BREAKING NEWS: We have confirmed that the federal budget planned for fiscal year 2011 has been canceled.
The cause: Washington Democrats’ out-of-control spending spree.
We are here now outside the Capitol awaiting an apology from Washington Democrats for this betrayal of hard-working American taxpayers.
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With all of the attention on the BP oil spill, the European debt crisis and even financial regulatory reform, the fact that Congress hasn’t passed (and will likely not pass) a federal budget for fiscal year 2011 is flying under the radar.
To quote the words of the House Majority Leader, “The most basic responsibility of governing — enacting a budget.”
So what has Congress been so busy doing that they can’t find the time to pass a budget? Watch the 2:10-minute video and find out….
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The GOP leadership is misleading its voters about Liberty Candidates. The recent evidence of it was a statement of James Dobson, Focus on the Family founder, who had to apologize and confess that he was given misleading information about the candidacy of Dr. Rand Paul, who is running in the Republican Primary for the U.S. Senate. The GOP seems to be on the ropes lately and may need to rethink their plan for winning elections in the future.
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John McCain is rapidly making his temperament an inescapable issue in the presidential campaign. Does the nation really want so much drama in the White House? McCain’s performance in recent days has been, to put it charitably, erratic. In an attempt to show leadership on the financial crisis, he has called Americans into ranks — long after hostilities began. Meanwhile, back in much-reviled Washington, the generals with cooler heads and a clearer picture of the battlefield are doing their jobs, minus all the histrionics.
Thus far, an objective observer would have to say that Congress has behaved well in the days since Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson delivered a three-page ransom note that said, and I paraphrase, “Give me $700 billion, or I’d hate to see anything bad happen to that nice economy of yours.”
Our elected representatives took seriously the urgency of the crisis. They did not fall into partisan bickering. A rough consensus began to emerge: It is important to act expeditiously but not to panic. It is unwise to give this administration — or any administration — a blank check with absolutely no oversight, as Paulson had sought. Paulson, the White House or somebody should explain why this plan will work and why some other plan wouldn’t work better. And the corporate executives who put their companies at risk and then turn to the government for a bailout should not be rewarded with multimillion-dollar compensation packages subsidized by the taxpayers.
Negotiations between a Democratic Congress and a Republican administration on these and other points seemed to be proceeding at lightning speed, given the usual pace of such things in Washington. But then, for reasons known only to himself, in charged McCain to rescue the unimperiled. Said Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who has been the lead negotiator for the Democratic majority in the House: “Now that we are on the verge of making a deal, John McCain airdrops himself in to help us make a deal.”
At face value, McCain’s sudden “suspension” of his campaign and his call to delay the first presidential debate can be seen as pure politics. Lately, McCain has been sliding in the polls, and Barack Obama has been rising. The Wall Street crisis markedly accelerated these trends. Late September is not the time to let your opponent widen his lead.
Changing the subject, which the McCain people have raised to an art form, wasn’t an option this time — the public is hardly in the mood for another Paris Hilton ad — so the campaign had to try to somehow get out in front of the crisis. Given McCain’s initial assessment that the fundamentals of the economy are strong, that wasn’t going to be easy.
The solution was to try to make it look as if McCain were leading the heroic effort to save the American way of life. To do this, he had to portray the negotiations over a rescue plan — which had been making orderly progress — as stalled and in shambles. “We must meet as Americans, not as Democrats or Republicans, and we must meet until this crisis is resolved,” McCain said, calling on everyone to “temporarily set politics aside.”
But in trying to put himself at center stage, McCain managed to insert politics into the situation. The first issue all week on which congressional Democrats and Republicans split along party lines was whether McCain’s noisy intervention demonstrated boldness or bluster.
The surest way to derail any prospect of a timely rescue plan would be to have Obama and McCain get involved in the nit and the grit of the negotiations. The reason is obvious: The two major-party presidential candidates would never really abandon the campaign with less than six weeks left before the election. They’d just be shifting it to a venue where it could do maximum damage. The anodyne joint statement from the two campaigns Wednesday highlighting the urgency of the situation was about the most constructive thing Obama and McCain could do, next to staying the out of the way.
McCain succeeded in focusing attention on himself, but not necessarily in a good way. Voters may see this not as an illustration of brave leadership but as another example of McCain’s “ready, fire, aim” approach to dealing with any crisis. Putting himself at the center of events — making any situation all about him — is more than a political tactic for McCain. It’s his nature, and I wonder if most Americans won’t be unnerved at the prospect of electing a president who’s always so ready for his close-up.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092503603.html?sub=AR
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Congressman Mark Schauer offers a floor speech honoring First Lt. Joel Gentz of Grass Lake, who was killed while completing a helicopter rescue mission in southern Afghanistan.
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Hundreds of New Orleanians will come together to shape final decisions about the city’s Unified New Orleans Plan at the last Community Congress on Saturday, January 20th. Housing, flood protection, public services, and infrastructure are among the topics that will be addressed in the plan that will be presented for feedback at the Congress. Planners at the meeting will also present how public priorities from the December 2nd Community Congress have shaped the development of the plan.
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The Narendra Modi government in Gujarat is planning to introduce an amendment bill during the forthcoming assembly session which makes it mandatory to vote during the local body elections.
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Charles Djou debates opponents Ed Case and Colleen Hanabusa Part 3. Debate is moderated by Hawaii Reporter’s Malia Zimmerman. The 3 Video clips run a total of approximately 28 minutes.
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Alex is live for the first two hours of the broadcast. He will talk about the unconstitutional effort by Congress and Obama to force through health care using “deem and pass” without a vote by the Senate.
Obama, Congress, and Treason Against the Constitution
Kurt Nimmo
http://www.infowars.com/
March 19, 2010
On Thursday, Robert Gibbs, Obamas press secretary, responded to a question about the so-called Slaughter Rule (named after Rep. Slaughter, who sits on the rules committee) that will be used by Democrats to force through Obamas totalitarian care bill, probably over the weekend.
Gibbs answer was deliberately opaque. By not addressing the question, he essentially said deem and pass will be used in the future to enact unpopular legislation, including a bill that will legalize millions of illegal immigrants.
It is now official — the Constitution is dead. It may as well be used to wrap fish.
Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution requires that both houses of Congress hold recorded yea-or-nay votes on a bill before it can be presented to the president for his signature and before it can become law.
Obama approves of sabotaging the Constitution. He said he does not spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are, in other words violating the spirit and law of the Constitution is not a biggie for him. What I can tell you is that the vote thats taken in the House will be a vote for health care reform. And if people vote yes, whatever form that takes, that is going to be a vote for health care reform, he told Bret Baier of Fox News.
These constitutional rules set forth in Article I are not mere exercises in formalism, former federal appeals court judge Michael McConnell told the Wall Street Journal earlier in the week. They ensure the democratic accountability of our representatives.
http://www.infowars.com/obama-congress-and-treason-against-the-constitution/
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