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April 30, 2009
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Daily Rant – Part 2, April 30, 2009
April 30, 2009
Everyday we are fighting our representatives who continually choose to do things that are unconstitutional. It is tiring, yet they never give up. At the speed the Democrats are moving we should be a socialist dictatorship in less than a year. It makes me sad.
America, the once great beacon of hope and prosperity will be sent back to the minors with leaders like Pelosi, Reid, Obama, Feinstein and so on taking us back to the dark ages. It will take years to overcome. But make no mistake we will take the country back.
What these imbeciles fail to realize is that they have overstepped. Once their failed policies start to drive up gas prices and hurt the common folks, you will see outrage like never before. We saw a sampling of that back when gas prices were near $5 a gallon. By the time it happens again, there will be nobody to blame. Bush will have been long gone.
What will also happen is hyper inflation. You think things are bad now, wait until the economy starts to perk up. The years of Jimmy Carter will look like a success compared to what we are in for. Elections have consequences all right, but what people fail to realize is.. the consequences are going to be BAD!
About half the people voted against Obama. He did not have this huge majority like the media wants us to think. Polling data shows his policies are not seen favorably by the majority of people though his personal popularity is still very high. So was Bush’s. People didn’t hate George Bush, what they hated was his policies… liberal Democrat policies in most cases.
With automobile manufacturers on the ropes and the financial institutions not far behind, it is hard for me to believe the pundits who say economic recovery is just around the corner. The government is doing everything it can to stifle that recovery. They have given almost half of GM to the unions while demoting investors to the bottom rung. A report today says people are sitting on their money. Savings have never been so high. Know why that is? Because nobody wants to take a chance of investing and then having the rug pulled out from under them and given over to somebody else.
I predict Obama’s policies will have dire consequences down the road. They can not succeed since they are based in unbridled optimism of government and not on sound economic principles. Democrats and liberals seem to love the direction he is taking us, but we’ll see when unemployment starts hitting 20% and gas is over $5 a gallon. People will be looking for heads to roll, and Obama will be the Soros fall guy! Mark my words. This will happen.
- FedUpEditor
They Fast-tracked Socialized Healthcare; We’re Naming Names
April 30, 2009
Late yesterday afternoon, the Senate passed the Obama budget with massive tax increases, a doubling of the national debt and fast-track provisions for socialized healthcare.
The vote was 53-43, which means we fell just four votes short of stopping it.
Yesterday, we identified the 12 key Democrats who had voiced opposition to fast-tracking. Several specifically signed a letter opposing use of this procedural trickery to pass the carbon tax and “Roll Call” magazine said many of these also opposed fast-tracking for healthcare.
In all, 9 of the 12 we identified voted in favor of fast-tracking socialized healthcare…
And we’re naming names:
Senator Max Baucus 202-224-2651
Senator Mark Begich 202-224-3004
Senator Robert Casey 202-224-6324
Senator Daniel Inouye 202-224-3934
Senator Amy Klobuchar 202-224-3244
Senator Mary Landrieu 202-224-5824
Senator Carl Levin 202-224-6221
Senator Blanche Lincoln 202-224-4843
Senator Mark Pryor 202-224-2353
Please call these Senators and tell them you are outraged that their votes caused socialized healthcare to get put on the fast track.
In fact, I’m so outraged that I’ve instructed my staff to deliver your “Stop The Spending” petition — along with over 210,000 other petitions — NEXT WEEK to the Senate.
So, after you make your calls, please forward this message
to your friends and urge them to sign the petition so they
can be included in the delivery as well:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=18676&PID=20624847We cannot allow two-faced politicians to push us further and further toward socialism without feeling any pushback from grassroots Americans.
That’s why we’re naming names… and delivering your petitions on Capitol Hill next week.
Thanks for the stand you are taking.
Steve Elliott, President
Grassfire.org
Daily Rant – April 30, 2009
April 30, 2009
Apparently many Democrats are angry at Harry Reid who made a deal with Arlen Specter to keep his seniority in the senate that he racked up serving as a Republican. HUH? Democrats should be mad. Look at the lengths Reid will go to in order to get a filibuster proof majority! So far that he is willing to anger senators in his own party.
The best part about all of this is, Reid may not even be re-elected in the 2010! So he has nothing to lose… except his senate seat.
From the LA Times:
Oops, not so fast with the feel-good vibes coming out of the Senate Democratic Caucus.
Turns out that one day after Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter thrilled Democrats and stunned Republicans by defecting to the Blue Caucus, some of his new allies on the Democratic side are miffed.
The reason: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, in negotiations before the announcement, promised Specter he could keep the seniority he’d accrued as a Republican on powerful committees such as Appropriations and Judiciary. There is of course precedence for this. Think Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, who left the Democratic Party to run as an independent but was allowed to keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, even though he endorsed his friend John McCain over Barack Obama in last year’s presidential election.
That did not sit well with some senators who stand to be passed over for subcommittee chairmanships because of Specter, and who shared their concerns with The Hill.
So much for singing kumbaya!
- FedUpEditor
ALERT! Senate Amnesty Hearings! Tell Feinstein “No Amnesty!”
April 29, 2009
| ALERT! Senate Amnesty Hearings! Tell Feinstein “No Amnesty!” |
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The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security is holding hearings this Thursday to build support for amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), who chairs the Subcommittee, has entitled it, “Comprehensive Immigration Reform in 2009, Can We Do It and How?”
California’s Senator Dianne Feinstein is a key member of this subcommittee. She needs to hear again that the American people still oppose amnesty. CLICK HERE to learn more and to take action! |
True Bi-Partisan Vote in the House
April 29, 2009
| Unanimous GOP Opposition in House to Washington’s Outrageous Spending |
Joined by some of their Democratic colleagues, House Republicans today stood united against Washington’s outrageous spending habits sending a clear signal against a budget that spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much. In the picture below, Rep. Boehner is holding up his voting card, which is what Members of Congress use to cast their votes. Boehner called this card “The Most Expensive Credit Card in the History of the World.” Click the photo to watch the entire Floor speech. |
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House Republicans developed a better solution to the Democrats’ budget that we believe would help put our nation on the path to prosperity. Our budget curbs spending, creates jobs and controls debt. Click here and here to read the better solution that we developed. |
Daily Rant – April 29, 2009
April 29, 2009
Obama wants a label for his legacy like the New Deal or the Great Society. I have a suggestion. How about the RAW DEAL?
Now Citibank has to go to the Treasury to get permission to pay bonuses! What else would you call that? A RAW DEAL.
Government bails out GM and what happens to the bond holders? Here are the numbers:
- GM Bond holders bought bonds totaling $27 billion and only get 10%
- United Auto Workers who get PAID to work in the factories put in $10 billion and now own 40%
- Government put in $15 billion and ends up with 50%
What else would you call that except a RAW DEAL?
- FedUpEditor
Outrage over Arlen Specter
April 28, 2009
hope Arlen Specter’s party change outrages you. It should for two reasons:
First–Specter claimed it was philosophical–and pointed his finger of blame at Republicans all over America for his defection to the Democrats. He told us all to go jump in the lake today.
I’m sorry, but I don’t believe a word he said.
Arlen Specter committed a purely political and self-serving act today. He simply believes he has a better chance of saving his political hide and his job as a Democrat. He loves the title of Senator more than he loves the party–and the principles–that elected him and nurtured him.
Second–and more importantly–Arlen Specter handed Barack Obama and his band of radical leftists nearly absolute power in the United States Senate. In leaving the Republican Party–and joining the Democrats–he absolutely undercut Republicans’ efforts to slow down Obama’s radical agenda through the threat of filibuster.
Facing defeat in Pennsylvania’s 2010 Republican primary due to his left-wing voting record, and an end to his 30 year career in the U.S. Senate, he has peddled his services–and his vote–to the leftist Obama Democrats who aim to remake America with their leftist plan.
As recently as April 9th, Senator Specter said he would run in the Pennsylvania primary next year as a Republican. Why the sudden change of heart? Clearly, this was an act based on political expediency by a craven politician desperate to keep his Washington power base–not the act of a statesman.
His defection to the Democrat Party puts the Democrats in an almost unstoppable position to pass Obama’s destructive agenda of income redistribution, health care nationalization, and a massive expansion of entitlements.
Arlen Specter has put his loyalty to his own political career above his duty to his state and nation.
You and I have a choice. Some will use Specter’s defection as an excuse to fold the tent and give up. I believe that you are not one of those people. When Benedict Arnold defected to the British, George Washington didn’t fold the tent and give up either.
He grit his teeth more determined than ever to succeed. That’s what I’m asking you to do today.
Join me in this fight by making a secure online contribution of $25, $50, $100, $500 or $1,000 right now to build our army of supporters and defeat Democrat candidates like Arlen Specter in next year’s elections.
Stand with me. I need your support today.
Sincerely,
Michael Steele
Chairman, Republican National Committee
Daily Rant – April 28, 2009
April 28, 2009
I have had this opinion for a long time. Back when Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords left the Republican party to become an independent, I welcomed the change, but wondered if there shouldn’t be some rule that if a politician changes parties in the middle of his term when people elected a certain party, shouldn’t that politician step down and run on the other ticket the next time?
If I had voted for Jeffords simply because he was the only choice as Republican against a liberal Democrat, I would have been furious when he changed parties on me. I would have demanded my campaign contribution back.
Joe Lieberman was beaten as a Democract in the primaries and changed parties to Independent for the election. That is the way to do it. Not change after he is in office.
Now Arlen Specter has switched sides. But he is again doing it after Pennsylvanians elected him as a Republican. This should be illegal. He should have to resign and let a Republican take over the rest of his term, then run as a Democrat in the next election. Besides, who says Democrats want him anyway? Didn’t he vote against card check legislation?
This is one election law that needs to be changed. If people vote for a candidate because of his party affiliation and he changes parties in the middle of his term (especially because he is going to be defeated in the next primary) then he should step down and run in the next election as the other party’s candidate.
- FedUpEditor
Arlen Specter [Clueless] – Don’t Let The Door Hit You…
April 28, 2009
Good riddance! It’s about time conservatives take back the Republican Party from RINOS like Specter, Snowe and Collins. There are a few others, but Specter is the first to fall! BYE BYE! He was a Democrat anyway, so what’s the loss? McCain is next… that’s right, our Presidential Candidate in 2008 is being challenged by a real conservative who might even WIN! To Specter’s credit, he’s leaving BEFORE he is embarrassed in the primaries. McCain will probably wait and be defeated! Specter is 79 years old! What about the new face of the Democrat Party? That’s right. It’s all about winning. But Specter allowed the budget to pass, so he needs to go!
Here’s the story:
