02/17/2010
I have recently read through, and wholeheartedly embrace the principles of The Mount Vernon Statement.
I have signed its petition and promise to uphold and defend its premise completely. That of moving toward our Founding Principles and not away from it, of Ordered Liberty firmly grounded and excellently articulated within our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
A good history of this as explained by Doctor Zero in his article on Green Death.
We should all remember this.
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 !!!!
Dollar-denominated risk assets, including asset-backed securities and corporates, are no longer wanted at the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), nor at China’s large commercial banks. The Chinese government has ordered its reserve managers to divest itself of riskier securities and hold only Treasuries and US agency debt with an implicit or explicit government guarantee. This already has been communicated to American securities dealers, according to market participants with direct knowledge of the events. Read more …
UPDATE: Is this connected?
UPDATEx2: JAPAN Is Now Largest Holder of U.S. Debt
China threatened to dump US debt this week over the sale of $6.4 billion of American weapons to Taiwan. But, it looks like it’s already started. In December China dumped $34.2 billion in US treasuries making Japan the largest holder of US debt.
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.
Frankly, I don’t see a problem here.
Posted in Constitution, Deficit, Economy, Ethics, National Defense, National Security, Politics, Rights
“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.
Posted in Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Energy, Ethics
Tagged Control, Fraud, Incompetence, Jobs, Profit, Transparency, Truth, Unemployment
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.
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?
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.
Posted in Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Ethics
Tagged Fraud, Incompetence, Transparency
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.
Daniel McAndrew 