Harry Reid: Another great moment in Democrat hypocrisy

Just when you think liberal progressives cannot surprise you anymore, they exceed expectations. Consider this week’s appalling statement emanating from the mouth or some other orifice of Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. ✧ Reid stood before the camera on the Senate floor, looked the American people in the eye and declared that the Obamacare horror stories are all untrue.

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Pelosi to Aspiring Musicians: Quit Your Job, Taxpayers Will Cover Your Health Care

“We see it as a entrepreneurial bill - a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care.”
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Democrats may drag feet on 'unsustainable' budget for 2011

POLITICO, 4/12/2010 - Congress is poised to miss its April 15 deadline for finishing next year’s budget without even considering a draft in either chamber. ∴ Unlike citizens’ tax-filing deadline, Congress’s mid-April benchmark is nonbinding. And members seem to be in no rush to get the process going. ∴ Indeed, some Democratic insiders suspect that leaders will skip the budget process altogether this year — a way to avoid the political unpleasantness of voting on spending, deficits and taxes in an election year — or simply go through a few of the motions, without any real effort to complete the work. Read more at Politico... Read More......

Pelosi, Obama hail jobs news in turning attention to economy

THE HILL, 4/2/2010 by Ian Swanson and Sam Youngman - Democrats sought to capitalize Friday on news that the economy added 162,000 jobs in March. ∴ Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and President Barack Obama both hailed the $787 billion stimulus measure for spurring the creation of new jobs, the most the economy has seen in one month in three years. Read more at The Hill. House Minority Whip, Eric Cantor (VA) said,

“Yet we must set our sights higher, our goals larger, and our actions bolder. Americans deserve far more than the up-and-down, roller coaster-like unemployment reports of the past few months.”

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Stupak: They just want this over

THE CORNER, 3/12/2010 by Robert Costa - Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes to pass the Senate’s health-care bill without us. At this point, there is no doubt that they’ve been able to peel off one or two of my twelve. And even if they don’t have the votes, it’s been made clear to us that they won’t insert our language on the abortion issue.” Read more about the pro-life Stupak Dozen, arm-twisting and the rest of this candid conversation... Read More......

An Open Letter to Speaker Pelosi

Mr. Dennis L. Guthrie of Guthrie, Davis, Henderson & Staton, P.L.L.C, Attorneys at Law of Charlotte, North Carolina starts his August 2009 letter to the Speaker of the House, Ms. Nancy Pelosi, with "I write to you out of utter disdain! You are despicable and as un-American as the traitor Jane Fonda." Read the rest of the letter here...

Mr. Guthrie's credentials:

Resume

Born St. Louis , Missouri , August 21, 1944

Bar Admissions:

• North Carolina, 1969
  
• U.S. District Court, Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina , 1969
  
• U.S. Tax Court
  
• Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Education:

• Wofford College, 1966 A.B.
  
• Mercer University, 1969J.D.
  
• Phi Alpha Delta
  
• Vice-Justice, District XIV, 1968 - 1969

Professional Associations and Memberships:

• North Carolina and American Bar Associations (Member, Sections on: Administrative Law; General Practice; Litigation)
  
• 26th Judicial District and North Carolina State Bar
  
• Mecklenburg County Bar Association
  
• American Association of Justice
  
• North Carolina Trial Lawyers Association
  
• Captain, U.S. Army, 1969-1971, Vietnam
  
• National Defense Medal, 1969
  
• Republic of Viet Nam Service Medal, 1970
  
• Bronze Star Medals (2), 1971
  
• Assistant District Attorney, Mecklenburg County, 1971 - 1974
  
• Charlotte Chamber of Commerce
  
• Chairman, Board of Trustees Providence United Methodist Church
  
• Board of Directors, Alexander Children's Home
  
• Board of Directors, Charlotte Culinary Institute
  
• Wofford Alumni Executive Council
  
• Scoutmaster, Boy Scouts of America
  
• Board of Directors, Boy Scouts of America of Mecklenburg County
  
• Board of Directors, Girl Scout Council
  
• Life Member, National Eagle Scout Association
  
• Life Member, Girl Scouts of America

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ObamaCare Endorsements: WHAT THE BRIBE WAS

TheHill.com, 11/6/2009 By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN, (Printer-Friendly Version) - As the suicidal Democratic congressmen proceed to rubber-stamp the Obama healthcare reform despite the drubbing their party took in the '09 elections, the president trotted out the endorsements of the AMA and the AARP to stimulate support. But these -- and the other endorsements -- his package has received are all bought and paid for.

Here are the deals:

* The American Medical Association (AMA) was facing a 21 percent cut in physicians' reimbursements under the current law. Obama promised to kill the cut if they backed his bill. The cuts are the fruit of a law requiring annual 5-6 percent reductions in doctor reimbursements for treating Medicare patients. Bravely, each year Congress has rolled the cuts over, suspending them but not repealing them. So each year, the accumulated cuts threaten doctors. By now, they have risen to 21 percent. With this blackmail leverage, Obama compelled the AMA to support his bill...or else!

* The AARP got a financial windfall in return for its support of the healthcare bill.

Over the past decade, the AARP has morphed from an advocacy group to an insurance company (through its subsidiary company). It is one of the main suppliers of Medi-gap insurance, a high-cost, privately purchased coverage that picks up where Medicare leaves off. But President Bush-43 passed the Medicare Advantage program, which offered a subsidized, lower-cost alternative to Medi-gap. Under Medicare Advantage, the elderly get all the extra coverage they need plus coordinated, well-managed care, usually by the same physician. So more than 10 million seniors went with Medicare Advantage, cutting into AARP Medi-gap revenues.

Presto! Obama solved their problem. He eliminates subsidies for Medicare Advantage. The elderly will have to pay more for coverage under Medigap, but the AARP -- which supposedly represents them -- will make more money. (If this galls you, join the American Seniors Association, the alternative group; contact sbarton@americanseniors.org. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

* The drug industry backed ObamaCare and, in return, got a 10-year limit of $80 billion on cuts in prescription drug costs. (A drop in the bucket of their almost $3 trillion projected cost over the next decade.) They also got administration assurances that it will continue to bar lower-cost Canadian drugs from coming into the U.S. All it had to do was put its formidable advertising budget at the disposal of the administration.

* Insurance companies got access to 40 million potential new customers. But when the Senate Finance Committee lowered the fine that would be imposed on those who don't buy insurance from $3,500 to $1,500, the insurance companies jumped ship and now oppose the bill, albeit for the worst of motives.

The only industry that refused to knuckle under was the medical device makers. They stood for principle and wouldn't go along with Obama's blackmail. So the Senate Finance Committee retaliated by imposing a tax on medical devices such as automated wheelchairs, pacemakers, arterial stents, prosthetic limbs, artificial knees and hips and other necessary accoutrements of healthcare.

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This Is Priceless - Leah From New Hampshire For President

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Pelosi-Hoyer Call Health Care Critics 'Un-American'

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned the health care debate up a notch Monday, penning a column along with her top deputy that questioned the patriotism of those disrupting town hall meetings to air their complaints. ∴ Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer claimed such behavior is "simply un-American." Read more at FOX News... Read More......

John Boehner: June 26 Leader Alert

What You May Not Know About Speaker Pelosi's National Energy Tax: More Mandates, More Regulations, and More Costs Than Ever Before

WASHINGTON, 6/26 - Speaker Pelosi’s national energy tax is going to raise electricity prices, increase gasoline prices, and ship American jobs overseas to countries like China and India. This, we know. ∴ It would be a bureaucratic nightmare overseen by a confusing web of government agencies that would take and redistribute trillions of dollars from family budgets and workers payrolls. This, we also know. Even Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-MN) admitted in the Washington Post this morning that: “The truth is, nobody knows for sure how this is going to work.” How encouraging. ∴ But what don’t we know? Here are some facts you may not know about Speaker Pelosi’s national energy tax... Read more at the House Republican Leaders site... Read More......

Stop Cap and Trade (Cap and Tax)

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) today launched a new video news release entitled, "Number One Priority.” The video highlights Speaker Pelosi’s top priority, “cap and trade” legislation that will impose a national energy tax of up to $3,100 on all Americans and slam small businesses with higher energy bills, causing the loss of millions of jobs. ∴ In a year that has seen the loss of 2.9 million jobs in America, Republicans remain focused on creating jobs, cutting spending to reduce the deficit, and keeping taxes low.

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Cantor: No investigation on Pelosi's CIA claim

Statement on Democrats Refusal to Investigate CIA Allegations by Speaker, 6/16/2009 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) issued the following statement after Democrats blocked a resolution offered by Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT) to create a four member bi-partisan panel to examine allegations made by the Speaker of the House accusing intelligence professionals of deliberately lying to Congress. ∴ Allegations that intelligence professionals consistently lied to members of Congress is extremely serious, especially when they are made by the Speaker of the House. ∴ “Perhaps it is telling that Democrats do not wish to determine whether Speaker Pelosi’s troubling allegation that the CIA lied to Congress is accurate. Speaker Pelosi has failed to make any effort to offer evidence that substantiates her accusations, and a complete and thorough investigation would not only offer that opportunity, but finally provide the American people with the truth.” Read More......

Bad Democratic Reasoning

National Review Online, March 30, 2007 - Charles Krauthammer counters Speaker Pelosi’s March 8th statement, “Our bill calls for the redeployment of U.S. troops out of Iraq so that we can focus more fully on the real war on terror, which is in Afghanistan,” and the Democrats canard that Iraq is the "wrong war at the wrong time”, by setting up a creative analogy using ‘Martians’ to drive home his point on the importance of Iraq in the war against radical Islamic aggression. See Krauthammer's "Thought experiment" in Afghanistan Isn't a Reason... Read More......

'Backlash for Speaker Pelosi'

From Bill Bennett's Morning in America: Quotes & Statements, March 29, 2007
From Iraq: An Open Letter to Speaker Pelosi, From Gunnery Sgt. Stephen F. Krueger

"How can you even think of pushing forward legislation to set a withdrawal date for US forces from Iraq? Do you know how much you embolden the insurgency here in Iraq? YOU ARE JEAPARDIZING THE LIVES OF US SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN WITH YOUR ACTIONS. You and your fellow Democrats are causing the Al Qaeda supported insurgency to use more catastrophic attacks against us and Iraqi forces. You will see more SVBIED's with chlorine gas, more VBIED's against civilians and security forces every time you and other Democrats open your mouths. You will have to live with yourself and try to sleep at night knowing all the defeatist propaganda you have spewed forth is nothing more than ammunition for Islamic extremist groups around the world and more US deaths.

The unsuspecting people who support you know nothing of what goes on over here; you fill their heads with nonsense and talk of pullout to appease them. The only thing that will happen is the establishment of an extremist Islamic state where sharia law is the law of the land and no one is safe.

Sunni Moslems here are coming to our side and joining forces with the government to defeat Al Qaeda (AQI) here in Iraq, but they need our help and they need us to stay. I have spent the last 7 months(3rd tour) in Iraq. I have watched Iraqi citizens pick up weapons and form militias in areas to join forces with Iraqi police/Army. Common citizens who fight and die because we are standing next to them. Not cutting and running or talking of withdrawal. This started after the surge forces the President sent here arrived. We have lost Marines also and it hurts more than you will ever know but we have made a commitment to these people. And I for one will not abandon them and I have of a platoon of Marines who feel the same. I have no control over what happened in 2003 and why we invaded Iraq. That is another discussion, but we are here and they need our help to rid their country of these terrorists.

Yes eventually we will leave but we need to do a phased withdrawal without a timeline. At least without a timeline that is published for the world to know. The citizens of Iraq need to see some solidarity in our government, Democrats and Republicans coming together and supporting our President in this war. There is a middle ground here for both parties, you all need to come together and work towards a solution. What we don't need is more theatrics and clashes between the parties. AQI loves to see that it causes them to do more attacks and continue with the murder and intimidation campaign against Iraqi citizens.

Someone needs to step forward and bring the two parties together. Meet and talk about what you all can do and come to an agreement on the war. Like I said before we need a unified front to present to the world on the Iraq war. The Iraqi people need a morale boost, they need to see we are behind them and we will support them and not cut and run. The insurgency needs to see our resolve is strong and we will endure and defeat them. Extremist Islamist terror groups use our perceived weakness against us. They misunderstand our kindness for weakness. Weakness shown to the world brings more recruits to their cause; it causes more civilian deaths and violence.

Please I implore you to not push this agenda. I have watched you on television and you seem to be using this as a steppingstone to further your political career. STOP!!! More is at stake here. Our country's word is on the line, my word to many Iraqi citizens is on the line. Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines lives are at stake. We know the risks and we face them daily. Don't make our mission more difficult."

Gunnery Sgt. Stephen F. Krueger
Platoon Sgt 3rd Recon Bn

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