Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank caused a scene when he demanded a $1 senior discount on his ferry fare to Fire Island's popular gay haunt, The Pines, last Friday. Frank was turned down by ticket clerks at the dock in Sayville because he didn't have the required Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID.A witness reports, "Frank made such a drama over the senior rate that I contemplated offering him the dollar to cool down the situation." Frank made news last year when he was spotted looking uncomfortable around a bevy of topless, well-built men at the Pines Annual Ascension Beach Party. Frank's spokesperson confirmed to Page Six that his partner, James Ready, asked the ticket office for a regular ticket for himself and a senior ticket for Frank, "but was turned down because Frank didn't have a resident ID."
Really Barney now why won't you put up the same fuss about the billions of dollars wasted by Fannie and Freddie and their involvement in the financial collapse that we are currently in??
What is it going to take? If we start to try to catalog the last 18 months of lies, cheating, deceitful tactics, misrepresentations, bullying, ignoring the American people etc... we couldn't get it all done by November to create the ad campaign in time for the elections.
Let's start now anyway so we can have it all together by 2012.
This administration is in constant deception mode at a rate of minute by minute actions constantly taking place that need noting.
Now I hear certain people who support this administration say that 'he was elected by the American people' so we must want his agenda.
I say he was elected because he never truly represented what he really stood for until the final days and even then he was vague. Hope and Change, he didn't say he hoped we would collapse in on ourselves and then change into socialists.
Now as we see EVERY piece of his agenda is rejected by a clear majority of America(ns).
He never said he would use TARP money as a way to take control of the banks and bailout his contributors, but when we found out that what was happening we stated we were against it.
He didn't say he would spend 1 trillion dollars more each year than Bush did in 8 years while he was running for office, but when we found out what the stimulus would cost we said we were opposed to it.
He said his healthcare care plan was going to save money and be deficit neutral while they were proposing it but when we realized what was really going to happen we opposed it.
Now that we have the beginning pieces falling into place and we see the huge costs to major industries and now the government is behind on writing the thousands of pages of new regulations and they have missed a number of implementation deadlines.
On that note, remember when the Obama administration said that the health care mandates were not really taxes well I guess that wasn't really the case either....
Throughout his presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama promised the American people: “If you’re a family that’s making $250,000 a year or less, you will see no increase in your taxes.” After he became President, Barack Obama reiterated that pledge, promising the American people in his September 9th health care press conference: “The middle-class will realize greater security, not higher taxes.” But Obamacare does contain tax hikes. Tons of them. From taxes on tanning beds to taxes on employment and investments, Obamacare is a certified job-killing machine. more...
Since Rush made his prophetic "I hope he fails" comment directed towards Barack Obama's agenda in Jan 2009 we have seen pretty much just that. Up until now they hadn't admitted it to all of us who already have known this for sometime now.
But someone's chickens are coming to roost and it would appear that the great Progressive experiment has run it's due course and has proven to be well... a failure.
This administration is so afraid to reveal it's true intentions and the true cost of their agenda to us all that they won't even introduce a budget to be passed this year.
It is established practice in Washington that if you have to release bad news, it is best to do it on a Friday ... the later in the day the better. So not only did the White House schedule the publication of the "Mid-Session Budget Review" for last Friday, but they then released it three hours late to ensure that as few reporters as possible were left in the nation's capital to cover it. But Heritage's dedicated budget team patiently waited the Obama administration out, and their analysis shows that this year's mid-session review is nothing short of a complete admission of failure of the White House's economic policies.
When President Obama sold his $862 billion economic stimulus to the American people, he promised that, if enacted, it would prevent unemployment from ever rising above 8%. With unemployment currently at 9.5%, the American people are now well aware that the President's stimulus has been a complete failure. But Friday's report was the first time this Administration was forced to admit just how long Americans will have to suffer for their failed economic policies. According to Friday's report, the Obama administration now projects thatunemployment will average 9% throughout all of next year and 8.1% throughout 2012.
And if that news wasn't bad enough, the report pegs this year's budget deficit at $1.471 trillion, or 10% of the entire U.S. economy. In nominal dollars, it's the largest deficit in American history; and as a percentage of the economy, it's the largest deficit since World War II. To pay for that $1.471 trillion hole, our government will borrow 41 cents of every dollar it spends. And the Obama Administration concedes that these large deficits are here to stay. It projects another $1.42 trillion deficit in 2011, which is $150 billion worse than previously predicted. Looking ahead, the President's budget includes deficits that never fall below $698 billion and leaves our children with $18.5 trillion in debt by 2020. And all this assumes the economy will grow 4% from 2012-2014. The only times the economy performed that well in the past thirty years was from 1997-2000 and from 1983-1985.
These future deficits are driven almost exclusively by rising spending. As Heritage Foundation analyst Brian Riedl noted earlier this year: "Before the recession, federal spending totaled $24,000 per U.S. household. President Obama would hike it to $36,000 per household by 2020 — an inflation-adjusted $12,000-per-household expansion of government." There is a way out of this deficit nightmare: stop spending. If the federal government managed to return to the per-household spending level of the Reagan administration, the budget would be balanced by 2012 without any tax hikes. Too ambitious? Just returning to the per-household spending levels that existed before the current recession would balance the budget by 2019.
But that is not the route this President wants to take. President Obama wants to close the gap between what our government spends and what it takes in by raising taxes by $3 trillion. His Treasury secretary was on television yesterday claiming this massive tax tsunami would have no effect on economic growth. After last Friday's Mid-Session Budget Review exposed the failure of this Administration's economic stimulus claims, does anybody believe anything this Administration says anymore?
In my current job I get the unique opportunity to speak to Conservative Americans from all over the country on a daily basis so I have heard many complaints about the past inaction of the Republican party and the current fear of the RINO infusion that we have to deal with.
I also hear people complain that John Boehner has been lax in his leadership for sometime and is one of those "career politicians" but through the current situation with this administration he has taken the lead since day one and has united the House Republicans in every case where we needed to fight against the Obama/Pelosi agenda.
Sadly it has been the Senate which has let us down with the actions of the big three RINO's there Brown, Snowe, Collins.
But I hope Minority Leader Boehner keeps up his good work and we need to get the word out so more people know that the battle is actually being fought.
House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner is throwing his support behind a "read the bill" reform that would prohibit the House from considering new legislation until it has been posted on the Internet for at least three days.
The Ohio Republican has posted a new video on his AmericaSpeakingOut.com Web site, stating that "as a standard practice, thousand-page bills have been brought to the floor for a vote, without any time for members to read them. This isn't the way Americans expect their Congress to work."
Boehner says Democrats posted the revised wording of the $787 billion stimulus plan online after midnight, and then called for a vote less than 12 hours later. And the 1,200-page cap-and-trade bill was unveiled at 3 a.m. the day it was to be voted on, according to Boehner.
To address this concern, Boehner says he's supporting a resolution sponsored by Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, that would mandate any bill be available online for at least 72 hours before any vote on the measure can be taken. If Republicans are able to win back control of the House, Boehner plans to make the transparency measure one of his top priorities.
"With government growing, and spending out of control, Americans should be able to see exactly what each vote means for them and their families," Boehner states on the new video rolled out to promote the legislation. "This is a simple, common-sense idea, to provide greater accountability to Washington and more power to the American people."
So here is President Obama touting the 'accountability' factor the Financial Reform sham bill has created, but just think about it for a minute;
"*Putting that Goldman Sachs penalty in perspective. Goldman Sachs has agreed to cough up $550 million to Uncle Sam to settle all charges regarding the way they misled investors about certain derivatives. That might be a fortune to thee and me, but it's a pittance to the Kings of Wall Street. Consider: It represents just 3.4 percent of Goldman's employee bonus pool for 2009. That came to a whopping $16.2 billion. Can Goldman afford the fine? Don't make me laugh."
So be sure to thank Scott Brown, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins for caving in and voting for this debacle of a bill.
The Obama administration is backing legislation that would require United States businesses to provide to the government data about employee pay as it relates to sex, race and national origin of employees.
It’s not enough that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) already has all your work data. Now other government departments want to snoop deeper into your life. Under the guise of trying to ensure pay equity for women and minorities, Obama wants to have even more of your information.
In addition to giving the Federal government more data to mine about its citizens, this legislation puts more onerous regulations on businesses at a time when businesses need a break. This is further evidence the current administration is no friend to business or the American people.
Even more amazing is this comes from a man who won’t release a valid copy of birth certificate—not a certificate of live birth that anyone could obtain in Hawaii but a real birth certificate that names the delivering physician and can be used as an official document—his passport records or his college transcripts.
It would appear that the NAACP has a primary purpose of initiating any and all race baiting tactics it can muster. This shows the complete and utter desperation the Progressives are in at this moment. They are folding under their own pressure and they are so far off base that they have alienated a vast majority of Americans but in reality they have finally exposed themselves for who they truly are.
They are just a front for a massive extortion racket that has been running their scheme since the 1960's. What has this organization or any other Progressive group really done for the groups they are allegedly representing?....Nothing.
Inner city minorities have been held in or at the poverty levels for generations and instead of putting the trillion dollars already spent on the war on poverty, these groups and foundations have lined their pockets and established racist separate college funds, colleges, and a caucus in Congress that only supports certain groups and does not represent all Americans equally.
Progressives have chosen to stifle school vouchers which would enable real choice for people in these ares to better educate their children.
Their social justice ponzi scheme has failed and they have to resort to lashing out and calling ANYONE who does not agree with them 100% either a racist or an uncle tom.More here
If even Joe Biden can see the writing on the wall the message for the Nov. elections must really be clear...
Now don't panic we have some clarification but I have heard four count them 4 things from Biden, and all in one day that I can say I agree with;
1- The Democrats will surprise the heck out of everyone in the fall elections.
"I don't think the losses are going to be bad at all," Biden said on ABC's This Week. "I think we're going to shock the heck out of everybody."
Here is where the clarification comes in. There will be a surprise alright it will just be the opposite of what Biden thinks. The surprise will be how far the Democrap party has fallen in such a short time and all because they finally showed their true colors and the media has given up hiding the fact that they are blatantly one-sided when it comes to their love for the left.
I find it amusing that Democrats feel they can hold on to their majorities when their entire agenda has gone against what the American people have expressed they have wanted.
I say go ahead and run on your records and your accomplishments, brag that you have had control of Congress since 2006 and state where the country was in relation to unemployment, economic growth, deficits and where everyone's retirement savings were then compared to now!! I dare you to defend your abysmal record anytime it comes to economic growth and fiscal responsibility.
2--The Tea party is not racist.
We know he is only covering his butt, even so he said it.
3- Political Campaigns often have "overages". Joe is correct here, but why is it that Democorruptocrats always need the FEC to fine them for accepting unlawful or illegal campaign funding. Hillary Clinton's head of her finance committee was just sentenced to jail time for a ponzi scheme.
4- He blames Republicans for the smaller size of the recovery spending. Heck yeah, I agree no one wanted this much spent in the first place except for the Progressives in this country who have benefited by being able to keep their taxpayer-funded non-product producing jobs.
Say it ain't so I'm agreeing with Joe,....... well sort of.
If you are against upholding the laws of our land you are un-American and unpatriotic, plain and simple.
If you directly support people who are doing illegal activities you are a criminal yourself and conspiring to continue to commit crimes and are just as guilty.
Aiding and abetting sound familiar??
If you deliberately support one race over another than you are racist, plain and simple.
You cannot argue this point because it an undeniable and irrefutable fact.
This Coward couldn't even admit that having 1100 VIOLENT ILLEGAL ALIENS (We have to drop the immigrant tag because the left is dropping the "ILLEGAL" so if we say ALIEN, then we all understand what we mean), in jail in one county are even a PROBLEM that needs dealt with.
Does South Africa allow ILLEGAL ALIENS to stay in their country??
Listen and you'll see what I mean...
The Cowardly Lion looking for some courage to come up with an answer, actually he sums up the same; I see nothing, I hear nothing, I know nothing policy that the administration of Sgt Barack Hussein Obama-Schultz has been conducting for some time...
On a side note; has the joke of a Press Secretary Gibbs gotten back with a response to the question about Sanctuary Cities having their own laws that over rule Federal immigration laws???
Please take the time to listen to the entire speech, it won't be hard because after you hear the first 5 minutes you'll want to know if Reagan was predicting the future or discussing the plight of America in 1964.
You will recover to discover that we have already passed through these current times of troubles but we have just failed to remember that fact.
Oh yeah what was the answer to those "unique" problems from 1964?
A bigger dose of Reagan of course.
Please use this as a bookmark to explain to anyone who asks you why is it is important to learn about history. It really isn't that boring after all.
Now just when I was feeling guilty paying $800.00 for a second car so I could get back and forth to work because Obama's policies cost me my old job where I was able to car pool, I see this article which I thought would make a great billboard!!
Obama Says Stimulus Worked, Created Jobs… Here’s a Reminder of the Waste
In his recent trip to Racine, Wisconsin, President Obama claimed that his stimulus policies worked and “saved jobs.” He also said that his policies staved off another Great Depression. But lets take a look at some of the graft, waste and pointless, useless, wild-eyed spending that was in his so-called stimulus.
•$5 million to create a geothermal energy system for a shopping mall in Tennessee. The mall is over half empty of tenants and has had falling shopper attendance for years *
•$1.57 million to Penn State University study fossils in Argentina *
•$100,000 to a puppet theater in Minnesota *
•$2 million to build a replica railroad tourist trap in Carson City, Nev. *
•A boat cruise company in Chicago got almost $1 million to “combat terrorism” *
•$500,000 went to Ariz. State Univ. to study ant genetics *
•Another $450,000 went to Uinv. of Arizona to study ants *
•Almost $400,000 went to Univ. of New York to pay students to drink beer and smoke marijuana for a study there *
•$219,000 to the Nat’l Institute of Health to study if young people “hook-up” after getting drunk *
•$210,000 to the Univ. of Hawaii to study bees *
•$700,000 to crab fishermen in Oregon to pay for lost crab pots *
•$5,000 a person tax rebate if you buy a new electric golf cart (Wall Street Journal)
•Up to $1 million went to prisoners in $250 stimulus checks (FoxNews)
•$54 mil to a New York Indian tribe to run its casino (New York Post)
•$1 billion for a power plant in Mattoon, Illinois that is based on speculative science and may not even work **
•$15 million to back-road bridges that get little traffic in Wisconsin **
•$800,000 for a practically unused airport in Pennsylvania **
•$3.4 million for an animal walk way under a road in Florida **
•$1.15 million to install a guard rail for a lake that doesn’t even exist in Oklahoma **
•$10 million to renovate a rail station that has stood unused for a decade **
•$578,000 to battle homelessness in Union, New York even though the town says they have no homeless people there **
•$233,000 to the Univ. of Calif. to study why Africans vote… in Africa ***
•$2 million to build a new fire house in a Nevada town that has no firemen ***
•North Carolina schools got $4.4 million for literacy and math coaches… to teach their teachers! ***
•$54 million for a railroad project in Napa Valley went to a minority-owned company that then hired a local construction company for half the price, pocketing the rest ***
•A California company was given $15 million in stimulus money to monitor water quality in a stream it was under indictment for polluting previously***
Well, obviously this is just a tiny list of the graft, waste, and useless spending in Obama’s so-called stimulus bill but it serves to illustrate the fact that stimulating the economy was far from the minds of those congressmen that voted for the bill. It was more about paying off constituents than stimulating the economy.
I'm not feeling guilty any longer as I see the hard-earned money from myself and the rest of what is it now 53% of us who pay taxes going to waste for boon doggle and total BS projects like these that are typical Democrat and especially Progressive Democrat president's love to waste money on.
Everyone; Conservatives,Republicans, Independents, Democrats and even Progressives are all buzzing around trying to figure out what the plan should be for November.
I know it's tough sometimes especially if the answer is staring you right in the face.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. –Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
Gay rights activists equating their modern-day fight for ‘equality’ to post-slavery oppression of blacks. Muslim activists equating justified terror law enforcement investigation to racial profiling of blacks. The obese even formed a group complaining they were being discriminated against like blacks. When it comes time to beg for attention, victims choose black people to compare their woeful experiences to, even though the comparisons are insultingly inaccurate.
The latest group seeking civil-rights props are illegal aliens via Russell Contreras of the Associated Press.
""They gather on statehouse steps with signs and bullhorns, risking arrest. They attend workshops on civil disobedience and personal storytelling, and they hold sit-ins and walk out of class in protest. They’re being warned that they could even lose their lives.""
“… they could even lose their lives.” Just who could we be talking about?
•Unlike black people centuries ago, illegal immigrants can give birth here and receive taxpayer benefits for that anchor baby.
•Unlike black people centuries ago, illegal immigrants aren’t fearful of a certain political party that encouraged any level of violence against them
•Unlike black people centuries ago, illegal immigrants can find work and earn a living. Granted, their pay may not be equal to that of citizens, but at least they are getting paid. Slaves were not as fortunate.
•Unlike black people centuries ago, illegal immigrants are granted certain legal and social protections never afforded to blacks.
•Unlike black people centuries ago, illegal immigrants (children and adults) can be educated with taxpayer money. Black slaves who could read were often lynched.
•Unlike black people centuries ago, illegal immigrants who don’t like it here can just up and leave. Slaves attempting a change of scenery were often lynched when caught.
•Unlike black people centuries ago, illegal immigrants have never been considered property. Blacks were sold and traded like old cars.
The list goes on and both Contreras and the Associated Press know this black/illegal alien comparison is not valid. Black people by their very presence in America are not criminals. The only criminals in this discussion are those who’ve chosen to enter our country illegally or deliberately overstay their visas. Illegal aliens demand special treatment while those who don’t have the convenience of a border to run across, stand in lines abroad like fools. Russell Contreras must think himself clever making this pandering comparison. The Associated Press should be ashamed of themselves for publishing this irresponsible article, but of course they won’t be. If they had any respect for black people, this ‘piece’ would not of have been written, let alone posted for the world to see. Neither Contreras or the Associated Press care about black people but we’re all supposed to sympathize with criminals. Not today.
After we restore the country to some form of what it should be, we can at least be comforted with the fact that this woman's entire career can be put on an educational DVD to help future generations understand why things reached the point that they did and why instead of completely transforming the health care system we will focus on transforming the EDUCATIONAL system.
Teachers are paid with taxpayer dollars, taxpayers want them to recite the pledge, if they refuse to recite the pledge of allegiance, first they explain in writing why they refuse, secondly they don't receive a paycheck and then they are terminated.
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