Concha: Two Huge Int’l Crises Can’t Alter Busy Schedule of Fundraiser-in-Chief

Jon Stewart was exactly right during the open of his Monday show this week: The world really has gone mad.  Actually, Monday now looks in retrospect downright tranquil compared to what we’re seeing on our television sets and on our phones this afternoon. A commercial airliner with 295 people on board — including reportedly 23 Americans — are killed after a plane is shot down in Ukraine. Who exactly is responsible (pro-Russian separatists are suspected) has not been confirmed. More importantly, the State Department hasn’t confirmed any Americans were on the flight.  As if this wasn’t enough, a few hours later, reports of an Israeli ground offensive being launched in Gaza broke as well.

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Did Obama Say Capitalism Doesn’t Work?

4/2/2012 - Raising campaign cash in Maine on Friday, March 30, Obama said Republicans want to return to economic policies that would let Wall Street play by its own set of rules and allow insurance companies to roll back health coverage. "We won't win the race for new jobs and new businesses and middle-class security if we cling to this same old, worn-out, tired 'You're on your own' economics that the other side is peddling," Obama said. "It was tried in the decades before the Great Depression. It didn't work then. It was tried in the last decade. It didn't work," he said. "You know, the idea you would keep on doing the same thing over and over again, even though it's been proven not to work. That's a sign of madness."  Read more at Fox Nation... Read More......

Jaffe: Troops feel more pity than respect

The event was a Wall Street gala that raised millions of dollars for homeless veterans in New York City. ✧ Kid Rock sang a ballad about helplessness, frustration and loss. On cue, several hundred soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines strode into position around him. The black-tie crowd rose to its feet and cheered. ✧ “The servicemen and women were regarded as heroes,” said David Saltzman, who organized the spring fundraiser. ✧ A senior military officer at the gala, also attended by the Joint Chiefs then-chairman, Adm. Mike Mullen, saw the troops’ role differently. ✧ “They were rolled out like some sort of orphan kid,” the officer wrote in an e-mail. “I’m sure the organizers meant well. I know they did. But it wasn’t respect, really. It was pity.” Read more at the Washington Post...

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ABC: Obama: If We Lose in 2012, Government Will Tell People ‘You’re on Your Own’

At a million-dollar San Francisco fundraiser today, President Obama warned his recession-battered supporters that if he loses the 2012 election it could herald a new, painful era of self-reliance in America. ✧ “The one thing that we absolutely know for sure is that if we don’t work even harder than we did in 2008, then we’re going to have a government that tells the American people, ‘you are on your own,’” Obama told a crowd of 200 donors over lunch at the W Hotel. Read more at ABC News...

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Visit the Benton GOP Food Booth at Corvallis Fall Festival

It's Corvallis Fall Festival weekend, September 24th & 25th, and we hope you'll visit the Benton County Republicans' Pasta and Meatballs booth (#18) at Central Park near the main stage on Monroe (across from the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library). The food booth is a fundraiser to help the Benton GOP prepare for the 2012 election. On the menu is Spaghetti with or without Meatballs, Meatball Subs, Meatballs-on-a-Stick (with your choice of marinara sauce or Swedish style white sauce), Strawberry and Chocolate Sundaes and assorted beverages. We'd like to thank the many Benton GOP and Benton County Republican Women who have have prepared for this event and those who have volunteered to man the booth. Can we count on you as a patron this weekend?

Don't want to fight the traffic and parking? There is FREE PARKING and SHUTTLE BUS SERVICE every 10-15 minutes from the Avery Square Parking Lot on 9th Street, Saturday 10am-10pm and Sunday 10am-7pm. Getting there can't get any easier than that! Read More......

ALG Blasts Reid for Placing Sen. Murray on Super-committee

August 10th, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today blasted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for placing Senator Patty Murray on the deficit reduction committee:

Senator Murray serves as the Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, whose job is to raise money to maintain the Senate Majority. Murray’s inclusion indicates that Harry Reid is using the super-committee as a means to shake down political interests in exchange for protection in the budget process.  Read more at Get Liberty.org - Americans for Limited Government (ALG)...

UPDATE: See full list of Super-Committee appointees:

DEMOCRATS
Sen. Patty Murray (WA)
Sen. Max Baucus (MO)
Sen. John Kerry (MA)
Rep. James Clyburn (SC)
Rep. Xavier Becerra (CA)
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (MD)

REPUBLICANS
Sen. John Kyl (AZ)
Sen. Pat Toomey (PA)
Sen. Rob Portman (OH)
Rep.Jeb Hensarling (TX)
Rep. Dave Camp (MI)
Rep. Fred Upton (MI)

Is this constitutional? --bc
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