Tom Harkin (hypocrite) Say What?

It would seem that Tom Harkin fully believes that the Progressive re-wrting of history occurs the second someone is finished speaking. He thinks that the spin machine is following right behind them to clean up or erase comments he and other Progressives make as soon as they say them.


Unfortunately for Tom the Progressives are still sometime away from being able to eliminate previous comments or even past votes take by Congresspeople.


Tom decides to take an opportunity to insult Conservatives but since he has forgotten his response to the same set of circumstances from the past he doesn't get that he is just showing his true Liberal idiocy and hypocrisy.


Tom says.....





But in the past Tom has done this.....

On Debt Ceiling Votes, Senate Dems Have Some Explaining To Do
9:17 AM, Apr 12, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN

As Congress considers whether to raise the debt ceiling in the coming weeks, President Obama has had to respond to questions about his own prior votes on the debt limit when he was a United States senator. Obama's press secretary Jay Carney told reporters yesterday that the president "regrets" his 2006 vote against raising the debt ceiling, saying Obama believes it was a mistake. But what about his fellow Democratic senators?

On that particular vote in March 2006, 44 Democrats voted "nay," including 31 senators who are still in office. They are Daniel Akaka of Hawaii, Max Baucus of Montana, Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, Barbara Boxer of California, Maria Cantwell of Washington, Tom Carper of Delaware, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Dianne Feinstein of California, Tom Harkin of Iowa, Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, Tim Johnson of South Dakota, John Kerry of Massachusetts, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Carl Levin of Michigan, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, Bob Menendez of New Jersey, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, Patty Murray of Washington, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Bill Nelson of Florida, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Jack Reed of Rhode Island, Harry Reid of Nevada, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, Chuck Schumer of New York, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, and Ron Wyden of Oregon. In addition, three members of Obama's cabinet voted the same way: Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.......

So it would appear that whenever it is a Republican in office, raising the debt ceiling is not an option, but when his party is in control it is a totally different manner. This is why we must remember and keep track of what these people say and have this info handy when we need to remind family freinds and colleagues.

Too "Rich" to pass up

This one is just too much to pass on so I have to make a few comments and get some humor out of what is a serious situation.

Obama: Time to "eat our peas" and pass debt deal
by Stephanie Gordon

[President Obama is still seeking the largest deficit reduction deal possible as part of a package deal to raise the debt ceiling, he said in a press conference today.

"I continue to push congressional leaders for the largest possible deal," he said from the White House. "It is possible for us to construct a package that would be balanced, would share sacrifice [and] would involve both parties taking on their sacred cows."

Mr. Obama would not even entertain the notion of failing to get a deal done before the end of the month.

"We are going to get this done by August 2," he said.

The president and his economic team have repeatedly warned of catastrophic consequences for the U.S. and global economy if Congress does not increase the debt ceiling -- the amount of money that the U.S. government is technically allowed to borrow -- by August 2. Republicans have insisted on creating a deficit and debt reduction plan as a condition of voting to raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling.... ]

This one is really good because in 2006 when Pelosi, Reid and the Corruptocrats took over congress our debt was 7.6 trillion. Between then and now thanks to Pelosi, Reid and President Obama and his assinine economic failures we are at 14 trillion in debt.

Since Pres Obama took office he has increased the debt by 3.5 trillion dollars and since the Corruptocrats have not passed a budget for over 800 days (the budget offered up by Obama had 1.5 trillion in deficits just for one year) and they have made it so that almost 50% of the U.S. workforce doesn't even pay taxes, the tax base is so small that now that he has run out of extra money to spend he wants to punish the 50% of Americans who do pay taxes, except for his political cronies like GE who paid no taxes on their 16 billion dollar profit.

We have plenty of "revenue" to cover our expenses, this massive grandstanding is all about Pres Obama getting MORE money to waste on setting up slush funds for his supporters to get him re-elected. SO he wants US to eat "peas" so he can stuff his face with cupcakes and steak.


Meanwhile to prove our point....should I say hamburgers and french fries

Michelle Obama's 1,556-Calorie Lunch Raises Eyebrows

By NewsCore

WASHINGTON - First Lady Michelle Obama may have temporarily forgotten the lessons of her own anti-obesity campaign when she indulged in a sinfully caloric lunch Monday at a popular new hamburger restaurant.


A Washington Post reporter said the first lady ordered a cheeseburger, french fries, chocolate shake and Diet Coke at Shake Shack -- a trendy hamburger spot that recently opened an outpost in Washington's Dupont Circle....[...]

Don't fall for this and support cutting spending with NO tax increases on anyone.

The Acronym Government of Barack Obama

The budget that Obama has put forth to fund this acronym government (regulatory agencies); SEC, FCC, FDA, EPA, he has created to skirt and make irrelevant our Congress is amazing in the fact that not only does it appear no one cares, but really does anyone pay any attention to what this incompetent buffoon really says? It would seem to me that someone would care about an 18 billion dollar increase to the overall budget of these economy-killing, tax-dollar wasting agencies

In the great words of Reagan;-- "A recession is when your neighbor loses his job, a depression is when you lose yours, and a recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his". Amazing in its simplicity, honesty and truth. These are the basic virtues we ask of our candidates today, can one of you besides Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann espouse this set of guidelines and form an understandable and comprehensive policy to contrast the failure that is the Obama administration who has literally been a reign of terror upon this nation.

Foreign Aid to China!!

When I saw this article I was taken aback to the point where I thought I was going to burst a blood vessel.

Thanks to Tom Coburn for at least attempting to shine some light on this insanity.

Seriously, is FOX NEWS the only place where you see this information? Go here for the story. See the full report here. Click here for more reports from this site.

U.S. Offers Foreign Aid to Countries Holding Billions in Treasury Securities
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/02/us-offers-foreign-aid-to-countries-holding-billions-in-treasury-securities/#ixzz1OEDttYxy

The killer in this report is that China receives over 27 million dollars in foreign aid from us and to add to that incredible fact, some of the aid is designated as "Higher Education, Human Rights, Good Governance, PRIVATE SECTOR COMPETIVENESS AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY" Are you kidding me!!

....[The Congressional Research Service released a report last month, a copy of which Fox News exclusively obtained, showing that in fiscal year 2010, the latest year that data was available, the U.S. handed out a total of $1.4 billion to 16 foreign countries that held at least $10 billion in Treasury securities, including China ($27.2 million), Brazil ($25 million), Russia ($71.5 million), India ($126.6 million), Mexico ($316.7 million) and Egypt ($255.7 million).
China is the largest holder of U.S. Treasury bonds with $1.1 trillion as of March, according to the Treasury Department. Brazil held $193.5 billion, Russia had $127.8 billion, India owned $39.8 billion, Mexico held $28.1 billion and Egypt had $15.3 billion.]....


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/02/us-offers-foreign-aid-to-countries-holding-billions-in-treasury-securities/#ixzz1OEG1WI2O

This is my version of one of the tables in the report to emphasize the madness:

 

Country	Sector	Assistance
China	HIV/AIDS	7,000,000
	Higher Education	200,000
	Social Services	4,000,000
	Rule of Law and Human Rights	3,909,000
	Good Governance	2,308,000
	Environment	7,883,000
	Private  Sector  Competiveness	1,200,000
	Economic Opportunity	700,000

So much money to countries who really do not like us and are either working with our enemies or are directly attempting to undermine us. The bottom line is that with this administration insisting that we RAISE the debt ceiling while we are on the verge of bankruptcy and buying our own debt by printing money, we are giving aid to a number of countries including the very country who will soon overtake us as the dominant economy.

Where does this end? I hope soon but if not then in 2012, because after that there will be no future to look forward to.

They are at it again

This administration is constantly trying to find ways to bypass Congress and skirt the will of the people. We need to point it out every chance we get.


Issa:Obama Drafts Executive Order to Bypass Congress, Exempt Unions
by Rick Amato



Recently immediately after Congressman Darrell Issa finished giving a speech from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, I caught up with him for his most recent comments on the investigation into the ATF gunwalking scandal known as Projects “Fast and Furious” and “Gun Runner.”

You Tube: Issa with the latest from his investigation into the ATF gunmwalking scandal

The California Congressman, as many of you know, is Chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which is investigating the DOJ’s role in the selling of assault weapons to known drug cartel members. Below is an excerpt from the interview.

“The good news is the dedicated men and women of the ATF and DOJ are breaking ranks and coming in as whistleblowers. We’ve had numerous voluoluntary interviews that have given us an understanding of what went wrong and an understanding that a decision was made far above their level…”

“Two Border Patrol Agents are dead…this (1,800 weapons sold to drug traffickers) has resulted in an accumulation of hurt and killing that will go on for years…”

“…One of our objectives in the investigation is we have to put confidence back in the system on both sides of the border that U.S. law enforcement does not allow weapons to walk…President Calderone of Mexico is the most cooperative partner on the war on drugs that we have had in years and the Mexican government has called this ‘an act of war’.”

“This is not unprecedented (the refusal of a government agency to honor a Congressional subpoena). This looks an awful lot like Iran Contra. When a government agency makes a mistake they stall, delay and cover up. That’s what’s happening here….We’re not done but what we do know is that the decision for this was not made in Tucson or El Paso or anywhere else. It was made in Washington.”

You Tube: Obama drafting Executive Order to bypass Congress.

In another developing story Issa went on to say that President Obama is drafting an Executive Order that will allow him to bypass Congress when legislation favored by the Administration fails to pass.
Chillingly, he points out that the Executive Order draft proposes to require federal contractors to disclose donations to third-party political groups — an attempt to politicize the procurement process — while exempting unions from doing so as well.

We cannot go down without a fight

In a follow-up for any doubters:

http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/05/16/transparent-obama-official-refuses-to-disclose-information-about-executive-order-on-transparency/

Some transparency huh?

Some things never change

Well in spite of my long absence some things we are discussing have not changed. My previous post obviously was timely, only a year ahead of its time but who is counting.

Here is an interesting report from a year ago, how fitting for today however...

No Democrat-Controlled Congress Has Balanced Federal Budget in 40 Years; No Republican President Has Balanced Federal Budget in 50 Years

Monday, March 15, 2010



By Terence P. Jeffrey


No Congress in which the Democrats controlled both the House and Senate has balanced the federal budget since fiscal 1969--more than 40 years ago
 
(CNSNews.com) - Many leading Democrats in Washington these days like to point to the fact that the federal budget was balanced for part of the time that President Bill Clinton was in office. What they do not mention is that those balanced budgets occurred only when Republicans controlled both houses of Congress.



In fact, according to the historical data published by the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama White House, no Congress in which the Democrats controlled both the House and Senate has balanced the federal budget since fiscal 1969--more than 40 years ago.


The federal appropriations made for that fiscal year—which began on July 1, 1968 and ended on June 30, 1969--were approved by a Democrat-controlled Congress elected in 1966. They were signed by lame-duck Democratic President Lyndon Johnson, who had decided not to run for reelection in 1968. (Until 1977, the federal fiscal year began on July 1 and ended on June 30. Since 1977, it has begun on Oct. 1 and ended on Sept. 30. Federal fiscal years are numbered by the calendar year in which they end.)






President Eisenhower in 1960 was the last Republican president to preside over a balanced budget. A Democrat-controlled Congress elected in 1958 approved the appropriations for that fiscal year in 1959.


More recently, the federal budget was balanced in fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001. A Republican-controlled Congress approved the appropriations for each one of those years and Democratic President Bill Clinton signed them. In fiscal years 1994 and 1995, when President Clinton governed with a Democrat-controlled Congress, the federal government ran deficits of $203.2 billion and $163.9 billion respectively.


The Republican majority Congress elected in November 1994 presided over two fiscal years with declining deficits—fiscal 1996 and 1997—before it initially balanced the budget in fiscal 1998. In fiscal 1996 and 1997, the deficits were $107.4 billion and $21.9 billion respectively.






In the 2000 election, Republicans retained control of the House but the Senate split 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats. In May 2001, Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont switched parties from Republican to Independent and began caucusing with the Democrats, giving the Democrats the effective majority and making then-Sen. Tom Daschle (D.-S.D.) the majority leader.






That split Congress was responsible for the appropriations for fiscal 2002, which put the federal government back into a deficit. After Republicans regained control of the Senate in the November 2002 elections (thus taking control of the budget process for fiscal 2004 which would begin on Oct. 1, 2003), the all-Republican Congress continued running deficits for four fiscal years (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007). During that time, with President George W. Bush in the White House, the Republicans controlled both the legislative and executive branches but failed to balance the budget.






In the November 2006 elections, Democrats won back the majority in both the House and Senate, and in the three fiscal years that have started since then (2008, 2009, 2010), they have run record deficits of $458.6 billion, $1.41 trillion and $1.55 trillion.






The estimated deficit for this fiscal year (2010) of $1.55 trillion is more than three times as large as the $458.6 billion deficit that President George W. Bush presided over with a Democratic Congress in fiscal 2008. In fiscal 2010, of course, Democrats controlled both Houses of Congress as well as the White House.






Since 1960, the federal budget has been balanced in only 6 fiscal years. For two of those fiscal years—1960 and 1969—Democrats controlled Congress. For four—1998, 1999, 2000, 2001—Republicans controlled Congress.WHO BALANCED THE BUDGET?






The chart below lists the fiscal years since 1960, the president who was in office when that fiscal year began, the political party that controlled Congress when that fiscal year began, whether the federal budget was balanced in that fiscal year, and the amount of the federal surplus or deficit in that fiscal year. The figures for federal deficits and surpluses come from the “Historical Tables—Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal 2011,” published by the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama White House.






Control of Congress Budget Balanced? Deficit/Surplus






President Dwight Eisnehower (Left office Jan. 20, 1961)


1960 Democrat YES $301 million


1961 Democrat No --$3.3 billion






President John F. Kennedy (Assassinated Nov. 22, 1963)


1962 Democrat No --$7.1 billion


1963 Democrat No --$4.8 billion


1964 Democrat No --$5.9 billion






President Lyndon B. Johnson (Left office Jan. 20, 1969)


1965 Democrat No --$1.4 billion


1966 Democrat No --$3.7 billion


1967 Democrat No --$8.6 billion


1968 Democrat No --$25.2 billion


1969 Democrat YES $3.2 billion






President Richard M. Nixon (Resigned Aug. 9, 1974)


1970 Democrat No --$2.8 billion


1971 Democrat No --$23.0 billion


1972 Democrat No --$23.4 billion


1973 Democrat No --$14.9 billion


1974 Democrat No --$6.1 billion


1975 Democrat No --$53.2 billion






President Gerald Ford (Left office Jan. 20, 1977)


1976 Democrat No --$73.7 billion


1977 Democrat No --$53.7 billion






President Jimmy Carter (Left office Jan. 20, 1981)


1978 Democrat No --$59.1 billion


1979 Democrat No --$40.7 billion


1980 Democrat No --$73.8 billion


1981 Democrat No --$78.9 billion






President Ronald W. Reagan (Left office Jan. 20, 1989)


1982 Split No --$127.9 billion


1983 Split No --$207.8 billion


1984 Split No --$185.3 billion


1985 Split No --$212.3 billion


1986 Split No --$221.2 billion


1987 Split No --$149.7 billion


1988 Democrat No --$155.1 billion


1989 Democrat No --$152.6 billion






President George H.W. Bush (Left office Jan. 20, 1993)


1990 Democrat No --$221.0 billion


1991 Democrat No --$269.2 billion


1992 Democrat No --$290.3 billion


1993 Democrat No --$255.0 billion






President William J. Clinton (Left office Jan. 20, 2001)


1994 Democrat No --$203.2 billion


1995 Democrat No --$163.9 billion


1996 Republican No --$107.4 billion


1997 Republican No --$21.9 billion


1998 Republican YES $69.2 billion


1999 Republican YES $125.6 billion


2000 Republican YES $236.2 billion


2001 Republican YES $128.2 billion






President George W. Bush (Left office Jan. 20, 2009)


2002 Split No --$157.8 billion


2003 Split No --$377.6 billion


2004 Republican No --$412.7 billion


2005 Republican No --$318.3 billion


2006 Republican No --$248.2 billion


2007 Democrat No --$160.7 billion


2008 Democrat No --$458.6 billion


2009 Democrat No --$1.41 trillion






President Barack Obama


2010 Democrat No --$1.55 trillion
 
 
 
As you can see this war has been ongoing for decades and the Democrats have more often than not been the perpetrators of the massive spending issues that have brought us to where we are today.
 
Stand tough as we go through the withdrawal process, spending is like any other addiction: it will not be easy to be weaned from its ill-effects.
 
"Tough times don't last but tough people do"

We are not the Party of NO plan

Who keeps saying the Republicans do not have a plan??

People just don't want to take the time to look, do you expect the MSM to tout ANYTHING the Republicans have to offer?

The Roadmap to America's Future -Congressman Paul Ryan from Wisconsin

INTRODUCTION:

Rarely before have the alternatives facing America been so starkly defined.

For the past year, Washington’s leaders have taken an already unsustainable budget outlook and made it far worse. They have exploited Americans’ genuine economic anxieties to justify an unrelenting and wide-ranging expansion of government. Their agenda has included, among other things, a failed, debt-financed economic “stimulus”; an attempt to control the Nation’s energy sector; increasing domination of housing and financial markets; the use of taxpayer dollars to seize part ownership of two nearly bankrupt auto makers; and, of course, the planned takeover of Americans’ health care, already heavily burdened, manipulated, and distorted by government spending and regulation. This domineering government brings taxes, rules, and mandates; generates excessive levels of spending, deficits, and debt; leads to economic stagnation and declining standards of living; and fosters a culture in which self-reliance is a vice and dependency a virtue – and as a result, the entire country weakens from within.


Increasingly, Americans are rejecting this approach, and for good reason. But the status quo is not acceptable either. The Federal Government’s current fiscal path is unsustainable: it leads to unprecedented levels of spending and debt that will overwhelm the budget, smother the economy, weaken America’s competitiveness in the 21st century global economy, and threaten the survival of the government’s major benefit programs. The President and congressional Majority are only hastening America’s march toward this reckoning, adding to trillions of dollars worth of unfunded liabilities, and accelerating the erosion of Americans’ health care and retirement security. Their “progressivism” ironically points backwards – to a future in which America’s best century is the past century.


There is another choice, as reflected by the proposal described in this report: A Roadmap for America’s Future. It is a comprehensive, alternative approach to the Nation’s most pressing domestic priorities. Specifically, the plan addresses the following:


▫ Health Care. It provides universal access to affordable health coverage, not by expanding government, but by reinforcing the role of consumers – patients – in a truly competitive marketplace. In conjunction with this, the plan takes on the necessary task of restructuring the government’s medical entitlements, making them sustainable for the long term.


▫ Retirement Security. It saves and strengthens Social Security, making the program sustainable for the long run, and helping expand investments needed for economic growth.


▫ Tax Policy. It offers an alternative to today’s needlessly complex and inefficient tax code, providing the option of a simplified mechanism that better promotes and rewards work, saving, and investment.


▫ Job Training. It helps the Nation’s workforce prepare for success in the global economy by transforming 49 job training programs, scattered across eight agencies, into a flexible, dynamic program focused on results, and accompanied by clear measures of transparency and accountability. The plan requires the development of performance measures, and gives each State the option to consolidate funding into one program, if such an approach can be shown to improve outcomes and achieve job training goals.


This plan is not simply a slimmer version of the “progressive” ideology. It is a true alternative, and a complete legislative proposal consisting of specific policies supported by Congressional Budget Office estimates of its fiscal and economic consequences. More important, it is based on a fundamentally different vision from the one now prevailing in Washington. It focuses government on its proper role; it restrains government spending, and thus limits the size of government itself; it rejuvenates the vibrant market economy that made America the envy of the world; and it restores an American character rooted in individual initiative, entrepreneurship, and opportunity – qualities that make each American’s pursuit of personal destiny a net contribution to the Nation’s common good as well. In short, it is built on the enduring truths from which America’s Founders established this great and exceptional Nation.


This proposal does not attempt to abandon commitments Americans established over the past century, or to dismantle government. It recognizes that government has a necessary role in supporting the institutions through which Americans live their lives, and in providing a safety net for those who face financial or other hardships. But it rests on the conviction that government’s principal role is to maintain the freedoms through which individuals can pursue their own destinies. As Jefferson put it: “A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”


The balance of this introduction describes these two futures in detail. The remainder of the report describes the principal domestic challenges through which this choice appears at present, and then presents a full description and explanation of the policies embraced in this legislation.

Oh and let's not forget the already long time running....

YOU CUT Program

Have you heard of the ECONOMIC FREEDOM ACT??

Economic Recovery Through Private Sector Growth



The American economy lost over 7 million jobs, and the American people are more than 4 trillion dollars deeper in debt today because the tax-and-spenders in Washington, D.C. failed to heed President Reagan’s words:

“Government is not the solution to our problem.

Government is the problem"

The multi-trillion dollar government stimulus programs and taxpayer-funded bailouts have failed. A growing private sector economy is the only “stimulus program” that will create the jobs needed to restore America’s economic strength.

Congressman Jordan and Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) have introduced H.R. 5029, the Economic Freedom Act, a plan to unleash the power of America’s private sector economy.


The Economic Freedom Act would terminate the TARP and repeal the remaining stimulus, replacing them with a real stimulus plan to create jobs by:


Reducing The Payroll Tax by Half for 2010


Providing immediate stimulus by increasing workers’ paychecks and improving the bottom line for employers


Eliminating The Capital Gains Tax


Encouraging the risk-taking and investment that is at the heart of the entrepreneurial spirit


Reducing the Corporate Tax Rate to 12.5%


Improving America’s competitiveness in the global market and providing incentives for expansion and job creation


Permanently Eliminating the Death Tax


Ensuring that small businesses and family farms, the engine of our economy, will continue creating jobs for future generations


Providing Immediate Business Expensing


Encouraging long-term reinvestment in business, increasing competitiveness and creating jobs

If that isn't enough of a start for you then go HERE and make copies or learn enough to tell your friends of either Party what the plan consists of.

I will admit we need to get the message out better but then again we only have a few outlets where we can make that happen. It is up to us as responsible citizens to become informed before we vote.

So as you can see WE already have plans in place to begin to restore America.