Corvallis Town Hall with Co-Speakers Hanna (R) and Roblan (D)

CORVALLIS GAZETTE-TIMES, 4/20/2011 (online) - Co-speakers of Oregon House lead town hall session Read More......

Dems: Don't read it, just pass our 1,924-page Omnibus spending bill

RWB NEWS, 12/14/2010 - One Last Binge! Dems Try To Dump A 2,000 Page $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill! No Reading Or Debating It (video)!

It’s hard to believe the election only ended a month ago as the Democrat leadership attempt to rush through a nearly 2,000-page spending bill with a price tag of over a TRILLION DOLLARS in the final days of the lame-duck session ignoring the clear will expressed by the voters this past November. This bill is loaded up with pork projects…..another “We must pass it so you can see whats in it”. I thought that kind of recklessness is what people were sick of in Government. How is Congress supposed to look out for the taxpayer when they only have 3 days to look over this 2,000 page monstrosity? Let’s rush it through and just stick it to the American people AGAIN! Congress should listen to the American people and stop this reckless spending." Watch videos at Red White & Blue News (includes partial text of Fox News report)

Comment by chris.williams at Fox News:
Re: Revolt: Republicans Angry About Omnibus Spending Bill Decry 'Total Mess'

For your information:

The FY 2010 budget for the Department of Education has been $50B. The FY 2011 budget is $55B. That increase was approved months ago. So, too were the budgets of every federal agency. To "hold the line" means to approve the increases. Obamacare includes 189 new federal agencies. Those agencies are part of the "hold the line on spending" mentality. Everywhere you turn, everywhere you look, government is getting bigger by staying the same; and, it's not spending more money today because [t]hat money was added to the deficit last summer.

The Code of Federal Regulations includes every regulation in force in this country. That document is nearly 150,000 (one hundred fifty thousand pages long, spread over 50 (fifty) different volumes. The Small Business Administration puts the total price tag of complying with federal regulations at $1.75 Trillion in 2008. That amounts to $15,000 for each U.S. household. The EPA is advancing 29 proposed major rules and 173 others -- an unprecedented level of regulatory action. The massive health care law creates 183 new agencies, commissions, panels and other bodies and the financial regulatory reform bill creates nearly 500 regulatory rulemakings, 60 studies and 93 reports.

Where does the money come from to fund this Godzilla of a bureaucracy? Surprise it’s you and me our taxes. The job of the Congress -- the House and Senate --is creating, funding and overseeing it."

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Sanger's 'Negro Project' alive and well

ONENEWSNOW, 10/26/2010 - In his most recent column, "Planned Parenthood's Negro Project Lives On," Ron Miller claims Planned Parenthood continues to target blacks for abortions, decades after eugenicist Margaret Sanger conceived her Negro Project in 1939. Read more at One News Now...

SEATTLE PI, 8/2/2010 - Planned Parenthood endorsements: All Democrats Read More......

WSJ: The Uncertainty Principle—II

WALL STREET JOURNAL, 7/16/2010 - The Uncertainty Principle—II, Only 30 times more complicated than Sarbanes-Oxley. The Dodd-Frank financial reform bill passed by the Senate yesterday promises to generate historic levels of red tape. But apparently the 2,300 pages are so complicated that a debate has broken out over precisely how many new regulatory rule-makings it will require. Read more at WSJ...

It's unbelievable that Dodd & Frank aren't serving time in a federal prison. --bc Read More......

Tea Party protesters refused entry into congressional buildings

WASHINGTON EXAMINER, 3/20/2010 by Mark Hemingway - Capitol Police stopped letting peaceful protesters into the capitol to air their concerns with their representatives. Read more and see photos of the protest over the Democrats health care plan...

Vote scheduled for Sunday. Read More......

House Dems warming to idea of scaled-back healthcare reform

NEWS FROM THE HILL, 1/21/2010 by Jared Allen - There is growing consensus in the House Democratic Caucus that comprehensive healthcare legislation is dead and the only option is to pass a series of piecemeal measures. Read more at The Hill... Read More......

A budget-buster in the making

WASHINGTON POST, 11/23/2009 by David S. Broder (Hat tip: John H. Detweiler) - It's simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan. ∴ The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version of health reform produced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Quinnipiac University poll of a national cross section of voters reported its latest results. ∴ This poll may not be as famous as some others, but I know the care and professionalism of the people who run it, and one question was particularly interesting to me.

It read: "President Obama has pledged that health insurance reform will not add to our federal budget deficit over the next decade. Do you think that President Obama will be able to keep his promise or do you think that any health care plan that Congress passes and President Obama signs will add to the federal budget deficit?"

The answer: Less than one-fifth of the voters -- 19 percent of the sample -- think he will keep his word. Nine of 10 Republicans and eight of 10 independents said that whatever passes will add to the torrent of red ink. By a margin of four to three, even Democrats agreed this is likely. Read more at the Washington Post...

John writes, "Maybe we are getting the picture with respect to the costs of this thing." Read More......

Tweeting to the Left: Twitter’s Hidden Bias

AIM, 11/18/2009 by Allie Duzett - "Twitter has taken the social media world by a storm with its innovative medium for microblogging; however, it turns out, not even social media is free from bias. Recently, Twitter announced that it would be eventually deleting its "suggested user" feature-because of its pro-Democratic bias."

FYI: A higher percentage of Republicans use Twitter in the national political sphere: 22.3 percent of congressional Republicans use Twitter, while only 8.5 percent of congressional Democrats do. As of September 2009, Republicans in Congress were out-tweeting Democratic representatives; 64 percent of congressional tweets came from Republicans, as opposed to the Democratic Party's embarrassing 36 percent. Read more at Accuracy in Media (AIM)... Read More......

Stimulus Jobs In Oregon Last Only One Week

GOOGLE NEWS, 7/28.2009 by Ryan Kost - (AP) In Oregon, Democrats are taking credit for a remarkable feat: creating 3,236 new jobs in the program's first three months. But those jobs last only one week. Read more at Google... Read More......

Why Obamacare Is Sinking

WASHINGTON POST, 7/24/2009 by Charles Krauthammer - What happened to Obamacare? Rhetoric met reality. As both candidate and president, the master rhetorician could conjure a world in which he bestows upon you health-care nirvana: more coverage, less cost. ∴ But you can't fake it in legislation. Once you commit your fantasies to words and numbers, the Congressional Budget Office comes along and declares that the emperor has no clothes. Read more at the Washington Post...

Hat tip: John H. Detweiler
John writes, "Reality is always tough." Read More......

RNC Statement on President Obama’s PAYGO Legislation

WASHINGTON - Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele released the following statement today:

“President Obama and congressional democrats telling Americans they are committed to budget discipline is like Charles Ponzi telling people to trust him with their money. No one should believe that the political party that brought us a $787 billion stimulus bill that hasn't created any jobs, a $3.5 trillion budget, a $50 billion bankruptcy bailout for GM and a record $1.8 trillion budget deficit this year will cut spending on anything but our national defense to achieve PAYGO requirements. That means the Democrats' dirty little secret is that they will raise taxes on families even more to give the illusion that they are committed to budget discipline. Americans shouldn't be fooled by today's latest Ponzi scheme from the white house. But they would be wise to hold onto their wallets.”

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Change? You Asked for It...

WASHINGTON POST, 5/15/2009 by Michael Kinsley - Even some loyal Democrats are feeling queasy about what will happen if, as seems likely, Al Franken wins the endless dispute over that Senate seat from Minnesota. With Arlen Specter's recent conversion, that would give the Democrats 60 seats, or three-fifths of the Senate, which is a filibuster-proof majority. With a Democratic majority in the House and a Democratic president, suddenly politics seems like a more serious business. Read more at the Washington Post..

Hat tip: John H. Detweiler
John says, "The Democrats chased the truck until they caught it. Now they have to do something with it. If this wasn't so serious, it would be delicious." Read More......

Gore: No joint appearances with skeptics

GATEWAY PUNDIT, 4/24/2009 - UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore at high profile global warming hearing on Friday April 24, 2009 at 10am in Washington. Monckton told Climate Depot that the Democrats rescinded his scheduled joint appearance at the House Energy and Commerce hearing on Friday. Monckton said he was informed that he would not be allowed to testify alongside Gore when his plane landed from England Thursday afternoon. ∴ “The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face,” Monckton told Climate Depot in an exclusive interview. “They are cowards.” ∴ According to Monckton, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), Ranking Member on the Energy & Commerce Committee, had invited him to go head to head with Gore and testify at the hearing on Capitol Hill Friday. But Monckton now says that when his airplane from London landed in the U.S. on Thursday, he was informed that the former Vice-President had “chickened out” and there would be no joint appearance. Read More......