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Vote to cut lawmakers' travel costs isn't all she doesn't like NASHVILLE — State Sen. Ophelia Ford's opposition to curtailing airfare for lawmakers made for a curious speech on the Senate floor, in which she decried not only the bill but also suggested legislators should raise their compensation when the economy improves. The Senate reviewed a bill by Sen. Brian Kelsey, R-Germantown, Monday night to limit the taxpayers' tab for lawmakers' airfare to the mileage reimbursement they would get driving. Kelsey said it's the least the legislature can do, two weeks after the state sent layoff notices to 853 state...

Just saw on FoxNews' special report, Brit Hume reporting today on a poll of Americans' attitude towards the political groups (were the elections held today...): Favoring GOP = 46% Favoring Dem = 45% Favoring TeaParty = 37%The interesting part is that the TeaParty candidates would enjoy in a very near percentage as the 2 main blocs.

One can only imagine the “Dean Scream” that came out of Burlington, Vermont the night the government takeover of health care passed the House of Representatives. The always daffy Howard Dean appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Sunday to discuss the health care reform bill. He explained that the broader principle of the legislation has less to do with fixing the health system and more to do with a Marxist principle of redistributing wealth. “When [wealth distribution] gets out of whack as it did in the ’20s and it has now, you need to do some redistribution. This is a form...

Now Max Baucus tells us: the health care overhaul America was just forced to endure was the government’s attempt to fix the “mal-distribution of income.” It’s an admission that sadly comes after the bill has passed and been signed by President Obama. But it’s better late than never. While the acknowledgment likely wouldn’t have stopped the legislation because chances are it was common knowledge behind closed doors, at least the admission has now become public. And it proves the point the whole exercise had nothing to do with Americans’ health and more to do with the Marxist concept of “redistributing”...

Yesterday in Washington, our President signed historic health care reform that will make health coverage accessible and affordable for 1.2 million uninsured Virginians. But here in Virginia, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has decided to wage a fruitless war against health care reform -- by filing a frivolous lawsuit against the federal government. Today, Virginians are fighting back. The Democratic Party of Virginia launched a petition today, calling on Ken Cuccinelli to stop wasting our tax dollars on his political stunts. Sign the petition today and tell Ken Cuccinelli that the Office of the Attorney General is the people's law firm,...

An initiative of the St. Louis Tea Party * Home * The Scroll * The Total List and Contact * The Undecided Press Release for Operation Dem Rescue March 19, 2010 by DanaLoesch FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dana Loesch dana.loesch@stlouisteaparty.com Bill Hennessy bill.hennessy@stlouisteaparty.com ST. LOUIS TEA PARTY LAUNCHES OPERATION DEM RESCUE Vows to Aid Democrats Who Vote NO on Health Control ST. LOUIS — Yesterday the St. Louis Tea Party launched Operation Dem Rescue, an initiative to give support to Democrats who are standing against President Obama and his health control government grab. The President has said that he will...

WASHINGTON – The nation cannot afford the spending Democrats have enacted or the tax increases they propose, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said Wednesday in the Republican response to the State of the Union address. McDonnell, in excerpts of his speech released in advance, said Democratic policies are resulting in an unsustainable level of debt. He said Americans want affordable health care, but they don't want the government to run it. "Top-down, one-size-fits-all decision-making should not replace the personal choices of free people in a free market, nor undermine the proper role of state and local governments in our system of...

Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D) on Friday said Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has gone too far to placate environmental groups when it comes to oil and gas drilling policy. Salazar last week said Interior is expanding environmental reviews and increasing public input before leasing federal lands to energy companies. Freudenthal penned a detailed letter to Salazar Friday criticizing the changes, alleging that policymakers in Washington “go from pillar to post to placate what is perceived as a key constituency.”

Rep. Joe Sestak blames Democratic leaders for the plunge in public support for overhauling the health care system, saying Wednesday they failed to defend proposals that helped carry the party to victories in 2008. "They said it would be transparent. Why isn't it?" said Sestak, a Delaware County Democrat, in a meeting with Tribune-Review editors and reporters. "At times, I find the caucus is a real disappointment. We aren't transparent, not just to the public but at times to the members."

BALTIMORE - Baltimore’s mayor was convicted yesterday on a single charge she took gift cards intended for the city’s poor. Although Sheila Dixon was acquitted of felony theft charges, her misdemeanor conviction could force her from office. Jurors deliberated more than six days after hearing accusations that the Democrat improperly used or kept $630 worth of gift cards. She was accused of soliciting most of the cards from a developer and buying electronics at Best Buy, clothes at Old Navy, and knickknacks at Target. The jury convicted her on one count of fraudulent misappropriation by a fiduciary and acquitted her...

A top House Democrat said Monday she's "confident" that a conference committee will strip language in the House health bill on taxpayer funding for abortion. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the Democrats' chief deputy whip in the House, said that she and other pro-choice lawmakers would work to strip the amendment included in the House health bill that bars federal funding from going to subsidize abortions. "I am confident that when it comes back from the conference committee that that language won't be there," Wasserman Schultz said during an appearance on MSNBC. "And I think we're all going to be...

Dem bill urges new US powers over financial firmsTue Oct 27, 2009 8:16pm EDT By Kevin Drawbaugh and Rachelle Younglai * Financial Services Oversight Council would be set up * Treasury would head council to monitor, address risks * Federal Reserve, FDIC would get new authorities * Obama says bill urgent, crucial (Updates with Obama letter to Frank) WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. government would gain far-reaching new powers to regulate, and even shut down, large financial firms that threaten economic stability under a draft bill released in Congress on Tuesday. Congressional Democrats and the Obama administration agreed...

Dem Pollster Asked Not to PollSeptember 18, 2009 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Here is our blowtorch affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina, yesterday, WPTF radio, the Bill LuMaye Show. He's talking to Tom Jensen, the director of Public Policy Polling communications, and he says, "How important are your polls to a political party, whether Republican or Democrat? Do they look at this and go, 'Holy cow'? They recognize the trouble they're in, don't they?" JENSEN: Absolutely. We've had campaign managers for Democratic candidates in other states call us up and ask us not to poll their states because they don't want the...

JERSEY CITY -- Jack Shaw, a Jersey City political consultant who was among 44 people charged in a federal corruption probe, has died. Two officials with knowledge of the investigation said Shaw was found at home with several bottles of pills nearby. One of the officials said Shaw, 61, had an unspecified medical condition, and authorities are not jumping to conclusions about the cause of his death.

Rep. Russ Carnahan was mocked at a townhall promoting the Democrats' health care plan. At one point he is asked ""if it's so good why doesn't Congress have to be on it?" Rep. Carnahan also claimed the CBO said the health care plan would be "deficit neutral." That is untrue.

Dem says tax cuts blunted the stimulusBy Walter Alarkon and Kevin Bogardus Posted: 07/13/09 08:29 PM [ET] Congress cut taxes by too much and did not include enough money for transportation projects when it passed a $787 billion stimulus bill this year, the Democratic chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said Monday. Rep. Jim Oberstar (Minn.) stopped short of saying Congress should move a second stimulus, as some Democrats have recently suggested. But he told The Hill on Monday that lawmakers could create jobs by passing his own big-ticket public-works legislation: a $500 billion surface transportation reauthorization bill....

WASHINGTON (AP) - With health care legislation at a crossroads, the nation's hospitals are near agreement with a key lawmaker and the White House to pick up part of the cost of President Barack Obama's plan for expanded coverage, officials said Monday. The precise size of the deal was not available, although several days ago, talks were focused in the range of $150 billion to $155 billion over a decade. These officials said under the emerging agreement, hospitals would accept lower-than-anticipated payments under Medicare and Medicaid, the federal health care programs for seniors and the poor.

If the cap and trade bill is shot down by Congress, it will hurt businesses more than it will hurt environmentalists. The plain, inescapable, fact is that Barack Obama and his adminstration plan on forcing businesses to cut their CO2 emissions. There's two ways this can happen. The easy way, through cap and trade, or the hard way, which involves the EPA laying the smack down. E&E Daily (sub.) : Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said a losing House vote does not bother him considering the Supreme Court has already granted U.S. EPA authority to regulate greenhouse gases. "I had Henry...

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Dear xxxxxx, $125,000,000. That's how much of our money won't be coming here to help struggling Virginia families, thanks to a partisan maneuver last week by Bob McDonnell and the Virginia House Republicans. They chose to reject $125 million of our federal stimulus money, sending it back to Washington instead of boosting Virginia's economy and helping Virginia families. It's time for us to Stand Up for Virginia. Today, we are launching a grassroots petition that empowers Virginians to express their outrage over this dangerous decision - and calls on the Republican House of Delegates to fix the mess they made...