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POPSIf You Try The Slaughter Rule, You Will Lose The Country
.... and thought of loved ones. At this point they really thought they had won this thing. * FAIL " America noticed anyway. McDonnell and Christie smoked VA and NJ governor elections. Scott Brown campaigned as “Mister 41″, and easily won the “Do it for Teddy” seat in deep-blue MA. * They plotted to delay the seating of Scott Brown in order to get a bill passed. * FAIL " once that was made public, they denied they would have considered such a dastardly thing. * With America dead set against it……more speeches. And publicly dressing down the Supreme Court. * FAIL " again, America already got the message, polls sunk even further, and wobbling Democrats were catching bloody hell from their constituents. * With 60 out of the question and 216 shaky at best, they decided to break congressional rules and jam the bill through by “reconciliation”. * FAIL " the shaky 216 started to look more like 200. * With no more hopes of even passing the House ..
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POPSthe People want REAL CHANGE! And that he, Obama, was the agent of HOPE & CHANGE . . . YES WE CAN! Obama was elected because he WAS NOT BUSH. Also, because McCain ran one of the WORST campaigns I have ever seen since the Dukakis fiasco. Where Obama shouted CHANGE from the heavens, McCain shouted the SAME OLD – SAME OLD from the depths of nowhere. And worse than that; he MUZZLED his GREATEST asset, Sarah Palin, whom not only did he hang out to dry, he stood by while his campaign team savaged her in the press. THE PEOPLE DO NOT WANT THE SAME OLD – SAME OLD. If they did, they would have elected McCain. And had McCain run an honest unapologetic no bullshit campaign, he would be in the White House today instead of Obama. The people really do want change. REAL CHANGE. Not the crapola Obama has proven to provide. Not the make-believe change the Republican Party is putting forward. THE PEOPLE WANT REAL CHANGE!
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POPSThe True Party Of No—Brilliantly Expressed By Thaddeus McCotter When the American people asked for constitutional, limited government Democrats said “No.”When the American people asked for fiscal integrity and discipline in government spending, the Democrats said, “No.”When the American people asked for smaller deficits and a reduction of the debt, the Democrats said, “No.”When the American people asked for an “all of the above” energy strategy so we could transition responsibly to a free market green energy future, the Democrats said, “No.”When the American people asked to keep a consensus against using your tax dollars for abortions at home and abroad, the Democrats said, “No.”And when the American people asked to have the current government-run healthcare plan scrapped and to start from scratch from free market patient center principles, the Democratic Party said, “No.”Perhaps this is why the people of America said, “Yes to Governor Christie, yes to Governor McDonnell and yes to Senator Brown.
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POPSCan the Democrats Govern? Or Is Congress Crippled?
Congress may be crippled. In fact, much of the way they work -- besides all taking place in a swamp of corrupting money -- appears more set up to PREVENT things from happening than facilitate any legislation. This latest example is now coming into focus. Somehow one guy, a Republican Senator, is able to single-handedly stop all of President Obama's nominations for important jobs. No wonder so many things get stalled or killed if there are all these ways the will of the majority can be frustrated. The will of the majority may not always be ideal but better than rule by warlords, military dictators or thug mobs. But we better starting using it. President Obama has brains, guts and integrity. Now we want to see results. Things like what this Senator Shelby is doing must be overcome. Changes to improve health care must be made. Other promises lived up to. If the right wing wackos regain control, I fear we'll be in for the worst misrule and poor governance we coul
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POPSDAY 19/ THE S.O.T.U. MORE OF THE SAME Told everyone it would be a non-event, same old story, same old song and dance................................................................................................
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POPS The Health Care Sortie The CBO’s letter shows that cuts to the budget will have to result in cuts to the system and benefits if Congress intends on using the money to pay for other efforts. The second argument to die on this report is the supposed deficit neutrality of Obama Care…. Stupak is still being a problem about abortion spending . However, the Stupak coalition is already seeing what is happening to Judas Ben Nelson. This likely will harden their position on holding to their pro-life principles because they don’t want to reap the whirlwind that Nelson is.
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POPSThieves Vote To Continue Locked Door Deals, Midnite Votes & Bribes For Votes Senate democrats today approved the practice of bribery and vote buying. “Democrats have truly hit the bottom on their reckless pursuit of a government takeover of health care. The Democrat majority just voted to retain the culture of corruption in Congress. Just two years ago, Democrats bragged about draining the swamp, but now they’re endorsing political bribery. This is Washington at its worst.” Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska), who secured a special earmark for his state that forces taxpayers in 49 states to fund Medicaid in Nebraska, first voted against the ban on trading earmarks for votes but switched his vote before the final tally. Senator DeMint responded, “Senator Nelson, unfortunately, is trying to have it both ways, he was for trading his vote for earmarks before he was against it."
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POPSEarmarks This sort of stuff makes my blood boil. Leave no incumbent in office.
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POPS“We can only turn the page from recession to recovery if we....." “at the very top of the food chain.” Then he actually said: “We can only turn the page from recession to recovery if we watch every single taxpayer dollar the way families watch every dollar in their budget.” Yes, the senator majority leader who pushed through $700 Billion in TARP spending, a $787 Billion Porkulus, a $410 Billion spending bill with 9000 earmarks… deigns to lecture Republicans on fiscal responsibility.
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POPSJim DeMint Proposes Term Limits For Congress Rarely, he gets voted out--and Senator DeMint points out that 90% of all incumbents who seek re-election, win re-election. Tom Coburn offers greater detail on why incumbents win re-election 90% of the time: The power of incumbency has created an almost insurmountable advantage for Washington politicians. Incumbency allows politicians to raise millions of dollars in campaign funds in exchange for earmarks. Incumbency gives Congress the power to raise money for itself " Congress just approved itself an increase of nearly $250 million from the U.S. Treasury that members will spend to promote themselves. Senator Coburn also points out that with redistricting (except for the unlucky Representative who gets drawn out of the House if his State loses one or more seats), a Representative, having good connections with his State legislature, can "choose his voters." The effect of this amendment would be very simple. Senators would be limited to two terms or fifteen years ....
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POPSTea Party Movement's New Target :The GOP
They feel they were had by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), who urged them to stomach earmarks for the good of the party; by George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove, who urged them to stomach a massive expansion of education and Medicare for the good of the party; and by the rest of the Washington gang that collaborated in the largest expansion of government in their lifetime for the good of the party. Erick Erickson, founder and editor of the conservative RedState blog, said grass-roots activists are done listening. “Republicans are going to have to come our way,” he said, before going on to trash NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele for backing Scozzafava. Their “level of disingenuousness ... is disgusting,” Erickson said. His influential blog is now calling for Sessions to get the boot from the NRCC as a penalty for mishandling the race. Erickson’s bombast may seem overboard, but it captures the dep
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POPSStop C-17 Earmark Theft by US Senate Maybe we can make change but the US Senate is slow to change when it comes to pocket change for campaign coffers and paybacks by the millions to contributor companies for goods no one in Department of Defense wants. Add to this that troops sometimes have to get relatives and friends to buy body armor for them that the DOD can't "afford" to supply them with and it makes you wonder how some of these out of touch US Senators sleep well at night.
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POPSSenate Still Addicted to Earmarking Billions for Unwanted Defense Spending Senators often like to brag how much they support the military but what they are actually doing is supporting companies that produce military hardware and services by taking money away from needed defense spending and support of troops and giving it to stockholders of profiteering companies and in a number of cases to their own former employees.
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POPSWho's Funding Your Politician? Great place to check up on who is influencing our members of congress and the senate and compare it to the votes they make. Glad to see Ron Paul is not a shill, yet has more money on hand... REPRESENTATIVE (R - TX) Ron Paul Industry Total Indivs PACs Health Professionals $2,000 $1,000 $1,000 Real Estate $1,000 $0 $1,000 Retired $500 $500 $0 $0 $0 $0
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POPSSubstance or Teenage Angst? If the allegations are true it would be criminal to disregard them. Yet, the more I follow this story the more I lean to the idea that this is a case of a teenage girl who is confused and has taken steps that make it difficult for her to retract. The most disturbing news to come out of the whole drama is the inclusion of the lawyer who was elemental in the political debauchery surrounding the Terri Schiavo case. The conservatives in Florida seem to have a natural talent of stepping in a pile of dog poo and then flinging it at anyone close by. Considering the underlying mistrust of Muslims that brews among conservatives this incident has the earmarks of being capable of evolving into a major political slime-fest.
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POPSMaxing Out The Race Card In contrast, what has Barack Obama done since becoming president? " Increased taxes to pay for the S-CHIP expansion, supported a cap and trade bill that amounts to a $1,500 to $4,000 tax increase on every American family, and has discussed tax increase to pay for his health care scheme. " Spending increases " a massive “stimulus,” a massive expenditure bill with 9,000 earmarks, and his trillion dollar plus health care scheme, $9 Trillion in deficit spending. " Government programs as morality, i.e. “God wants you to support nationalized health care.”) " Government funding and promotion of abortions " Mandates to buy health insurance " Appointing those who don’t pay their taxes and should to Cabinet and key advisory positions.
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POPSDear Mr. President: Clean Up This Inhumane Mess; Now! You did not create this ugly mess of detention centers that has all the earmarks of being as bad as Walter Reed was for veterans. Place a priority on it and clean up and establish visible and enforceable rules of humane conduct in pubic and for-profit private facilities!
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