Nancy, FYI,
Posted on 01/27/2009 6:02:56 AM PST by 2nd amendment mama
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) will bring her “Kill the Children” economic stimulus plan to the floor of the House this week for a likely vote on Thursday. On ABC’s “This Week” last Sunday, Pelosi justified the inclusion of expanded federal funding for abortions as part of an economic stimulus plan on the grounds that reducing the number of children being born would help stimulate the economy.
Pelosi’s pronouncement rightly raised the ire of Congressman John Carter (R-Tx.), secretary of the House Republican Conference. “To attempt to stimulate the economy by killing babies is an atrocity,” Carter said, speaking for the millions of Americans who are shocked and outraged over this further slide into degeneracy on display by Democrat leadership. “To justify the killing of an unborn child for monetary gain is a monstrosity,” Carter added.
In stark contrast, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Oh.) spoke with Sean Hannity on his radio program Monday, appearing to throw in the towel on leading any real opposition to the trillion-dollar spending bill. Boehner told Hannity’s audience of millions, “We will likely have an alternative amendment,” but he raised doubts as to whether or not the amendment would pass. Likely?
Boehner also concluded that the President had been friendly to Republican proposals for the addition of tax cuts to the gargantuan spending bill, calling on Obama to intervene in attempting to improve the bill as it makes its way to the Senate. Boehner said of his Democrat colleagues, “It won’t be long before the liberals will try to impose their will on this President, and people will see just how liberal this Congress really is.”
With all due respect, Leader Boehner, Barack Obama is a far-left liberal graduate of the Saul Alinsky school of socialism. The problem will not be Pelosi dragging Obama to the left, but well-meaning Republicans compromising their principles to accomplish nothing more than giving these radicals political cover. The over 54 million people who did not vote for Obama do not expect you to magically woo goose-stepping Democrats in Congress into your vote totals. What conservatives are looking for is a leader who will rescind his Obama gag order and take a stand for the principles and ideals that have made this country the greatest ever created.
The full Senate voted 60-34 Monday night in favor of the confirmation of Timothy Geithner as President Barack Obama’s new Treasury Secretary. The vote indicates not nearly enough angst over Geithner’s failure to pay tens of thousands of dollars in federal taxes not once but four years in a row. In his role as Secretary, Geithner will not only oversee the IRS but have sole discretionary power to disburse trillions of federal taxpayer dollars.
Joining the ranks of those who voted against the confirmation of this nominee were Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Votes in favor of the $34,000 tax cheat having IRS oversight came from Richard Shelby (R-AL) and John Cornyn (R-TX).
The full vote (http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00015) :
NAY
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennett (R-UT)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
DeMint (R-SC)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)
Grassley (R-IA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sanders (I-VT)
Sessions (R-AL)
Specter (R-PA)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)
YEA (Those senators voting in favor of a $34,000 tax cheat having IRS oversight)
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Burris (D-IL)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Conrad (D-ND)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ensign (R-NV)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagan (D-NC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
| Connie Hair is a freelance writer, a former speechwriter for Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and a former media and coalitions advisor to the Senate Republican Conference. |
Nancy, FYI,
What is tragic is that so many are willing to ignore her and vote vote Dem anyway, or even “think” the way Pelosi does: grasp at any argument, no matter how despicable or preposterous, to support abortion.
I was stunned to see 3 Dems vote no. So there are some liberals with shreds of honor. And shame on the GOP senators who voted to confirm. If they had voted against Geithner the vote would have been much closer and sent a strong signal against the new administration. I am especially disappointed in Cornyn.
Carter is my congressman. It's nice to have someone that you feel good about voting for.
Back in October when freepers we claiming the world would end if McCain lost(HA-HA) ,I tried to tell them that fun days like these were ahead, where Obama has to swallow the crap and we get to shoot it down. Read above again, it's first fun politics again after 14 years (1994.)
When asked about the increase in funding to entities like planned parenthood in the stimulus bill, she did try to make it appear that contraception was the target of the funding. Yet these funds will NOT/NOT be specifically required to be used for contraception. And she specifically gave the reason that this funding is germane to a stimulus bill on the grounds that reducing the number of children being born would stimulate the economy.
She was trying to lay a smoke screen. Most of the money would go to groups like Planned Parenthood, which are 90% abortion providers and 10% contraception providers — and they are not limited as to how they allot the funds. It’s a bailout for abortion mills and everybody with half a mind knows it.
What you said. =]
For Pelosi, the ends justify the means (except WRT terrorists).
While Pelosi pretends to act in the interests of minorities, she is the moral heir of Margaret Sanger, who said,
It is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is to stop breeding these things. Stop bringing to birth children whose inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into the world children whose parents cannot provide for them. Herein lies the key of civilization. For upon the foundation of an enlightened and voluntary motherhood shall a future civilization emerge
Damn, he's worse than Chucky Smucky Schumer.
Geithner Confirmed with some Repub Support
Fox News Live | 1/26/09 | vanity
Posted on 01/26/2009 3:48:28 PM PST by pabianice
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172286/posts
Geithner announces stricter lobbying rules to govern $700 billion financial...
Mpls Red Star Tribune | 1/27/2009 | MARTIN CRUTSINGER
Posted on 01/27/2009 1:54:43 PM PST by markomalley
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172957/posts
[snip] Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, in his first full day on the job, announced new rules Tuesday to limit special-interest influence on the government’s $700 billion financial rescue program. [end]
Obama changes policy on abortion (& fires (gay) Bush-era global aids coord)
Washington Times | 1/24/2009 | Jon Ward
Posted on 01/23/2009 8:00:29 PM PST by markomalley
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2170722/posts
Obama Tells Democrats to Drop Planned Parenthood Stimulus Funds After Outrage
Life News | 1/27/09 | Steven Ertelt
Posted on 01/27/2009 9:59:07 AM PST by wagglebee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172775/posts
Obama Begs Waxman to Yank Birth Control from Stimulus
Washington Independent | 1/27/09 9:33 AM | By Lindsay Beyerstein
Posted on 01/27/2009 11:24:38 AM PST by lewisglad
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172851/posts
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