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Americans frustrated that Obama can?t force Congress to do his will?
2012-02-07 08:00:00 Wonder how Matt Lauer and his colleagues in the legacy media would have reacted had George W. Bush expressed a similar frustration: I think this is the nature of being President. What’s frustrated people is that I have not been able to force Congress to implement every aspect of what I said in 2008. Well, ...
By: GayPatriot
Guess this means Democrats don?t want to cut spending
2012-02-03 00:27:00 Sometimes one headline just says it all: Dems see GOP budget reforms as ?sneaky? way to cut spending: House Democrats on Thursday were resisting two Republican bills that would reform the budget process, and charged that the bills were a backdoor attempt by the GOP to reduce federal spending without having to pass more specific ...
By: GayPatriot
Hey, Mitt, just saying the GOP will be united won?t make it so
2012-02-02 00:18:00 Mitt Romney, Fred Barnes writes, citing the candidate’s victory speech last night . . . . . . insisted the brutal primary campaign, with Romney and Gingrich trading attacks on each other?s character and motives, won?t leave Republicans divided. ?A competitive primary does not divide us,? he said. ?It prepares us. When Republicans gather in ...
By: GayPatriot
If taxing the rich is so important to President Obama . . .
2012-01-26 06:48:00 . . . why didn’t he submit legislation to the 111th Congress when the Democrats had a majority in the House and a super-duper majority int he Senate (filibuster-proof for six months)? And why aren’t our friends in the legacy media asking him about this oversight? Question came to mind as I was reading Rush’s ...
By: GayPatriot
The Do-Nothing Democratic Senate: 1,000 Days Without a Budget
2012-01-24 18:30:00 President Obama, reports Dwvin Dwyer this morning on ABCNews, “has spent the past three months railing against a ‘do-nothing Congress,” and tonight he has the opportunity to deliver his message face to face.” As the Democrat demagogues a legislature that won’t rubberstamp his priorities, he will certainly obscure one fact: Congress is not a ...
By: GayPatriot
To those who deride the 112th Congress as obstructionist. . .
2012-01-23 04:05:00 . . . or counterproductive, bear two things in mind: The Senate still has a Democratic majority. Americans elected Republicans to redress the excesses of the president’s policies not to rubber stamp them, or, to paraphrase that Democrat, “They won.”
By: GayPatriot
SOPA and PIPA Dropped by Congress
2012-01-21 18:24:00 Your Ad Here SOPA and PIPA have been postponed indefinitely according to various reports including CNN. This is great news and shows that the Internet protests really do make a difference and have the ability to make an impact. CNN reports: “The Senate had been scheduled to hold a proceedural vote next week on whether (Read More...)
Obama rejects new oil pipeline, blames Congress
2012-01-21 00:27:00 Obama rejects new oil pipeline, blames Congress WASHINGTON – President Obama yesterday rejected for now the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, saying the $7 billion project could not be adequately reviewed by the 60-day deadline set by Congress. While the … Continue reading →
By: TexasFred's
ANONYMOUS DEFENDS MEGAUPLOAD
2012-01-20 18:14:00 Hacker group Anonymous sprang into action yesterday afternoon by causing havoc and taking down a slew of targeted websites including the U.S. Department Of Justice, U.S. Copyright Office, Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA), Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) and Universal Music Group. The move comes in response to the recent indictment of download website, Megaupload. Authorities argue that the site was once the 13th most-visited website on the internet and responsible for the distribution of loads of pirated television shows, software and games. All this comes in light of the recent Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) currently making their rounds among U.S. lawmakers.
Lock Your Mortgage Rate : New Loan Fees Expected Within Days
2012-01-10 14:45:00 Starting soon, nearly all home buyers and refinancing households nationwide will pay higher mortgage loan fees. Congress has made it law.
Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To NOT Know How The Internet Works : This
2012-01-06 19:06:00 Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works | Motherboard For any one who pays attention to details concerning Congress, who could forget the day the now dead, Ted Stevens, the Senator from Alaska, stepped up to the Senate floor microphone and released his famous tirade about the Internet being a series of tubes, and NOT a huge drump truck, onto the United States audience. (see C-Span for evidence) Jon Stewart made fun of him on The Daily Show, we all made fun of Ted Stevens the fuddy duddy grandpap and great grandpap Luddite. With that said, a bunch of very astute, very knowledgeable and very bright people all got together and wrote a letter to congress. It's titled: DEAR CONGRESS, IT'S NO LONGER OK TO NOT KNOW HOW THE INTERNET WORKS. Whether it was George W. Bush referring to “the internets†or Senator Ted Stevens describing said internets as “a series of tubes,†we would sit back and chortle at our well-meaning but horribly uninformed represen...
Dodd-Frank: The best (or worst) is yet to come
2011-12-29 14:00:00 This one pretty much blew my mind. The Dodd-Frank Act, a package of financial reforms signed into law in July 2010 in the wake of the credit crisis, isn't even close to being completely enacted. In fact, The Washington Post's...
By: CPA Success
Behind the mess, a closer look at the payroll tax cut
2011-12-28 18:21:00 It's tempting to make jokes about Congress these days, but why bother? Congress is doing a great job of making a joke of itself on its own. The latest example is the spat over the payroll tax cut extension. It...
By: CPA Success
N.Korea closer to nuclear-tipped missile: U.S. expert | Reuters
2011-12-28 17:17:00 North Korea likely is closer to mounting nuclear warheads on its ballistic missiles than generally reported, possibly only one or two years away, the Congress’s former top expert on the issue has concluded. N.Korea closer to nuclear-tipped missile: U.S. expert | Reuters
By: 1913 Intel
972 days (since Democratic Senate passed a budget)
2011-12-28 00:18:00 Every time your Democratic friends and interlocutors accuse the House Republicans of being an obstructionist “do-nothing” chamber of Congress, remind them of this fact: as of today, December 27, 2011, it has been 972 days since Senate Democrats passed a a budget. And during that nearly three-year period, the president’s party enjoyed a supermajority in ...
By: GayPatriot
Obama to ask for another hike in debt limit
2011-12-27 20:01:00 Every now and again, you’ll run into an Obama supporter who will insist that the Democrat has not raised government spending. Now, not even five months after the conclusion of the debt ceiling negotiations this summer, The White House plans to ask Congress by the end of the week for an increase in the government’s ...
By: GayPatriot
57 Members of Congress own This 6% Yielding Stock
2011-12-24 14:00:00 The venerable TV investigative journalism program 60 Minutes recently blew the lid off a story we've been tracking for months. And you absolutely won't believe it when you hear about it. Congress can trade on insider information — and it's 100% legal. Here's an excerpt from the 60 Minutes Report: "In mid September 2008, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average still above 10,000, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke were holding closed-door briefings with congressional leaders, and privately warning them that a global financial meltdown could occur within a few days. One of those attending was Alabama Representative Spencer Bachus, then the ranking Republican member on the House Financial Services Committee and now . . . → Read More: 57 Members of Congress own This 6% Yielding Stock
By: Jutia Group
Co-opting Republican issue, Obama experiences slight rebound
2011-12-22 02:10:00 Even Karl Rove agrees that Republicans blundered on the payroll tax issue. They may be right “on principle and on policy“, as Charles Krauthammer puts it, but they’ve “lost the optics?, as Rove contends. This has been a rare victory for the president due in large part to a divided GOP. “Republicans,” write the editors ...
By: GayPatriot
On "The Bill of Rights Day" Congress Passes The NDAA (National Defense Auth
2011-12-21 03:38:00 Naomi Wolf, who never fails to alert and alarm the masses, has an interesting reposted blog on her Facebook Page concerning the passage of the NDAA. The article says: Execllent and disturbing reporting, reposted here: Surefire, a military contractor, gave a quarter of a million to a single senator and stands to earn 23 million in sight raid equipment manufacture -- enough to outfit fifty thousand soldiers. But...in which war? The war in what is now Battlefield America? OpenSecrets.org shows Surefire lobbying for HR 1540 which is the House counterpart to the Senate bill, S. 1867, which was passed on Bill of Rights Day and which two retired Marine generals affirm, in a New York Times op-ed, abolishes the Bill of Rights. Retired four-star Generals Charles Krulak and Joseph Hoar write in opposing the new law:One provision would authorize the military to indefinitely detain without charge people suspected of involvement with terrorism, including United States citizens appre...
Congress? Favorite Dividend Stock
2011-12-15 17:00:00 It's the most popular high-yielding stock owned by members of Congress. And they might be on to something. Right now this stock yields 5.9%… and it's one of the most stable dividend-payers in the United States. During the recession, dividends stayed steady, but in the past five years, investors have enjoyed five annual dividend increases. At last count, 57 members of Congress — 20 Democrats and 37 Republicans — owned shares of this company. I'll tell you more in a moment. But first, I think you should understand why it's important to know why Congress members own the shares at all… A few weeks ago, 60 Minutes finally blew the lid off the entire thing. To make . . . → Read More: Congress’ Favorite Dividend Stock
By: Jutia Group
Free Pace for Congress Sticker
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By: Free Stuff Times
So, this is how Democrats protect Social Security?!?
2011-12-11 21:12:00 In his post yesterday on the House (Republican) bill “to extend the FICA tax holiday”, John Hinderaker explores some issues left unexplored by a mainstream media which seems sometimes all too eager to repeat the administration’s defense of its policies — and criticism of Republicans. He reminds us that the payroll tax, part of which ...
By: GayPatriot
The Do-Nothing Democratic Senate
2011-12-11 08:40:00 “The junior senator from Texas,” James Taranto wrote in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, “is decidedly unenthusiastic about the current state of the institution he joined nine years ago”: “It’s not what I would call the world’s greatest deliberative body now,” John Cornyn, a Republican, says on a recent visit to the Journal. “The Senate has ...
By: GayPatriot
The Attorney General?s not a crook; he?s just incompetent
2011-12-09 18:57:00 A week ago, Bruce posted a piece suggesting that the Fast and Furious scandal was worse than Watergate. Perhaps, it’s not that bad, not a question of administration malfeasance, but just one of bureaucratic incompetence. Yesterday, Republicans grilled Attorney General Eric Holder when the Democrat testified before the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee. He might ...
By: GayPatriot
Rather than demagogue ?millionaires and billionaires,? Obama should, like D
2011-12-07 23:48:00 Perhaps the main reason I tout every victory for “gun rights” as offering a victory gay Americans is that I believe those who seek to improve the lot of such citizens need to think outside the box of identity politics. That is, we don’t need gay-speicfic legislation advancing our “equality,” but benefit by laws promoting ...
By: GayPatriot
Distracted To Ruin
2011-12-06 02:16:00 While Herman Cain was being ambushed by the government controlled media, misfits and malcontents were occupying anyplace to which they could be bussed, and Egypt was falling into radical Muslim hands that promise to become even more oppressive than the brutal dictator the people ousted, a few other items managed to escape most public attention. For ...
By: RSF America
Congress should be a part-time job
2011-12-05 16:59:00 Congress should be a part-time job By Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal – 12/01/10 10:31 AM ET As the incoming freshman Congressional class readies itself to lead and improve our country, they should remember the ?do-nothing? Congress of Harry Truman?s era. … Continue reading →
By: TexasFred's
The Barney Frank embarrassment
2011-11-29 16:30:00 Well, there is at least one sad aspect of Barney Frank’s upcoming retirement. We won’t have the unhappy Massachusetts Democrat to kick around any more. This guy is so ripe for ridicule. It has been a lot of fun mocking his various statements, not to mention his juvenile reaction to the type of questions Republican ...
By: GayPatriot
Barney Frank Retires From Congress as ?Bailout Barney?
2011-11-29 08:56:00 Barney Frank, the famed Massachusetts Congressman who this blogger thought was older than Congress itself, suddenly announced his retirement on Cyber Monday (Man, everything happened on Cyber Monday!) Frank has served the 4th Congressional District since 1981, and has grown to become called by some the smartest person in Congress. Regardless of how you feel (Read More...)
BREAKING: BARNEY FRANK LEAVING CONGRESS.Free at last, free at last?thank Go
2011-11-28 17:03:00 Via The Hill: Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) will announce Monday that he is not seeking re-election, ending a 32-year career in the House. Frank, 71, is the top Democrat on the Financial Services Committee and the architect, with former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), of the sweeping Wall Street regulatory reform law enacted in 2010. He ...
By: GayPatriot
Ron Paul Surging In Key States? Does He Really Have A Chance For The Presid
2011-11-22 00:30:00 My New Year Wish For 2012: President Ron Paul And A Huge Majority Democratic Congress And Senate Okay, you know what? I happen to really, REALLY like Ron Paul, even as a Liberal and I’ll be happy to explain why, hopefully before my fellow Libs click away from this column in disgust. The... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Congress Reinstate Higher FHA Loan Limits
2011-11-21 22:23:00 On October 1, 2011 the increased loan limit for FHA Loans expired reducing the limit in the Seattle area from $567,500 to $506,000 for FHA back loans, potentially affecting upper-end purchases. Last week, FHA got a reprieve from Congress, which reinstated the higher loan limits in 42 states through 2013. For the Seattle/King County area ... Similar posts you may find interesting:FHA and Conforming Loan Limits Expected to Reduce HUD approves monetizing the $8,000 tax credit NWMLS 2007 Condo Highlights Newly constructed FHA approved condos
Will Harry Reid act on bipartisan plan for job growth?
2011-11-18 00:18:00 Even though Republicans control only one chamber of our bicameral federal legislature, Democrats have been blaming the “Republican Congress” for all manner of ills, including the failure to slow the rise of the oceans. Problem is is that while the Republican House passed a budget in its first 102 days, it has been 932 days ...
By: GayPatriot
Union President Gives Congress Emails Backing Testimony: ICE Ordered Agents
2011-11-10 19:53:00 Union President Gives Congress Emails Backing Testimony: ICE Ordered Agents Not to Arrest Illegals (CNSNews.com) – Chris Crane, president of the union that represents the nation?s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, has provided the House Judiciary Committee and Sen. … Continue reading →
By: TexasFred's
Congress, Corruption, Collapse
2011-11-09 21:57:00 Interesting article here on what Congress is really up to (money): 12 Facts About Money And Congress That Are So Outrageous That It Is Hard To Believe That They Are Actually True #1 The collective net worth of all of the members of Congress increased by 25 percent between 2008 and 2010. #2 The collective net worth ...
Remember folks, we don?t have a Republican Congress,but we do have a Do-Not
2011-11-03 00:41:00 Democratic talking points notwithstanding, the 112th Congress is not Republican. The GOP controls just one chamber, the House of Representatives. The president’s party, i.e., the Democrats, still have a majority in the Senate. While it took the Republican chamber 102 days to pass a budget, as of tomorrow the Democratic Congress will have gone nine ...
By: GayPatriot
Can Obama make case for his jobs bill (& reelection)without attacking Repub
2011-10-29 20:17:00 It seems the president set the tone for the second half of his first term, his first experience as chief executive without a Republican House (but Democratic talking points notwithstanding, not a “Republican Congress” as his party still controls the Senate) on April 13 when he delivered a speech at George Washington University on the ...
By: GayPatriot
House Judiciary Committee Passes Gay Rights? Measure
2011-10-27 18:12:00 On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee approved a measure which would give gay Americans a tool to help us defend ourselves against gay bashers: The legislation, which would allow for conceal-and-carry weapon reciprocity across states lines, cleared the panel on a 19-11 vote. All but one committee Republican, Rep. Dan Lungren (Calif.), supported the National ...
By: GayPatriot
Democratic Senator wants to see more women raped!?!?
2011-10-21 19:06:00 I had planned a post spelling out my objections to the first tranche of the President’s “Jobs Bill” to be voted on in the Senate (now that the Democrats are dividing it up), but, well, while scanning the Washington Examiner, learned that a Democratic Senator, in indicating he would vote against final passage of the ...
By: GayPatriot
NYT defines ?economic vandalism? to fit Obama campaign narrative
2011-10-15 00:45:00 Reducing Republican plans to spur the economy to “tired slogans about cutting regulations and spending”, the New York Times editorial board on Wednesday accused Senate Republicans of engaging in “economic vandalism” for their “unanimous decision . . . on Tuesday to filibuster and thus kill President Obama?s jobs bill”. Citing conclusions reached by a group a ...
By: GayPatriot
The Great Unwashed
2011-10-14 21:10:00 Did you ever wonder what a community organizer does? Just take a look at what’s happening on Wall Street and in several other cities across the country … Obama never got so much bang for his buck! Fueled by the White House’s hateful rhetoric and co-opted [if not actually organized] by labor unions and Acorn-style ...
By: RSF America
By Any Other Name
2011-09-15 21:54:00 Barry ‘Never met a tax I didn’t like’ Obama is whining his way around the country saying really presidential things like, “If you love me, you’ll pass this bill” and talking about 153 bridges that are structurally unsound … although he’s letting unsuspecting travelers figure out which ones they are. By the way, weren’t these ...
By: RSF America
Th-That?s All Folks!
2011-09-09 21:36:00 Barack Hussein Obama is the playground bully … the street corner hustler that has become little more than a dangerous cartoon. He began as a media-crafted caricature and now seems to be acting out a role for which he was poorly miscast, like a child playing grownup wearing daddy’s oversize wingtips. “Pass this bill now!” he ...
By: RSF America
The Story of ?O?
2011-08-27 09:00:00 Careful Mr. President … don’t trip over the guys in front of you! As I listen to the latest from Libya and the Middle East, I’m still trying to wrap my mind around The Nutty Professor’s concept of “leading from behind.” Come to think of it, he has tried to apply his theory to domestic ...
By: RSF America
Petition Congress to pass a jobs bill
2011-08-03 11:49:00 The official unemployment rate sits at 9.2 %. This is not because President Obama is a reckless spending socialist, or because of “Job Killing Obamacare”. No, this is because the Republican Party is hell-bent on preventing President Obama from being reelected, because they are determined, no matter the human cost, no matter the treasonous means,...
Anthony Weiner Inserts Self Into Hole Left By His Vacated Congressional Sea
2011-06-29 01:57:00 Weiner’s Entrance Is Leaving New York Republicans Steamed And Hot-Headed… Alright, so the NY Post’s Sally Goldenberg and Josh Margolin are plainly all hot and bothered over the fact disgraced former congressman, Anthony Weiner keeps probing around in the political circles,... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Indian Youth Congress Moves To Google Apps
2011-06-17 10:45:00 Indian Youth Congress (IYC), the youth wing of the Indian national Congress has announced that it will move its 28,000 officials and volunteers to Google apps for business. The mail.iyc.in subdomain currently redirects to a page notifying their members about their move to Google’s servers. Their email services were earlier handled by sify, evident from this page. Their move to Google apps will give them additional services like calendar and docs which weren’t available in Sify mail. The IYC plans to use Google Apps extensively to communicate and report from all over India. They seems to be betting big on Google services, in addition to mail they will also be integrating their propriety applications- with Google apps and soon be hosting them on Google App Engine. Google has been aggressively pushing organisations in India to move their mail servers to Google apps. The advantage with Google apps is that scaling up is no issue at all. So in case the IYC grown from 28,000 ...
By: WATblog
Urge Congress to Vote 'NO' On Striking $$ Saving Section From Fed
2011-06-13 21:04:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Today there may be a vote on striking a section of H.R. 2055 that will insure that federal construction projects for the military are fairly priced and will save money for the taxpayers. Some representatives want this advantageous section struck out and replaced with a union-favoring provision that will cost the tax payers millions and will cause even more job loss in an already failing economy. The bill is the Military Construction (MilCon) and Veterans Affairs (VA) and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2012 (H.R. 2055). The section the Democrats want to eliminate is section 415. Section 415 removes the requirement for companies bidding for federal construction projects for the military to sign anti-competitive project labor...
Congress Must Work Together to Reform and Save Medicare for Future Generati
2011-05-26 14:00:00 From the office of Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R, ILL)... WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Adam Kinzinger (IL-11), last night appeared on "America's Nightly Scoreboard" on Fox Business to discuss the Senate Democrats' failure to produce a budget or to work with House Republicans to save Medicare less than two weeks after the bi-partisan Medicare Trustees produced a report that said Medicare will be exhausted five years earlier than anticipated. Kinzinger also discussed job creation in Illinois. On whether Senate Democrats plan to address entitlements The big key is it's been 755 days since Senate Democrats have passed a budget....
Is Obama Planning to Impose DISCLOSE Despite the FEC, Congress AND The Supr
2011-05-05 17:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston You may remember last year, when union-backed Democrats nearly passed the so-called DISCLOSE Act, imposing financial disclosure for companies, while excluding unions. Well, the DISCLOSE Act is back...Sort of. Based on pretty solid reporting by Pajamas Media and confirmed by Huffington Post, it appears that the Obama Administration is preparing an Executive Order to force portions of the DISCLOSE Act on all federal contractors. As drafted, the Executive Order would only affect government contractors not unions-and would require the contractor, as well as its directors or officers, to disclose any contribution or expenditures. (a) All contributions or expenditures to or on behalf of federal candidates, parties or party committees made by the bidding entity, its... |
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