Posted on 09/24/2010 2:38:42 AM PDT by Scanian
New York may emerge as the epicenter of a political earthquake on Nov. 2. This longtime blue-state bystander could elect a Republican governor, dethrone House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and topple the Democratic majority in the US Senate.
Yesterday's unveiling of the GOP "Pledge to America" recalls the "Contract with America" of 1994 -- but 2010 is shaping up to be a larger upheaval.
In the Empire State, the GOP primaries tested the establishment candidates for governor and senator and found them wanting. In their place, primary voters nominated two feisty, scrappy contenders with hearts and souls not far from the Tea Party movement -- Carl Paladino and Joe DioGuardi.
A Rasmussen survey right after the primary gave Cuomo a comfortable 54-38 lead. But Paladino trails by only 49-43 in the Quinnipiac poll and 49-40 in the SurveyUSA poll, both taken in the last few days. (A Siena poll released yesterday shows a 57-24 race -- a finding out of kilter with everything else; it may have oversampled Democrats.)
And, just when Republicans saw reduced chances of picking up a Senate seat in Delaware, comes the news that former Rep. Joe DioGuardi has a great shot at unelected Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. A Rochester Democrat and Chronicle/White Plains Journal News poll released yesterday has him just one point behind her, 45-44, while Quinnipiac has her ahead by only 48-42.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
GO TEA PARTY!
pitchforks at the ready!!!!!!
Looks like plenty of earthquakes going on all across the country.
Even if the pubbies do lead a tsunami into Washington, the Tea Party’s work will have only just begin. We will have to hold their feet to the fire and start preparing for 2012. Otherwise, we’ll achieve nothing: newly elected GOP’ers, just as in 1995, will decide they really like the Georgetown restaurants and the embassy receptions and coctail circuits, and their place at the front of the line at the federal trough. Immediately ban earmarks, eliminate or drastically reduce the departments of education, commerce, and others, and put a stake in the heart of ObamaCare: repeal it completely and comprehensively.
It would also be a good idea to start fencing in and reducing the federal judiciary. Congress has the constitutional power to determine matters over which the federal courts have power, but has used that power only very rarely. I would, for example, remove from federal jurisdiction states’ criminal court decisions. The only criminal court actions being dealt with by federal judges should be violations of federal statutes. Once a killer has been tried and convicted, and appeals in the state system exhausted, there should be no way to get the matter into the federal court system for further endless appeals. After the state supremes have spoken, strap ‘em into old sparky and let ‘er rip. (We could probably eliminate 75% of federal judgeships if every matter which doesn’t belong in the federal court system was effectively kept out.)
Way to go, Carl!
When Cuomo was Housing and Urban Development secretary, he was the prime mover behind programs that destabilized Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and his programs to mandate banks loan to low-income and bad-credit homebuyers were a significant factor in the housing collapse.
Congresswoman Gillibrand served as Special Counsel to Andrew Cuomo, Pres Clinton's appointee as Secy of HUD. Gillibrand played a key role in furthering HUD’s Labor Initiative and *New Markets initiative (sub-prime mortgages); Gillibrand worked to strengthen the Davis-Bacon Act and drafting new markets legislation for public and private investment in building infrastructure to revitalize lower income areas across the nation."
Translation: Their fingerprints are all over the current recession.
"Sure, I know how I got the job. Clinton needed my daddy in his corner, so he
gave me the HUD job. That's how I got the $18 million to run for Governor."
CUOMO AND BILL CLINTON CREATED CONDITIONS FOR MELTDOWN (Village Voice 8-5-08) Andrew Cuomo, the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history, made a series of decisions between 1997 and 2001 that gave birth to the country’s current crisis. He took actions that—in combination with many other factors—helped plunge Fannie and Freddie into the sub-prime markets without putting in place the means to monitor their increasingly risky investments. He turned the Federal Housing Administration mortgage program into a sweetheart lender with sky-high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded “kickbacks” to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans.
Three to four million families are now facing foreclosure, and Cuomo is one of the reasons why.......
SOURCE http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-08-05/news/how-andrew-cuomo-gave-birth-to-the-crisis-at-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac/
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Feb 8, 2010
THE DIRT ON CUOMO
Editorial, The Wall St Journal
FR Posted February 08, 2010 by The Raven
HUD's Web site chronicled that in 1999 "Then-HUD Secy Cuomo (Clinton appointee) established new Affordable Housing Goals requiring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (govt-sponsored enterprises involved in housing finance) to buy $2.4 TRILLION in mortgages in the next 10 years. This will mean new affordable housing for about 28.1 million low- and moderate-income families." "The historic action raised the required percentage of mortgage loans for low-and moderate-income families that the companies must buy from the current 42% of their total purchases to a new high of 50%—a 19% increase—in the year 2001." ... (Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
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REFERENCE Entitled, "Highlights of HUD Accomplishments 1997-1999," the document chronicles the "accomplishments under the leadership of Secretary Andrew Cuomo, who took office in January 1997." HUD's Web visitors learn that in 1999: "Secretary Cuomo established new Affordable Housing Goals requiring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—two government sponsored enterprises involved in housing finance—to buy $2.4 trillion in mortgages in the next 10 years. This will mean new affordable housing for about 28.1 million low- and moderate-income families.
Cuomo's historic action raised the required percentage of mortgage loans for low- and moderate-income families that the companies must buy from the current 42% of their total purchases to a new high of 50%—-----a 19% increase—in the year 2001."
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STATEMENT FROM NY GOVERNOR DAVID A. PATERSON
Appoints Kirsten Gillibrand to Hillary's Senate seat
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 23, 2009
EXCERPT “New York State laws empower the Governor to appoint a new Senator if a seat should come open. It is my privilege and my responsibility to make this choice on behalf of the people of New York."
“That is why I am proud to announce my appointment of Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand to represent New York in the United States Senate. I am appointing Kirsten Gillibrand because she is the right leader for this decisive moment in our history. “Kirsten Gillibrand, the next junior Senator from New York will have big shoes to fill. This seat has been held by icons of New York State: Robert Francis Kennedy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Hillary Rodham Clinton."
" During the administration of President Clinton, Congresswoman Gillibrand served as Special Counsel to Andrew Cuomo, Pres Clinton's appointee as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development."
"At HUD, Congresswoman Gillibrand played a key role in furthering HUD’s Labor Initiative and *New Markets initiative, working to strengthen enforcement of the Davis-Bacon Act and drafting new markets legislation for public and private investment in building infrastructure to revitalize lower income areas across the nation."
Following federal service, Congresswoman Gillibrand entered the private sector, joining one of the Country’s premier law firms.
READ MORE AT: http://www.state.ny.us/governor/press/press_0123091.html
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NOTE * New Market Initiatives are also known as "subprime markets," the self-same sub-prime markets that precipitated the destruction of the US economy.
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We need them all over the country.
Big talk. Do you have any specific policies and strategies to offer? Or is the Tea Party still opposed to such unhelpful distractions.
Ah comprehension impairment again rears it's head on FR. It seems that Spartan79 just did list some specific policies in his fine post. Here's a few since you quite obviously missed them:
Immediately ban earmarks, eliminate or drastically reduce the departments of education, commerce, and others, and put a stake in the heart of ObamaCare: repeal it completely and comprehensively.
That seems like a pretty good short list to me. What do you think?
You might want to zip on down to the second paragraph Spartan79 was thoughtful enough to include.
You can agree or disagree as is your right but to imply that there were no policies or strategies are there simply isn't the case.
Have a good day.
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It's all just more yap yap yap. Tea Partiers are great at being mad and marching around and yelling slogans. But the rubber hits the road elsewhere.
Actually they are 'policies'. Look that word up.
And strategies.... just how does he plan to make that happen?
Sorry, I didn't realize I was dealing with someone who needed things like that explained to him. My mistake. That would be by electing Tea Party backed Candidates who believe in those goals.
Tea Partiers are great at being mad and marching around and yelling slogans.
Yes they are thank God. Apparently they're also pretty good at knocking off RINO incumbents at the polls.
But the rubber hits the road elsewhere.
You mean like in the Primaries?
Seems r9 got up on the wrong side of his crib.
Wonder if r9 is really Karl Rove??
In other words, let somebody else do the thinking, and the Tea Party folks will just get mad at him if he does something they don't like. Yap yap yap.
A serious political movement might consider coming up with a platform and strategies of its own. But then, that requires organization, and the Tea Party movement is evidently opposed to being organized -- at least, that's what the ones around here tell me.
Yes they are thank God. Apparently they're also pretty good at knocking off RINO incumbents at the polls.
Taking advantage of pre-existing voter dismay in a primary is one thing. Actually getting elected is another. And being effective once elected.... well, marching around yelling slogans doesn't help much for that.
You mean like in the Primaries?
No, I mean like when somebody gets elected in the general (.... that's a big enough hurdle), and then has to actually get something done once they're sworn in. THAT is the hard part.
Actually that was more of a comment on your intellectual prowess or lack thereof. It looks like I'm really, really going to have to go into detail with you from now on.
Tea Party folks will just get mad at him if he does something they don't like.
I believe that's the way our Republic is supposed to operate. You might want to give that Google thingy a try and look up "Constitutional Republic". I'm sure you'll find it enlightening.
Yap yap yap.
Vote, vote, vote. Good bye Senator Murkowski, Senator Bennett, and Congressman Castle.
A serious political movement might consider coming up with a platform and strategies of its own.
Considering the Tea Parties have been on the streets for less than a year I'd say they're doing pretty damned well. But I'm sure that if they had the benefit of your vast expertise, body of knowledge, and obvious wealth of experience they'd be much farther along.
Tell me please; have you ever considered dragging your ass from behind your keyboard and offering to lend a hand? Why I'm sure if you got involved you could offer detailed White Papers, Position Papers, and a step by step road map to Electoral victory in just a few weeks.
That'd be really peachy of you.
I'm sure that Senator DeMint would be chomping at the bit to hire someone of your caliber. Why don't you toss a resume his way?
Nice to hear a fool spout ignorant bursts of babble so early in the morning....wake up, you’re having a bad dream...
You'll need 67 votes in the Senate and 290 votes in the House to repeal it while Obama is in the White House. Winning 26 new GOP members of the Senate and 110 plus new GOP members of the House while holding all of the current GOP seats in Congress would be quite a feat.
I'll be happy if we have majorities in each house of Congress and defund the worst provisions of Obamacare for now. Getting veto-proof majorities is no easy trick, although the Senate might be possible by 2014. A GOP controlled, filibuster-proof Senate, seems very possible by 2014.
I don’t think it would actually take 290 seats in the house and 67 in the senate to override an Obama veto. If we got within 15 or so of 290 in the house and even as far as 55-56 seats in the senate, dems up 2012 (all the house, 1/3 of the senate) would crap their pants and abandon Obama and Obamacare like rats from a sinking ship.
Very tall order, of course.
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