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Despite Barack Obama's claim in a speech yesterday that his programs have 'saved or created' millions of jobs--a familiar but hollow mantra--Americans know the truth that just this year millions of jobs have been lost. So 'successful' has been the President's stimulus bailouts that he is planning yet another one--the 3rd overall. With 3 massive bailouts initiated by the government, the economy must really be humming along. Americans are so painfully aware of the abject failures of this President and this government that Obama has now dropped to the lowest approval rating of any President in history at this particular...

The borrower is slave to the lender. Our nation can’t spend its way out of debt. We must produce more than we consume. Washington D. C. and Wall Street are giddy with the unemployment rate drop from 10.2 percent to 10 percent. The truth is that only taxable wages can pay our nation’s bills and reduce our national debt. This November 2009 chart cuts through the chase. The bottom line from Zero Hedge is, “On a rolling 12 month basis, individual tax withheld has dropped by nearly 8% YoY, from $1.42 trillion to $1.31 trillion, while company withholding are down...

Barack Obama's plans to reform American healthcare been dealt a massive blow after Democrats in the Senate appear to have dropped plans for an NHS-style insurance scheme in the U.S. Plans for the government-run health insurance scheme seem to have been dropped last night in a bid to ease reform through Washington. Under a deal stuck late yesterday, the so-called public option part of proposed legislation was jettisoned, in favour of a non-profit private alternative overseen by a federal agency. Mr Obama's hopes for a public option dominated domestic politics in America over the summer, turning healthcare into a massive...

Sen. Ben Nelson takes a stand, but his abortion restriction amendment goes down to defeat in the Senate WASHINGTON—The Senate voted Tuesday to reject a bipartisan amendment restricting abortion services in the proposed healthcare legislation. The 54 to 45 defeat marked a reversal for pro-life supporters from the victory enjoyed in the House last month on a similar measure. The amendment, offered by Sens. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, would have prohibited federal dollars from being used for abortions in any government-run insurance plan. It also prevented individuals receiving tax credits to buy private insurance from using those...

Treasury Department Releases Text of Letter from Secretary Geithner to Hill Leadership on Administration’s Exit Strategy for TARP WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury released the text of identical letters sent today from Secretary Tim Geithner to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid outlining the Administration's exit strategy for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) established by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA). The text of the letter to Speaker Pelosi follows. December 9, 2009 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Madam Speaker: I am writing to update...

Senator Joe Lieberman has just released a statement that pours some cold water on the talk of a huge Senate healthcare breakthrough. He signals that the public option trigger won’t work for him, he raises a red flag about the Medicare “buy-in” expansion (an expansion which is simply bizarre in a bill that cuts so much from Medicare at the same time), and he says the proposals will have to be fully scored by CBO and analyzed by the CMS actuary before they can be taken up—all of which are problems for the Dems. Here’s his statement: WASHINGTON, D.C. –...

WASHINGTON — The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said Tuesday night that he and a group of 10 Democratic senators had reached “a broad agreement” to resolve a dispute over a proposed government-run health insurance plan, which has posed the biggest obstacle to passage of sweeping health care legislation. Senator Ben Nelson, left, Democrat of Nebraska, was a co-sponsor of an amendment to ban any health plan bought even partly with federal subsidies from covering abortion. The proposal was defeated, 54 to 45, with two Republicans voting against it. Mr. Reid refused to provide details. Other senators said the tentative...

The second leg of Quinnipiac's big national poll dropped this morning -- and it shows a serious erosion of support for Congressional health reform efforts and the president's performance on the issue -- along with an all-time low 46 percent approval rating for the POTUS. Most ominously for Dems: Nearly two-thirds of registered voters polled said extending coverage to 30 million-plus people will result in a decline in the quality of their own health care. That gives plenty of room to the GOP to personalize attacks on the plan, Obama and Congress. The lowlights for Dems: --O approval/disapproval: 46/44 percent....

The majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, refused on Tuesday night to provide any details about the preliminary agreement among a group of 10 Democratic senators to resolve a bitter dispute over a proposed government-run insurance plan, or “public option.” But in a brief interview as he climbed into his black S.U.V. to head home for the night, Mr. Reid insisted that the proposal could unify his caucus, even as he acknowledged that most Senate Democrats had not seen it yet.

Being a member of Congress rates as the least ethical and honest professions – faring worse than car salesmen by 4 percent – according to a new Gallup poll out Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. government racked up a gaping shortfall in the first two months of this fiscal year after posting a record budget deficit last year, congressional analysts said on Friday. In October and November, the government spent $292 billion more than it took in, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said. That was even worse than the same period last year, when the government was on its way to posting a record $1.4 trillion deficit for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. The federal budget has been battered by the worst economic downturn since the...

Congress has, in their beneficence, decided that there will be no cost of living raise in 2010 for social security recipients. Congress and the Senate on the other hand will receive a $4,700.00 cost of living allowance or whatever you want to call it in 2010. The really dastardly part of it is that they have it fixed so that it is automatic and they, claiming plausible deniability, can say I didn’t vote for it. A lot of people have been crying for relief from these parasites for a long time and the numbers are growing daily. This is just...

Residents from all over the Ohio Valley, from as far as Charleston, met Tuesday night to debate health care. Bob Connors, a member of We the People of the Ohio Valley, said he believes President Barack Obama's health care bill will bankrupt the country. "If the government is in control of anything in your life you lose liberty ... if they decide you have to buy health insurance..that is not liberty and you don't have the choice to say no," said Connors.

WASHINGTON -- After days of secret talks, Senate Democrats tentatively agreed last night to drop a full-blown government-run insurance option from sweeping health-care legislation -- a concession to party moderates whose votes are critical to passage of President Obama's top domestic priority. In its place, officials said, Democrats had settled on a private insurance arrangement to be supervised by the federal agency that oversees the system through which lawmakers purchase coverage, with the possibility of greater government involvement, if needed, to ensure consumers enough choices.

With the clock ticking down towards the close of the polls at 8 p.m., some communities reported low voter turnout in the special primary elections for US Senate. People breezed past community centers, gymnasiums, town halls, and other polling places without a second thought, the majority paying no mind to the race to fill the office left vacant by the late Edward M. Kennedy. Four Democrats and two Republicans ....

Registered voters nationally are divided about President Barack Obama’s job approval rating. 46% approve of his job performance while 44% disapprove. One in ten voters is unsure. This is the first time the president has lost majority support on this question since taking office. When Marist last asked this question in October, 53% of voters gave the president high marks. Partisanship is alive and well here, but Mr. Obama has slipped slightly among voters in both parties. 77% of Democrats approve of the president’s job performance compared with 12% of Republicans. Two months ago, 84% of Democrats and 21% of...

BOSTON – Massachusetts had a light turnout for party primaries Tuesday as voters took the first step to fill the U.S. Senate seat held for nearly a half century by Edward M. Kennedy.Four Democrats, from political insiders to newcomers, and two Republicans were competing for their respective party nomination in the quick campaign to succeed Kennedy. He died of brain cancer in late August at age 77 after holding his seat since 1962. The primary winners will face off in a general election on Jan. 19.Kennedy's widow, Vicki, called each of the Democrats early Tuesday to wish them well, an...

Here is video of Pat Buchanan telling Chris Matthews that it was his party that was opposed to ending slavery...(Video)Chris Matthews asked Pat Buchanan "where are you on the slavery issue to start with, you're pretty much against that now right? You've stopped your foot dragging on that one right?" Pat Buchanan responded "on that one Chris, I'm with the radical Republicans who passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment. It was your party Chris that was the opposition."

Here is video of Barbara Boxer comparing insurance which covers Viagra to justify why government health insurance should cover abortion...(Video)Boxer said "is it fair to say to a man "you're going to have to buy a rider to buy Viagra and this will be public information to be accessed?" No, I don't support that. I support a man's privacy, just as I support a woman's privacy, so it's very clear to me that this amendment would be the biggest rollback to a woman's right to choose in decades." Boxer was speaking against an amendment proposed to the Senate health bill...

Senate Defeats Nelson Amendment to Stop Abortion Funding in Health Care Washington, DC -- The Senate on Tuesday voted 54-45 to defeat the Nelson amendment that would have removed the massive abortion funding from the Senate government-run health care bill. With the defeat, pro-life advocates will unite behind a concerted effort to defeat the entire health care bill. http://www.lifenews.com/nat5748.html

Senate rejects Nelson amendment on abortion

Carbon dioxide is poison. That’s what the EPA says. The public health is at risk. Carbon dioxide is poison and an “endangerment” edict has been issued and the government is going to run your life. Even more than it does already. In one more Obama lurch toward totalitarianism, the administration announced yesterday that the Environmental Protection Agency has determined that carbon dioxide is a threat to clean air and that it, the EPA, claims the authority to impose binding rules across the society and economy to cut American production of CO2. That’s right, the same CO2 you exhale something like...

Tea Party Support and the Social Security Institute Tell GOP Senate: “Stop Putting Your Christmas Vacation Ahead of Our Country” Posted : Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:14:19 GMT Tea Party Support ( http://teapartysupport.com ) and the Social Security Institute ( http://socialsecurityinstitute.com ) joined forces yesterday to blast out a million-and-a-half email messages asking people to demand that Republican Senators stop assisting Harry Reid to ram ObamaCare and the Reid health bill through the Senate by year’s end. The email campaign has generated more than 25,000 letters and emails to Capitol Hill so far. Tea Party Support President Matthew Perdue...

Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) will press Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner this week on supporting a major overhaul of the tax system in 2010. Rangel told corporate executives attending a tax conference in Washington that he was trying to “persuade” Geithner and members of his committee that they would serve Congress and the country better “if we reform the tax system that we have.” “As a legislator, I can’t think of anything more important for my committee to do,” Rangel told the audience attending the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Global Tax Symposium.

EPA, already accused of scientific misconduct, abuses its regulatory authority to enrich special interestsThe Environmental Protection Agency, whose mission is to protect people from toxic pollutants like sulfur and nitrogen oxides, today declared carbon dioxide--a gas that we all generate and exhale every few seconds--a hazard to human life that must be regulated. We have little doubt that the EPA abused its regulatory authority on behalf of, or even on the direct orders of, Barack Obama for the purpose of enriching investment banks--Kirsten Gillibrand named J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs as explicit beneficiaries of cap and trade mandates--whose executives,...

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration took a major step Monday toward imposing the first federal limits on climate-changing pollution from cars, power plants and factories, declaring there was compelling scientific evidence that global warming from manmade greenhouse gases endangers Americans' health. The announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency was clearly timed to build momentum toward an agreement at the international conference on climate change that opened Monday in Copenhagen, Denmark. It signaled the administration was prepared to push ahead for significant controls in the U.S. if Congress doesn't act first on its own. The price could be steep for both...

If you want to teach those unscrupulous Democrats down there in that Congressional Cesspool the value a secret ballot follow these instructions. 1. Establish a small temporary office manned by two people in each congressional district. Post a big sign in the office “Your share could be thousands of dollars !”. 2. Put the following ad in the newspapers, on the radio and television. “Order your absentee ballot now – bring your blank ballot to the office listed below and receive your share of the canceled one trillion dollar stimulus package if the republicans gain the majority in the House...

IRVINE - Councilman Steven Choi is taking heat from county political watchers for wearing a rendering of Nancy Pelosi as Stalin on his back at a keynote address the House Speaker gave at a recent Democratic Party of Orange County dinner. Choi, who is also in the midst of an Assembly run, says he was not invited to Pelosi's speech at the Irvine Hilton, but chose to join several hundred protesters at the Harry S Truman Awards Dinner, a fundraiser that reportedly raised more than $125,000 for the local Democratic Party. Choi was photographed from behind, but not identified, by...

WASHINGTON -- California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer said Monday that abortion-rights foes in the U.S. Senate are showing "a lack of respect" for women by promoting legislation that would limit abortions. "Please don't single out women," Boxer said in a speech on the Senate floor. "What have women done to deserve this? ... Why have such a lack of respect for them?" Boxer made the remarks as the Senate prepared to vote on an amendment by Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska that would prohibit any insurance company from offering plans to cover abortion services if they receive federal subsidies.

The EPA is about to announce that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, something that has in many ways been inevitable since the boneheaded SCOTUS ruling in Mass. vs EPA (which essentially found that the Clean Air Act was always intended to be Kyoto-on-steroids.) With thanks to my colleague Will Yeatman, here's a brief summary of what this means, and why you should be appalled. Under the Clean Air Act, an “endangerment” finding means that the EPA will have to grant a waiver to those states (such as California) that want to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from automobiles. The EPA...

Yes sir, elections do indeed have consequences. And in this last election the left, and many in the middle helped to elect essentially our first Monarchy (yes, I exaggerate, but not by much)...they bitched and moaned about Bush and his supposed evil plan to take over the world but when their guy got elected they sit quietly as he makes any Bush move to consolidate power appear minuscule in comparison. Case in point: (h/t Big Lizards) The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday will complete its determination that greenhouse gases pose a danger to human health and the environment, paving the...

The United States and its international partners must "use all appropriate measures" to keep Yemen from becoming a "failed state," the US Senate said in a recently approved resolution.

Rudy Giuliani has just signed a major security consulting deal with the city of Rio de Janiero. Giuliani's company will be tasked with advising the government as to ways to provide security during the 2016 Olympics. Rio de Janiero is one of the most unsafe major cities in the world with 40 people dying in the month of October where drug wars played a significant factor.

When the Democrats retook Congress in 2006, incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi promised the "to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history." So how's that promise working out? Let's start with four developments from the last week: » Over the weekend, it was revealed that Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., had nominated his girlfriend to be a U.S. attorney in his home state. Baucus is a driving force behind the drive to adopt Obamacare in the Senate. » On...

Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson dropped his anti-abortion amendment into the Senate health care debate this afternoon, essentially lifting the language from the House version that so angered the left. Nelson, a staunch pro-life advocate, partnered with fellow Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and several Republicans to offer the measure, saying it’s necessary to ensure no federal dollars are spent on elective abortions. “Most Americans, even some who support abortion, do not want taxpayer money to be used for abortions,” Nelson said in his floor speech. “We should not break with precedent on this bill.” Nelson said the amendment would bar women...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama told the American people in a national speech in September that "my" health care plan would not include taxpayer funding of abortion. Obama broke that pledge once by lobbying members of the House to support a pro-abortion funding bill and he did it again this weekend in the Senate. Obama met with Senate Democrats in a closed door session on Sunday and told them to support the Harry Reid-sponsored bill that includes massive abortion funding and could force insurance companies to cover abortions with taxpayer's premiums.Although the media wasn't allowed into the...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A collection of pro-abortion religious groups authored a letter today to members of the Senate that essentially places them on record supporting taxpayer funding of abortions. The letter expresses their opposition to the Nelson amendment, released today, to remove abortion funding from the Senate government-run health care bill. The Episcopal Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), United Church of Christ, and United Methodist Church are the four mainline protestant denominations to sign the letter asking lawmakers to oppose the Nelson amendment.They are joined by the Disciples Justice Action Center, NA'AMAT USA, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, a...

The 2010 election is still almost a year away, and as they say, a lot could happen. But if the Stupid Party doesn't mess up the "Dump Dodd" movement, Connecticut will have a new U.S. senator come January 2011. But even in defeat, corrupt Democrat Christopher Dodd would be a big winner because he voted many times to make it so. Besides a career's worth of dirty wealth he has amassed — the Irish cottage, the real-estate equity enhanced by sweetheart mortgages, the money he saved touring the globe in special-interest and taxpayer-funded junkets and God know what else —...

Per Fox. Title says it all. Gonna happen in time for Christmas. Gutless conservatives have been rightfully excluded from government.

A new ad running on Fox News takes aim at accusations that opponents of President Barack Obama's healthcare plan are racist. The advertisement is sponsored by a new conservative documentary, I Want Your Money (www.IWantYourMoney.net) and features Rep. Robert Schaaf (R, MO) among others admitting that if opposition to government-sponsored healthcare is racist, then he is racist. Click to view "I Guess I'm Racist"

U.S. congressional hopefuls running as Tea Party candidates could fare better than those running as Republicans, a Rasmussen Report released Monday indicates. In a three-way generic ballot test, results found Democrats attracting 36 percent of the vote, the Tea Party candidate garnered 23 percent and Republicans collected 18 percent, Rasmussen said in a release. Another 22 percent of respondents said they were undecided. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, the Tea Party movement emerged victorious, the results indicated. Thirty-three percent of people surveyed said they preferred the Tea Party candidate, 30 percent said they were undecided, 25 percent...

RNC chairman Michaele Steele said today that Democrats should strip Harry Reid of his leadership position if he does not apologize for remarks comparing healthcare reform to the abolition of slavery.Here are Reid's remarks from earlier today:"Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the Republicans can come up with is, 'slow down, stop everything, let's start over.' If you think you've heard these same excuses before, you're right...When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said 'slow down, it's too early, things aren't bad enough.'Steele said...

With Pres. Obama giving a pep talk to Senate Dems Sunday (yet not mentioning the “public option” or abortion), it may be that ObamaCare is less than a done deal. But is the GOP taking pressure off the Dems by allowing votes on amendments, or helping to fix the bill? Senior GOP Senate staffers tell NRO’s Robert Costa: No way… “The idea is to make Democrats walk through glass everyday until the final vote on this puppy,” says one. “Make them take the kinds of stands that will be tough to explain to the media today — and to their...

What would a “state director” have to do with overseas Senate junkets? It apparently helps if the state director is dating the Senator who takes the junket. The Hill reports that Melodee Hanes, Max Baucus’ girlfriend and his state director, traveled with Baucus on taxpayer funds to the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam in 2008, just before Baucus nominated her to be a US Attorney (via Libertarian Republican): Former U.S. attorney nominee Melodee Hanes traveled abroad with Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and six other staff members twice at the end of 2008, both times as a member of the lawmaker’s...

Orrin Hatch then gives him a piece of his mind followed by a panel discussion. Poor Harry sounds like he has a cold, so you've got to listen carefully. Dare we ask if Reed will apologize to Republicans for HIS offensive comments?

Here is video of Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison reacting to Sen. Harry Reid's outrageous statement today in which he compared opponents to President Obama's Government Health Care Plan to those who supported slavery. Hutchison said Reid's comments were "so over the top" it is unbelievable, and she said that kind of rhetoric has no place in the Senate. She believes it is a sign of desperation on the part of the Democrats. . . . . (VIDEO)

Washington » Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid equated Republican attempts to delay health reform to politicians who argued against ending slavery or giving women the right to vote. "All Republicans can come up with is this: Slow down, stop everything and start over. If you think you have heard these same excuses before, you are right," Reid said on the Senate floor Monday. "When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said, 'Slow down, it is too early, let's wait. Things are not bad enough.' " Republicans immediately called foul....

Republican senators put Democratic leaders on notice Monday that they'll expand the chamber's abortion battles to appropriations bills. 35 GOP senators, led by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), wrote Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to notify him that they would not allow FY2010 Financial Services and State/Foreign Operations appropriations bills to move forward in the Senate unless subsidies for coverage of abortion services are eliminated from the bills. "We have grave concerns regarding the exclusion of longstanding funding limitations on abortion in the various appropriations bills that are currently before Congress," the senators said. "We cannot, in good conscience, allow these...

The House of Representatives on December 3rd passed House Resolution 4154, which is deceptively called the "Permanent Estate Tax Relief Act."  This bill is part of the general war by the Democratic Party on self-employed Americans, family farms, and home businesses.  Does this sound extreme?  Consider the vote on the message:  225 Democrats in the House voted for HR 4154 and 26 Democrats voted against it; not a single Republican voted for HR 4154.  No RINOs could be persuaded to support Congressman Pomeroy's attempt to freeze the estate tax emption level at $3.5 Million and then tax all estate assets...