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Maybe this has gotten media attention and I just missed it. But I don't think so. I've called my congressmen and senators about this, trying to get the GOP on it. But they don't seem to get it. IS THERE SOMEONE ON THESE BOARDS WHO CAN GET WORD TO THE GOP TO FOCUS ON THIS? _______________________________________________ Obama and the Dems say they haven't increased taxes on lower incomes. AND they claim to have more compassion toward the sick and those burdened with high medical expenses. Soooo not true. Check out Section 9013 on page 816 of the pdf linked above...

So Caterpillar and other employers will be hit with a big new tax on their retiree drug plans. And the Dems response is: taxpayers should NOT be subsidizing those companies' expenses. Well there's a powerful rebuttal that exposes the Dems' hypocrisy and deceitfulness regarding retiree health plans.[see Subtitle B, section 1102, page 52...or just search for "Reinsurance"] When Dems call their "oversight" hearings to hammer these companies, here's how Republicans should rebut them:Section 1102 of the bill contradicts the Dems' claim of protecting taxpayers. This section provides $5 BILLION to union health plans for their early retirees ---as young as...

Even worse, some costs are left out entirely. To operate the new programs over the first 10 years, future Congresses would need to vote for $114 billion in additional annual spending. But this so-called discretionary spending is excluded from the Congressional Budget Office’s tabulation.

The GOP should be able to hit this one out of the park. Obama himself teed it up for them. Of course, Obama was saying Dems should pass health care and then face the voters. The GOP should go directly to voters and tell them to demand that Dems wait a mere NINE MONTHS and campaign on health care. It would be in total keeping with what Obama said. LET THE VOTERS DECIDE WHETHER OBAMACARE SHOULD PASS! It would be the campaign version of a perfect storm for Dems. But how can they refuse, since the president himself set it...

Returning to the Capitol after seven hours of back-and-forth debate with Republicans, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) decided it was time to quit hiding his disdain for Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). Exiting an elevator en route to votes, Schumer was complaining loudly about Coburn's performance... ...then was spotted running out of the Senate chamber after votes because flights to New York were canceled... "It's snowing!" Schumer declared...as he rushed into the senators-only elevator. He then pleaded with the operator, "Ma'am! Ma'am! We have to go! I have a train leaving in nine minutes!"

Very entertaining.

OK, moderator. Take it down. Just my little contribution to the celebration.

Hard to decipher, but she clearly points them to the line for "Martha". http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZWQ4NTBhNzdjMTYzZTdlZWYwNmY0MWExOTI2NTdlODE=

The truth finally outs. The Democratic Party has tipped so thoroughly into paranoid-lunatic territory they can no longer hide it. Scott Brown says it's "him vs. the Machine". Over the last 10 days, that's changed. It's now "The Machine vs. The People". Keith Olberman says Scott Brown is "an irresponsible, reactionary, homophobic, racist" teabagger. John Kerry says Brown's supporters are "dangerous" and "violent". Countless other Dems parade before the cameras to tell us repeatedly how we-the-people are simply too stupid to understand their magnificent health care reform. It used to be they reserved such disdain for Southern "rednecks" (God, Guns,...

I’ve never seen anything like it. I ran campaigns for six years, and I’ve been watching campaigns for years more, and I’ve never seen the “We’ve got to win this race” attitude from regular voters like I’m seeing for Scott Brown. In a typical campaign, the hardest part is getting people to actually do things—show up at events, make phone calls, etc. They all talk a good game, but what you usually end up with is a hard core group of activists begging folks just to put a sign in their yards. That’s why money is so important—so campaigns can...

Last week I kept hearing reports that Brown's campaign was out of signs and bumper stickers. It occurred to me: we Tea Partiers didn't wait for someone to make our signs. We made them ourselves. Those signs became one of the most remarked-upon emblems of our protests. So I called Brown's HQ, suggested they start telling people to make their own hand written signs. Tack a piece of posterboard to a tree. Make a little sign for the window of your car. Whatever...just do it.Living far away, I have no idea whether they sent out that message. But today I...

In giving Obama a "B" on jobs, O'Reilly states: “We had chaos, and Obama stepped in and...I think he stabilized the economy...” Last night, at least twice, O'Reilly pummeled his guest with the "fact" that unemployment has abated: "At the beginning of the year, we had 600,000 job losses a month! In November, it was only 11,000. You can't say that's not an improvement!". ___________________________ Well, Bill, I can say it's not improvement. Let's use an example. Charles owns a light manufacturing business with 350 employees: 3 manufacturing shifts---100 jobs each, plus 50 office jobs (sales/customer svc/management). When demand started...

There's a scheme afoot. Several months ago Dems began repeating the mantra that they lost congress in '94 "because they failed to pass health care reform". Here we are in November and their lapdog media has now made that into conventional wisdom. This is simply another example of the Dems' tactic of "say it often enough and the media will believe it". But it's not true....it's just another Dem talking point. We are literally living through "revisionist history". I followed the '94 election results very closely. There were several over-arching causes for the Dems' defeat---not passing health care was NOT...

This article from Federal Times is linked at The Eye: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2009/09/eye_opener_federal_hiring_sala.html ___________________________________________________ The U.S. Postal Service, struggling with a massive deficit caused by plummeting mail volume, spends more than a million dollars each week to pay thousands of employees to sit in empty rooms and do nothing. It’s a practice called “standby time,” and it has existed for years — but postal employees say it was rarely used until this year. Now, postal officials say, the agency is averaging about 45,000 hours of standby time every week — the equivalent of having 1,125 full-time employees sitting idle, at a cost...

My niece, my sister (fellow Freeper) and I are headed to the March on DC. I still can't believe it. Never done anything like this...especially if it cost me money! But I sat there the other night and realized: We have to go. After complaining about the government for 20 years, this time I have to do something about it. So we've bought our plane tickets, booked our hotel. (Marriott at Crystal City/Reagan) Many of our friends are as angry as we are, but are unable to join us. So they've been enthusiastically passing the hat to support us and...

Faced with a souring public mood on health care reform, Democrats and their supporters are launching a national grassroots push Wednesday to show lawmakers that the majority of Americans still support overhauling the system. Reform supporters are planning to hold more than 500 events between Wednesday and when lawmakers return to Washington Sept. 8, ranging from neighborhood organized phone banks to professionally staffed rallies with hundreds of people. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26409.html#ixzz0P9U2QxUZ

Figure 1 looks at average wages. In 2008, the average wage for 1.9 million federal civilian workers was $79,197, which compared to an average $49,935 for the nation’s 108 million private sector workers (measured in full-time equivalents). The figure shows that the federal pay advantage (the gap between the lines) is steadily increasing.Oh, and you'll be delighted to know....IT GETS WORSE! (See 1st post below)

Toxic sludge oozed out of rusty barrels, soaked through cardboard boxes and spilled over frothy vats inside a west suburban warehouse raided by state inspectors in January 2008. Even though the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency had plenty of evidence to file charges against the owner and operator of Anchor Metal Finishing, top agency officials sat on the case for more than a year. Meanwhile, carcinogenic solvents and caustic acids kept leaching from barrels packed haphazardly into a ramshackle building, two blocks away from a Schiller Park subdivision. What appeared to be an obvious violation of state environmental laws became entangled...

Overall, 50% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. That figure has stayed in a very narrow range between 47% and 51% every single day for more than a month. Prior the July 8th, his approval rating had never fallen below 52%. Fifty percent (50%) now disapprove. For more measures of the President's performance, see Obama By the Numbers and recent demographic highlights from the tracking polls.

Much to argue with at that town hall. But this snippet in the article really caught my eye: Pulling US troops from Iraq before the end of 2011...might save money that could be used to fund the changes, Frank said. And they wonder why we don't trust them! The TEMPORARY war funding suddenly becomes PERMANENT! I suspect they did the same thing with Katrina spending. They're just a bunch of con-men...and they can't stand that we're onto them. We have every reason to believe they'll bankrupt the country with this plan.