Courage Viewing Party : On Wednesday, August 24 we will be streaming the event at The Moose and we're inviting everyone to come down and share this together.  Many of us went to the Restoring Honor event last year and we were deeply moved by the day's events.  Being with others we know made this even more special.  Although we are not going to travel to Israel, we are hoping that we can recreate that atmosphere here in Bucks County.  We are still in the development stages of this event and would like to hear your suggestions on how to have it work out.  And if you can help with the planning, set up and the break down, please let us know.  These events are even more special when you are part of the effort to make it come off well for everyone who comes.  Be sure to invite your friends and family to come as well.  This would be a great opportunity to meet other patriots and meet some new ones.

   Let us know you are coming on our Facebook event post .  

There will be weekly meetings every Wednesday at P J Ryan's, 231 Bridge Street, Phoenixville - 6pm - downstairs

We will be discussing UN Agenda 21 & Sustainable Development, as well as other topics relevant with today's problems like the NWO, Congress, debt, how to be prepared for the future disasters, etc.... At this weeks meeting will start with sending some people over to sit in on the meeting below.  We need to know what our opposition is doing  . . . If you have any questions please feel free to email me back or contact Maggie at www.theunsolicitedopinion.com or Maggie@theunsolicitedopinion.com

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Who/what is the Shadow Party.  How old is Agenda 21?  What are the roots of Agenda 21 and sustainable building today?    Find out and use lawful remedies to stop the national government's usurpations.   Speakers include, Jack Callahan, Dave Adamski, Jr., and William Taylor Reil. 

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Some of us would like to sit in on this hearing because -
·Warren Kampf serves on the House Labor Cmte and
·our presence might counter the expected labor union presence!

Sean Dempsey, Warren's district office manager, listed the individual bills:
HB 50 - Establishes a Right to Work law.   
HB 51 - Establishes that Union Dues can not be automatically deducted from payroll
HB 52 - very similar to HB 51 in spirit
HB 53 - very similar again to HB 51
He said that "Generally Warren is for leveling the playing field for job creators and that is what these bills aim to do".
He cautioned this is a hearing and no vote is expected.
 
I think PA needs to be a RIGHT TO WORK state!  www.nrtw.org   
Warren's serving on this Labor & Industry Cmte adds another reason to attend.
          

VFP/Phoenixville Streeing Committee

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Dear Patriot,

Our August meeting will be held in conjunction with the Kitchen Table Patriots to present a project to help ensure the integrity of our electoral process.  This is a genuine non-partisan issue.  Win or lose candidates for office should be able to rely on the officials who oversee the polls on Election Day so that every legitimate vote is counted. 

"True the Vote" is an initiative developed by citizens for citizens, to inspire and equip volunteers for involvement at every stage of our electoral process and to actively protect the rights of legitimate voters, regardless of their political party affiliation.  We are looking for people to learn about this effort and get involved today to ensure we have valid elections for all.  Please join us August 8^th.

True the Vote

w/ TJC & KTP

Monday, August 8^th, 7pm

The Moose Club

127 East State Street

Doylestown, PA

At the meeting we will begin planning for the 2^nd Annual "We Read the Constitution" Rally at Washington Crossing State Park on Saturday, September 17^th.  Those who attended last year will recall the educational and civic value of the event.  If you are interested in helping or being a reader, please contact Audrey Strein at audreys110@yahoo.com. 

Also consider attending a wonderful event with the "First Lady" of the Conservative movement, Phyllis Schlafly, on Tuesday, August 9^th at the Union League in Philadelphia.  Phyllis is the Founder and President of the Eagle Forum.  There is a reception and luncheon; more information can be found here:  http://www.eagleforum.org/w-mailing/2011/Philadelphia-Invite.pdf. 

All the best,

Jeff McGeary

President, Thomas Jefferson Club

For Immediate Release

Contact: 717-228-7524

CONSTITUTION GROUP BRINGING "LIBERTY BREAKFAST" TO CHESTER COUNTY

(Lebanon, PA) - The Constitutional Organization Of Liberty (COOL), a conservative, non-partisan educational organization, has announced it will be hosting a "Liberty Breakfast" in Downingtown on Saturday, August 6.   

Mark Thomas of Cornwall, Chairman of COOL, said that the five-year old organization has arranged for the morning function at the Old Country Buffet, beginning at 8:30 AM.

"We're very excited about bringing our breakfast to Chester County," Thomas said.  "We have hosted courses and functions throughout central Pennsylvania but this is the first one we have held in Chester County."

Thomas said that the Liberty Breakfasts are new for 2011 as they found a number of individuals were interested in gaining additional knowledge about the Constitution but were not able to commit to long term coursework.

"After the successful classes we had last year, COOL's Board went ahead and approved the use of the breakfast model in order to broaden our access and appeal to the different locations we think would be receptive to our courses and educational approach," he said.

Carris Kocher, of the Bill of Rights Bicentennial Committee, which, along with Chester County ACTION, is hosting the breakfast, said she personally made arrangements for the breakfast in Downingtown and is looking for a strong turnout.

"This area has a large number of deeply convicted individuals when it comes to the Constitution and how the law should be applied," Kocher said.  "I really felt the time had come to start combining COOL's strong educational expertise with the conservative activists in the area."

Kocher also noted that since 2011 is the 275th anniversary of Patrick Henry's birth, the breakfast will include a musical tribute to Patrick Henry by Charlie Zahm of Philadelphia,

"Charlie is an outstanding musician with a wealth of musical talent and historical knowledge," Kocher said. "He is popular at Maritime, Early American and Celtic festivals, and his rich voice is matched only by his masterful guitar playing."

"Having this tribute to Patrick Henry at this event seemed fitting," Kocher said, "as, without Patrick Henry, there would be no Bill of Rights and no First Amendment."

State Senator Mike Folmer (R-48^th), who serves as a Board member for COOL, attended the first Liberty Breakfast in Palmyra and said he was very pleased with the function.

"I enjoyed the fact that the breakfast allows participants to gain additional knowledge about the Constitution and our Founding documents without feeling pressured to stick to a long term schedule," Folmer said.  "And for an elected official like myself it is a great time to just catch up with local constituents without having to worry about being the center of attention."

"Anyone who attends these breakfasts comes out learning something," he said.

The topic for the Liberty Breakfast scheduled for August 6 will be "The First Amendment" and will feature both a review of the Amendment as well as an open discussion of the critical aspects of it.

The meeting room at the Old Country Buffet has been reserved and breakfast will be served ala carte whereby participants will order and pay for their own meals.  After the meal, the forum will begin, and there is no charge to participate, although donations will be solicited. 

Attendance confirmation is requested to ensure sufficient seating in the meeting room, and may be made by contacting Kocher via e-mail at kochercj@verizon.net.  Any other inquiries may be made directly to COOL at 717-228-7524, or by e-mail at reclaimliberty@verizon.net.

RedState Morning Briefing

For August 5, 2011

1. The Debt Rises, The Economy Sinks

Despite being dispirited by the one-sided nature of the debt ceiling deal, most of us were looking forward to reaping the rewards from its only ancillary benefit; the impending stock market rally. Much to our chagrin, the Dow dropped precipitously, losing over 800 points since the opening bell on Monday. After the initial euphoria from the debt ceiling hangover began to subside, people have been forced to confront an inconvenient reality. The problem with the economy is not the debt ceiling; it is the debt - and all that it represents; overbearing and job-killing government.

Late Sunday night, Republican leaders forged a bipartisan deal with the president to raise the debt ceiling another $2.4 trillion without any preconditions for the second tranche. Despite pretentious claims that we were entering a new era of austerity, the debt deal has charted us on a trajectory to incur $7.8 trillion more in debt, even considering the unrealistic baseline projections of economic growth and revenue.

Well, the Treasury wasted no time utilizing its new credit card and devouring the spoils like the starved beast that it has been for the past few months. On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner issued $239 billion in new debt, almost 60% of the entire $400 billion increase in borrowing authority that Congress granted for the first round of the debt limit hike. To put that in perspective with the "austerity side of the debt deal," it will take 4.5 years to achieve a commensurate degree of savings from the discretionary caps imposed in the bill. I guess that is one way of measuring dollar-for-dollar cuts.

Our total cumulative debt (including the intragovernmental share) now stands at $14.58 trillion, approaching 100% of out GDP for the first time. We have joined the failed socialist experiments of Europe in this ominous distinction.

2. Lisa Jackson is Using the EPA to Destroy the Coal Industry

I reported recently on EPA rules that ran the risk of causing shut downs of plants in Texas and elsewhere. But that was before the massive heatwave began putting the real strain on them. So much so that they are almost at full capacity. And unfortunately, the EPA is only tightening it's grip.

3. Uh Oh! The Progressives Have Figured Out How The Tea Parties Took Over the GOP...

Wow! It's really flattering that radio talk-show host Thom Hartmann is attributing the Concord Project with the Tea Party taking over the GOP. The fact is, though, the GOP is still filled with those who would compromise the Constitution and bankrupt our country. Taking over the GOP has barely begun and, more importantly, the Tea Party (and other conservative activists) taking over the GOP involves many more people, groups, and organizations than the Concord Project.

Nevertheless, if Thom Hartmann wants to give some credit to the Concord Project for the strategy to take over the GOP, as long as it gets you to really know how important precinct activism is, so be it. More importantly, if progressives understanding the strategy and doing it themselves, get you motivated to get involved, even better.

4. Chevy Volt's Loss is GM's Gain?

I've written about General Motor's CEO Dan Akerson before, but for those who don't remember, he was appointed to the board of directors by President Obama to represent the administration. He's also been a big proponent of the gas tax which he believes will increase the cost of car ownership just enough to get America off of foreign oil by forcing us to choose crappy cars that use less fuel.

As though the fates are trying to prove to Akerson that a gas tax is the only way Americans will ever buy into their green dreams, the Chevy Volt has crossed over into the realm of abysmal failure (one step above abject failure).

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Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for August 5, 2011

U.S. Jobs Gain Seen Too Small to Cut Jobless
Bloomberg News

Markets Fall as Global Worries Multiply
The New York Times

IRS: 235,000 millionaires
Politico

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warns against more cuts in Pentagon budget
The Washington Post

Lead or get out of the way on schools
Politico

Russia uses dirty tricks despite U.S. 'reset'
The Washington Times

Conservative terminology.

Whenever discussing Man-Made Global Warming, always refer to it as "Man-Bear Pig," after the ludicrous imaginary monster invented by Al Gore in a famous episode of South Park. 

Ask them to guess who said this: 

"The soundest way to raise revenues in the long run is to cut taxes now. The purpose of cutting taxes now is... to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus."

Ronald Reagan? One of the Bushes? F. A. Hayek? Arthur Laffer?

No: JFK. 

 Susan's Paul Ryan Medicare Pamphlet - please print this and give it to your contacts

Fellow Patriots,

In this war of ideology, the bad guys have just made a stunning coup, presided over by President Obama's Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.  Seriously, it doesn't get much worse than this. 

NOTE: While the resolution talks about "defamation of religions," this resolution's focus has been only on "Islamophobia."  Nowhere are attacks on Christians, Jews, Hindus, or Buddhists discussed.  So don't let yourself be fooled by the seemingly universal language.  It's also important to recognize that "defamation of religions," when applied to Islam, is considered by Muslims to be blasphemy.  So Hilliary Clinton is about to bring Islam's anti-blasphemy laws to the United States.

By the way, the article below comes from the International Islamic News Agency (IINA), the official mouthpiece of the OIC.  This article is an announcement of Hillary Clinton's effort to join them in criminalizing blasphemy against Islam.

Dave

Read more:  

OIC/Islamophobia: OIC Observatory warned since 2009 against the growth of the extreme right in Europe, Washington plans to host a meeting on resolution opposing defamation of religions 

By EILEEN SULLIVAN

updated 8/3/2011

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's new strategy to fight the threat of al-Qaida and other violent radicals in the U.S. is short on details and fails to name a single point of coordination for all of the various initiatives at the federal and local levels, said lawmakers who have asked the government for years to develop a plan for the homegrown terror threat.

 

After more than two years of high-level meetings, the White House released an eight-page document Wednesday that broadly describes a strategy, mostly of initiatives already under way to prevent violent ideologically inspired attacks like the deadly 2009 shootings at an Arkansas military recruiting center and at the Holocaust museum in Washington.

Existing local police efforts, after-school programs and community outreach around the country are at the top of the Obama administration's continue-to-do list.

The plan assigns local communities the lead for protecting the country against violent extremists and pledges federal support and guidance toward that effort.

How to Fight a Blood Libel

It's a long way from Arizona to Oslo to Tel Aviv, but all three places have been the sites of major blood libels against the right. And a reminder of what to do in these situations.

 

2011 has seen the launch of two major blood libels aimed at the American and European right. The Breivik shootings and the Giffords bullseye. In both cases, the left tried to politicize an unstable man's shooting spree to silence and intimidate the political opposition. But my own experience goes back to the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin in the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv. A blood libel on an epic scale. There are common lessons to be drawn from all these events.

Each event played out in three phases. Shock media coverage that splattered the full details everywhere, followed by calls for the right to accept moral responsibility for the killer's actions. In the final phase, the right atones by practicing self-censorship so that, "nothing like this can ever happen again."

But let's follow a different path instead. A guide to how to handle these situations.

 

August 4, 2011     Sharia and the latest Ft. Hood jihadist 

There hasn't been much news coverage of Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo's planned jihadist attack against Ft. Hood soldiers.

What you haven't read is spelled out well in the column below by Raymond Ibrahim (highlights added).

As you read it, note how Abdo employed several provisions of sharia law.

Sharia law threatens America in numerous ways. Abdo's disloyalty to America is just the latest example.

REMINDER: RALLY ON AUGUST 30TH IN TULSA ON BEHALF OF CAPTAIN PAUL FIELDS. FIND DETAILS HERE.

Abdo's Loyalty to Muslims Always Meant Disloyalty to Americans 

Behold the Koran's doctrines applied in today's terror war.

August 3, 2011 - by Raymond Ibrahim

To anyone familiar with Muslim doctrine, Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo's actions - from refusing to deploy to Afghanistan lest he kill fellow Muslims to plotting a terror attack to kill fellow Americans - make perfect sense and accord well with Islam's dichotomous doctrine of wala wa bara, often translated as "loyalty and enmity."

 

Built atop numerous Koran verses and backed by Sharia, wala requires Muslims to be loyal to fellow Muslims, and explains why Abdo refused to deploy to Muslim nations.

 

While loyalty may appear admirable, it has a flipside, bara, which requires Muslims to disassociate themselves from non-Muslims - to be disloyal to them (see al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri's 60 page treatise titled "Loyalty and Enmity" in The Al Qaeda Reader for details).

Read more: 

Ground Zero Cross: Unconstitutional because it exists?

Jordan Sekulow (Lawyer, Activist) Director of Policy and International Operations at the American Center for Law & Justice.

In the tumultuous days following the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, workers at Ground Zero discovered a sign of hope and comfort - a cross - two intersecting steel beams from Tower One of the World Trade Center standing in the midst of so much death and destruction.

In the decade since 9/11, the Ground Zero Cross has become a symbol of hope and healing for those who survived the terrorist attack, the families and friends who lost loved ones on that day, and the coworkers of the brave first responders who made the ultimate sacrifice.

This historical artifact of the 9/11 attacks is, lawsuit notwithstanding, going to be featured in the new 9/11 Memorial and Museum. Unfortunately, angry atheist syndrome has reared its ugly head again. 

   Read More . . . 

Today's Headlines:  Thursday, August 04, 2011

Gallup: Massive Majority of Republicans Across Country Disapprove Debt Deal

Taxpayers Will Pay for Obama Bus Tour of Battleground States, Says White House

'Value Voters Bus Tour' Scheduled to Cross Iowa Next Week

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 More Than $125 Billion in Stimulus Funds Still Not Paid Out

Tea Party Could 'Potentially Become a Violent Movement'

Schumer: 'A Gun Held' to Our Heads by GOP Over FAA Funding

Ron Paul Introduces Bill to Abolish 'Gun-Free Zones'

Bachmann: Touting 'No' Vote On Debt Deal

Cardin: 'Spending Will Continue to Rise, But at a Much Slower Rate' Under Debt Deal

Rep. Allen West: Debt Deal Has 'Principles of Cut, Cap, and Balance'

4 Months and 1,600 Deaths Later, U.N. Security Council Issues Statement on Syria

Poll: Debt Ceiling Fight Hurts Obama in Florida

Obama Campaigns: No Time for 'Partisan Games,' Says He Has 'Too Much Work to Do'

Study: Meeting Federal Nutritional Guidelines Is a Privilege of the Rich

COMMENTARIES:

Time for a Red Tape Rescue
By Ed Feulner
Costly, unnecessary regulations are part of what's making our economy so critically ill.

Apocalyptic Thinking Leads to the Apocalypse
By Ben Shapiro
 The next time you hear a politician tell you that something must be done by a certain date to prevent a domestic crisis, tell them to pipe down.  They're full of it.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Only 1 senator stays to question U.S. envoy to Syria at confirmation hearing
Taxpayer funds used to send Philly high school students to Caribbean resort
Guns groups sue over new Obama gun-sale regulations in border states
Citing new research, American Psychological Assn. supports gay marriage
Black student sues Minnesota high school for celebrating 'wigger day'
Group seeks to abolish party primaries in Arizona
U.S. eats up most of debt limit in one day
U.S. debt reaches 100% of GDP after the government's debt ceiling was lifted
Consumers hoarding old-fashioned bulbs ahead of federal phaseout
Democrats, Republicans blame each other for FAA shutdown; no end in sight
U.S., Wyoming agree to allow hunters to kill wolves
Obama: 'The future is going to be determined' by the 2012 election
New Orleans unveils fresh model for housing the poor
FAA Impasse: Dems call Republicans 'hostage-takers'
Houston City Council bans panhandling within 8 feet of a sidewalk cafe
Huntsman camp again misspells candidate's name
The Hill: GOP 'traps Obama on economy' with proposals that 'slow economic growth'

Government spending will still increase after debt deal's 'Budget cuts'

Nothing seems to slow spending

After months of rigorous debate over trimming the federal budget, Congress has finally passed a short-term budget and increased the debt limit in return for what is said to be "historic" budget cuts.

But after all that--the fighting, the 11th-hour back-room deals, the warnings of calamity--will the federal budget actually be smaller in a few years?

Click here to read the full article at Yahoo News

US borrowing tops 100% of GDP: Treasury

Sad

US debt shot up $238 billion to reach 100 percent of gross domestic project after the government's debt ceiling was lifted, Treasury figures showed Wednesday.

Treasury borrowing jumped Tuesday, the data showed, immediately after President Barack Obama signed into law an increase in the debt ceiling as the country's spending commitments reached a breaking point and it threatened to default on its debt.

Click here to read the full article at Yahoo News

'Civility': The denouement

Lib elites getting desperate

Did Vice President Biden liken Tea Party Republicans to terrorists in a meeting with House Democrats? Eyewitnesses say yes, but he denies it, Politico reports:

Biden was agreeing with a line of argument made by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) at a two-hour, closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting. 

Click here to read the full article at the Wall Street Journal

Pelosi: Unlike GOP, Democrats will focus on jobs

Ohhh...now they'll focus on jobs

The American people have made it clear: Our nation's top priority is job creation. No recovery can take place until we address kitchen table concerns of America's families: having a steady paycheck, being able to make ends meet, and helping our small businesses and entrepreneurs attract customers, grow, and hire.

This week, we've crossed the bridge from an obsession with the national debt and a real risk of default to a discussion of job creation. As the legendary Willie Nelson recently said: Americans are "much more worried about ceilings over their heads these days than they are about the debt ceiling." He's right, and Democrats know that nothing is more critical to Americans' economic security than good-paying jobs.

Click here to read the full article in USA Today 

IMPORTANT WEB SITE TO SEE HOW THEY VOTED !!!!!!! 

go to :  http://thomas.loc.gov/ 

I hope this helps with your kicking them OUT of office !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

blessings, mark d.

www.vfpatriots.com

Rense.com  

 

The Communist Takeover Of
America - 45 Declared Goals
From Greg Swank
12-4-2

You are about to read a list of 45 goals that found their way down the halls of our great Capitol back in 1963. As you read this, 39 years later, you should be shocked by the events that have played themselves out. I first ran across this list 3 years ago but was unable to attain a copy and it has bothered me ever since. Recently, Jeff Rense posted it on his site and I would like to thank him for doing so. http://www.rense.com   Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963

 In case you missed this:

ELABORATE WELFARE HOUSING PROJECT

Moon With Yogurt - How Sham Accounting Rules in Washington

 Everyone knows the "Beltway Spending Addicts" are using sham accounting, but how exactly are they doing it? It's simple really... throwing a bunch of spending into the mix and then scale it all back. Money saved!!!

 

National Addiction Month "Turncoat Town Halls"

The government spending addiction is worse than we

even imagined. That's why we're extending last month's

"National Government Spending Addiction Intervention Week"

into a full month of Addiction Intervention activities!

More than 50 GOP Turncoats (1st term Republicans who

were elected in the 2010 Tea Party revolution) joined together

with RINOs and Big Spending Dems to pass the Dirty Debt Deal.

Now, let's let them know what we think! Use the form below to

help us LOG Congressional Town Halls taking place during the

August Recess.

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Alexander's Essay - August 4, 2011

The Next American Revolution

What is the Authority for Rebellion?

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson

(PUBLISHER'S WARNING: The following essay may cause heartburn and knee-jerk reactions, especially in those who are predisposed to "give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety." But as Benjamin Franklin concluded, they "deserve neither liberty nor safety." For such feeble souls, Samuel Adams advised, "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" For those who are not cast among that faint-hearted lot, please read on.)

I receive hundreds of messages every day from Patriots across the nation. For the last three years, one thematic question has emerged with ever-increasing frequency. To paraphrase that question: "What is the authority to rebel against the central government?"

That question is most often asked by those who have taken their oath of allegiance to our Constitution, particularly active duty, reserve and veteran military personnel. Typical is this note from a disabled combat Patriot this week: "Please clarify for me when my solemn oath to 'support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign AND [his emphasis] domestic,' kicks in."

Such questions were once considered too radical and discordant for consideration in civil discourse. However, as Rule of Law enshrined in our Constitution has been all but completely usurped by the rule of men through the Left's so-called living constitution, the frequency and tenor of questions about the future of Essential Liberty for our once-great Republic is propelling them into mainstream debate.

The unfortunate ascension of Barack Hussein Obama and his socialist cadres had a silver lining: It revitalized the spirit of American Patriotism in dozens of millions of our countrymen. The imminent threat to Liberty posed by Democratic Socialism is the catalyst driving this great awakening and it is spreading.

To the question of the authority to rebel against government, we turn to the Constitution's guiding document, our Declaration of Independence. It clearly affirms the "unalienable rights" upon which our Constitution was instituted, and those rights supersede the authority of the Constitution itself as they are the inherent rights of man.

This authorizing language reads as follows: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..."

So, is it time for another American Revolution?

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The answer to that question depends upon the answer to a more fundamental question: Is it too late to restore authority of our Constitution? Moreover, will the current dire circumstances result in a sunset or sunrise on Liberty?

In my enthusiastic analysis, the degraded state of the union presents a great opportunity for restoration of Rule of Law, and this sunrise on Liberty is already in progress under the broad heading of the Tea Party movement. Further, having been in close proximity to revolutions on foreign soil, I am intimately aware that restoration (or revolution without shots fired) is a far more desirable path than the violent one -- not that the latter must ever be excluded as an option.

But behind every sunrise is a sunset. As Ronald Reagan warned thirty years ago, when the "Reagan Revolution" temporarily restored our nation's course toward Liberty, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States when men were free."

Make no mistake; there are formidable obstacles to the restoration of Liberty. The most daunting of these impediments is complacency, the result of either a false sense of comfort, institutionalized ignorance or both. Nonetheless, I still believe that the ballot box is a viable alternative to the bullet box at this juncture. Every effort to work within what remains of our Constitution's framework to restore its Rule of Law, as outlined in The Patriot Declaration must be exhausted.

If the 2012 election cycle does not provide sufficient momentum toward the goal of restored Liberty, there are substantial measures of civil disobedience that can ratchet up the pressure -- measures which will find support among true conservatives in both the House and Senate.

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Either way, we face a long, uphill battle. It has taken many years to degrade Rule of Law, and it will take many years to fully restore it.

As for timing, Obama has already dropped a debt bomb on our economy, the goal of which is to "fundamentally transform the United States of America." The greatest systemic risk to Liberty that this act of economic violence poses is the destruction of free enterprise by way of taxation, regulation and insurmountable debt. U.S. debt has now surpassed 100 percent of our annual gross domestic product (economic output).

It should, of course, be the highest aspiration of every Patriot to restore our Constitution's Rule of Law, a fundamental principle of which is the separation of economy and state. But is there still time, and are we sufficiently resolute?

Leading the forces arrayed against us are the statist extremists, the "useful idiots" on the Left who now vilify as "terrorists" those seeking to restore Rule of Law.

In a closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting this week hosted by Veep Joe Biden, Demo Rep. Mike Doyle said of the recent budget negotiations, "We have negotiated with terrorists. This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money." Biden, to his everlasting shame, concurred: "They have acted like terrorists."

Biden, Doyle, and the Kool-Aid-drinking legions of the Left are formidable. But history shows that Barack Obama's model for prosperity, is a blueprint for economic collapse, a model that is antithetical to prosperity and ultimately at odds with Liberty.

Patriots, we have an obligation to secure Liberty for our posterity, and in the words of John Adams, "Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives."

Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to James Madison dated January 30, 1787: "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. ... An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."

Today, Tea Party "terrorists" should expect no such accommodation, as "honest republican governors" are few and far between.

That same year, Jefferson famously wrote more pointedly to John Adams's son-in-law, William Smith, "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must from time to time be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if the rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms."

Short of the bullet box, it is my fervent prayer that on 6 November 2012, an unprecedented army of American Patriots will use the ballot box to further alter the course of our nation toward Liberty and Rule of Law.

Do we have the momentum? Tell me what you think

That notwithstanding, American Patriots remain well aware of both the authority for rebellion and more importantly the obligation to overcome tyranny, as enumerated in the Declaration of Independence. There may come a time to fight, and our Founders wisely extended to us the means for rebellion. We also fully understand the cost outlined in its closing: "For the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."

We do.

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!

Mark Alexander
Publisher, The Patriot Post

8/04/2011 

Blame the Washington Bureaucracy for High Gas Prices

Americans are paying more for gasoline today than they were six weeks ago when President Obama released 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. In the Gulf of Mexico, meanwhile, 10 drilling rigs -- more than one-third of the fleet -- have left on Obama's watch.

This incomprehensible energy policy is not only costing Americans more money at the pump. Bureaucratic delays in Washington are also stunting job growth and adding to the budget deficit.

As the Obama Administration pivots to a new jobs agenda -- at least its seventh attempt to do so -- it would be wise to review the policies that are slowing energy production. Thirty-four years to the day President Jimmy Carter created the Energy Department, it's time for America to embrace a pro-energy agenda that boosts the economy, increases federal revenue and creates jobs.

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Balanced Budget Amendment: Instrument to Force Spending Cuts, Not Tax Hikes

By Edwin Meese, III

As Congress considers what to do about federal overspending and overborrowing, conservatives must maintain focus. We must pursue the path that drives down federal spending and borrowing and gets to a balanced budget, while preserving our ability to protect America and without raising taxes. An important part of that conservative agenda is adoption of a sound-repeat, a sound-Balanced Budget Amendment.

A Balanced Budget Amendment is not sound if it leads to balancing the federal budget by tax hikes instead of spending cuts. Thus, a sound Balanced Budget Amendment must prohibit raising taxes unless a two-thirds majority of the membership of both Houses of Congress votes to raise them. Without the two-thirds majority requirement, the Balanced Budget Amendment becomes the means for big spenders to raise taxes.

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Cultivating Young Revolutionaries

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Teaching for Change is an organization that seeks to turn K-12 schools into "centers of justice where students learn to read, write, and change the world." Its goal is to transform an allegedly racist America into a more "equitable, multicultural society" populated with "active global citizens."

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Dem-igod Stanley Greenberg's Devastating Memo to Obama: Join the Tea Party 

By Wynton C. Hall
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If President Obama needed any more indication of how much his public support has eroded, he need look no further than a recent memorandum of sorts published in the New York Times by former President Bill Clinton's pollster, Stanley Greenberg. Listen to Greenberg, whose progressive polling firm partners with Clinton strategist James Carville, advise Obama and Democrats on what his latest round of polls and focus groups reveal are their only hope to survive politically, given the current reality.

Much can and will change between now and November 2012. However, when a successful Democratic strategist all but urges the most far Left president in American history to don a three-cornered hat and join the Tea Party policy parade of fiscal discipline and border enforcement, you know there's serious trouble in progressive paradise.
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87 Was A Good Start, But Not Good Enough!

Aug 04, 2011 06:13 am | Coach Collins

By Ron Reale, staff writer

The only thing we won in the Debt Debate is a clear list of those we need to replace in Congress, as soon as possible.Face it, our country has been working with a fraudulent credit rating for years.   All of the rating companies ignored the unrelenting growth of our government,  and even helped perpetrate the fraud by keeping the rating up while they knew we were packaging worthless bank loans into "derivatives," giving their stamp of approval to Barney Frank and Chris Dodd  expediting the collapse of the real estate market.

We came close to starting to solve our problem,  but certain Republicans have got to be removed to make further progress.  As soon as we can, Tom Coburn must be removed.  He was ready to violate our promises to veterans,  claiming billions could be saved by taking away their promised health care benefits.  For that suggestion alone, he should ... Continue Reading:87 Was A Good Start, But Not Good Enough!

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07/2011

The Crisis of the European Union: Causes and Significance

Václav Klaus
President, Czech Republic

Václav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, spoke to friends of Hillsdale College in Berlin during Hillsdale's 2011 cruise in the Baltic Sea. The speech was delivered at Berlin's Hotel Adlon on June 11, 2011.

As some of you may know, this is not my first contact with Hillsdale College. I vividly remember my visit to Hillsdale more than ten years ago, in March 2000. The winter temperatures the evening I arrived, the sudden spring the next morning, and the summer the following day can't be forgotten, at least for a Central European who lives-together with Antonio Vivaldi-in le quattro stagioni. My more important and long-lasting connection with Hillsdale is my regular and careful reading of Imprimis. I have always considered the texts published there very stimulating and persuasive.

The title of my previous speech at Hillsdale was "The Problems of Liberty in a Newly-Born Democracy and Market Economy." At that time, we were only ten years after the fall of communism, and the topic was relevant. It is different now. Not only is communism over, our radical transition from communism to a free society is over, too. We face different challenges and see new dangers on the horizon. So let me say a few words about the continent of Europe today, which you've been visiting on your cruise.

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August 04, 2011 

OPRAH'S BACK IN THE GAME, THE OBAMA GAME   Back in early April, many news outlets reported that Oprah Winfrey was not going to be endorsing President Obama's re-election efforts. Yesterday we learned that those reports were incorrect. See the details HERE.

IRANIAN MILITARY LEADER TO HEAD OPEC   From the "what could possibly go wrong" department comes news that a commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has been elected President of OPEC. Find our what this means to America and the rest of the Western world HERE.

CHRIS CHRISTIE BLASTS ANTI-MUSLIM 'CRAZIES'   In January, the straight-talking Garden State Gov. appointed a Superior Court judge who just happens to be a Muslim. That fact has inspired endless questioning for an irritated Mr. Christie and sparked a great, animated press conference with the governor that you can watch HERE.

GEITHNER STAYS PUT, TROUBLE FOR AL GORE, AND starbucks cuts the power    What is the most efficient use of your valuable time? Why, that would be visiting the Must-Read section of the Blog each and every day. Thursday's freshly-selected offerings are HERE.  

ARE CELL PHONES A CIVIL RIGHT? THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA THINKS SO   Should the government be forced to provide cellular telephone service to someone who cannot otherwise afford it? Read the surprising details about the "Universal Service Fund" HERE.  

VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - MAJOR NEWS NET PROMOTES CLASS WARFARE   MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski's early morning rant about the evils of a woman who bought an expensive pair of shoes, and the story is lighting up The Blaze. The "Morning Joe" co-host declared that the actions of this complete stranger (who spent $1750 on shoes) were "irresponsible."  See the video HERE.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer

2012 Update

• A new poll from Quinnipiac University finds President Obama in serious trouble in the key battleground state of Florida. According to the poll, Obama's approval rating in the Sunshine State stands at 44%. Only 33% of independent voters approve. Just 42% of all registered voters surveyed believe the president deserves to be reelected.
• Last night Barack Obama told liberal activists that the 2012 election will "in some ways be more important than the last one. The future is going to be determined by this election." On that point, Barack Obama and I agree.

  Nearly half a century ago, Ronald Reagan delivered one of his most famous speeches in which he argued that the 1964 election was a time for Americans to choose the kind of government, and how much government, they wanted. The choice in that election gave us the misnamed Great Society and set us down the disastrous fiscal path we are on today.

  Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) took to the Senate floor this week and delivered a modern version of Reagan's famous speech. Rubio remarked that this week's debt limit deal was so difficult to achieve because there are two competing visions of government in America today. The 2012 election will be a time for choosing.

  Will we choose Obama's European-style socialism and continue down the road to default? Or will we hit the brakes and change course, turning back to free enterprise and limited government? You can watch Sen. Rubio's speech here. 

• The conventional wisdom in Washington is that President Obama is a shoo-in for a second term. While it's true that presidents usually get reelected, it is also true that Obama is starting to resemble Jimmy Carter. (Actually, he is beginning to make Carter look good!)

  There is a surprisingly candid and lengthy column in Politico today detailing the difficulties confronting Obama's campaign. We can win next year, my friends, and we must!

Why Obama Must Be Defeated

We are learning more about how the debt limit deal got done. One thing is clear - presidential leadership did not prevent a default. In fact, a report yesterday suggests that Obama's arrogance nearly caused one.

According to The Hill, Speaker John Boehner asked the networks to broadcast his response to Obama's address to the nation on July 25th. The request reportedly "infuriated the White House" - translated - it infuriated Obama. Apparently Obama thinks he should be allowed to go on national television and say whatever he wants and no one should be able to respond.

In retaliation, the White House instructed Nancy Pelosi not to participate in a scheduled conference call with Boehner and Senate leaders Reid and McConnell. Without Pelosi's participation, Reid backed out and the call was eventually canceled. Thus, at the same time Obama was demanding action, his petulance blew up the negotiations.

Congressional leaders evidently got tired of being played by the White House. Consider this excerpt: "Later that day, the four leaders met with Obama at the White House. At one point ... the Democratic and Republican leaders asked Obama and his aides to leave the room to let them negotiate. A tentative deal was subsequently struck, but Obama privately threatened to veto it..." Incredible!

As I have previously noted, Obama seemingly wanted a default. He was negotiating without details, offering deals he could not deliver and moving the goal posts at every opportunity. Speaker Boehner twice walked out of the negotiations because he felt dealing with Obama was like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.

For example, on the morning of Monday, July 25th, Obama endorsed a plan by Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid that did not have any tax increases. But in his address to the nation later that night, Obama demanded that tax hikes be part of any deal. That led one liberal pundit at CNN to comment, "nobody today is talking about tax increases, except Barack Obama."

America can't afford four more years of this kind of feckless and petty leadership in the White House.

Obama's Job-Killing Regulations

Kudos to Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), who is leading the fight in Congress to roll back Obama's job-killing regulations. This week, the senator released a report noting that the federal bureaucracy had issued more than 600 new rules and regulations with an estimated cost of nearly $10 billion - in the past month alone!

Let me give you one example. Dendreon is a Seattle-based pharmaceutical company that spent 15 years developing a promising treatment for prostate cancer. So promising, in fact, that JP Morgan labeled the company "our top pick for 2011." But after years of clinical trials and years of jumping FDA hoops, the company is "on the ropes."

Like many cancer treatments, Dendreon's drug must be administered at a doctor's office and it is expensive. So expensive that the doctor's office essentially has to take out a short-term loan to purchase the drug up front. But because of the Medicare bureaucracy, many doctors are not prescribing Dendreon's drug because they are afraid they won't get reimbursed or that it will take forever.

As a result, Dendreon dramatically scaled back its sales projections. Yesterday, the company's stock lost 62% of its value. Investors lost more than $3 billion. Dendreon announced that layoffs were coming. That translates into lost revenue for the government because the investors won't be selling the stock and reporting capital gains. Not to mention the loss of revenue from the soon-to-be unemployed workers.

This company was built on innovation and risk taking. It is being driven into the ground by Obama's bureaucrats. This is life in Obama's America. Producers are being destroyed by the parasite of Big Government.

The Gay Agenda

The outsized influence of a small minority was on full display recently. Listening to the liberal media, you might think I'm referring to the Tea Party forcing President Obama to accept a debt limit deal with no tax hikes.

But the media collectively yawned when radical extremists hijacked California's educational policy and mandated the teaching of "gay history" to public school students. To learn more, read my op-ed in today's Washington Times. 

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August 4, 2011
  New Health Guidelines from HHS Trample on Conscience

The Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) new preventive services guidelines, released this week, are a disaster for freedom of conscience. Forcing private insurance plans to pay for morally controversial offerings such as contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients raises obvious questions regarding freedom of conscience.

The Obamacare legislation adopted in March 2010 included an amendment proposed by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) that required private insurance coverage of women's "preventive services" on a mandatory and preferential basis-without deductibles, coinsurance, or patient co-pays. The Department of Health and Human Services enlisted the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to help define exactly what such services would include. The IOM recommendations encompassed not only diabetes and HIV prevention but drugs, devices, and procedures that can prevent conception and terminate pregnancy. Treating organ- and tissue-destroying diseases as equivalent to the natural processes involved in begetting and bearing a child is a gross distortion of reality. In addition to the morally debatable aspects of these services, there are social questions concerning them that continue to divide the public, including the provision of these drugs and devices to minor children and issues of conscience for providers, insurers, and the insured alike. But these concerns did not trouble HHS; the new guidelines make first-dollar coverage of these items mandatory for all health insurance policies to be issued in the United States after August 1, 2012.

The new HHS guidelines contain a conscience protection, but it is offensively narrow. Only "certain religious employers" qualify for the protection, and the guidelines make clear that a religious employer is only one that: has the inculcation of religious values as its purpose; primarily employs persons who share its religious tenets; primarily serves persons who share its religious tenets; and Is a non-profit organization under particular provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. These guidelines likely exclude many charities and organizations that, for practical reasons, fail to meet these stringent requirements. Many religious and pro-life nonprofits may be forced to make an impossible choice: stop serving people without regard to creed or abandon employee health insurance plans.

Federal conscience protections have sometimes recognized both religious and moral objections to certain controversial procedures, as shown by the text of the 1973 Church Amendment, which protects the conscience rights of individuals and entities that receive certain federal funds. The HHS guidelines should have met this same standard.

For these reasons and more, the HHS guidelines released on August 1 deserve intense scrutiny inside Congress and out. Social conservatives should make a stand for conscience protections for all people and institutions-religious and non-religious alike.

Read more about the conscience rights violations in the new HHS guidelines in a new Heritage WebMemo >> 

545 vs. 300,000,000 People

By Charlie Reese | Orlando Sentinel

Charley Reese's final column for the Orlando Sentinel...
He has been a journalist for 49 years.
He is retiring and this is HIS LAST COLUMN.

Be sure to read the Tax List at the end.

This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. The article below is completely neutral, neither anti-republican or democrat. Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one of us every day. It's a short but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering!

545 vs. 300,000,000 People
-By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.

If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they wantthem in Iraq and Afghanistan ...

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

What you do with this article now that you have read it... is up to you.
This might be funny if it weren't so true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he's fed.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!

Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid...

Put these words
Upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me
to my doom...'

When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax


STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What in the heck happened? ......can you spell 'politicians?'

I hope this goes around THE USA at least 545 times! YOU can help it get there!

GO AHEAD. . . BE AN AMERICAN! 

August 5, 2011 

On Thursday's Program 

Gore: We need an American Spring

Apparently Al Gore thinks the Arab Spring is going swell because he's calling for one just like it to sweep across the United States of America. He wants people to rise up and take to the streets - but not of course in the manner of those violent Tea Partiers - no! Listen to Al channel his inner chakra and call for an American Spring - get the segment HERE.

Shocking audio: MSNBC dehumanizes Tea Party, calls them cannibals, aliens, delusional, psychotic, addicts

It didn't seem possible for MSNBC to go any lower, but they've done it.  In one of the more shocking interviews to hit their crappy network, Martin Bashir brought on an addiction expert -- yes, an addiction expert -- to describe the Tea Party. Previously, Bashir set up the segment by saying Tea Partiers are dangerous 'cannibals' who are addicted because they keep getting everything they want and will end up like the Norway shooter. Got all that? In summary - it's the dehumanizing of the Tea Party. Listen to the clip and Glenn's reaction HERE. 

Chris Christie defends Muslim judge: Calls those who warn about Sharia Law 'business' 'crazies' that he's tired of dealing with - STORY.

Restoring Courage: Is the same age old hatred rearing its ugly head again? YES. Glenn explains how and why we as a people must stand with Israel on 8.24.11 - WATCH.

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Worst interview ever?

Glenn sat down with GBTV's own Brian Sack today on radio to talk about his new book The B.S. of A. BUT it didn't go over very well, with Glenn even calling Brian the 'worst interview ever.' - WATCH. If you are more into good interviews, check out a brand new episode of 'Uncensored' with SE Cupp available tomorrow on GBTV. This week she sits down with Congressman Thad McCotter - FREE CLIP. Not a member of GBTV? Sign up right now! Glenn's new daily program begins 9/12 and members get total access to the three historic Restoring Courage events later this month!

Grover Norquist is more powerful than the President?

If you are anyone other than Grover Norquist you probably read that headline and said 'who the heck is Grover Norquist?' Turns out the left has a little George Soros envy. They've decided to create their very own 'spooky dude' although he's not very spooky at all. Glenn has the bizarre interview and response HERE.

Current crop of possible Obama opponents in the Presidential race got ya down? If you haven't made your mind up yet, get more information. Since Obama was elected, Glenn has sat down with Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, Rick Perry and more as they share their thoughts on the issues facing America - get the interviews HERE.