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Obama to bypass Congress, recess appoint consumer bureau chief
By Peter Schroeder

President Obama plans to circumvent Senate GOP opposition and recess appoint his nominee to head a new consumer bureau.

White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer confirmed the recess appointment of Richard Cordray Wednesday on Twitter after the move was first reported by the Associated Press.

"We Can't Wait: Today in Ohio, President Obama will announce the recess appointment of Consumer Watchdog Richard Cordray," Pfeiffer tweeted.

Obama will recess appoint Cordray to be director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), after Senate Republicans en masse voted to block the nomination in December.

The move is likely to infuriate Senate Republicans, who have sought to prevent congressional recesses by holding brief pro forma sessions every few days during longer breaks. It could even lead to a court challenge about the legality of the move.

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For Tea Parties, this can be used as basic ammunition for letters to the editor, columns for your local news outlet, handouts at public events, emailing the pdf to our elected reps as well as to members, friends and neighbors.

This appears to be an excellent resource; let's make use of it.

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The first contests in the race for the Republican nomination are just around the corner. To better inform you, we looked beyond the rhetoric to the candidates' actual records on the issues important to families.

This voter guide outlines candidate stances on issues that are important to the family. We researched the candidates' statements and votes on the ten issues that best give voters an understanding on if the candidates match your values. Please use this resource as you think about who you would like to see be the nominee to challenge President Barack Obama.

Download the free guide and be sure to share this resource with your friends and family before the 2012 primary season begins next month.

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RedState Morning Briefing

For January 5, 2012

1. A Blatant, Frontal Assault on the Constitutional Separation of Powers

2. Can Rick Perry Come Back?

If Rick Perry leaves the Republican race, there will not be a candidate in the field who authentically represents smaller government. While many conservatives don't mind activist government so long as the ends are conservative, the willful use of activist government for conservative ends leaves in place a government perfectly capable of activist liberal government when conservatives lose.

The only way to fully turn the tide of big government is therefore to support someone who is willing to scale back government. Unfortunately, the only candidate with both an agenda to significantly cut government and a record of actually doing so is the flawed candidate from Texas with a campaign no one can be proud of.

But can he win? Yes. And should he stay in? Absolutely. If Rick Perry leaves, conservatives who want Washington out of their lives will have fully ceded the field to other men, mostly conservative, who are not as committed to the idea of "making Washington as inconsequential in our lives as possible."

What would it take though to get voters to look at Perry again? I think the only way he can go forward is to have a full throated and honest reboot of his campaign. To do that, he must clean house with a full on purge of his political and communications staff.

David Carney, who I know and like, and Joe Allbaugh, who I do not know but admire, must both go. Ray Sullivan must go. Mark Miner must go. I would suggest even Tony Fabrizo, who just about everyone internally at the Perry campaign, regardless of faction, blames as the chief instigator of the recent Politico story must go.

Perry has to demonstrate he recognizes just how terrible his campaign is. And that means people at the top level need to go. A lot of the Politico story was deadly accurate. The Perry team initially treated his campaign as running for Governor of Texas. He was underprepared and ill suited for debates. His communications strategy was and is a mess.

Look no further than Mark Miner, his spokesman today, being asked about Governor Perry's tweet that he was in and, instead of saying "I'll get back to you," conveyed uncertainty. The headline went from "Perry Stays In" to "Perry's Staff Has No Idea."

But it goes much deeper than that and I would submit none of us can treat a Perry reboot seriously unless he actually does reboot. It goes much deeper than people. People is policy and this is ultimately about the policies Perry will champion indicated first and foremost by his leadership abilities to stop the suck in his campaign.

3. This Won't Play Well In South Carolina

Rick Santorum has some pent up issues with Jim DeMint.

Just a few weeks before DeMint stood for re-election on South Carolina's ballot, Rick Santorum showed up in DeMint's neighborood to tell everyone Jim DeMint was wrong on earmarks. "Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania said the Constitution gives Congress control of the purse strings and that he supported earmarks for port deepening while a senator - the opposite of the position that DeMint is taking. But former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia said DeMint has shown "moral courage" in refusing to support any earmarks, including one that the State Ports Authority says is needed to study the deepening of Charleston Harbor."

Santorum went on John King USA on CNN tonight and again defended earmarks claiming "Jim DeMint did it too" without acknowledging DeMint repented and has since led the fight against earmarks. When asked about what he may or may not have said about black welfare recipients, Santorum defended himself by claiming he got earmarks for a black community in Pennsylvania.

Get ready for conservatives to have to refight this critical fight against the gateway drug to big government spending.

It's not just Rick Santorum knocking Jim DeMint (!!!) when not hiding behind DeMint to claim tea party bona fides, Santorum is also going to have trouble in South Carolina because of his voting record. He opposed National Right to Work legislation.

4. Gas Reaches Record High as Gas Hits Record Low

On an annual basis, retail gasoline prices hit an all-time high in 2011. The average price for all grades was $3.576 per gallon, vs $3.299 in 2008.

Meanwhile, the shale gas revolution has set the stage for declining prices per mmbtu of natural gas.

The chart above shows the price of natural gas per million BTU delivered to the Henry Hub, a large pipeline interconnection point in Louisiana. The current ratio of oil price per barrel to gas price per mmbtu is about 33:1 ($100/bbl to $3.00/mmbtu), a historically low value. The energy equivalency is about 6:1.

Before the impact of the shale boom, a normal ratio was about 10:1. On rare occasion, the ratio has been below 6:1 for brief times.

Transportation and distribution add significantly to the price of gas at the retail level, but even there the gas price is about a 40% discount to oil on the basis of energy content.

5. I was right and the polls were wrong about Ron Paul in Iowa

According to CNN, both Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are set to win 6 delegates thanks to their close 1-2 finish in the Iowa caucuses. Ron Paul fell to third place. He didn't win, and he fell further and further behind as the votes were counted last night.

Not one poll projected Ron Paul to drop to third, and PPP stuck to Paul being in first. I said those polls weren't predictive. They weren't. I was right.

6. A Call for Sanity in the Anti-Romney Rhetoric

Pop 'round to your nearest extremist mosque with a bottle of Pepsi. Say to the Imam:  

"Look I know you guys say you love death more than you love this stuff. But have a sip-you might just change your mind."  

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Fellow patriots,

The degree to which the mainstream media covers for Islam would be pathetic if it wasn't so disturbing. 

When I first heard about the series of arsonist attacks in LA, I instinctively wondered whether Islam had anything to do with it.  After all, recent history has been peppered by reports of Muslim violence, particularly when something really outrageous happens, like a decapitation, airline bombing attempt, or massacre on a military base.

When Harry Burkhart was caught, I breathed a sigh of relief and chided myself for being a "racist" and suspecting Islam.  It was merely a mentally unstable German who had been sent over the edge by his mother's extradition to Germany.  While unfortunate, this was obviously a very personal and unique situation that didn't represent an over-all threat to our society.

But then I started hearing from people who said that Burkhart had travel papers from Chechnya, the hard-core and violent Islamist break-away republic in the Russian Federation.  In the past few decades, Islamic violence and persecution has reduced the non-Muslim population of Chechnya from over 50% 52 years ago to about 2% today (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechnya ).  Obviously, if Burkhart was traveling back and forth to Chechnya, a violent country with almost no tourism and a 98% Muslim population, there's something about him related to Islam.  Strange how MSNBC News never mentioned this salient fact in its article.  Hmmm.

After extensive searching, I finally found an article in the local LA Times that mentioned the Chechnyan papers.  As usual, though, this important fact was never mentioned in the headlines and was buried deep in the article, without any discussion of the ramifications.

In addition, this article never mentioned the fact that Burkhart also told police, "I hate America," making it necessary for me to find this quote in a separate article (both articles below, with key quotes highlighted).

Not only was the LA Times not connecting the dots, it didn't seem to want readers to connect the dots either. 

At this point, I can't say anything definitive about Burkhart's connection to Islam, but this is only because the mainstream media apparently doesn't want to talk about it. 

We experienced the same kind of obfuscation just a few days ago, in the case of the "Santa Claus massacre."  This tragedy was reported as if it had to do with Christmas, when in fact it was a Muslim honor killing where the father wiped out his Westernized family.  To see what I mean, compare this MSNBC News article of the massacre ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45789623/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/cops-gunman-who-killed-relatives-wore-santa-outfit/ ) to this more accurate account ( http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/12/islamic-honor-killing-in-texas-man-who-murdered-family-on-christmas-morning-was-muslim-who-disliked.html ).  As a side note, I find that local news reporting tends to contain far more honesty about Islam than the reports that go out on the national news.

The question these obfuscations raise is: What other Muslim-related violence is happening in our country that the mainstream media isn't telling us?  Has mainstream news completely lost its ability to report accurately about Islam-related violence in the United States?

Dave

Federal officials' tip leads to arson suspect

Harry Burkhart, a German national, is arrested by a reserve deputy after authorities received word about a man who erupted in a tirade in Immigration Court. The fires caused about $3 million damage.

Officers look into a van that was pulled over Fairfax Avenue and Sunset Boulevard,... (Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times)

January 02, 2012|By Richard Winton, Ari Bloomekatz and Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times  http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/02/local/la-me-hollywood-arson-20120103

They erupted almost simultaneously, a sudden barrage of fires about 1:30 a.m. that signaled the fourth night of an arsonist's rampage. In 90 minutes, nearly a dozen vehicles had gone up in flames on both sides of the Hollywood Hills.

But this time, early Monday, police finally had an edge.

Hours before the fires began, federal officials alerted authorities that a Los Angeles man might be the suspect they were looking for, according to law enforcement sources.

The man had recently made a scene at a Los Angeles Immigration Court hearing, the sources said. An official involved in that court case recognized him when police Sunday night released images of a "person of interest" seen on a surveillance tape after a car fire at the Hollywood & Highland shopping center.

Patrol officers were told he would be driving a blue Dodge minivan.

Police swarmed the area and set up a roadblock on Laurel Canyon Boulevard.

At 3 a.m., a reserve sheriff's deputy spotted the minivan in West Hollywood and pulled it over near the Sunset Strip. The driver appeared to match the grainy video and inside his minivan, officials found fire starter sticks, police said. He was taken into custody, and the outbreak of fires came to a sudden halt.

"I feel very good that we've got the right guy," Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said in an interview. "He had the right stuff in his van and I am confident in the arrest."

At a news conference Monday evening, Beck emphasized that the investigation was ongoing and that it could take some time to present the case to prosecutors. "We are confident in our investigation, but we have a long way to go," he said.

The man police arrested remains something of a mystery. Law enforcement sources, speaking on condition of anonymity because the case was ongoing, first said the suspect was a 55-year-old named Harry Burkhart.

Police later said Burkhart was actually a 24-year-old German national who carried travel papers from Chechnya. He had spent time in Germany, they said, but had lived in Southern California for the last several years. They weren't clear on his alleged motives but speculated that he might have been furious over his mother's pending deportation.

A senior LAPD official said the suspect had attended a recent immigration hearing regarding his mother's case and erupted in a tirade, spewing angry anti-American statements.

It was this incident that eventually led police to Burkhart. Several sources said the tip came from an official at the State Department. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday also thanked the U.S. Marshals Office for helping identify Burkhart.

L.A. detectives were also investigating reports that either Burkart or a family member was connected to an arson case in Germany, said the senior LAPD official.

TV footage showed Burkhart after his arrest, dressed in black, wearing his hair in a ponytail and grinning.

Investigators are trying to determine if other people were involved in the arson rampage that had parts of the city on edge for four days.

Since Friday morning, at least 50 fires were set, mostly in the Hollywood area, but also on the Westside and in the San Fernando Valley. Many of the blazes were in carports and driveways, and spread to apartment buildings and homes.

Officials say the fires caused at least $3 million in damage to vehicles and structures, and the city spent considerable money shifting officers into the area to capture the arsonist.

Despite the hundreds of law enforcement officials on the case, the arrest was made by a reserve deputy, Shervin Lalezary. Sheriff Lee Baca said Lalezary is a Beverly Hills attorney who works as a reservist for $1 a year.

Over the holiday weekend, residents were on edge, peering out windows into the dark, keeping porch and garage lights on, and fixating on sirens in the distance. Los Angeles police and firefighters concentrated efforts in areas around Hollywood and North Hollywood, and surrounding agencies were on alert. The mode of attack was clear: Throw some type of incendiary device under cars parked on streets or in carports.

Still, the arsonist managed to avoid capture night after night.

Dennis Nanney, an actor, spent Sunday night peering out the window of his apartment. His neighborhood on Laurel Canyon Boulevard is crammed with small apartment buildings that have carports in back.

"I just knew these apartments were vulnerable, and from the news reports, this guy hits carports," Nanney said. "All night, I had trouble sleeping. I just had a weird feeling. I was stepping outside."

Nanney fell asleep shortly after 1 a.m.

Suddenly, Nanney was awakened by his neighbors' screams of "fire!" He jumped from his bed and ran outside.

A vehicle was engulfed in flames in the carport. Firefighters arrived quickly and put out the flames before they spread to other cars.

Nanney was furious that with all his vigilance, the arsonist pulled it off. "It happened right under my nose," he lamented.

But within an hour, less than a half-mile away, the suspect was sitting in the back of a squad car at Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue.

A small group of bystanders gave him the middle finger - and he returned the gesture with a smile, according to one witness.

"It was creepy," said Rick Savage, a music producer.

Savage said he had been so nervous about the arsons that he downloaded a police scanner application onto his iPad. He started hearing reports that authorities had tracked down "a person of interest," so went to see for himself.

"For the past three nights, it's been freaking me out," he said.

Times staff writers Andrew Blankstein, Paloma Esquivel, Jason Felch, Sam Quinones, Joel Rubin and Garrett Therolf contributed to this report.

LA Arson Suspect Identified, Possibly Motivated by Deportation Battle

California Arson: No Fires Since Arrest

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By RICHARD ESPOSITO, RAY HOMER, MICHAEL S. JAMES, KATIE KINDELAN and COLLEEN CURRY Jan. 2, 2012 http://abcnews.go.com/US/la-fire-suspect-involved-deportation-dispute-sources/story?id=15272836

Officials this evening identified a man arrested after a series of 52 blazes in the Los Angeles area, and hailed the reserve deputy sheriff who apprehended him.

"Our long, four-day nightmare is over," Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky told reporters.

Harry Burkhart, 24, was charged this afternoon with one count of arson of an inhabited dwelling, with more charges expected as the investigation proceeds, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told reporters at a news conference featuring an array of local officials who teamed up to investigate the case.

"The residents of Hollywood and the city of West Hollywood may now resume the peace and safety they deserve," Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said. "A serial arsonist, I believe, has been caught.

Burkhart was caught during a traffic stop initiated by a Tehran, Iran-born Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department volunteer, Baca added.

"Deputy Shervin Lalezary, standing next to me, [is] a full-time attorney and a part-time reserve deputy sheriff, although for the past four days he's been working full time for $1 a year," Baca said.

"Give him a raise," someone at the news conference yelled out, prompting Baca jokingly to propose raising Lalezary's compensation to $2 per year.

According to ABC News sources directly involved in the case, the "prime suspect" under arrest told authorities upon his detention, "I hate America."

That suspect, at the time not publicly identified, was believed to be a German national who may have been motivated by a deportation hearing against his mother that took place in Los Angeles County about a week and a half ago, the sources told ABC News exclusively.

The State Department gave the information to the intelligence and operational task forces involved in the manhunt, according to the sources.

The man was initially identified by police as a "person of interest," but the sources said he became a "prime suspect."

Officials later identified Burkhart, but they disclosed few details about his background.

"This is an ongoing investigation," Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said this evening. "Details about the suspect will not be released tonight other than the name and some very general things. ... An arrest is not a prosecution and a prosecution is not a conviction. We are very confident in this arrest, but we have a long way to go."

The suspect was detained and questioned by a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who recognized the description of his van as possibly being connected to the fires, police said earlier in the day. After subsequent interviews with police, he was arrested.

Lalezary later gave reporters few additional details about his role, citing the ongoing investigation.

"Thank you to the two officers who backed me up," he said. "As soon as I put on my lights and initiated a traffic stop of the suspect vehicle, I had an LAPD vehicle behind me ready to go.

"Thank you to the men and women of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, West Hollywood Station, for coming into work every day, doing this full time, putting their lives on the line every day, full time," he added. "I really appreciate everything you guys do. And I look forward to coming back for my next shift."

Police seized flammable materials during the search of the man's minivan that matched the materials used in the blazes, according to sources. Police arrested the man following 11 fires ignited overnight, the latest in a series of vehicle and carport fires around Hollywood and West Hollywood, Calif., since Dec. 29.

The suspect was being uncooperative and was to be asked to sit for a polygraph as part of the investigation, sources said this afternoon. Warrants for a search of the suspect's residence were in the process of being executed.

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The Army promoted a politically correct affirmative action candidate to run its Drill Sgt. School

Jan 04, 2012 05:13 am | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

The Command Sergeant Major of the U.S. Army's Drill Sergeant School (DSS) has been suspended from duty and the Army is working overtime to smother the story.

An investigative report by militarycorruption.com (MCC) has uncovered the story Army brass would love to keep secret. According to MCC which specializing in exposing stories about our military the mainstream media and official channels won't talk about,  the Command Sergeant Major of the Army's Drill Sergeant's School (DSS) Teresa King has been charged with a variety of violations of Army regulations.

Sergeant Major Teresa King is an African American who will by 50 years old this year. She is has been divorced, has no children and has been in the Army for 31 years. Upon taking command of the DSS on September 22, 2009 King became the first female ever to hold that position.  

On paper Sergeant Major King sounds like an ideal ... Continue Reading:The Army promoted a politically correct affirmative action candidate to run its Drill Sgt. School

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American Minute January 3

Jan 03, 2012 04:40 pm | Coach Collins

Coachisright.com is pleased have American history scholar; nationally known speaker and best selling author William J Federer's  American Minute column as a part of CiR's team.

 Bill Federer is a tireless and meticulous researcher whose daily history lessons reflect the relationship between God and our nation. Bill is a regular guest on radio and television shows when getting American history right is essential.

 We're sure you will enjoy Bill's daily columns and want to share them with your friends and families. Bill Federer is an American patriot whose message needs to be heard by all.

By Bill Federer, staff writer

 Frederick the Great of Prussia called these ten days "the most brilliant in the world's history." After winning the Battle of Trenton, Christmas night, George Washington's small force met General Cornwallis' 8,000 man British army. The night before the battle, Washington left his campfires burning and silently marched his army around the back of the British ... Continue Reading:American Minute January 3

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The United Auto Workers desperate shape: a sign of money troubles for Obama?

Jan 03, 2012 01:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

Remember when it was an article of liberal dogma that Barack Obama would amass $1 billion for his re-election? We don't hear much about that cool billion anymore; do we?

He is falling further behind that goal with each passing month. No amount of spin from the media will fix the problem Obama and the Democrats have with the calendar. The money needed to run for president, even for an incumbent, is enormous. Each day a goal is missed means more has to be raised just to stay on track.  The money troubles of one of the Democrats' piggy bank unions, the United Auto Workers (UAW) make things still worse for Obama.

How bad are things for the (UAW)? The short answer is awful; it is nearing insolvency.  How much will the UAW's collapse damage Barack Obama's chances of being re-elected?  The numbers say quite a bit.

Up to last June (the ... Continue Reading:The United Auto Workers desperate shape: a sign of money troubles for Obama?

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Why is Governor Corbett Promoting ObamaCare?

While our country desperately requires health care reform to decrease costs and improve access to care, the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act not, a.k.a. Obamacare, will bureaucratize and regulate health care delivery to the great detriment of patients, the profession of medicine, and American health care more generally. Further ObamaCare imposes a huge new unfunded liability of trillions of dollars on our children's and country's already disheartening futures.

Despite the majority of citizens favoring repeal of this catastrophic "reform" bill, Governor Corbett plans with the approval of the Republican-controlled legislature to facilitate ObamaCare in our commonwealth by establishing a PPACA-compliant health care insurance exchange. Facilitating the exchanges facilitates the entire ObamaCare catastrophe: the individual mandate, the loss of physician and patient medical decision making, tens of thousands of pages of regulation controlling every aspect of health care, and the creation of massive new federal bureaucracy.

Incredibly, it was Governor Corbett, as Attorney General of Pennsylvania, who brought suit against the federal government on behalf of the Commonwealth. Yet his plan to move ahead with the exchange undermines this very case that now has moved to the Supreme Court. To argue the unconstitutionality of the individual mandate and the violation of states' rights by the forced expansion of Medicaid while at the same time moving forward with implementation of the exchange that enforces the mandate and expands the state's Medicaid liability, challenges logic and the sincerity of the suit itself.

The Governor and the willing Republican leadership erroneously or disingenuously claim Pennsylvania must be ready to comply with PPACA if the Supreme Court fails to uphold the Constitution and strike down this destructive legislation. They allege, but are mistaken, that the state-implemented exchange would give Pennsylvania more control than if the exchange is set up by the federal government.

As pronounced on the CATO website: "The promise of local control is a mirage." PPACA "authorizes (the federal government) to ensure that States with Exchanges are substantially enforcing the Federal standards ... and to set up Exchanges in States that elect not to do so or are not substantially enforcing related provisions". The fact that an exchange is state-run does not diminish federal control by one iota. There is nothing that a federal exchange can do that the federal government cannot also force a state-run exchange to do through regulation.

Recently, Health and Human Services (HHS) released regulations that give the states some flexibility in providing essential benefits. In fact the PPACA statute as written does not allow such flexibility, but this administration routinely steps on the rule of law; just consider all the waivers to ObamaCare provisions granted to political allies. Nonetheless, this "flexibility" was granted by regulatory fiat and is no more than a ruse to encourage states to set up the exchange.  The regulations could be changed again on the whim of HHS.

Allegedly the exchange will improve competitive forces in the health care insurance market. We are expected to believe that more mandates and regulations will increase consumer choice and lower costs. New ObamaCare regulations in effect this year have been estimated to have increased premium costs by 8% for individuals and 9% for families. A vibrant health care insurance market does not require additional mandates but rather deregulation to provide individuals with more choices for a policy that best fits their needs. Most of us are happy with our auto or home insurance because we have many coverage and cost options when we shop for those insurances. Would more regulation and mandates in those insurance markets increase or lower choice, increase or lower costs? Would imposing a state-run exchange on the auto or home insurance markets improve or worsen customer service or cost?

So if consumers don't benefit from an exchange, then who does?   The Pennsylvania Insurance Department would expand its rolls of employees, including their taxpayer-guaranteed salaries, benefits, and retirement. The federal government would fund the exchange through 2014 when it becomes another unfunded mandate and liability for the state's taxpayers. Big insurance companies have lobbied strongly for the exchanges. They see billions of dollars of new federal spending -financed by more deficits - flowing through the exchanges, and regulation limiting competition. They will have guaranteed, albeit regulated, profits; and that is just fine with them.

Rather than facilitating ObamaCare by implementing the exchange, Pennsylvania should resist this terrible law regardless of the Supreme Court decision. There is only one exchange - the exchange approved by HHS. The more barriers we put up to Obamacare, the more time to defund or even repeal it.

Contact Governor Corbett's and your state legislators' offices. Tell them you will not be duped. The exchanges will benefit big insurance and big government, worsen our state's fiscal condition, and decrease consumers' choices for health care insurance and their ability to afford it.

Here are links relevant to exchanges are bad policies: (start with *)

Ten Reasons to reject ObamaCare exchanges *

ObamaCare exchanges get an F 

PA Insurance Department on exchanges *

ObamaCare money stripped from appropriations *

Exchange you can't believe in 

State law makers guide to exchanges 

Just say no to ObamaCare exchanges 

Bipartisan coalition strike a blow 

What if they issued 347 pages of regulations 

Should MO create a health care exchange? *

Why HC exchanges don' work 

Links to articles on free market HC reform:

Why healthcare costs so much 

How to cure health care 

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 307 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS


Congratulations, Mitt & Rick!

There is an old saying regarding the Iowa caucuses -- "There are three tickets out of Iowa: first-class, coach and standby." It seems Iowa voters offered three coach tickets last night.

There was something for everyone. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney finished first. But he finished just eight votes ahead of former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, so the result was essentially a tie with both men receiving 25% of the vote.

That is an amazing result in many respects. Just four weeks ago, Romney was in third place behind Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. It wasn't at all clear that Romney would even seriously compete in the state. Even more amazing is that Santorum was in seventh place with less than 5%!

Romney saw an opportunity and he took it. He got his vote out because he had the resources to run a top-notch campaign that beat back two candidates above him. Santorum got his vote out through old-fashioned grassroots politics. He also benefitted from a series of strong debate performances, a consistently conservative message and from not being the target of a barrage of negative ads.

As for the third-place finisher, Rep. Ron Paul's 21% showing was below expectations, and I have to believe that is a huge disappointment to the Paul campaign. In the past, Paul has often exceeded expectations because he has a following of very committed supporters. Polls leading up to the caucuses showed Paul at the top or running within a point or two of first place. What happened?

I think Paul's message of constitutionally limited government and less spending is as compelling as ever. But I think that as more and more voters considered his radical foreign policy views, they became spooked and rightly so. Like pacifists of past generations, Paul's view of history and his demand that America retreat from the world would make war more likely, not less so.

Newt Gingrich finished fourth with 13%, and headed to New Hampshire last night pledging to "tell the truth" about Romney's record. I doubt that strategy will help Gingrich win, but other candidates such as Santorum or Jon Huntsman could be the beneficiaries of Newt's attacks.

Last night, Governor Rick Perry told his supporters he was going back to Texas to reassess his campaign and "determine whether there is a path forward" after his fifth place showing. Evidently the governor determined such a path existed as reports today indicate that Perry has decided to stay in the race.

One person not staying in is Rep. Michele Bachmann, who finished sixth. This morning she cancelled a planned event in South Carolina and officially suspended her campaign.


What's Next?

ABC and NBC will host debates in New Hampshire this weekend. Then the voters of the Granite State will go to the polls on Tuesday, January 10th.


Reality Check

Now here are some troubling facts. For much of the past year all the evidence suggested that Republicans were far more enthusiastic about the upcoming elections than Democrats were. That was certainly true in 2010 when conservatives scored historic victories. But turnout for the Iowa caucuses appears to have been approximately the same as 2008.

Meanwhile, the well-financed Obama campaign had dozens of surrogates on the ground aiming their fire at the GOP front-runners. And if you went to the website of the Des Moines Register to get the latest news on your favorite candidate, you would have likely seen that virtually every available ad space had been bought by the Obama campaign.

This is a stark reminder of how much money the Obama team has, and why we will be asking each of you to step up to the plate throughout the year.


You CAN Make A Difference!

Let me share with you a message I received this morning from one of our supporters in Georgia:

"Gary, I don't get to experience many success stories like this, but just had to share with you this morning's Facebook entry from one of my friends after I shared your report, along with my comments:

Wow. Have had my eyes opened. I will not be voting for Ron Paul. ...Ron Paul even said he would not have ordered the killing of Osama Bin Laden. I cannot agree with this. This is not the only reason. ...I will more than likely be voting for Rick Santorum.

"This is encouraging...had to share.  This happened because of you and the work of your team...please share with them.  You taught me how to do this.  NEVER give up.  Keep fighting the good fight!"

My friends, YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

That is why it is so important for every person reading this daily report to be actively engaged in the battle for our values. Talk to your friends and family members. Conduct a voter registration drive at your church or office. Make it your New Year's resolution to "adopt a voter." Identify one person who voted for Obama last time, who may be on the fence this year, perhaps a family member, and bring them our way. Working together we can take America back!    

At the time of this writing, one Eastern hour into January 4th of 2012, Rick Santorum is barely ahead in the Iowa caucuses with 29,968 votes to 29,964 for Mitt Romney. Iowa is not known for its consonance, but this kind of multiple avowal is unprecedented.

My home state of Florida has decided to freeze tonight in solidarity with Iowa, so this is somewhat akin to an on-the-scene report. Manning my media control center, I observe that Santorum is enjoying a honeymoon with the press that is certain to be limited to a one-night stand.

In the moment, all the correspondents are buzzing affirmatively, with the merest hint of a caveat: "Santorum peaked just at the right time... he was the last man standing... he won the game of musical chairs... he visited all 99 counties... he did 367 Town Halls... door to door... retail politics... for now he gets to be the anti-Romney... social conservatives... evangelical vote coalescing... probably not sustainable... not enough cash on hand... doesn't have the national network."

By morning, they will shake off their hangovers and try to change the channel, adjusting the narrative. The Tea Party was not much of a direct force in Iowa, but its aura will be invoked in trying to portray Santorum as the new incarnation of Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell. Once again, the forces of narrow-mindedness, mean-spiritedness and wrong-headedness had won a Pyrrhic victory. Richard-the-Lionhearted of tonight's proclamation will give way to Poor Richard in tomorrow's almanac.

For now, there is much talk of the hard work, the doggedness and the good timing. His virtues are being paraded even though their ticker will quickly run out of tape. But there is one piece of the saga that even these erstwhile enthusiasts will not verbalize, the fact that the biggest winner of all this night is Rush Limbaugh. That is because Santorum breached the First Commandment of Republican political consultants: Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of Limbaugh in Advertisement.

Read more: 

 Rick Santorum's Inspiring Speech

Rick Santorum's Iowa speech-01.04.2012

RUSH: It was so powerful, and he never uses a prompter  

Senate Bombshell: Smith Announces $4.4 Million Cash on Hand

January 04, 2012         

BACHMANN BAILS OUT   Following a sixth place finish in the Iowa Caucuses, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has announced that she is suspending her campaign and dropping out of the race for the GOP nomination. Watch her press conference HERE.     

SANTORUM SURGES, ANNOUNCES: 'GAME ON'  Rick Santorum's second-place finish in Iowa has been seen as remarkable and also an encouraging sign for his once-flagging campaign. After the votes were tallied, Santorum delivered a rousing speech to his supporters. Watch the speech HERE.

  DID RON PAUL 'PULL A FAST ONE' IN IOWA?   The Iowa Caucuses do more than help select a party's candidate for an pending 2012 Presidential race. They also make decisions on the party platform and start the delegate selection process. Find out why Ron Paul's organization was so entrenched in Iowa beyond the voting HERE.

CNN ANCHOR CALLS OUT RON PAUL FOR 'SUPER UNPRESIDENTIAL' TWEET  The day after she was called out by Michele Bachmann for a "gotcha" question, CNN's Soledad O'Brien confronted Ron Paul over a snarky tweet targeting Jon Huntsman. What did the tweet say and how did Rep. Paul react to the on-air scolding? Watch the video HERE.

Today's Headlines:  Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Iowa: Romney 30,015; Santorum 30,007

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz: 'Pretty Bad Night for Mitt Romney'

Romney Hoping for 'Very Strong Support From Conservatives Across the Country'

Charlie Daniels says: "Thank God for the work of the Media Research Center, that has exposed [the media's] left wing bias." Please make a tax-deductible gift to MRC today! 
Santorum Advocates Two-Tier Tax System  
Planned Parenthood's Annual Report: Got $487.4M in Tax Money, Did 329,445 Abortions 
U.S. Funds Nearly 50% -- $31 Million -- of U.N.'s Global Warming Panel

Third-Place Ron Paul: 'There Were Essentially 3 Winners'

Gingrich Praises Santorum for Running a 'Great, Positive' Campaign

'Prayer and Reflection' for Perry, Now Expected to Drop Out

Obama: Expanding the Middle Class Is 'Defining Issue of Our Time'

Administration Mum on Taliban's Call for Release of Guantanamo Detainees

1,188 U.S. Military Deaths in Afghan War Since Obama Became President

Terrorists Warn Christians to Leave Nigeria's Muslim North

Keystone Pipeline Fight Awaits Congress' Return

COMMENTARY:

Occupy Michael Moore's Mansion
By L. Brent Bozell III
The Occupy Wall Street movement has hit several huge roadblocks -- cold temperatures, eviction from public parks by liberal Democratic mayors -- and their glaring hypocrisy on wealth.

Annnd ... They're Off!
By Rich Galen
After Conservatives in Iowa kicked the tires of four other candidates -- Bachmann, Perry, Cain and Gingrich -- they decided to take a look at Santorum and decided he was as good as they were likely to get and they made their choice pretty clear.

Iowa-Bashing Snobs and Sore Losers
By Michelle Bachmann
The Iowa caucuses may not have much predictive value, but they did a wonderful job of unmasking both elitist whingers on the left and incompetent whiners on the right.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

N.H. House panel says no thanks to Obamacare; Votes to return federal funds
Man enters US without passport - thanks to his iPad
Romney's Iowa win falls short of 2008 showing
Wash Post blogger: Republican candidates are grouchy, glum and glummer
D.C. bill would require all city students to apply to college before graduating
NFL star rips Tim Tebow: "We don't need God on our sidelines"
Habitat for Humanity now building low-energy-usage homes
School defends "Occupy" song for 8-year-olds
Teachers resist high-tech push in Idaho schools

Chronicle · January 4, 2012

The Foundation

"The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust." --James Madison

Editorial Exegesis

Most 'electable'?

"Iowa's corner of the electorate cast the first verdict of the 2012 Presidential campaign Tuesday night, and the results look more like an opening skirmish than the coronation for Mitt Romney that much of the media had prepared. ... [It ended in] a dead heat between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, with Ron Paul a close third and Newt Gingrich a distant fourth. Mr. Romney retains a huge lead in New Hampshire, which votes January 10, but his failure to win a larger share of the vote than he did in 2008 suggests that GOP voters don't view the former Massachusetts Governor as inevitable. Many Republicans -- especially party elites -- have been coalescing around Mr. Romney as the most 'electable' candidate, by which they seem to mean the one with the fewest obvious flaws. But electability is a slippery concept, especially 10 months from November. Democrats said the same thing about John Kerry in 2004, while the media were convinced that a right-wing former movie actor was unelectable in 1980. Voters would do better to drop the pundit game theory and choose the best potential President. ... Iowa's flirtation with so many 'non-Romney' candidates shows that a majority of Republicans still find him less than convincing. ... The real issue is that Mr. Romney is a cautious, conventional politician in a year when many GOP voters want someone willing to fight for bolder change. ... Mr. Romney's great advantage is that he faces a divided field of conservative competitors, none of whom has been able to consolidate support. ... Iowa's caucuses have missed nearly as many future Presidents as they've picked, so Tuesday's vote was hardly the last word. Our sense is that the eventual GOP nominee would benefit from a good, hard slog." --The Wall Street Journal

What's your take on Iowa and future contests?

Upright

"The Santorum story here -- and it's a good story -- is, months and months of hard work and long road trips finally paid off. After Conservatives in Iowa kicked the tires of the four other candidates: Bachmann, Perry, Cain and Gingrich; they decided to take a look at Santorum and decided he was as good as they were likely to get and they made their choice pretty clear. The problem for Santorum will be, if he contends in New Hampshire -- and he has said he will be there for 'six of the next seven days' -- and if he comes in a distant third behind a highly favored Romney and a bullet-proof Paul, then the momentum of the Santorum campaign will have evaporated in the chill air of a New Hampshire winter." --political analyst Rich Galen

"It's not cynical to say this. The twelve or so battleground states that will decide the 2012 presidential election suggest Obama's reelection strategy. These states include Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Missouri. All these states have large African-American populations. The African-American community has a staggeringly-high unemployment rate under President Obama. So Black Americans will not vote for this president because of any prosperity he's brought to that community. Instead, he has to gin up their votes by painting a picture of racial conflict in which he -- and the governmental agency dealing with such things, DOJ -- is their champion." --columnists Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski

"Public debt has increased by 67 percent over the past three years, and too many Americans refuse even to see it as a problem. For most of us, '$16.4 trillion' has no real meaning, any more than '$17.9 trillion' or '$28.3 trillion' or '$147.8 bazillion.' It doesn't even have much meaning for the guys spending the dough: Look into the eyes of Barack Obama or Harry Reid or Barney Frank, and you realize that, even as they're borrowing all this money, they have no serious intention of paying any of it back. That's to say, there is no politically plausible scenario under which the 16.4 trillion is reduced to 13.7 trillion, and then 7.9 trillion and, eventually, 173 dollars and 48 cents. At the deepest levels within our governing structures, we are committed to living beyond our means on a scale no civilization has ever done." --columnist Mark Steyn

"[I]f you tax people who work, and you pay people who don't work, don't be surprised if you find a lot of people not working. I have never heard of a poor person spending himself or herself to prosperity. It doesn't work." --economist Arthur Laffer

Essential Liberty

"Judges are not divine and their opinions are not holy writ. As every American schoolchild learns, the judiciary is intended to be a co-equal branch of government, not a paramount one. If the Supreme Court wrongly decides a constitutional case, nothing obliges Congress or the president -- or the states or the people, for that matter -- to simply bow and accept it. Naturally this isn't something the courts have been eager to concede. Judges are no more immune to the lure of power than anybody else, and their assertion of judicial supremacy ... has won them an extraordinary degree of clout and authority. That aggrandizement, in turn, they have attempted to cast as historically unassailable. ... But the heart and soul of American democracy is that power derives from the consent of the governed, and that no branch of government -- executive, legislative, or judicial -- rules by unchallenged fiat." --columnist Jeff Jacoby

Insight

"Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others." --English author Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

"Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody." --President Calvin Coolidge (1873-1933)

The Demo-gogues

The BIG Lie, Part I: "I'm a hundred percent confident that the people of Iowa and the American people will win the day on November 6th of this year when President Obama is re-elected because of his policies, because of the fact that he has brought this country out of the worst economic disaster that we faced since the Great Depression and the people of America know." --DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)

The BIG Lie, Part II: "If there is anyone who has set an example about making sure that we reduce the influence of lobbyists and of corporate and outside special interests on campaigns it is President Obama." --Debbie Wasserman Schultz

All the world is a stage: "People who know me know that I am a softie. I mean, stuff can choke me up very easily. The challenge for me is that in this job, I think, a lot of times the press or how you come off on TV, people want you to be very demonstrative in your emotions. And if you're not sort of showing it in a very theatrical way, then somehow it doesn't translate over the screen." --Barack Obama

Mockery: "Remember Yogi Berra. I don't like the food at that table and the servings are too small. [Republicans] don't like the tax cut and now they are claiming that it is too small." --House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi

Dezinformatsia

Elite media: "The rap on Iowa: It doesn't represent the rest of the country, too white, too evangelical, too rural. Still here, politics are personal." --NBC's Andrea Mitchell

If you don't have something nice to say... "You know, my mother used to say, 'Something doesn't have to be illegal to be wrong.' Why don't people just stand up and say, 'We're not going to do this anymore. I don't care what the Supreme Court says'?" --CBS's Bob Schieffer on wanting to end negative campaign ads

Rooting for tax hikes: "[Critics of Newt Gingrich's economic plan] say that fewer regulations could spur some productivity, but they also say that to really reduce the deficit you would have to include some combination of spending cuts and tax increases." --CBS reporter Dean Reynolds

Talking nonsense: "[W]e're not talking about ObamaCare, we're talking about your health care, we're talking about your Social Security, we're talking about your Medicare. When it starts coming into my house -- that's why I said when I spoke at the Martin Luther King memorial, it's not about Obama, it's about your momma." --MSNBC's Al Sharpton

Deterring who?: "[T]he reality is that we're probably not going to be able to stop Iran from getting a bomb ... if that's what they choose to do. And the way we're going to react to it is the same way we reacted to the Soviet Union. It's going to be containment and deterrence. ... Those guys don't want to go to war again. If they got a bomb it would just be to deter Israel and Pakistan." --Time magazine's Joe Klein

Stupid questions: "Do you fault Republican leaders in Congress for not doing more to make government work better, through more compromise with the president?" --NBC's David Gregory to GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum

Newspulper Headlines:

We Blame George W. Bus: "George W. Bush Barely Mentioned in GOP Campaign" --Associated Press

Shortest Books Ever Written: "What Rick Santorum and John Edwards Have in Common" --Washington Post website

I Saw Mommy Groping Santa Claus: "TSA Chorus (Yes, You Heard Right) Sings Holiday Songs at LAX" --Los Angeles Times

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

Village Idiots

Just what we need: "I think [Obama] inherited an impossible situation. I wish he had not been so much of a consensus-seeker. I just wanted to see a more 'gangsta' president." --actor Don Cheadle

Class warfare: "Let's make sure that we understand we are living in a society where people care about jobs, they care about wages. They can't get ahead because so much wealth and income are at the top and taxes are not being paid at the top to finance education, and health care and infrastructure that everybody depends on to get ahead." --former Clintonista Robert Reich

Blaming the wrong people: "You have to wonder whether some folks over there think somehow screwing up the economy, throwing a wrench in the works is a good political strategy for them. That someone if they can slow the recovery down -- if they can cost a half million or delay a half million, or a million jobs that that will hurt the president." --Obama strategist David Axelrod

Cooperation means agreeing with Democrats: "We can't wait for Congress to act, and if Congress refuses to act and if Republicans choose the path of obstruction, rather than cooperation, then the president is not going to sit here. This gridlock in Washington is not an excuse for inaction." --White House Press Secretary Jay Carney

First Fundraiser: "Over the next 11 months we've got an organization to grow, voters to register, and people to get fired up. I hope you'll close out this year by donating $3 or more now to help make sure we're ready for the next one." --Michelle Obama in a fundraising e-mail to Obama followers while on her $4 million Hawaiian vacation

Dear Jimmy advice: "If your main goal is to get re-elected, avoid a controversial subject as much as you can in the first term." --Jimmy Carter offering Obama advice on avoiding being a one-term president

Short Cuts

"Across the U.S., 40,000 new federal, state and local laws went into effect on January 1st. Next year, expect 40,000 more laws trying to fix their unintended consequences." --Fred Thompson

"What I don't get is why liberals don't get angrier with [Obama]. I mean, here's a guy who is constantly telling Congress and most Americans that we're not doing enough, but no president has ever taken as many vacations or played as many rounds of golf in three years as Obama. And as if that's not enough to make him the playboy-in-chief, between February and December of this year, he spoke at 69 campaign fund-raising events. For the mathematically challenged, that's roughly seven times a month he's taken off to bad-mouth Republicans, millions of whom have to help pay for his jet fuel, his campaign buses and his security detail. Frankly, I'm surprised that Air Force One can actually get airborne, what with having to fly this guy's ego around." --columnist Burt Prelutsky

"Brazil celebrated the news that it overtook Great Britain as the world's sixth largest economy on Tuesday. It shows the growing power of free markets in South America. President Obama gave his congratulations and asked if we could borrow a Brazilian dollars." --comedian Argus Hamilton

"Democrats finally find a tax cut they can abide, and so both sides agree to extend it. But just as they are about to partake in the bipartisan peace pipe a few days before Christmas, Congress promptly grinds to a squabbling halt threatening a $1,000-tax increase for workers and the evaporation of unemployment benefits for those out of work. Merry freaking Christmas, American people! And then when it comes to explaining themselves, Democrats walk out with straight faces and blame -- who else? -- the Tea Party." --columnist Charles Hurt

"As [2001] wore on, frustration finally boiled over in the form of the Occupy Various Random Spaces movement, wherein people who were sick and tired of a lot of stuff finally got off their butts and started working for meaningful change via direct action in the form of sitting around and forming multiple committees and drumming and not directly issuing any specific demands but definitely having a lot of strongly held views for and against a wide variety of things. Incredibly, even this did not bring about meaningful change." --humorist Dave Barry

It's not a new story by any means, but the UN is relentless in
seeking to undermine the Constitutionally 'guaranteed' rights of
American citizens.

They are especially intent on destroying the Second Amendment.

A free, armed, and self-governed population is a huge obstacle
for an organization, like the UN, which seeks to be the global
authority on ALL matters.

This video offers a glimpse at the UN's on-going efforts to
establish a global gun control scheme...

Video:

NRA News: UN Doomsday Treaty With Ginny Simone

Goodman Green
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