Congress Hit With A Capitol Offense
February 18, 2010
A recent CNN poll revealed just how fed up Americans are with their members of Congress:
Only 1/3 of voters think that their particular members of Congress should be returned next year.
Sixty three percent of voters polled are against re-electing members of the House and Senate whose terms will be up this year.
The anger seems to be equally directed between Democrats and Republicans, however this is worse news for the Democrats as they have more seats at risk in the 2010 elections.
And the voters of Massachusetts sending Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate may have sent a message that the Democrats won’t want to hear.
Yet with the general feeling among the electorate, regardless of political affiliation, leaning towards “throw the bums out”, the Republicans shouldn’t become too smug.
House Of Representatives Takes 12 Snow Days
February 9, 2010
Man, I wish I worked for the government.
Earlier today I watched NYC mayor Bloomberg announce schools would be closed tomorrow.
One day.
And these chuckleheads take a dozen
This second week in February is quickly becoming a lost week in Washington.
The House has just canceled votes for the week, meaning the chamber will be out of session through Feb. 22, including next week’s scheduled Presidents Day recess. Across Capitol Hill, virtually every press conference and every committee hearing are also being canceled as a second blizzard approaches.
The federal government remains closed, and snowplows and front-end loaders outnumber regular vehicles around the Capitol complex.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) signaled that “there may be” federal funds directed at the clean-up effort in the District.
“After all,” Hoyer said, “this is the federal city.”
Many members of Congress have not made it back to Washington since the snowstorm last weekend, as flights are backed up for Reagan National Airport even before the second winter blast arrives.
Barack Obama Is Becoming An Astroturfer
January 25, 2010
Is President Obama about to join the Tea Party?
Probably not.
However, the same administration that made dozens of untrue accusations against the Tea Party movement no seems to be adopting the same tactics that they were falsely blaming on a grassroots movement of concerned citizens.
Who is Ellie Light?
I predict you’ll start seeing the question as a popular bumper sticker soon (a la “Who is John Galt?”…and voila, someone has already made a t-shirt!).
It’s a handy rhetorical rejoinder the next the White House or your nutroots neighbors and co-workers try to tar the Tea Party or any other grass-roots revolts against President Obama as phony, top-down operations.
When Obama’s Soros-funded, Big Labor-directed, K Street-organized goons engage in classic projection and you need a glib way to call out the pot calling the kettle black, just snap back:
Who is Ellie Light?
A Cleveland Plain Dealer blog first broke the story over the weekend of a “suspicious” letter-writer named “Ellie Light” who submitted more than a dozen pro-Obama letters to the editors in recent weeks using addresses from Philadelphia to California and all points in between. Open-source-optimizing blogger Patterico has added much more information on both “Donald Trump Astroturfing” (”a letter published in multiple places from one person claiming to live in multiple cities”) and “David Axelrod Astroturfing” (”identical letters published in multiple places claiming to be from different people”).
News And Views 10-10-09
October 10, 2009
All the news you need to know.
The only place you need to go.
Fighting starts over Obama prize
DNC humor Czar has no sense of humorFinally,someone speaks out in defense of Glenn Beck
Wht the GOP should give O a prize
Dems change stance on miltary and Afghanistan
History Proves It: Democrats Are Going Down In 2010
September 17, 2009
In 1965, President Johnson pushed Medicare through Congress.
In the 1966 elections, Democrats lost 47 seats in the House and 4 in the Senate.
In 1993, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton was promoting her own version of this year’s Obamacare.
In 1994 the Democrats lost 54 seats in the House and 7 in the Senate.
It remains to be seen if Obama’s health care “reform” bill will make it through the House and the Senate, but either way, one thing is clear:
The Democrat Party is in BIG trouble in 2010.
And we here at the Freedom Medium are going to to do more than our part to ensure that in 2010, history repeats itself.
We are currently working on a plan to make certain that in 2010, conservatives will once again be the majority in Congress.
We can’t do it all ourselves, we will need the help of all of you, but together we will put a halt to the Socialist agenda of President Obama.
The 2010 elections are going to be among the most significant in the history of this country, and in the coming weeks and months we will be rolling out our plan to Take Back Congress.
We will be providing biographical information on the good, the bad, and the ugly.
We have quite a bit of information in a database already, we are hoping our readers will provide advice as to who should stay, who should go, and who needs to be run out of town.
That last one will be a pretty big list all by itself.
America is in real trouble, not only from health care “reform” bills, runaway deficits and a failing economy, but from the danger of too many people who will “talk the talk” and then sit back and whine and moan when it comes time to “walk the walk.”
Only you can decide if you will be part of the solution, or part of the problem.
You can complain to your friends and co-workers as the United States slides further and further down the slope towards Socialism.
Or you can be part of the solution and let the un-American members of Congress know that “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
And that come 2010, they won’t be working there anymore.
The choice is up to you.
Pelosi Says Health Care Bill WILL NOT Pass The House!
September 6, 2009
Nancy Pelosi is not happy.
And she’s letting the President know about it in no uncertain terms.
In spite of the fact that President Obama is considering a health care reform bill without a public option, Pelosi is insisting it be part of the package.
In a recent statement,Pelosi made the following claim:
“A bill without a strong public option will not pass the House.”
“Any real change requires the inclusion of a strong public option to promote competition and bring down costs. If a vigorous public option is not included, it would be a major victory for the health insurance industry.”
She then went on to say that the month of August has brought distortions from people who want “to try to kill this historic legislation.”
And on that last part she is right on the money.
I haven’t seen such a public uproar since the days of the anti Vietnam War protestors.
There is one thing she is overlooking.
The reason people are speaking out to kill this “historic” piece of legislation is because it is a historically poorly written piece of legislation.
There are numerous versions of the same basic bill floating around the House, and there are significant differences between them.
So how can the White House possibly expect the American public to embrace health care reform when the members of his own party aren’t even in agreement?
Or when the Speaker Of The House is basically telling the President “Hey, if I don’t get what I want, you don’t have a snowballs chance in hell of getting what you want.
And they still can’t figure out that opposition to this proposal is not coming only from Republicans?
Until such time as they can stop arguing with each other, and present the American public with a rational alternative to the current system,opposition will continue to grow.
And even if they manage to do that, they still have to overcome the public’s deeply held belief that anything the government touches, it screws up.
That will prove to be an even bigger battle.
Are You Ready To Be Stimulated?
February 6, 2009
Barack Obama’s “Economic Stimulus” bill is now in the hands of the Senate, after not receiving one vote in favor from Republicans as it was voted on in the House.
Like millions of other American’s, I was hoping that this bill might actually contain programs and provisions that may help pull our country out of our current economic crisis. But when I learned that it received no support from Republicans in the House of Representatives, I thought I’d better take a look at what made it so unpopular.
And I’m just going to hit the high points:
One billion dollars for Amtrak. How in the hell does giving a billion dollars to a rail service that hasn’t turned a profit in 40 years (according to the WSJ) help boost the economy?
Two billion dollars for childcare (read daycare) subsidies. Why do we need to spend two billion dollars on someone to watch the kids when mom and dad don’t have jobs to go to in the first place?
Six hundred and fifty million dollars for coupons for people to buy converter boxes for the switch to digital TV. , Well, maybe the idea behind this is that people will be able to buy things from infomercials. Of course if you are sitting home watching TV you probably don’t have any money to buy anything anyway.
Two point four billion on projects to showcase “carbon capture.” Someone on the left please explain to me how that will help pull our country out of a recession?
I could go on and on with this, but I saved the best for last.
Fifty million dollars for the National Endowment of the Arts.
Yeah, there’s a real economy booster.
Now fifty million dollars may sound like small change when you are talking about a pork-laden bill that is over 900 BILLION dollars. Just remember one thing. The money for all this nonsense has to come from somewhere.
It seems like the more things “CHANGE”, the more they stay the same.
Is that pork that I smell?
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