Corvallis Town Hall with Co-Speakers Hanna (R) and Roblan (D)

CORVALLIS GAZETTE-TIMES, 4/20/2011 (online) - Co-speakers of Oregon House lead town hall session Read More......

Dems: Don't read it, just pass our 1,924-page Omnibus spending bill

RWB NEWS, 12/14/2010 - One Last Binge! Dems Try To Dump A 2,000 Page $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill! No Reading Or Debating It (video)!

It’s hard to believe the election only ended a month ago as the Democrat leadership attempt to rush through a nearly 2,000-page spending bill with a price tag of over a TRILLION DOLLARS in the final days of the lame-duck session ignoring the clear will expressed by the voters this past November. This bill is loaded up with pork projects…..another “We must pass it so you can see whats in it”. I thought that kind of recklessness is what people were sick of in Government. How is Congress supposed to look out for the taxpayer when they only have 3 days to look over this 2,000 page monstrosity? Let’s rush it through and just stick it to the American people AGAIN! Congress should listen to the American people and stop this reckless spending." Watch videos at Red White & Blue News (includes partial text of Fox News report)

Comment by chris.williams at Fox News:
Re: Revolt: Republicans Angry About Omnibus Spending Bill Decry 'Total Mess'

For your information:

The FY 2010 budget for the Department of Education has been $50B. The FY 2011 budget is $55B. That increase was approved months ago. So, too were the budgets of every federal agency. To "hold the line" means to approve the increases. Obamacare includes 189 new federal agencies. Those agencies are part of the "hold the line on spending" mentality. Everywhere you turn, everywhere you look, government is getting bigger by staying the same; and, it's not spending more money today because [t]hat money was added to the deficit last summer.

The Code of Federal Regulations includes every regulation in force in this country. That document is nearly 150,000 (one hundred fifty thousand pages long, spread over 50 (fifty) different volumes. The Small Business Administration puts the total price tag of complying with federal regulations at $1.75 Trillion in 2008. That amounts to $15,000 for each U.S. household. The EPA is advancing 29 proposed major rules and 173 others -- an unprecedented level of regulatory action. The massive health care law creates 183 new agencies, commissions, panels and other bodies and the financial regulatory reform bill creates nearly 500 regulatory rulemakings, 60 studies and 93 reports.

Where does the money come from to fund this Godzilla of a bureaucracy? Surprise it’s you and me our taxes. The job of the Congress -- the House and Senate --is creating, funding and overseeing it."

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Sanger's 'Negro Project' alive and well

ONENEWSNOW, 10/26/2010 - In his most recent column, "Planned Parenthood's Negro Project Lives On," Ron Miller claims Planned Parenthood continues to target blacks for abortions, decades after eugenicist Margaret Sanger conceived her Negro Project in 1939. Read more at One News Now...

SEATTLE PI, 8/2/2010 - Planned Parenthood endorsements: All Democrats Read More......

WSJ: The Uncertainty Principle—II

WALL STREET JOURNAL, 7/16/2010 - The Uncertainty Principle—II, Only 30 times more complicated than Sarbanes-Oxley. The Dodd-Frank financial reform bill passed by the Senate yesterday promises to generate historic levels of red tape. But apparently the 2,300 pages are so complicated that a debate has broken out over precisely how many new regulatory rule-makings it will require. Read more at WSJ...

It's unbelievable that Dodd & Frank aren't serving time in a federal prison. --bc Read More......

Tea Party protesters refused entry into congressional buildings

WASHINGTON EXAMINER, 3/20/2010 by Mark Hemingway - Capitol Police stopped letting peaceful protesters into the capitol to air their concerns with their representatives. Read more and see photos of the protest over the Democrats health care plan...

Vote scheduled for Sunday.

Comment from Tea Party Express, 3/20 (Hat tip: Stella Guenther) - druebeall said... I want to thank those who attended this event. I wished that I could have done so. however I am doing what I can on the other coast. Calling my elected officials and sending emails as well as bogging and sending letters to the editors of local news papers. The reason that America is in such dire striates[sic] is not the corrupt politicians fault, but rather ours, the American people, for not participating in our government as we were afforded by our founding fathers. By taking freedom and the American way for granted and not understanding that it is our duty to make our voices heard and our wishes known. So America, today, not tomorrow we must all get off our duffs and become active in our future because if we do not utilize the rights that we have, as the saying goes. . . you either use it or lose it! Read More......

Dems ditch 'deem and pass' tactic

News from the HILL: Top Democrats confirmed Saturday that the House would hold separate votes on the Senate healthcare bill and the reconciliation bill, making fixes to it. Read more at the HILL... Read More......

House Dems warming to idea of scaled-back healthcare reform

NEWS FROM THE HILL, 1/21/2010 by Jared Allen - There is growing consensus in the House Democratic Caucus that comprehensive healthcare legislation is dead and the only option is to pass a series of piecemeal measures. Read more at The Hill... Read More......

A budget-buster in the making

WASHINGTON POST, 11/23/2009 by David S. Broder (Hat tip: John H. Detweiler) - It's simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan. ∴ The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version of health reform produced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Quinnipiac University poll of a national cross section of voters reported its latest results. ∴ This poll may not be as famous as some others, but I know the care and professionalism of the people who run it, and one question was particularly interesting to me.

It read: "President Obama has pledged that health insurance reform will not add to our federal budget deficit over the next decade. Do you think that President Obama will be able to keep his promise or do you think that any health care plan that Congress passes and President Obama signs will add to the federal budget deficit?"

The answer: Less than one-fifth of the voters -- 19 percent of the sample -- think he will keep his word. Nine of 10 Republicans and eight of 10 independents said that whatever passes will add to the torrent of red ink. By a margin of four to three, even Democrats agreed this is likely.

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Tweeting to the Left: Twitter’s Hidden Bias

AIM, 11/18/2009 by Allie Duzett - "Twitter has taken the social media world by a storm with its innovative medium for microblogging; however, it turns out, not even social media is free from bias. Recently, Twitter announced that it would be eventually deleting its "suggested user" feature-because of its pro-Democratic bias."

FYI: A higher percentage of Republicans use Twitter in the national political sphere: 22.3 percent of congressional Republicans use Twitter, while only 8.5 percent of congressional Democrats do. As of September 2009, Republicans in Congress were out-tweeting Democratic representatives; 64 percent of congressional tweets came from Republicans, as opposed to the Democratic Party's embarrassing 36 percent. Read more at Accuracy in Media (AIM)... Read More......

Why Obamacare Is Sinking

WASHINGTON POST, 7/24/2009 by Charles Krauthammer - What happened to Obamacare? Rhetoric met reality. As both candidate and president, the master rhetorician could conjure a world in which he bestows upon you health-care nirvana: more coverage, less cost. ∴ But you can't fake it in legislation. Once you commit your fantasies to words and numbers, the Congressional Budget Office comes along and declares that the emperor has no clothes. Read more at the Washington Post...

Hat tip: John H. Detweiler
John writes, "Reality is always tough." Read More......