Thursday, November 12, 2009

The Permanent List



The New York Times printed a story Sunday morning with a list of the Democrats that opposed the Health Care Rationing & Taxation bill. They did not list the names of congressman who voted for the bill. I had to search much harder for a complete list of those names and now I have my own list that wasn’t even made available in the Congressional Record on Sunday morning. They voted in the people’s house and therefore they can not hide. They can spin this, they can go home to their constituents and try to explain but they can never erase this from their voting record.

These are the names that should and will live in infamy. These are the congressional representatives who voted opposite what many of their voters, as the polls would suggest, the majority of their voters wanted. This is not Democracy. This is not the government promised to us in the Constitution.

If this becomes law, their bill will knowingly put many of you out of work and even intends to put some of you in jail if you don’t buy health insurance. They are the ones who need to be unemployed and some of them even belong in jail.

They have voted to place a tax burden on our backs, the backs of our children and an evil legacy that our grandchildren and their children will have to bear their entire lives. And all the while it will do nothing to improve health care for anyone. In the words of Joe Wilson, the entire bill is a LIE!

These congressmen and women all must be stripped of their power and that day can not come soon enough.

The grass roots movement to take back our country be eliminating the power elite who are deaf to their constituents has already started here:
http://www.reversethevote.org/


HOUSE VOTE 887 - H.R. 3962 Health Care Rationing & Taxation Bill
with special provisions to jail those who don't want to buy health insurance
the renewed inclusion of Death Panels
and the temporary removal of provisions to pay for abortions


Yes Votes (220)




Member Party Dist.
Nancy Pelosi D CA-8
Neil Abercrombie D HI-1
Gary L. Ackerman D NY-5
Robert E. Andrews D NJ-1
Michael Arcuri D NY-24
Xavier Becerra D CA-31
Howard L. Berman D CA-28
Marion Berry D AR-1
Sanford D. Bishop Jr. D GA-2
Earl Blumenauer D OR-3
Leonard L. Boswell D IA-3
Corrine Brown D FL-3
Robert A. Brady D PA-1
Tammy Baldwin D WI-2
Shelley Berkley D NV-1
Joe Baca D CA-43
Timothy H. Bishop D NY-1
G. K. Butterfield D NC-1
Melissa Bean D IL-8
Bruce Braley D IA-1
James E. Clyburn D SC-6
John Conyers Jr. D MI-14
Jim Cooper D TN-5
Jerry F. Costello D IL-12
Elijah E. Cummings D MD-7
Lois Capps D CA-23
Michael E. Capuano D MA-8
Joseph Crowley D NY-7
William Lacy Clay D MO-1
Dennis Cardoza D CA-18
Jim Costa D CA-20
Russ Carnahan D MO-3
Emanuel Cleaver II D MO-5
Henry Cuellar D TX-28
Christopher Carney D PA-10
Kathy Castor D FL-11
Yvette Clarke D NY-11
Steve Cohen D TN-9
Joe Courtney D CT-2
André Carson D IN-7
Gerald E. Connolly D VA-11
Anh Cao R LA-2
Judy Chu D CA-32
Danny K. Davis D IL-7
Peter A. DeFazio D OR-4
Diana DeGette D CO-1
Bill Delahunt D MA-10
Rosa DeLauro D CT-3
Norman D. Dicks D WA-6
John D. Dingell D MI-15
Lloyd Doggett D TX-25
Mike Doyle D PA-14
Susan A. Davis D CA-53
Joe Donnelly D IN-2
Kathy Dahlkemper D PA-3
Steve Driehaus D OH-1
Eliot L. Engel D NY-17
Anna G. Eshoo D CA-14
Bob Etheridge D NC-2
Keith Ellison D MN-5
Brad Ellsworth D IN-8
Donna Edwards D MD-4
Sam Farr D CA-17
Chaka Fattah D PA-2
Bob Filner D CA-51
Barney Frank D MA-4
Bill Foster D IL-14
Marcia L. Fudge D OH-11
Gene Green D TX-29
Luis V. Gutierrez D IL-4
Charlie Gonzalez D TX-20
Raúl M. Grijalva D AZ-7
Al Green D TX-9
Gabrielle Giffords D AZ-8
Alan Grayson D FL-8
John Garamendi D CA-10
Jane Harman D CA-36
Alcee L. Hastings D FL-23
Maurice D. Hinchey D NY-22
Rubén Hinojosa D TX-15
Steny H. Hoyer D MD-5
Baron P. Hill D IN-9
Rush Holt D NJ-12
Michael M. Honda D CA-15
Brian Higgins D NY-27
John Hall D NY-19
Phil Hare D IL-17
Mazie K. Hirono D HI-2
Paul W. Hodes D NH-2
Debbie Halvorson D IL-11
Martin Heinrich D NM-1
Jim Himes D CT-4
Jay Inslee D WA-1
Steve Israel D NY-2
Sheila Jackson-Lee D TX-18
Eddie Bernice Johnson D TX-30
Jesse L. Jackson Jr. D IL-2
Hank Johnson D GA-4
Paul E. Kanjorski D PA-11
Marcy Kaptur D OH-9
Patrick J. Kennedy D RI-1
Dale E. Kildee D MI-5
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick D MI-13
Ron Kind D WI-3
Steve Kagen D WI-8
Ron Klein D FL-22
Ann Kirkpatrick D AZ-1
Mary Jo Kilroy D OH-15
Sander M. Levin D MI-12
John Lewis D GA-5
Zoe Lofgren D CA-16
Nita M. Lowey D NY-18
Barbara Lee D CA-9
John B. Larson D CT-1
Jim Langevin D RI-2
Rick Larsen D WA-2
Stephen F. Lynch D MA-9
Daniel Lipinski D IL-3
Dave Loebsack D IA-2
Ben Ray Lujan D NM-3
Carolyn B. Maloney D NY-14
Edward J. Markey D MA-7
Carolyn McCarthy D NY-4
Jim McGovern D MA-3
Jim McDermott D WA-7
George Miller D CA-7
Alan B. Mollohan D WV-1
James P. Moran D VA-8
John P. Murtha D PA-12
Gregory W. Meeks D NY-6
Dennis Moore D KS-3
Betty McCollum D MN-4
Kendrick B. Meek D FL-17
Michael H. Michaud D ME-2
Brad Miller D NC-13
Gwen Moore D WI-4
Doris Matsui D CA-5
Jerry McNerney D CA-11
Harry E. Mitchell D AZ-5
Patrick J. Murphy D PA-8
Christopher S. Murphy D CT-5
Dan Maffei D NY-25
Jerrold Nadler D NY-8
Richard E. Neal D MA-2
Grace F. Napolitano D CA-38
James L. Oberstar D MN-8
David R. Obey D WI-7
John W. Olver D MA-1
Solomon P. Ortiz D TX-27
Bill Owens D NY-23
Frank Pallone D NJ-6
Bill Pascrell Jr. D NJ-8
Ed Pastor D AZ-4
Donald M. Payne D NJ-10
Earl Pomeroy D ND-1
David E. Price D NC-4
Ed Perlmutter D CO-7
Gary Peters D MI-9
Chellie Pingree D ME-1
Jared Polis D CO-2
Tom Perriello D VA-5
Mike Quigley D IL-5
Nick J. Rahall II D WV-3
Charles B. Rangel D NY-15
Silvestre Reyes D TX-16
Steven R. Rothman D NJ-9
Lucille Roybal-Allard D CA-34
Bobby L. Rush D IL-1
Ciro D. Rodriguez D TX-23
C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger D MD-2
Tim Ryan D OH-17
Laura Richardson D CA-37
Loretta Sanchez D CA-47
Robert C. Scott D VA-3
José E. Serrano D NY-16
Brad Sherman D CA-27
Louise M. Slaughter D NY-28
Adam Smith D WA-9
Vic Snyder D AR-2
John M. Spratt Jr. D SC-5
Pete Stark D CA-13
Bart Stupak D MI-1
Jan Schakowsky D IL-9
Adam B. Schiff D CA-29
Linda T. Sanchez D CA-39
David Scott D GA-13
John Salazar D CO-3
Allyson Y. Schwartz D PA-13
Albio Sires D NJ-13
John Sarbanes D MD-3
Joe Sestak D PA-7
Carol Shea-Porter D NH-1
Zack Space D OH-18
Betty Sutton D OH-13
Jackie Speier D CA-12
Mark Schauer D MI-7
Kurt Schrader D OR-5
Bennie Thompson D MS-2
John F. Tierney D MA-6
Edolphus Towns D NY-10
Mike Thompson D CA-1
Niki Tsongas D MA-5
Dina Titus D NV-3
Paul Tonko D NY-21
Nydia M. Velázquez D NY-12
Peter J. Visclosky D IN-1
Chris Van Hollen D MD-8
Maxine Waters D CA-35
Melvin Watt D NC-12
Henry A. Waxman D CA-30
Robert Wexler D FL-19
Lynn Woolsey D CA-6
Anthony Weiner D NY-9
David Wu D OR-1
Diane Watson D CA-33
Debbie Wasserman Schultz D FL-20
Tim Walz D MN-1
Peter Welch D VT-1
Charlie Wilson D OH-6
John Yarmuth D KY-3

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

RINO Referendum


The Poll question on the Fox News website is whether or not this is a referendum on Obama and although I see and hear more enthusiasm over an odd year election then ever before, certainly evidence suggesting an anti-Obama referendum, that point will be debated in the same fashion sports talk debates the impact of instant replay rules changes. It will create a lot of discussion and all have little bearing on what actually happens.

The real referendum needs to be on those Republicans In Name Only; the ones that leave conservatives with fewer choices at the polls and less representation when it is most needed. In some cases RINOs a la Specter just leave us all together.

I really hope that Tuesday's election becomes a "teachable moment" for the Republican party. Let's start with Doug Hoffman's loss, All the moderates and power elite pundits will cite Hoffman's lack of charisma as the reason -- bzzzt, wrong. Was it Scozzafava playing the spoiler? Her late departure from the campaign left no time to remove her from the ballot, particularly ones already cast in early voting. Her turncoat endorsement of the Democrat candidate in her robo-dialer telephone messages certainly didn't help either. All of it amounts to no real departure from the field of play. Her departure is kind of like the electoral equivalent of a trigger option, or a 3:00am 400 page amendment to a bad piece of legislation. In other words it was underhanded politics of an unprincipled elitist.

But let's not mistake that the real failure here is on the part of the local and national Republican Party leadership. Again, there was too little, too late; an utter failure to get their act together in a timely fashion. In the spirit of the Tea Party grass roots movement, a relative unknown with less money and little formal party support was able to close the gap on his own. The lesson for the RNC is that backing a real conservative early and often gives the people a chance to mobilize and act which stands a much better chance of creating the necessary momentum for victory.


Open Letter to New Gingrich:

As I heard you in a replay of one interview from a week ago you told the radio host that whoever the Republican Party nominates you will support. Newt, as one caller remarked, you have committed political suicide for a Scozzafava. Her politics were so liberal on every policy that a blind political neophyte could have smelled her liberalism a hundred districts away.

You've made your Faustian bargain with yourself, party first, principles after (if at all) and now you will inherit a handful of your own wind. Don't waste the postage and ask me for campaign contributions. You can't have my money of my own free will because you plan to take it foreceably by bargaining with a bunch of tax-icrats.

This, your most recent act to support a RINO may become your overaching legacy. Even if it does not write that final chapter of your political career, I am closing the book on you.

Open Letter to Hollywood Governor who thankfully can not ever run for President, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger:

I heard an excerpt of a a speech you gave recently thanking Vice President Biden and President Obama for the Stimulus money that "saved or created jobs" in your dysfunctional state of California. I am still waiting on you to send me a Thank You letter because after all, it wasn't THEIR money you received. It WAS MINE! Save a stamp and include Thank You cards to my daughter and son because the money the Obamakins borrowed to fund stimulus is ultimately theirs.

P.S. If the unemployment rate in California is on the decline it is only because out of work job seekers are leaving the state to look for jobs in more hospitable business climates.

Finally, Open Letter to RNC Chairman, Michael Steele:

My two other letters are open so that you can read them and understand why all your mail to me remains largely unanswered and without a check or credit card number included in those sparse few responses I have returned.

I cannot will not send you my ham.
I cannot will not, my good man.

Thats because those funds would go to support Crist instead of Rubio next year in Florida. Donations to the RNC have already gone to support a candidate like Arlen Specter instead of Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania. By the way, does Specter have to pay back that money now that he changed parties? - probably not. Those funds have gone to a Scozzafava instead of Hoffman where they were needed most. You are spending people's donations on candidates that betray conservatives every day.

I've read Aesop's fable about the Eagle shot down by an arrow containing one of it's own feathers in the fletching. I won't make that same mistake and support the efforts of so many of these RINOs in your midst who clearly want to kill the Eagle, making an enemy of the patriotic, conservative, middle class Americans of which I am one.

My campaign contributions can pass "Go" and you will not collect any of them. Because of the internet I can support real conservatives directly and without your help. My question to the RNC is "are you with us or against us?"

P.S. Michael, I see as of this morning that you trying to spin this as a referendum on Obama's policies and that's an easy target. Be sure you realize that this is a bigger referendum from the Tea Party right. We're tired of politics as usual on both sides. Don't misread the signs and get lulled into the sense that you can run a bunch of RINOs at us in 2010 and take back Congress. We are where we are right now because of that failed strategy on the part of your predecessors.

I heard Dick Armey commenting specifically about Gingrich. He said that the key to another Republican majority most certainly did not involve compromising core values.
Sticking to core principles and campaigning as a true conservative is not a new idea. It is not some untested strategy. It's tried. It's true and it has resulted in success rather consistently.

In this excerpt from a Malkin piece we hear the most successful Republican of the last century on that very same topic:

Conservatives are not demanding "purity." They are simply abiding by Reagan's own wise counsel in 1975: "A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers."


Amen.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Candidate in Chief

The concerted assault on Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, The Chamber of Commerce, Bank Executives and the Capitalist Profits they earn, Big Business, Small Business, Insurance Companies AANNDD, oh yeah, Americans in a broad and general sense . . . it all tells me one thing:
Obama, Emanuel, Axelrod, Jarrett, Dunn and the rest of the Czars and Cabinet Members in the administration don't know what they are doing.

Like revolutionaries who successfully fought their guerrilla war, only to win, come out of the jungle and into the capital city and then not know how to run a country with that same ease and skill it took to unseat those in power, the Obama administration descended upon our capital and quickly set up shop, changing everything in a reactionary antiestablishment manner. The end result in both cases may be the same, a banana republic and cause for another revolution to oust the revolutionaries who are ill equipped to govern.

Ballerinas and poets?
I think not.
Tap dancers and second string fiddle players
Trying to choreograph the show and play the orchestra music for the big opera . . .

. . . and failing.

The show or at least the campaign must go on despite the sheer lack of talent.


As Americans our show must go on as well.

If you are feeling distracted by balloon boy, or as one person puts it, Michael Jackson ordering take-out to Heaven; if you feel tired of the incessant media coverage of stories that have nothing to do with the unresolved issues and total lack of progress in the area of job creation and the economy then call or write your Senators and Congressman.
- Tell them that you are focused and they need to be as well.
- Tell them that you don't want health care reform before they fix the economy and stop the runaway spending (which polls before the election put Health Care something like twelve on a list of the top 10 priorities on the minds of Americans)
- Tell them to have this government get out of your way because private citizens have always managed to fix problems and make this country great. Over the last century the government rarely has the same track record.

Then write the RNC and tell them to stop backing RINO candidates like Crist and Scozzafava instead of true conservatives like Rubio and Hoffman.

Then find somebody who voted in a recent Maine election and ask them what they were thinking. Report back to me on this last suggestion. I'd really like to know, particularly about Snowe.



Friday, September 18, 2009

All The News . . .

We had to take Cooper to the less than 10 year old, state of the art children's hospital today. This new hospital was the pet philanthropy project of a young capitalist billionaire's wife. And no, I am not plagiarizing Ayn Rand or exaggerating in the smallest fraction in order to write that line. That is really just how capitalism works to benefit us all.

Cooper was running a high fever that the doctor could not diagnose earlier that day. He was as limp as a dish rag so with the doctor's recommendation we went to the E.R.

You end up having a lot of time to think about things while waiting at a hospital for tests and treatment. Hmmm, if the government is in control of health care in the same fashion that the same government uses the EPA and other regulations and agencies to prevent American companies from drilling in new oil fields or building new refineries or nuclear power plants while campaigning about an energy crisis then I wonder how many new hospitals will be built after the "reform" bill?

We had another great experience. Cooper was showing noticeable signs of improvement before we left.

As we left we exited the controlled access area of the ER and reentered the reception area. It was approaching seven o'clock on a Friday night and the scene in the lobby was approaching a Michael Cimino film. Even though we too were characters of that scene we walked through the refugee menageria tight lipped. We were the only other Caucasians along with the security guard. (But before you jerk yourself into spasms about how I am profiling or being a racist, this is merely a statement of fact and not an anecdotal one either - read Ann's piece on LIBERAL LIES ABOUT NATIONAL HEALTH CARE: BONUS JOE WILSON EDITION! for more of the statistical data supporting my observations). And even though I wouldn't say all comers were without insurance, I'd bet short odds and the screaming toddler standing on the reception desk that we weren't in the majority for having insurance. Like a Cimino film we were just looking to get through intermission and on into the final reel for a somber Thanksgiving scene where we will all sing "God Bless America."

Another minor wait to think about the day before I pay. I am already subsidizing the uninsured in this E.R. because as I paid my co-pay and my insurance company gets billed to pay the rest of my bill, the two of us (me and my insurance company) will also pay the padding in that bill that pays for all the care that was going to be provided to the uninsured in that reception area tonight. We passed more people in the parking lot going in and even though I am no doctor, none of them looked as sick as Cooper who was triaged as the lowest priority of the three levels used by the admitting nurse at that E.R. No one in this great country is not receiving care. Let me reiterate, THERE WERE NO DEAD BODIES IN THE STREETS. Everyone receives care at the E.R. Not everyone pays.

I've heard how a Health Care bill needs tort reform to be really effective. I don't disagree. I think immigration and border enforcement should be the first stage in fixing the "rising cost" of health care that Obama reasons is our call to action in so many of his major speeches. I wouldn't mind talking about a plan to cover the uninsurable once we eliminate or at least greatly reduce the untaxable inhabitants from that equation.

On the way back from the hospital I stopped to grab something to eat. I hadn't eaten since breakfast. The ubiquitous LCD TV that is now in every Austin restaurant was tuned to CNN.

I don't normally watch these other channels but occasionally I will force myself to watch one of these other "news" sources for some real entertainment a la a totally inverted perspective. I haven't quite built up the necessary immunities to the out of whack liberalism of msnbc. I try. It's a little like the stench of Cooper's diarrhea diapers in that private emergency room. I prepare myself, change the channel and then the odiousness goes beyond the ridiculous into the mind-bendingly offensive before I even stop holding my first breath. Watching Olbermann and/or Matthews is a little like watching a pair of finger puppets exploring a cardboard cutout version of a diseased colon while making @ss jokes, in other words juvenile and disturbing as well as a huge waste of my time.

CNN is pretty far down the Obama bias continuum of the total news spectrum. Not quite MessNBC but on deck to be the far left point on that diagram should they ever close down the failed cable arm of the GE/NBC propaganda machine. In this case there was enough background noise that if it became necessary I could just ignore it. But something caught my eye and I watched. That something was the Fox News logo. I guess this was one of their non-news, opinion segments run on every news network and not just Fox. I think it's called "The Big Question" and it was being hosted by Campbell "Rhinoplasty" Brown and her little team of Breakfast Club cub reporters. They were all talking faster and louder and more emphatically about the mischaracterization by Fox that CNN didn't cover the 9/12 Rally in D.C.

Yes, we did. Of course we did. Here's the footage to prove it!
They were a little too insistent about the fact that they covered it and even went as far as showing clips and congratulating each other for their journalistic prowess while covering a planned event. How'd they ever stumble across half a million people assembling in the mall of our nation's capitol I will never know. Clearly they have skills that border on superhuman and are ready to take the world by storm. At one point the Judd "Bender" Nelson amongst them got the rest to follow him into the hallway in spite of a clear threat of getting caught by the principal, aptly played by Rupert Murdoch - I think they were right on the verge of dubbing in audio of Simple Minds "Don't You (Forget About Me)" but I had finished my sub and it was time to go.

I was laughing on my way into the parking lot because I think Fox reached more non-Fox viewers tonight and got more repeat advertising by virtue of CNN spending a whole segment talking about this full page advertisement in three papers that are likely seen by far fewer eyes.

Ha, ha, suckers. You got played.

And if you replace the word "How" to mean "In What Ways" as if to ask "In What Ways Did" they "Miss This Story" they really got played. Because there are several ways they didn't get "it" starting with characterizing potential viewers as radicals and / or Astroturf but also all the time spent talking about this ad by Fox News.

My "Big Question" (other than a formal inquiry into the certifications of Campbell's cosmetic surgeon) was "Why were they being so determined in their efforts to debunk Fox's obvious false claim that their competitors didn't cover a big story; going so far as attempting to be fair and objective or at least thorough and complete, about their network's coverage of this story, even hazarding a few fair if not fully complimentary comments about those attending the rally?

Hmmm, why indeed? Could it be they weren't really talking about the thing they were talking about? Could it really be that they were trying to convince us of some larger myth like, I don't know a) we're not in the tank for Obama and we haven't really become a 24 hour infomercial for his policies, or b) we are covering all the important news and not just the stories that favor Obama and the Liberal Dems in congress?

-What are you saying?

- I am saying that they were creating a smokescreen to cover up the fact that they didn't do a single story on Van Jones until after he resigned his Czar-ship. I am saying they were a good 4 to 8 days later on their coverage of the ACORN exposé from the time that story actually broke. And this is not because these weren't major, national newsworthy stories. It's because their decimated news staffs were spending days trying to figure out how to spin stories so damaging to their supreme monarch and not having a single lead on how to spin unspinnable facts.

CNN's new logo needs to be
. . . All The News . . . Just 8 days late.

I wonder if James Earl Jones will do the voice-over.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

More Names for the List

Only 7 Senators voted against Defunding ACORN after they were exposed by our intrepid amateur journalists, O'Keefe and Giles doing the good work that 60 Minutes stopped doing two decades ago.

Seven Senators are so oblivious to the egregiousness of what the videos have revealed that they are in essence saying that they want to see our tax dollars hard at work . . .to cheat the system that collects our tax dollars.

Seven Senators who needed to do no more than say the word "Aye" to prevent our tax dollars from aiding child prostitution were unwilling to do so.

There is no defense here. These are our tax dollars and ACORN does not have a right to them which is why Defunding this criminal enterprise disguised as a non-profit philanthropic organization took less than a full page of legislation and happened in one quick vote (barring a Veto from their biggest supporter and beneficiary - Barrack Obama).

These hopeless liberals are:

1. Pat Leahy - VT
2. Bernard Sanders - VT
I am not seeing the Vermont connection. It must be some association with big trees, ACORN? Mighty oak? Maple syrup? . . . I don't get it. Can someone from Vermont help me with why you elected these baffoons? Can someone help me understand why they are defending funding for a criminal enterprise that doesn't even operate in their own state of Vermont? Are they truly just defending supporters of illegal alien child prostitution? Is that what's important to them?

No big suprise out of that the state who's political machine wrote the Field Manual on corruption.
3. Dick Durbin - IL
4. Roland "I Know Who Butters My Bread And It Ain't Blago, Which Way Am I Voting On Your Behalf Today Rahm?" Burris - IL


5. Sheldon Whitehouse - RI
6. Kirsten Gillibrand - NY who saw the costumes our intrepid reporters were wearing and thought this was a new Broadway musical instead of an undercover sting.
7. Bob Casey - Pennsylvania, or as I now refer to it, Douchelvania.

If you are people who live in these states expect public shaming. Your elected officials are beyond shame with this latest vote. If you have any pride you will actively campaign against them and vote against them in their respective reelection campaigns.