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Archive for the Politics CategoryDemocratic Party News - The biggest assault on American Freedom and Liberty in US history.2. September 2010 by Democratic Party News - The News of the Democratic Party.
Now that Americans are awake and confronting their tyrannical employees in the federal government, who are clearly hell-bent upon forcing a Marxist agenda, it’s time to name names so that the people easily identify who is directly responsible for the biggest assault on American freedom and liberty in US history.After decades of failed attempts to take over America via their third party initiatives that couldn’t break America’s two party system, leaders of both the Communist Party USA and Socialist Party USA chose a new strategy. Both being the ultimate “party of the working class stiff,” they joined forces in a new venture that would work within the US two party system, by hijacking control of one of the two primary parties. As the Democrat Party had already spent years identifying itself as the “party of the working class,” engaging in socio-economic class warfare as its primary method for expanding its political power, it was ripe for the hijacking. Together, Communist Party and Socialist Party leaders established the Democratic Socialists of America, and they share a common ideology which is now the platform and mantra of today’s DNC - CPUSA Insert the word “Democrats” where “Communists” appears in this statement, and you have the central message of today’s Democrat leadership. To gain full control of the Democrat Party, DSA leadership established two congressional legislative bodies, headed by DSA/CPUSA/SPUSA members. Today, these are the two congressional bodies in control of congress. They are the Congressional Progressive Caucus established by Socialist Party member Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and the Congressional Black Caucus established by Communist Party member John Conyers of Michigan. ALL members of these two congressional committees represent the Democratic Socialists of America, as both committees are the creation of, and operate under the control of DSAUSA. If you want to know who is behind the full-court press to nationalize or socialize health care, the auto industry, banking and insurance, here they are…. Is YOUR congress member on these lists? To be sure, they are not the only problem is congress or Washington DC today, but every anti-American policy initiative coming out of Washington DC today, is rooted in this organization and proposed by their members of congress, the members of their two committees. As American citizens wake up to the reality that their nation, their personal freedom and liberty are under attack on many fronts today, they must focus on the root of that evil, Americans who have lost their faith in freedom and liberty, and bought the false promise of secular socialism and the right of the Fed to confiscate the freedom of one, to purchase the voting power of another. Ten minutes of history research will quickly confirm that communism, socialism, Marxism, totalitarianism, are all systems by which the governing few are empowered, not the masses. Even though many Americans have been tricked into thinking that their lives are better off in the hands of Washington DC elitists, the vast majority of Americans Inherently know better! Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Members of the Congressional Black Caucus If your members of congress appear on either of the two member lists above, they ARE part of the “conspiracy” to destroy everything America has ever been, or was ever intended to be. They are opponents of freedom, plain and simple. If you still have no clue what we are up against, go one step further and take a look at the website: http://www.commieblaster.com . Posted in Marxist Radicals, Communist Radicals, Marxist Government, Marxism, Communist, Communist Party, Socialist Party, Progressivism, Progressives, Democratic Party, Constitution Violations, President Obama, Socialism In America, Candidates - 2010, Corruption And Lies, Politics | Comments Off Democratic Party News - Vote the Progressive Socialists out of Congress.1. September 2010 by Democratic Party News - The News of the Democratic Party.
The Socialists (so called Progressives) have taken over our Democratic Party, including a small portion of the Republican Party. They have no allegiance to our Democratic Party, or our way of life as free Americans. Their sole agenda is based on transforming our Nation into a Mao and Marxist type of government. The Socialist Party of America announced in their newsletter that 70 Congressional democrats currently belong to their caucus. American Socialist Voter– Question: How many members of the U.S. Congress are also members of the DSA? Question: How many of the DSA members sit on the Judiciary Committee? Question: Who are these members of 111th Congress? Co-Chairs: Vice Chairs: Senate Members: House Members: Posted in Nancy Pelosi, Marxist Government, Communist Radicals, Marxist Radicals, Communist, Marxism, Progressivism, Progressives, Democratic Party, Constitution Violations, Socialism In America, Corruption And Lies, Candidates - 2010, Federal Government, Politics | Comments Off Democratic Party News - The Politics of Progressive Socialists.1. September 2010 by Democratic Party News - The News of the Democratic Party.
We are the Progressives, and you will be assimilated. Your government and individual distinctiveness will be added to ours. Resistance is futile.Some of you may laugh at the above, but truth is stranger than fiction. For instance, our President, Barack Obama, was a member of a radical communist party, called the Illinois New Party and/or the Chicago New Party, which has Chicago Mob and Black Communist Activist roots. He admits receiving Marxist training (Marxism is the ideology of using law as a means of oppression and control). Obama has friends whose terrorist organization bombed the US Capital, the Pentagon and the State Department, killed policemen and were planing to kill 25 million people. More importantly, these people may be agents of Cuba or Russia. Obama has surrounded himself with socialists-communists of similar backgrounds and has built and is building a shadow government of communists-socialists-progressives-radicals to bypass Congressional and Citizen control. As elected leader of our country, he regularly meets with large labor unions led by known communists. He worked for an international communist organization, ACORN, now under investigation by the FBI and others. As a marxist-trained socialist and apparent narcissist, Obama’s primary goals are to eliminate capitalism and replace it with a socialist-marxist-communist program, perhaps under the direction of the Soviet Union who has been our enemy for over 50 years. Obama’s policies are leaving our nation open to attack and infiltration by communists and terrorists of dictator countries and his initiatives will collapse the US financial system as it forces us to obtain huge financial loans from other countries like communist China. Obama made the Top Ten List of Corrupt Politicians in 2007, 2008 and 2009, with “Dishonorable Mention” on the 2006 List. The US House of Representatives is being led by a majority of Progressives (i.e., documented Socialists and Communists). Its Majority Leader, Nancy Pelosi, is also a Progressive-Socialist-Communist who made the Top Ten List of Corrupt politicians in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Of the 435 House members, at least 80 are Progressive (Socialist-Communist) Democrats, about 59 are members of the New Democrat Coalition, and about 52 are Blue Dog Democrats. Some identified as non-Progressive Democrats are actually socialists. As CBS News reported, Progressives follow Mao (NBC report example: Congressman Bobby Rush) is a Progressive Representatives, involved in crime, corruption and blocking investigations into their progressive associates and their crimes. Progressives attempted to enter and refocus our US census and voting process via ACORN. Many of these socialist/communist US House of Representatives members travel to Communist Cuba frequently and meet with the Castro brothers and associates of a US-convicted Cuban spy ring. They have changed US laws to allow enable money transfer, travel and better communications with Communist Cuba and many openly praise mass murderers Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. They are working to make it easier for illegal immigrants to enter our country so they can expand their control of America via labor unions. The goal is transforming tens of millions of illegal aliens into communist union members who will vote as a block and increase communist transition funding via annual union dues. Their policies are not “freedom of religion”, but rather “no religion”. They are implementing budget-busting initiatives to redistribute wealth and convert the USA to a socialist communism state. Their current policies will collapse our US financial system. Posted in Marxist Radicals, Marxism, What is Socialism?, Communist, Marxist Government, Progressivism, Democratic Party, President Obama, Candidates - 2010, Progressives, Politics | Comments Off Democratic Party News - Obama Scares Me.19. July 2010 by Democratic Party News - The News of the Democratic Party.
By Lou Pritchett, Procter & Gamble A LETTER FROM A PROCTER AND GAMBLE EXECUTIVE TO THE PRESIDENT* THE LAST SENTENCE IS THE MOST CHILLING Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America’s true living legends- an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world’s highest rated speakers. Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader in change management.. Lou changed the way America does business by creating an audacious concept that came to be known as “partnering.” Pritchett rose from soap salesman to Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for Procter and Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate history. AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA Dear President Obama: You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me. You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you. You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support. You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American. You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll. You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don’t understand it at its core. You scare me because you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming others. You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail. You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ‘blame America ‘ crowd and deliver this message abroad. You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector. You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one. You scare me because you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves. You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world. You scare me because you have begun to use ‘extortion’ tactics against certain banks and corporations. You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals. You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people. You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient. You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do. You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaugh’s, Hannitys, O’Reillys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view. You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing. Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years. Lou Pritchett Posted in Corruption And Lies, WakeUp America, President Obama, Democratic Party, Politics | 3 Comments » Democratic Party News - What Is Socialism?18. July 2010 by Democratic Party News - The News of the Democratic Party.
What is socialism? We miss the boat if we say it’s the agenda of those left-wingers and Democrats. According to Marxist doctrine, socialism is a stage of society between capitalism and communism where private ownership and control over property is eliminated. The essence of socialism is the attenuation and ultimate abolition of private property rights. Attacks on private property include, but are not limited to, confiscating the rightful property of one person and giving it to another to whom it doesn’t belong. When this is done privately we call it theft. When it’s done collectively we use the euphemisms: income transfers or redistribution. It’s not just left-wingers and Democrats who call for and admire socialism but right-wingers and Republicans as well. Republicans and right-wingers support taking the earnings of one American and giving them to farmers, banks, airlines and other failing businesses. Democrats and left-wingers support taking the earnings of one American and giving them to poor people, cities, and artists. Both agree on taking one American’s earnings to give to another; they simply differ on the recipients. This kind of congressional activity constitutes at least two-thirds of the federal budget. Regardless of the purpose such behavior is immoral. It’s a reduced form of slavery. After all what is the essence of slavery? It’s the forceful use of one person to serve the purposes of another person. When Congress, through the tax code, takes the earnings of one person and turns around to give it to another person in the forms of prescription drugs, social security, food stamps, farm subsidies or airline bailouts, it is forcibly using one person to serve the purposes of another. The moral question stands out in starker relief when we acknowledge that those spending programs coming out of Congress do not represent lawmakers reaching into their own pockets and sending out the money. Moreover, there’s no Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus giving them the money. The fact that government has no resources of its very own forces us to acknowledge that the only way government can give one American a dollar is to first through intimidation, threats and coercion take that dollar from some other American. Some might rejoin that all of this is a result of a democratic process and it’s legal. Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal but did that make them moral? Can a moral case be made for taking the rightful property of one American and giving it to another to whom it does not belong? I think not. That’s why socialism is evil. It uses evil means (coercion) to achieve what are seen as good ends (helping people). We might also note that an act that is inherently evil does not become moral simply because there’s a majority consensus. An argument against legalized theft should not be construed as an argument against helping one’s fellow man in need. Charity is a noble instinct; theft legal or illegal is despicable. Or, put another way: reaching into one’s own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person’s pocket to assist one’s fellow man is despicable and worthy of condemnation. For the Christians among us, socialism and the welfare state must be seen as sinful. When God gave Moses the commandment “Thou shalt not steal”, I’m sure He didn’t mean thou shalt not steal unless there’s a majority vote. And, I’m sure that if you asked God if it’s okay just being a recipient of stolen property, He would deem that a sin as well. Written by Walter E. Williams. Posted in Communist Radicals, Marxist Radicals, Marxism, What is Socialism?, Marxist Government, Progressivism, Democratic Party, WakeUp America, Political History, Progressives, Politics | 1 Comment » Democratic Party News - The Democratic Party Might Self-destruct.10. June 2010 by Democratic Party News - The News of the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party might self-destruct, for the left is beginning to turn on the Democratic Party administration in Washington. Some of the radical organizations include the communists, hard core socialists, Code Pink, Seiu, etc. Furthermore, President Obama and the other progressive representatives in Washington are now starting to realize the Marxist and Communist radical revolutionaries within their ranks are turning on them, and they can no longer control them. Over the coming months it will be interesting to watch if they continue to tear each other apart. We can only hope it will eventually help cleanse our government of these types of politicians, including their hardcore Marxist and Communist radical revolutionaries they have associated themselves with. One of the most recent examples of this can be seen in the below video as Nancy Pelosi is heckled with having objects thrown at her by Code Pink: Posted in Marxist Government, Nancy Pelosi, Communist Radicals, Marxist Radicals, Progressivism, Progressives, Democratic Party, President Obama, Socialism In America, Federal Government, Politics | 4 Comments » The Democratic Party - Over 2300 candidates are running for Congress, the most in 35 years.3. June 2010 by Democratic Party News - The News of the Democratic Party.
More than 2,300 candidates are running for 471 House and Senate seats in the midterms. It’s the highest number of candidates in at least 35 years, according to data provided by the Federal Election Commission, which began tracking candidates in 1975. Frustration, particularly with President Barack Obama and his Democratic agenda has contributed to the surge. The field is heavily Republican, with almost twice as many GOP candidates as Democrats, and several hundred independent and third-party challengers. Posted in Campaign For Liberty, Candidates - 2010, Running For Office, Politics | No Comments » Democratic Party News - Head of Marxist-led institute joins Obama team.31. May 2010 by Democratic Party News - The News of the Democratic Party.
President Obama is continuing to implement the progressive agenda based on a Marxist form of socialized government. This agenda includes placing hard-line Marxist as lead administrators of major government agencies. The below is one of the latest examples of this fact. (WorldNetDaily.com) - The policy director at a George Soros-funded, Marxist-founded organization calling itself Free Press has just taken a key State Department position, WND has learned. Free Press Policy Director Ben Scott has been named a policy adviser for innovation at the State Department. We will miss Ben’s leadership, wise counsel, and strategic brilliance – for Free Press and the overall movement for media and technology policy in the public interest,” said Free Press President Josh Silver. Free Press is a well-known advocate of government intervention in the Internet. Scott authored a book, “The Future of Media,” which was edited by the founder of Free Press, Robert W. McChesney. McChesney is an avowed Marxist who has recommended capitalism be dismantled. He is a professor at the University of Illinois and former editor of the Marxist journal Monthly Review. In February 2009, McChesney wrote in a column, “In the end, there is no real answer but to remove brick-by-brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.” The board of Free Press has included a slew of radicals, such as Obama’s former “green jobs” czar Van Jones, who resigned after it was exposed he founded a communist organization. Last week, WND reported Free Press published a study advocating the development of a “world class” government-run media system in the U.S. Now the group is pushing a new organization, StopBigMedia.com, that advocates the downfall of “big media” and the creation of new media to “promote local ownership, amplify minority voices, support quality journalism, and bring local artists, voices and viewpoints to the airwaves.” Free Press has ties to other members of the Obama administration. Obama’s “Internet czar,” Susan P. Crawford, spoke at a Free Press’s May 14, 2009, “Changing Media” summit in Washington, D.C. Crawford’s pet project, OneWebNow, lists as “participating organizations” Free Press and the controversial Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. Crawford and Kevin Werbach, who co-directed the Obama transition team’s Federal Communications Commission Review team, are advisory board members at Public Knowledge, a George Soros-funded public interest group. A Public Knowledge advisory board member is Timothy Wu, who is also chairman of the board for Free Press. Like Public Knowledge, Free Press also has received funds from Soros’ Open Society Institute. Source: http://www.teaparty.org/article.php?id=49 Posted in Progressivism, State Department, Marxist Government, Progressives, Federal Government, Democratic Party, President Obama, Socialism In America, Politics | 8 Comments » Democratic Party News - Obama will NOT honor America’s greatest heroes at Arlington National Cemetery.28. May 2010 by Democratic Party News - The News of the Democratic Party.
The liberals protecting Obama at any cost media have covered for him once again. The Communist Rages have proudly boasted: “President Obama is finally addressing one of the great broken promises of his administration: his early pledge to return home to Chicago every six weeks or so.” Posted in Chicago Politics, Military Veterans, WakeUp America, President Obama, Democratic Party, Politics | 8 Comments » Democratic Party News - Obama the Warrior.27. May 2010 by Democratic Party News - The News of the Democratic Party.
Our postmodern president trots around the globe bowing to our enemies, pledging to disarm, sundering our alliances, denigrating the country he heads, and humiliating the leaders of our (former) closest allies. He eviscerates our arsenal, dismantles our intelligence capabilities, and willfully ignores the most blatant threats to the United States. To speak of him as a warrior is the height of absurdity. Yet in some sense, he actually is a warrior — not in any military context, but rather in the classic parlance of the progressive movement. He is an aggressive, motivated, and dedicated soldier in the battle to remake America into a collectivist social welfare state. He struggles mightily to undermine the Constitution, destroy free-market capitalism, subvert traditional culture, and weaken the sovereign nature of the American republic. In this struggle, he belittles his opponents, pursues his objectives relentlessly and engages in elaborate feints and misdirection to confuse and demoralize the opposition. Sounds like a warrior to me…except that the field of engagement is the political arena instead of a military battlefield. The weapons are words, money, favors, and the media, not guns and missiles. Physical courage does not enter the equation; it is replaced by idealistic conviction, single-minded devotion to a cause, and stubborn unwillingness to entertain the thought that one might be wrong. The idea that the foot soldier in the progressive movement is engaged in a war is completely consistent with the mode set for the movement by its earliest proponents. This is discussed brilliantly in Jonah Goldberg’s 2007 book Liberal Fascism. Goldberg argues that modern liberalism (i.e., the progressive movement) draws its inspiration from classic fascist principles. The core value of original fascism … was its imposition of war values on society … The chief appeal of war to social planning isn’t conquest or death but mobilization. Free societies are disorganized. People do their own thing, more or less, and that can be downright inconvenient if you’re trying to plan the entire economy from a boardroom somewhere. War brings conformity and unity of purpose. The ordinary rules of behavior are mothballed. You can get things done: build roads, hospitals, houses. Domestic populations and institutions are required to “do their part.” Obama and his fellow progressives who are running the country have established the fields of battle in their war to remake America. Moreover, they discuss those fields in military terms, replete with all the implications for national calamity, extensive casualties, and lost opportunities that are normally associated with the winds of war. To wit: • Global Warming. According to the progressives, the Earth is in danger, the threat is imminent, and unimpeded capitalism is the source of the crisis. They use war metaphors constantly when proposing their socialistic policies for “winning this war.” • Deficits and Debt. Progressives legitimately assert that the threat to the nation from runaway deficits is grave — even existential — and that enormous sacrifice will be required to win this war. What they fail to mention is that their policies caused — and continue to exacerbate — the threat. • Health Care. Despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are satisfied with their health care, progressives seize on (and inflate) the relatively small number without adequate access as a beachhead in their war to convert the U.S. to socialized medicine. They cite health care’s enormous costs without acknowledging that their programs (Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, employer-based coverage caused by FDR’s wage controls, and now Obamacare) are the principal drivers of the astronomical costs. • Welfare. LBJ declared that war 45 years ago. The poverty rate is roughly the same now as it was then, despite the progressive generals at HHS and HUD who have been prosecuting the “war against poverty” all the while. Nevertheless, to label Obama a warrior is indeed truly ridiculous, and here is why. For more than half a century, the greatest leaders of the progressive movement were indeed warriors. I am thinking of Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, and LBJ. Teddy was the greatest warrior of them all. His physical courage is legendary; his exploits in the Spanish-American War bear testimony to that. Wilson might not have had the physical courage of Teddy, but he savored the idea of American participation in The Great War. Against tremendous opposition in the country, he cajoled the nation to enter the war, whereupon he converted the society to a heightened war footing and appointed generals who prosecuted the war assiduously. FDR did likewise in the Second World War. Neither Wilson nor FDR exhibited the personal manifestations of a warrior like Teddy, but in the mold of military leaders throughout history, they led their people purposefully, forcefully, and resolutely into war. Finally, the same is true of LBJ — up to a point. He was itching to fight the Communists in Southeast Asia and, like his heroes, he steered the country into war. But unlike his heroes, he botched its execution and presided over defeat instead of victory. In so doing, he converted the progressive movement to pacifism. Oh, progressives might drop a bomb (Serbia) or lob a missile (Sudan) here and there, but the idea of America participating in — much less instigating — a real war became anathema to them. Obama is cut from that cloth. In his pacifism and reluctance to commit American troops to battle, he is no different from Carter or Clinton, Mondale or McGovern. One might argue though: What about Iraq? Afghanistan? If he could, Obama would withdraw from those conflicts instantly. However, he inherited them, and he knows that he would risk serious political capital by a precipitous withdrawal — especially if it resulted in a military defeat. To his disgrace, he has announced to the enemy his dates for withdrawal in the near future. For him, these conflicts are distractions from the domestic “wars” that he wishes to fight. More pointedly, he refuses to engage the enemies that truly threaten America: Iran, North Korea, nations harboring Muslim terrorists, or the Chinese. Obama prefers appeasement to confrontation. He prefers despots like Chávez or Castro to democrats like Netanyahu. Unwilling to project strength, Obama believes that obsequiousness and understanding will reverse the intent of America’s enemies. Some warrior! To Obama, America is a failed state that has no moral right to fight other states — no matter how evil or how much they might threaten American interests. Besides, it is very difficult to strike a military pose when one is constantly bowing. By Ron Lipsman Posted in Progressives, Progressivism, Corruption And Lies, WakeUp America, Democratic Party, President Obama, Politics | 7 Comments » Democratic Party News - Obama Tells Mexico President we are not defined by our borders….22. May 2010 by Democratic Party News - The News of the Democratic Party.
Unbelievable…. Just who does Obama think he is representing? Contact the White House and let Obama know you are outraged by this! Mailing Address: Email: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact Phone Numbers: Posted in Progressives, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, Treason, Socialism In America, Democratic Party, WakeUp America, Politics | 8 Comments » Democratic Party News - President Obama loses again; 4-0. Every candidate he backed lost.20. May 2010 by Democratic Party News - The News of the Democratic Party.
(The Los Angles Times) - Delivering a powerful message of discontent, voters Tuesday swept out veteran Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania, nominated a “tea party” movement founder for a Senate seat in Kentucky and forced Sen. Blanche Lincoln into a runoff for the Democratic nomination in Arkansas. Looking shell-shocked and speaking to fewer than 100 supporters in a half-empty ballroom, Specter delivered a brief speech in Philadelphia conceding the Democratic race to two-term Rep. Joe Sestak — marking the end of his 30-year Senate career. Specter was a Republican the whole time save the last year, when he switched parties in a failed bid to keep his seat. “It has been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania,” he said, with teary eyes, surrounded by his wife, son and grandchildren. In Kentucky, political novice Rand Paul delivered the tea party its biggest win since the movement’s emergence last year amid a backlash over bailouts and President Obama’s expansive agenda. Although Paul’s victory had been telegraphed by his big lead in polls, it was nonetheless seismic in scale, marking a significant breakthrough for the loosely knit protest movement. Up to now, activists have mainly lent their support to candidates who shared their principles, as opposed to backing one of their own. “I have a message,” Paul told supporters at a victory party in Bowling Green, “a message from the tea party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words: ‘We have come to take our government back.’ ” In a fourth race watched closely for its national implications, Democrat Mark Critz defeated Republican Tim Burns in the fight to fill a Pennsylvania House seat vacated by the late Democratic Rep. John P. Murtha. Exultant Democrats seized on the win as a sign that they can withstand an expected Republican tide in November and keep control of the House. But the outcome elsewhere could give pause to many longtime lawmakers. Specter’s defeat was the third loss for a congressional incumbent in less than two weeks and was perhaps the most resonant. Unlike Republican Utah Sen. Robert F. Bennett, who was defeated at a convention of conservative activists, or Democratic West Virginia Rep. Alan B. Mollohan, who was shadowed by ethical problems, Specter was rejected by a statewide electorate that shrugged off the clout that came with his seniority. “It’s a wake-up call for every incumbent, Republican, Democrat, or anybody around the country,” a disappointed Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said as he left Specter’s election-night gathering. Although he enjoyed the backing of Obama, Specter was laboring under perhaps the heaviest burden of any candidate Tuesday, defending not just his long tenure in Washington but his admittedly self-interested party switch. Specter quit the Republicans — after casting a key vote in favor of Obama’s economic stimulus plan, outraging conservatives — because he said there was no longer a place for moderates like him. He built his campaign around the power he wielded as one of the longest-serving members of Congress — and how that worked to Pennsylvania’s benefit. But Sestak portrayed Specter, 80, as interested in nothing more than self-preservation and made frequent, if indirect, references to his age and history of health problems, including two bouts of Hodgkin’s lymphoma and a brain tumor. “His time has come and gone,” Sestak said. Casting her ballot Tuesday, Johnelle Duncan, 72, agreed. “We need new blood, new ideas,” the retired librarian said after voting for Sestak at Philadelphia’s Simon Community Center. Sestak, a retired admiral, addressed chanting supporters Tuesday night at a military academy outside Philadelphia. “This is what democracy looks like,” he shouted. “A win for the people over the establishment, over the status quo, even over Washington, D.C.” Sestak, 58, will face former Republican Rep. Pat Toomey, 48, in November’s general election. Toomey narrowly lost to Specter in the 2004 Republican Senate primary and is seen as the early front-runner to claim the seat. In Kentucky, Paul started far behind Secretary of State Trey Grayson, the handpicked candidate of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell, an architect of the Kentucky GOP, helped shove aside junior Sen. Jim Bunning, a fellow Republican, because he considered Grayson more electable. But Paul, 47, surged past him, thanks to a plain-spoken style and platform rooted in the tea party movement’s small-government tenets: He favors term limits, a balanced-budget amendment, a requirement lawmakers read every word of legislation before it passes and a stipulation that laws spell out their constitutional underpinning. “He’s not anyone’s lap dog,” said Dianna Knight, 62, a retired high school math teacher in Louisville, who said she supported Paul precisely because so many in the GOP leadership opposed him. Grayson and his allies sought to portray Paul, a Bowling Green eye doctor, as something of a kook. They cited, among other things, his support for legalizing medical marijuana and the view that America’s interventionist foreign policy was at least partly to blame for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But the criticism served mainly to rally Paul supporters — many of whom backed his father for president in 2008 — and helped reinforce his image as a political outsider. Analysts consider the fall campaign against Democratic Atty. Gen. Jack Conway a toss-up, suggesting Paul may not stand up well to scrutiny in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans and voters are accustomed to their long-serving lawmakers bringing home Washington largesse. In Arkansas, Lincoln faced a fierce challenge from Halter, who attacked her equivocal stance on healthcare — she supported the overhaul bill on initial passage, but opposed its final approval — and accused her of being too friendly to Wall Street and insufficiently supportive of organized labor. Outside groups, led by labor unions, poured millions of dollars into a negative ad campaign pummeling Lincoln. Lincoln and Halter will face each other in a June 8 runoff for the chance to take on Republican Rep. John Boozman in the fall. Boozman starts as a strong favorite to win that contest. Source: http://www.teaparty.org/article.php?id=26 Posted in Candidates - 2010, Federal Government, President Obama, Democratic Party, Politics | 6 Comments » Democratic Party News – Obama continues to use rhetoric to exaggerate his false successes.1. April 2010 by Democratic Party News - The News of the Democratic Party.
Obama continues to use rhetoric to exaggerate his false successes. However, will it be enough to indoctrinate the voting citizenry into believing in successful change? The nation’s unemployment rate is 9.7 percent at the beginning of April 2010, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This despite the promise that billions for a shovel ready jobs bill would bring it down below 8% within a year. And they’ve added billions more to it while also tying every bill that comes before them as being a jobs creator. Then there was the trillion-dollar purchase of mortgage-backed securities…to save people’s homes and ignite the home buying market. For the past 12 consecutive months foreclosures have averaged over 300,000 per month and sales of new homes fell by 2.2% to an annual pace of only 308,000, the slowest rate of growth since records were first recorded in 1963. The government’s purchase of these securities is expected to end this month, the special $8,000 tax break is due to end in April, mortgage rates are expected to rise, and with only 170,000 mortgages restructured as part of this plan, they are approximately 3.8 million restructured mortgage short of their goal. Then there’s the transparency we were promised. Bloomberg News and Fox News had to file separate lawsuits, which a federal appeals court ruled on in their favor, to gain access to documents that show which banks received emergency short term lending from the Federal Reserve after Obama’s government denied their requests. And now we have great rhetoric being hurled about on his healthcare “reform.” We have the line in the sand with Iran being continuously redrawn. We have China telling us no, Israel telling us no, and Russia making it look like Carter is still President. Furthermore, it was only yesterday that Obama make another false promise to open up offshore drilling. As usual, Obama didn’t tell the whole story. Surprised? Obama said he would open up portions of the Outer Continental Shelf to offshore drilling, but what he didn’t say was that there would be: No drilling in the Pacific Ocean. He also failed to mention that the plans to allow some portions of the OCS to have offshore drilling are not actually finalized (and we know how things that are not finalized can and are changed!). And he failed to mention that any drilling that is done won’t be allowed until 2012. The rhetoric and the reality do not match, and Obama’s track record leaves us with little hope. Posted in President Obama, Democratic Party, Politics | 12 Comments » Democratic Party News - President Obama is prepairing to grant amnesty and citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.26. March 2010 by Democratic Party News - The News of the Democratic Party.
President Obama is teaming up with perennial pro-amnesty senators, John McCain and Lindsey Graham (among others), in a fresh push to grant amnesty and a path to citizenship for millions of (mostly Hispanic) illegal immigrants. This will be a “full-court press,” and with our Democratic Party in control of both chambers in Congress, it will probably enjoy the same result as the health care reform bill. Of course, on this subject, it would not have mattered one iota had John McCain been elected President instead of Obama. McCain has long been a champion of amnesty for illegals and would most definitely have promoted this particular agenda from the Oval Office, as Obama is now doing. In reality, Obama and his fellow socialists and globalists in Washington, D.C., are not simply “remaking America.” They are burying the American republic. Not that George W. Bush didn’t do his part, because he most certainly did. Obama is simply escalating the pace. As usual in Washington politics, the Republican and Democratic parties seldom actually reverse the course set by their predecessors; they merely adjust the rhetoric (and maybe the speed), but the overall course toward socialism and globalism never changes. Below is a commentary on how to take action by Ed Garrison. He started with the tenth reason and worked up to the first. Why? Because the first nine supports the most important reason which you will find out. 10. It’s time to raise the American standard of living. The real minimum wage has been declining for over a decade. Some advocate raising the minimum wage–but this would raise the price of unskilled labor above its free-market value. Mass unemployment would result. Why has the market value of unskilled labor declined? For the same reason that all prices move: supply and demand. It’s hard to change the demand side of the equation: You can’t make anyone “need” an unskilled worker who doesn’t need one already. For years, however, we have been artificially modifying the supply side by tolerating a massive influx of unskilled workers across our borders. We can reverse the trend by enforcing immigration laws. We won’t need to raise the minimum wage. It will raise itself. Millions of Americans will be lifted out of poverty, and millions more from the lower middle class to prosperity. 9. We can immediately create millions of new jobs. Conservative estimates place the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. at 20,000,000. Taking into account minor children and the aged, that’s still millions of people who are flooding our labor force. Remove them, and opportunities will abound for Americans. There’s a canard that says that illegals “take the jobs Americans don’t want.” This is a fallacy! There’s no job an American can’t or won’t do for a living wage. It is a cruel joke on the American worker to allow illegals to depress wages for many jobs below poverty level, and then to mock Americans for being reluctant to participate in the poverty. 8. Breaking the law is crime. Lawbreakers are criminals. Out of deference to the PC crowd, many like to use the term “undocumented workers”–as if illegals were merely missing a piece of bureaucratic paperwork. By the same logic, we can call a car thief an “undocumented driver.” Our immigration laws exist for good reasons: to protect our safety, our national sovereignty, our standard of living, our health, and our culture. Those who break them may “want a better life for themselves,” but then again, so do all that enrich themselves by disregarding the law. Many people who wish to immigrate honestly are waiting patiently. Granting privileges like driver’s licenses and social security cards to illegals is a slap in the face to law-abiding citizens and immigrants alike. It’s like opening an express window to give titles and owner’s cards to car thieves, while making legitimate owners stand in line! 7. Open borders threaten our safety. Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, two things have become clear. First, we have enemies, and they are vicious and without conscience. Second, our enemies obviously believe that an attack from within is more feasible than an attack from without. Even before the horrid events of September 11, our immigration laws had the primary purpose of protecting us. The use of visas and passports allows our government to monitor, and control who enters our country, and why. Few illegal aliens are terrorists. But it only takes one! More importantly, the creeping ideology of open borders–the (usually unspoken) belief that treating foreigners who enter our country differently than we treat our own citizens is somehow “discriminatory” or “racist”–is creating a terrible dilemma: Either we cease to monitor the aliens (and open ourselves up for even worse attacks), or we create the “equality” of the police state by casting aside constitutional protections for citizens and monitoring everyone. The more resolutely we protect our borders against threats from without, the safer, and freer, we can live within them. 6. We’re a nation of 293 million; the Third World population is over six billion and growing by 85 million annually. Do the math. Our country seems large, but its population is tiny compared to that of the Third World. China and India alone have seven times our population. For whatever reasons, our society has succeeded in creating immense wealth where many others have created only poverty. An American welfare recipient would still be “rich” by the standards of most of the world. One can’t blame the citizens of countries who produce much less wealth per capita than we for wanting to reap the benefits our forefathers have sown for us. But if we open the borders, our island of productivity and prosperity will soon disappear beneath a flood of Third World squalor. 5. American culture is worth preserving. Culture is more than operas and Shakespearean plays–it’s the sum total of the customs, beliefs, artistic creations, attitudes, goals, and norms that make a society what it is. It is passed down, as a treasure, from grandparent to parent to child. In other words, culture is what gives us our identity. Some advocate “multiculturalism”–creating a society in which multiple cultures exist side by side, and believe that “diversity”–having as many cultures as possible, with none dominant—is desirable. The majority of the media elite believes that we need more multiculturalism and diversity; the majority of the population doesn’t. Regardless of how anyone stands on this issue, the fact is that our society is already multicultural and diverse. Anyone who wishes to enjoy, and celebrate, the many cultures now coexisting in America need only visit any American city. By contrast, genuine American culture–the Founding Fathers, the story of the pioneers and the winning of the West, the Pledge of Allegiance, Columbus Day, the Bill of Rights–is under constant assault. Some of our country’s detractors vilify all that is traditionally American, while others would reduce our traditions to one more example of quaint folklore beside those of other nations. Russian culture can be found in Russia, Mexican culture in Mexico, multiculturalism in any major city… but where can one find American culture? Only in a place where Americans treasure it, and lovingly transmit it from generation to generation. Immigration laws should ensure that those who seek to live permanently on American territory be willing to adopt and preserve its culture. And they are useless unless they are enforced. 4. It’s not your father’s immigration. Previous generations romanticized immigration. The images are still with us: Starry-eyed Irish, Italian, Jewish, and Polish arrivals toting their bags and trunks onto shore at Ellis Island… The tablet at the base of the Statue of Liberty exhorting other nations to “Give me your tired, your poor…” The native-born American learning to love pizza and bagels. That was then. This is now. Yes, there are still many people in foreign lands who harbor the “American Dream,” and who seek to come here to realize it. Let them arrive LEGALLY according to our laws. Millions of illegal aliens, however, have attitudes and motives very different from those of the immigrants in the fading black-and-white photos of yesteryear. It’s not fashionable to speak the truth about this group. But the truth must be spoken. What makes this new breed of “immigrants” different? To begin with, they’re not “immigrating” at all–they’re sneaking in. They don’t have an “American dream” of building this country; rather, though still loyal to their home nations, they want to exploit ours economically. Many even dream of taking over regions of our country, and displacing us. There’s already a word for this goal: Reconquista of Aztlan. If the members of this group don’t intend to return home, yet have no loyalty to America, what should we call them? Certainly not “immigrants.” A ‘colonist’ is a better term. Today’s colonists, like those of the past, want to build enclaves on American soil from which they can expand their own wealth and power, and that of their homeland, while drawing on the resources that were created by the native population. How can we welcome legitimate immigrants while keeping out colonists? By knowing who is coming here, and why, and only admitting those whose presence is in our country’s best interests. In other words, by enforcing immigration laws. 3. It’s an issue we can all come together on. Conservatives, traditionally, aim to preserve the valuable legacy of the past, and to protect freedom by limiting the power of government. Liberals seek to provide all citizens, even the most disadvantaged, with the opportunity to realize their full potential. Both have worthy goals, but often squabble over how to realize them. Removing illegal aliens can give us the best of both worlds. We can preserve our traditional culture. And without resorting to costly and intrusive government programs, we can give our poor a genuine “hand up”: as the glut of cheap labor dries up, those at the bottom rung of the economic ladder will suddenly find themselves able to climb higher without ruinous competition. People of good will on the left and the right can only smile approvingly as the free market provides our unskilled and uneducated with a decent wage, and with a job market that welcomes instead of marginalizes them. We can “live better than we did four years ago” and have a rebirth of national pride, as President Reagan wanted for us. And we can have a “New Deal” for our poor, a society where no American is left out, which were the ideals of President Roosevelt. At last, we can come together. That’s what patriotism is all about. 2. We either face tough issues now, or tougher ones later. Immigration issues are complex. We need a national debate–which, judging by Obama–it isn’t happening. Most Americans, when confronted with the facts, want what they want now: strict enforcement of our immigration laws. It won’t be easy. We’ll have to find workable ways to deport illegal aliens without creating unnecessary hardships for those who have broken our immigration laws, and without creating severe dislocations for the unscrupulous employers who have benefited from their presence. And, of course, we’ll have to counter, with quiet reason, the voices of those who scream “discrimination” or “racism.” Some cringe at the challenges that await us. These challenges, however, pale in comparison to those that future generations will face if we fail to act. Imagine an overcrowded, impoverished America with shrinking wages and expanding burdens on the social service system. Imagine an America where millions of Americans have been driven out of their neighborhoods by throngs of foreign colonists who neither speak our language nor understand the culture that created American prosperity–but who deeply resent the poverty that inevitably results from their own unwillingness, or inability, to live as true Americans. Will Americans be forced to tax away their own shriveling wealth, and to transfer it to the aliens within our borders, if they wish to appease the colonists’ anger? Will the shrinking American middle class merge with the alien underclass to form a new “peasant culture” while a tiny American elite trembles behind the walls of heavily policed gated communities? Or will full-scale cultural and racial war break out? None of these possibilities is appealing. Nonetheless, a society is a reflection of the population that comprises it. If we, as an advanced society with a low birthrate, continue to import a Third World population with a high birthrate, we will become a Third World society, and will face the problems, which other Third World societies face as well. Isn’t it better to face the issue of illegal immigration now–and to do something about it? … and the number one reason is: 1. We owe it to our kids and grandkids. Our children and grandchildren will marvel at the digitized archives of the TV shows of the 1950s and 1960s. They’ll see a prosperous, free, united America– the envy of the world, a place anyone would be happy and proud to call home. This, they’ll realize, was the legacy our grandparents and parents left us, the American citizens of the early 21st century. How will the America we leave to our children stack up against the America our parents left to us? What will future generations think of us? Will we be known as the preservers and expanders of the beautiful legacy, or as its destroyers? By our actions or inactions, we’re deciding which it will be. Right now. Garrison gave us the most powerful and compelling reasons I have seen for each one of us to take actions for preserving our country. It behooves each of you to use your computer, telephone, radio station, TV station, letters to the editor of your newspaper and calls to every senator and congressman every week relentlessly to gain national focus on this immigration invasion. Democracy is not a spectator sport. This nation is in danger of becoming a Third World nightmare with all the corruption, disease, illiteracy, violence and balkanization known all over the world. We need a 10-year moratorium on all immigration to catch our collective breath and we need deportation of over 15 million illegal aliens in a slow and orderly fashion. This is your nation and this is your time to take action. It is a sacred trust handed down since the time of Thomas Jefferson and our founding fathers. Posted in Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, Socialism In America, WakeUp America, Democratic Party, President Obama, Politics | 11 Comments » |
