Category Archives: Ethics

UPDATEx4: Senate To Reintroduce Public Option?

Posted on February 16, 2010 | Leave a comment

Four Senate Democrats wrote Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday, asking him to revive the public option in the Senate’s health bill.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) called on Reid to reintroduce the public option into the healthcare debate through the budget reconciliation process, which would short-circuit filibuster rules and allow Democrats to pass a bill with a simple majority in the Senate.

Well, so much for paying attention to us constituents. Why can’t we vote them out right now?

UPDATE: Healthcare reform and reconciliation a bad mix
The budget reconciliation process, with its arcane rules and potential for political chicanery, is not suited to healthcare reform, according to the Senate’s former parliamentarian, Robert Dove, who was the chief Senate parliamentarian for 12 of his 36 years.

UPDATEx2: Obamacare Before The Summit?
You aren’t going to like this. Not. One. Damn. Bit.
I already despise their tactics. How about you?

UPDATEx3: 16 Senators now calling for the public option?
I am getting conflicting data on this. I hear that there is an insufficient number of votes to pass this debacle anyway (that is, it isn’t going to pass) under reconciliation. My question is, what kind of misdirection is taking place here?

UPDATEx4: Reconcile this, Senators – NO !!!!

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Posted in Deficit, Ethics

Tagged Control, Healthcare

Entering The GOP At Ground Level

Posted on February 16, 2010 | Leave a comment

I don’t think we needed the LA Times to tell us, but nevertheless – okay.

‘Tea party’ activists filter into GOP at ground level
The conservative movement is urging its members to seek positions as Republican precinct representatives. Their goal is to remake the party – and U.S. politics – from within.

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Posted in Constitution, Deficit, Economy, Ethics, National Defense, National Security, Politics, Rights

Tagged Freedom, Jobs, Profit, Truth

Dems Cost US $2.36T in Lost Oil Money

Posted on February 16, 2010 | 1 comment

“No Profit for US in Oil.” Is that the new (or not) battle cry for the Democrats?

But they raised the debt ceiling by how much?? They willingly spent just one-third (so far) of the $787B Stimulus package so far. Where did that one-third go? And what about the rest since they can’t stop talking about a second (no, that’s a Jobs bill)?

I could go on. But I am sure you get the point. Congress and the Administration have very little, if any, math and budget skills.

Since they won’t listen to us, we have to turn them out.

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Posted in Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Energy, Ethics

Tagged Control, Fraud, Incompetence, Jobs, Profit, Transparency, Truth, Unemployment

Abuse of Authority

Posted on February 14, 2010 | Leave a comment

If you were hit by a car and sent to the hospital with a broken knee, one would think you could expect some sympathy (and probably more than that) from the driver of the vehicle.

Don’t you think so?

But apparently not in D.C., from a State Department vehicle and driver.
Instead, the police are called to deliver a charge of jaywalking to Jim Treacher (a false charge, according to witnesses) while he is still in the hospital. Listen to Tucker Carlson’s interview on Red Eye about this.

I don’t believe this blogger (well known) was ‘targeted’, but the action on the part of the State Department is absolutely reprehensible.

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Posted in Corruption, Ethics

Tagged controversy, Truth

What Happened to Global Warming

Posted on February 14, 2010 | Leave a comment

Apparently, nothing happened other than the following:
– Data for vital ‘hockey stick graph’ has gone missing
– There has been no global warming since 1995
– Warming periods have happened before – but NOT due to man-made changes
The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.
DailyMail has the rest of the story …

And even now, the UN now has to contend with scientists casting doubt on their previously unequivocal claims of global warming.
This article is quite enlightening.

Third, a background note by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said a 2007 report wrongly stated that 55 percent of the country was below sea level since the figure included areas above sea level, prone to flooding along rivers.
(It’s actually much less than 55 percent.)
Reuters has the rest of the article.

Is it any wonder we should always question everything fed to us?

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Posted in Ethics, Global Warming

Tagged Fraud, Transparency

Video: The Gall To Lecture Us

Posted on February 13, 2010 | Leave a comment

Today, Barack Obama had the gall to lecture America on politicians who, “Talk the talk but won’t walk the walk on fiscal responsibility.”

The height of hypocrisy.

In the meantime, I must manage my monthly budget frugally to ensure I can pay the monthly bills as well as plan (set aside unspent funds) for future, necessary bills and expenses.

Why doesn’t The President and Congress get that?

Probably because the POTUS now blames Bush (again) for his $1.3T deficit (that we know was created by the overspending POTUS). Sheesh.

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Posted in Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Ethics

Tagged Fraud, Incompetence, Transparency

ACORN Eligible For $4B in 2011 Budget

Posted on February 13, 2010 | 1 comment

And we thought that problem was solved. Guess again.

To add to the list of outrageous earmarks in Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget, it appears left-wing activist groups including ACORN, the embezzlement-prone, voter-registration-fraud-plagued community organizing group, are eligible to receive up to $3.99 billion in taxpayer-backed slush money.

The rest of it …

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Posted in Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Ethics

Tagged Fraud, Incompetence

On Drudge Report

Posted on February 13, 2010 | Leave a comment

NYT SATURDAY: White House officials are searching for ways for Obama to ‘use executive powers to advance energy, environmental and other policy priorities’… Developing…

Found it. ~~But there’s no link yet, on Drudge~~.
Uh oh. Here we go.

Any president has vast authority to influence policy even without legislation, through executive orders, agency rule-making and administrative fiat.

As someone says, read the whole thing …

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Posted in Constitution, Energy, Environmental, Ethics

Tagged controversy

Census Decision Could Include Prisoner Count

Posted on February 12, 2010 | 2 comments

Cities want them counted and included based on their original home residency.
Not where they are residing now. For years.

Remember NIMBY? Not in my back yard? Apparently the cities want to forget that approach as it pertains to census figures and redistricting. Just never mind where those prisons actually are.

How (in)convenient. And guess who made this subtle change?

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Posted in Constitution, Ethics

Tagged Census, Fraud, Transparency