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1) Tea Party Victory in Delaware (But Establishment Republicans Won’t Support Her)
…Republicans must pick up 40 seats to win control of the House. They need 10 to gain a Senate majority, and even prominent GOP strategists said O'Donnell's victory would complicate their chances.
In a celebratory round of interviews, O'Donnell was having none of it.
"There are a lot of people who are rallying behind me who are frustrated that the Republican Party has lost its way," she said. A primary winner on the strength of support from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and tea party activists, she now enters the fall campaign as an underdog to Democrat Chris Coons.
…"This is not a race we're going to be able to win," said Karl Rove, who was the principal political adviser to former President George W. Bush as well one of the leaders of a multimillion-dollar independent organization trying to fashion GOP majorities in Congress.
Responding to Rove, Palin told Fox News Channel on Wednesday: "My message to those who say that the GOP nominee is not electable are that they're not even going to try: Well I say, 'Buck up.'" She added: "It is time to put aside internal power grabs and greed and egos within the party, and to fight united for what's right and beneficial for all Americans."
On Wednesday, O'Donnell accused the party of "Republican cannibalism."
"We have to rise above this nastiness and unify for the greater good, because there's a lot of work to be done and there are a lot of people who want to get involved if the Republican Party would," O'Donnell said in an interview with The Associated Press.
She said she hopes the party will unite to help her win in November, but added, "It is doable without the support of the Republican Party." She also made the rounds of national television interviews.
See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100915/ap_on_el_ge/us_primary_rdp
2) The Democrats' Fannie Is Showing (In 2004, 76 Democrats Asked Bush Not to Responsibly Manage Fannie and Freddie)
Irresponsibility: After the global financial crisis, no politician would dare chide another for too much "safety and soundness." But in 2004, 76 Democrats actually asked President Bush not to manage Fannie Mae responsibly (emphasis mine).
There are smoking guns and then there are smoking bazookas (emphasis mine). The June 28, 2004, letter from Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and dozens of other House Democrats to President Bush, posted by Moe Lane on Redstate.com last week, forever squashes Democratic claims about the mortgage crisis not being their fault.
"We urge you to reconsider your administration's criticisms of the housing-related government sponsored enterprises (the 'GSEs') and instead work with Congress to strengthen the mission and oversight of the GSEs," states the missive of nearly a page and a half, signed by a rogues' gallery of 76 House Democrats.
They include not only Frank, current chairman of the House Banking Committee; but Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., now being probed for reportedly laundering TARP money in her husband's bank; and erstwhile House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., who is charged with more than a dozen counts of violating House rules and federal laws.
Almost comically, the letter states that the Democrats are unhappy the Bush administration is "emphasizing only safety and soundness," claiming that "an exclusive focus on safety and soundness is likely to come, in practice, at the expense of affordable housing (emphasis mine)."
And the Democratic representatives charged that "because Congress has not been willing to jeopardize the GSEs' mission, the administration has turned to attacking the GSEs publicly."
Such attacks could mean "negative opinions in the financial markets regarding the GSEs, raising their cost of financing."
It turned out, of course, that the negative opinions of Fannie Mae, and its evil twin Freddie Mac, in the financial markets were due to the GSEs taking a lead role in crippling the global economy.
The GSEs used the taxpayer-funded financial power of the federal government to give ultralow rate mortgages to millions of Americans with rotten credit ratings — which ended up poisoning the portfolios of investors around the world.
...They insisted that President Bush "place a high priority on working with the GSEs to close as many loans as possible this year" and reiterated "that an exclusive emphasis on safety and soundness . .. is misplaced (emphasis mine)."
The 9.6% unemployment that Americans now suffer is directly connected to the many years of Democrats' demagoguery. They said that any attempt to rein in Fannie and Freddie was anti-poor and anti-minority — fiscal soundness be damned.
...The cumulative result was that banks and other lenders were pressured to give mortgages to unqualified borrowers in the name of social and racial justice. Last year, the Obama administration raised Fannie and Freddie's $400 billion borrowing cap.
Every single politician who signed this letter is guilty of taking part in the gross financial mismanagement of this country. They betrayed the trust of those who elected them, and that trust should be rescinded this November.
3) More House Democrats call for tax cuts for all
WASHINGTON – More Democrats joined Republicans on Wednesday in calling for the preservation of tax breaks for Americans of every income level, bolting this election season from President Barack Obama's plan to preserve cuts for families who earn less than $250,000 and let taxes rise for the wealthiest Americans. But Obama placed the blame for the stalled proposal squarely on Republicans.
Ah, yes, the “wealthy Americans”. Never forget that those “wealthy Americans” are the ones whose investment creates jobs for the not-so-wealthy Americans…
See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100915/ap_on_bi_ge/us_tax_cuts
4) Morning Bell: Obamacare vs. the Rule of Law
Health Insurers Plan Hikes. That was the headline of a Wall Street Journal story last Tuesday which reported: “Health insurers say they plan to raise premiums for some Americans as a direct result of the health overhaul in coming weeks, complicating Democrats’ efforts to trumpet their signature achievement before the midterm elections. Aetna Inc., some BlueCross BlueShield plans and other smaller carriers have asked for premium increases of between 1% and 9% to pay for extra benefits required under the law, according to filings with state regulators.” And The Wall Street Journal was not alone. The Los Angeles Times and Dallas Morning News also reported rate hikes in their states, some as high as 16%. And this comes on top of news that Obamacare is forcing health care companies to stop offering coverage for kids and forcing colleges to stop offering coverage for students.
Obamacare is deeply unpopular with the American people because, as the massive regulatory regime goes into effect, the American people are noticing that none of the administration’s major promises are being honored. The cost of health care is going up, not down. Health care spending is going up, not down. Millions of Americans are not able to keep their insurance. To combat this reality, the Obama administration struck back last Friday. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to America’s Health Insurance Plans warning them that “there will be zero tolerance” for “falsely blaming premium increases” on Obamacare. Specifically, Sebelius threatened to punish non-subservient firms by excluding them from the government regulated and mandated health insurance exchanges. Since these exchanges will be the primary way most Americans receive health insurance (especially if more private firms decide to end their current coverage) such a decision by Sebelius would be a death sentence for any insurer that does not comply.
Never before in the history of our republican form of government has an administration threatened to extinguish individual firms for merely communicating with their customers. But such are the dictatorial powers Obamacare grants to Secretary Sebelius. There are over 1,000 instances in the more than 2,700 page bill where Congress granted Secretary Sebelius new powers to regulate the health care industry. For example, her power to “determine” what does or does not count as a medical expense alone will decide the fate of many health insurance firms.
Is this the type of government our Founders intended our federal government to become? No.
See: http://blog.heritage.org/2010/09/14/morning-bell-obamacare-vs-the-rule-of-law/
4a) Dems buy anti-health-reform ads
Democratic candidates are spending three times more advertising against the health reform law than they are in support of it.
Since the beginning of Congress’s August recess, Democratic candidates have poured $930,000 into ads deriding the health overhaul but just $300,000 in pro-reform spots, according to Evan Tracey at Kantar Media.
“Go back to 2006, and even before that, and Democrats used health care as their No. 1 issue,” Tracey said. “They had a villain in the pharmaceutical industry. Now that they passed this law, it’s almost disarmed them rather than given them an opportunity.”
See: http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=188ECCC3-18FE-70B2-A87098A7E8ACCF49
5) Nationalized retirement accounts: The coming confiscation of the retirement savings of the middle class
PPJ Gazette - Having spent the last ten years, minimally, spending without conscience or concern, the federal government has hit the wall; no one wants to buy our Treasury bonds used to finance the national debt. As one bill after another comes out of congress giving the government and its corporate buddies control of everything from our water and land to our food and health, it comes as no surprise that the final act of redistribution of wealth to the already wealthy, is, the forced conversion of private retirement investments into nationalized retirement accounts which are nothing less than the confiscation of wealth from the middle class to pay the debt run up by one congress and president after another.
Obama Administration begins the “grab” for retirement accounts
S 3760, introduced August 5 by Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) would require that employers of workers currently not covered by any retirement program pay 3% of compensation into mandatory, automatic IRA accounts. That would also have the effect of increasing the assets that the US government could then seize.
This is the Republican privatization of Social Security scheme trotted out during the Bush years, retooled and now focused on the private savings of the middle class. Now, instead of forcing you to invest any portion of your Social Security retirement in the stock market, a move which would have seen one of the greatest thefts of wealth and its redistribution to the crooks and thieves on Wall Street had they been successful, the Democrat faction has taken up the cause of confiscating private investment accounts to fund the rampant overspending of government using retirement savings of those who were able to contribute to 401(k) and IRA accounts and who have savings in private pension funds.
See: http://nationalexpositor.com/News/2850.html
6) Holocaust Denial: George Soros vs. the Tea Parties (George Soros is now going after the Tea Party)
Most of us know him as the multi-billionaire financier of ultra-liberal causes (love them or leave them) whose fortune, ironically, comes from currency speculation — the “man who broke the Bank of England” during the 1992 British pound currency crisis. Never mind that thousands lost their pensions in the process. It’s the breaks of the game — capitalism as practiced by a quondam anti-captialist.
But that’s far from the most troubling thing about Soros. What disturbs most is something you will not read about in his Wikipedia entry, except in the most veiled manner. Soros — who appears in the right-hand column of that entry as a “Hungarian American” and an “atheist” — is a Hungarian Jew who, when 14 at the height of the Holocaust, was, well… no Anne Frank.
Wow. I didn’t know this before. This gives me new food for thought on Daniel 11:37 (“He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the one desired by women, nor will he regard any god, but will exalt himself above them all.” Many theologians believe this verse indicates that the Antichrist will be an apostate Jew).
The Ottawa Sun’s Ezra Levant, quoted by Kimball, puts it succinctly:
To survive, George, then a teenager, collaborated with the Nazis.
First he worked for the Judenrat. That was the Jewish council set up by the Nazis to do their dirty work for them. Instead of the Nazis rounding up Jews every day for the trains, they delegated that murderous task to Jews who were willing to do it to survive another day at the expense of their neighbours.
Theodore [his father] hatched a better plan for his son. He bribed a non-Jewish official at the agriculture ministry to let George live with him. George helped the official confiscate property from Jews.
…Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes asked him that. Was it difficult? “Not at all,” Soros answered.
“No feeling of guilt?” asked Kroft. “No,” said Soros. “There was no sense that I shouldn’t be there. If I wasn’t doing it, somebody else would be taking it away anyhow. Whether I was there or not. So I had no sense of guilt.”
…Am I calling Soros a disturbed person? In probability, yes. A man with two sides who is all the more dangerous for having both.
Starting in the 1980s, the good side went to work using his immense funds to help Eastern European countries transition out of the Soviet Union. This culminated in the 1990s with the establishment of the Open Society Institute.
But here in the United States, the same young man who collaborated with the Nazis has trouble as a grown man making moral distinctions or choosing sensible allies. He funded MoveOn.org, whose astonishing conflation of Bush and Hitler was both morally shameful and psychologically sick. (What an insult that was to the memory of the Holocaust.)
Now — and this is the proximate cause of my wanting to write about him in the first place — Soros is going after the tea party movement. From supporting freedom in Eastern Europe he has turned to attacking it in Eastern Tennessee. According to infowars.com:
Soros and the foundation left have launched a website designed to go after the growing Tea Party movement. Teapartytracker.org will post video interviews and blog entries gathered by folks on the false left who never grow weary of demonstrating their outrage over the very idea of a grassroots political effort overthrowing establishment Democrats and Republicans in the district of corporate criminals.
Teapartytracker.org will be sponsored by the NAACP, Think Progress, New Left Media and Media Matters for America. Think Progress is a George Soros operation connected to John Podesta’s Center for American Progress. Podesta is Clinton’s former chief of staff. Media Matters for America is the brainchild of a MoveOn consultant and Podesta’s Center for American Progress. Soros is a major supporter of MoveOn.
7) A U.N. Internet Governance Power Grab?
At the Internet Governance Forum meeting earlier this week in Vilnius, Lithuania, Rod Beckstrom, President and Chief Executive Officer of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) expressed his concern and worry about efforts by some governments to constrain the independence of the Internet at the upcoming U.N. General Assembly session.
For those who are not familiar with ICANN, the organization is a nonprofit corporation charged with regulating and managing the Domain Name System under which Internet Protocol addresses and registration of top-level domains (such as .org and .com) are assigned. “Governance” of the medium has been historically minimal and led by non-governmental entities and overseen by the U.S. government, which has exercised a light regulatory touch. This freedom allowed the Internet to grow and develop at a truly remarkable pace.
However, the United Nations has sought for some time to acquire authority over ICANN and the Internet, at the behest of a number of countries who wish to tax or regulate it. Last year, the Obama administration to decided to withdraw U.S. oversight and protection of ICANN on the justification that ICANN and the Internet had become too important internationally to be overseen by any one nation and reached agreement to affirm ICANN as “independent” and “not controlled by any one entity.”
Unfortunately, that decision opened the door to U.N. interference on the basis that all nations have a stake in the medium.
8) President Obama removes 'Creator' from the Declaration of Independence.
On September 15, President Obama addressed the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. At around 22:30, he incorporated part of The Declaration of Independence, but removed any reference to the "Creator."
Update: Here is a short version of the clip, with just the key minute…
After President Obama says "created equal..", there is a long pause during which he scowls and blinks several times. For once, he may actually have opted to not read something that was on the teleprompter. It looks like he is disgusted and decided it would be better not to read what the preamble actually says.
President Obama, if our Creator is not the purveyor of our rights, then who is? The government?
See: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/09/president_obama_removes_creato.html
9) Harry Reid Adds Immigration Measure to Defense Bill
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has decided to add language to the Defense authorization bill that would give young illegal immigrants a path to citizenship if they have been in the United States for longer than five years. To qualify, they also must have come to the country before the age of 16 and have completed at least two years of college or two years in the military.
"We have large numbers of our military who are Hispanic," Reid said Tuesday in the Capitol. "I think it's really important that we move forward on this legislation . . . Kids who grew up as Americans should be able to get their green cards after they go to college or serve in the military."
Top Republicans immediately balked at Reid's decision after discussing it with him.
"It's totally unrelated to the defense authorization bill," said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.). "Last year they dumped hate crimes onto this. The defense bill should be about taking care of our military."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned that Reid is endangering the defense bill by adding unrelated measures to it, including the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act.
"It's made it needlessly controversial," McConnell said. "I can't tell you right now how easy it will be to go forward with that bill, but it's certainly created an element of controversy that would not have been otherwise there."
In addition to the immigration language, top Republicans have strenuously objected to a measure within the Defense bill approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee that will begin to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell, the military policy that bans gays from serving openly in the military.
Keep it up, Mr. Reid! Show the American people EXACTLY who you are. Keep digging that hole so deep you’ll never get out!
See: http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/09/14/harry-reid-adds-immigration-changes-to-defense-bill/
9a) Sharron Angle calls “The Dream Act” an “outrageous act of political maneuvering”
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTNWVOD3GS8
9b) Sharron Angle Sets the Record Straight
(On a personal note, I was having breakfast with Sharron the day this was filmed, and she asked me if I’d like to come to the Fox News interview. I can be seen in the background, just behind and to the right of Sharron’s head at 0:52-1:03, talking with her husband, Ted. What a fantastic time I had! Thank you so much, Sharron).
10) Cuba to Cut State Jobs in Tilt Toward Free Market (Even Cuba gets it)
Cuba will lay off more than half a million state workers and try to create hundreds of thousands of private-sector jobs, a dramatic attempt by the hemisphere's only Communist country to shift its nearly bankrupt economy toward a more market-oriented system.
…"Our state can't keep maintaining...bloated payrolls," the union's statement said. More than 85% of Cuba's 5.5 million workers are employed by the state.
Cuba's effort to reorient its labor force represents the country's biggest step toward a freer economy since the early 1990s, when Havana embarked on a brief attempt to make changes in a bid to survive without subsidies after the collapse of the Soviet Union, its main benefactor.
See: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704190704575489932181245938.html
11) Govt hires operatives to track if Gulf news coverage is positive or negative for Obama
WASHINGTON – The federal government hired a New Orleans man for $18,000 to appraise whether news stories about its actions in the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for the Obama administration (emphasis mine), which was keenly sensitive to comparisons between its response and former President George W. Bush's much-maligned reaction to Hurricane Katrina.
The government also spent $10,000 for just over three minutes of video showing a routine offshore rig inspection for news organizations but couldn't say whether any ran the footage. And it awarded a $216,625 no-bid contract for a survey of seabirds to an environmental group that has criticized what it calls the "extreme anti-conservation record" of Sarah Palin, a possible 2012 rival to President Barack Obama.
The contracts were among hundreds reviewed by The Associated Press as the government begins to provide an early glimpse at federal spending since the Gulf disaster in April. While most of the contracts don't raise alarms, some could provide ammunition for critics of government waste.
…The White House is still deciding whether it will bill BP for spill-related trips by Obama and his wife, Michelle, to the Gulf, including the president's flights aboard Air Force One, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars each (emphasis mine).
UNBELIEVABLE.
…Yet the government's new contracting data includes errors and vague entries that make it difficult to identify wasteful spending. It spent $52,000 on a boat charter described merely as "marine charter for things," with no further explanation. A separate $90,000 contract for a single 70-pound anchor is listed incorrectly; the contractor told the AP it actually supplied hundreds of anchors.
…Among all the contracts, perhaps none is more striking than the Coast Guard's decision to pay $9,000 per month for two months to John Brooks Rice of New Orleans, an on-call worker for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, under a no-bid contract to monitor media coverage from late May through July.
See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100913/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_contracts_3
12) Sore Loser Lisa Murkowski
Her name is Lisa Murkowski — daughter of a former Alaska governor and an elitist.
As Alaska’s senator, she scores a dismal conservative rating of 53/100. She was defeated by Joe Miller, a true conservative, in Alaska’s recent GOP primary. Now, she’s coming back as a write-in candidate and, in so doing, will jeopardize Miller’s chance to be elected on November 2 as Alaska’s senator by splitting the GOP vote.
If you’re a Republican or Independent voter in Alaska, is this the sort of person you really want to represent your state in D.C. — someone who’s a sore loser, a spoiler, and who loves power so much she is determined to claw onto it?
See: http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/bitch/
12a) More on this…Tea Party Favorite Miller on Rival Murkowski's Write-In Campaign: She's Disrespecting the Will of the Voters
SENATE CANDIDATE JOE MILLER, R-AK (Via telephone): Greta, it's stunning for a number of reasons. One, that she would quote the late Senator Stevens as basically endorsing her write-in candidacy. And yet he said at the Lincoln Day dinner in Anchorage -- and this is a quote directly from him -- "I do hope that we can avoid electing people who would destroy another Republican in order to bring about personal success." This is a perfect example of what the late Senator Stevens warned against.
And it's also, of course, another example of a politician who's gone back on her word. You know, she said the Friday before the primary election that she would support the will of the electorate as demonstrated in the primary. Now, of course, she's obviously not a person of character, otherwise, she wouldn't be doing what she's doing, which is really disrespecting the will of the Alaskan voter.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right, when you won the primary on August 24th, did she call you? And what was that conversation like? And have you had any conversation since then?
MILLER: She did call me, conceding, did not congratulate me, and then later left a fairly nasty voicemail on my phone. But that's the only contact that I've had with her.
VAN SUSTEREN: What's a fairly nasty voicemail?
MILLER: Oh, it was just -- you know, I don't want to go into the personal detail of it, but it was just inappropriate. And you know, I think that what this is about, it really is a character issue. It's an issue I think that is reflected in kind of the liberal approach, which is, if you got power, you don't relinquish it, you keep it at all costs.
13) Elmo, Internet Czar & FCC Work to Redistribute Wealth With Free Broadband(Now free broadband is a civil right! Elmo is tired of buffering, don‘t you know?)
14) Waters Ethics Charges “About Black People”
Congresswoman Maxine Waters has begun a publicity campaign aimed at making her upcoming Ethics trial not about her but “about Black people.”
Waters told DC blog The Hill that she organized staffers to hold signs proclaiming her innocence at various events around the Capitol, including the annual legislative conference for the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Foundation and a green technology awards ceremony held by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“It ain’t about Nancy,” Waters said about the later event. “It’s about black people.”
Waters has been charged with using her influence to get a special private meeting for a bank her husband was on the board of, to discuss getting a special loan to keep the bank alive during the financial crisis. She has already blamed former US President George W. Bush and racism for the charges.
See: http://www.therightperspective.org/2010/09/17/waters-ethics-charges-about-black-people/
15) 'It’s hell. I can’t stand it!’ Carla Bruni reveals what Michelle Obama REALLY thinks of being First Lady
Michelle Obama thinks being America’s First Lady is ‘hell’, Carla Bruni reveals today in a wildly indiscreet book.
Miss Bruni divulges that Mrs Obama replied when asked about her position as the U.S. president’s wife: ‘Don’t ask! It’s hell. I can’t stand it!’
Details of the private conversation, which took place at the White House during an official visit by Nicolas Sarkozy last March, emerged in Carla And The Ambitious.
The book was written by journalists Michael Darmon and Yves Derai in what they claim is collaboration with Miss Bruni.
If this is true, what an ungrateful wretch!
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