Showing posts with label Democrats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Democrats. Show all posts
Monday, January 25, 2010
Friday, October 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
ObamaCare: Designed By Rube Goldberg?
Back around 1930, Rube Goldberg became famous for his illustrations of 'absurdly-connected machines'. A 'Rube Goldberg machine' is a 'deliberately over-engineered apparatus that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion'.
This organizational chart of the House Democrat's Health Care Plan would be laughable if Goldberg had drawn it. Sadly, it results from analysis of the actual legislation our 'representatives' want to foist on us.
Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), the House Republican Leader, released a statement today which included the organizational outline:
This organizational chart of the House Democrat's Health Care Plan would be laughable if Goldberg had drawn it. Sadly, it results from analysis of the actual legislation our 'representatives' want to foist on us.
'The chart ... identifies at least 31 new federal programs, agencies, commissions and mandates that accompany the unprecedented government takeover of health care in America.'Unless we act quickly, this is where we are headed, America. Be very afraid!
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Wise Guy. Can You Guess Who?
Compare the following statements to the pap our current President reads from his teleprompter. These ideas, expressed by a Democrat, are completely foreign to the modern, 'progressive' Democrat.
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."Support Israel. American strength. Patriotism. Freedom. Today's blame-America-first Democrats would probably run Kennedy out of the party.
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom."
"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war."
"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."
Friday, May 1, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Buh-Bye Benedict Arlen
Long-time Republican-In-Name-Only Senator Arlen Specter (PA) has been reading the tea leaves, Crumb Crunchers. Faced with a stiff Republican primary challenge from Pat Toomey and the possibility of being unceremoniously dumped by Pennsylvania voters, Arlen has decided to join his ideological comrades in the Democrat party. Good riddance.On Friday, Rasmussen Reports released polling results in the Specter/Toomey race: Election 2010: Pennsylvania Republican Senate Primary: Toomey 51% Specter 30%
Specter is viewed favorably by 42% of Pennsylvania Republicans and unfavorably by 55%, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters in the state. Those are stunningly poor numbers for a long-term incumbent senator. Specter was first elected to the Senate in 1980.GOP National Chairman Michael Steele said "He left to further his personal political interests because he knew that he was going to lose a Republican primary due to his left-wing voting record. Republicans look forward to beating Sen. Specter in 2010, assuming the Democrats don't do it first." Woot!
In another sign that could be troubling for Specter, the current poll finds that 79% of Pennsylvania Republicans have a favorable opinion of the “Tea Party” protests against big government spending and higher taxes held across the nation last week. Thirty percent (30%) know someone personally who took part. Overall, 82% of Pennsylvania Republicans say that the federal government has too much money and too much power. Just four percent (4%) say it has too little.
This turn of events leads me to wonder... can we get him to take Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins with him?
Monday, March 9, 2009
OmniPork Budget In Trouble?
Well, here I am...out of town, on business, blogging from the hotel instead. What can I say; I'm hooked.
The best news of the day has to be the rapidly failing OmniPork Budget Bill. I happened to hear Congresswoman Jackie Speier (CA-12), a Democrat, on Fox News this morning, expressing her opposition to the bill due to the earmark pork. From her website:
Republicans and Democrats are now calling the administration out on this issue. In the Senate, it appears Prince Harry will not get the votes needed for cloture.
This is a very good thing, Crumb Crunchers! Let Congress pass a continuing resolution, take a deep breath, and excise the pork and fat from the budget before passing it. In the meantime, keep planning those Taxpayer Tea Parties. Even if we win this battle, the war against taxpayer abuse will be long and hard-fought.
I'll be back tomorrow. See ya then.
The best news of the day has to be the rapidly failing OmniPork Budget Bill. I happened to hear Congresswoman Jackie Speier (CA-12), a Democrat, on Fox News this morning, expressing her opposition to the bill due to the earmark pork. From her website:
Congresswoman Jackie Speier has asked a prestigious panel of business, labor, community and government leaders to review all requests for funding received by her office for fiscal year 2010. The Citizens Oversight Panel will meet this month in public forums to review applications and hear from applicants before making recommendations to the congresswoman. Long a critic of the federal earmarking process, Speier has not requested any special funding in her ten months in office, instead choosing to study ways to “take the politics out of the appropriations process.”Thank you, Rep. Speier, for being a voice of reason and defying party pressure to speak out against business as usual in Washington.
Republicans and Democrats are now calling the administration out on this issue. In the Senate, it appears Prince Harry will not get the votes needed for cloture.
This is a very good thing, Crumb Crunchers! Let Congress pass a continuing resolution, take a deep breath, and excise the pork and fat from the budget before passing it. In the meantime, keep planning those Taxpayer Tea Parties. Even if we win this battle, the war against taxpayer abuse will be long and hard-fought.
I'll be back tomorrow. See ya then.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Friday, November 21, 2008
Poem of Reconcilation
For my friends in the Democrat party, here's a little poem of reconciliation and unity...
It's a JOKE people - lighten up!
Election day is over,
The talking is done.
My party lost, your party won.
So let us be friends,
Let arguments pass.
I'll hug my elephant...
You kiss your ass.
It's a JOKE people - lighten up!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
What Caused the Crisis? We Have Answers.
Burning Down the House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis. Keep your cursor on the pause button....you'll need to read some of the screen shots.
Just in case you are tempted to chalk this all up to partisan politics....former President Bill Clinton agrees. He told ABC News about the Democrats blocking reform of Fannie and Freddie when he was in the White House:
Four years ago, Congressional hearings were held. Republicans warned of impending, serious problems at Fannie and Freddie. Democrats defended both companies. Watch them, in their own words:
Remember as you watch these videos that:
* Franklin Raines earned $90 million in his five years as Fannie Mae’s CEO, from 1999 to 2004, while cooking the books. One of his successors, Daniel Mudd, collected $11.6 million. Fannie Mae — a quasi-governmental corporation created by Congress to support FHA-insured or VA-guaranteed secondary mortgages — failed so badly in late 2008 that, to prevent total collapse, the feds bailed it out for $200+ BILLION (along with sister organization Freddie Mac) and took control of it.
* In August 2007, Bank of America bought failed subprime-mortgage peddler Countrywide Financial for $2 BILLION — after CEO Angelo Mozilo sold $121 million in company stock and the feds bailed it out for $51 BILLION.
* In October 2007, the board of Merrill Lynch fired CEO Stanley O’Neal, who collected a cool $160 million bonus payout on his way out the door. His successor, John Thain, earned $17 million for one year — before selling Merrill to Bank of America for $50 BILLION.
* James Cayne, as CEO of Bear Stearns, “earned” $49.31 million in the last two years of his firm’s pitiful existence — before collapsing, receiving a $29 BILLION government bailout, and becoming part of JP Morgan Chase.
* Richard Fuld, CEO and largest shareholder of Lehman Brothers, collected $354 million in total compensation in the past five years — before declaring bankruptcy and melding into Barclays Financial.
* Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke orchestrated an $85 BILLION withdrawal from taxpayer coffers to save insurance giant AIG from bankruptcy.
* Alan Fishman, CEO for just 17 days of Washington Mutual, the nation’s largest S&L, floated out the door on an eye-popping $20 million parachute as it became the largest bank failure in US history, taken over by FDIC, and handed to JP Morgan Chase for the bargain price of $1.9 BILLION.
Now, Congress and the President can't understand why 'we the people' are angry and protesting the ADDITIONAL $750 BILLION dollar bailout of Wall Street. Someone needs to get a clue.....and it isn't us, folks.
Just in case you are tempted to chalk this all up to partisan politics....former President Bill Clinton agrees. He told ABC News about the Democrats blocking reform of Fannie and Freddie when he was in the White House:
Four years ago, Congressional hearings were held. Republicans warned of impending, serious problems at Fannie and Freddie. Democrats defended both companies. Watch them, in their own words:
Remember as you watch these videos that:
* Franklin Raines earned $90 million in his five years as Fannie Mae’s CEO, from 1999 to 2004, while cooking the books. One of his successors, Daniel Mudd, collected $11.6 million. Fannie Mae — a quasi-governmental corporation created by Congress to support FHA-insured or VA-guaranteed secondary mortgages — failed so badly in late 2008 that, to prevent total collapse, the feds bailed it out for $200+ BILLION (along with sister organization Freddie Mac) and took control of it.
* In August 2007, Bank of America bought failed subprime-mortgage peddler Countrywide Financial for $2 BILLION — after CEO Angelo Mozilo sold $121 million in company stock and the feds bailed it out for $51 BILLION.
* In October 2007, the board of Merrill Lynch fired CEO Stanley O’Neal, who collected a cool $160 million bonus payout on his way out the door. His successor, John Thain, earned $17 million for one year — before selling Merrill to Bank of America for $50 BILLION.
* James Cayne, as CEO of Bear Stearns, “earned” $49.31 million in the last two years of his firm’s pitiful existence — before collapsing, receiving a $29 BILLION government bailout, and becoming part of JP Morgan Chase.
* Richard Fuld, CEO and largest shareholder of Lehman Brothers, collected $354 million in total compensation in the past five years — before declaring bankruptcy and melding into Barclays Financial.
* Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke orchestrated an $85 BILLION withdrawal from taxpayer coffers to save insurance giant AIG from bankruptcy.
* Alan Fishman, CEO for just 17 days of Washington Mutual, the nation’s largest S&L, floated out the door on an eye-popping $20 million parachute as it became the largest bank failure in US history, taken over by FDIC, and handed to JP Morgan Chase for the bargain price of $1.9 BILLION.
Now, Congress and the President can't understand why 'we the people' are angry and protesting the ADDITIONAL $750 BILLION dollar bailout of Wall Street. Someone needs to get a clue.....and it isn't us, folks.
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