Posted on January 30, 2009 by 84rules
Obama Bans Earmarks From Stimulus Package 84rules January 6, 2009 Well, it didn’t take long for Obama to break that promise. Or maybe he forgot to tell the Dems who control Congress that pork was banned. Here is a listing of what this pork-laden, useless spending bill contains: – $1 billion for Amtrak, which hasn’t [...]
Filed under: Economy, Government, Politics | Tagged: ACORN, Amtrak, Barack Obama, David R. Obey, earmarks, Medicaid, pork, spending bill, stimulus, Voter Fraud | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 30, 2009 by 84rules
The current spending bill (mis-named as a “stimulus” package) went through the House of Representatives along party lines. Not one single Republican voted for it. Not one. But, eleven Democrats voted agaqinst it it. It’s a good thing that the Republicans acted in unison on this. That means that the Dems will completely own this [...]
Filed under: Corruption, Economy, Government, Politics, Social Issues | Tagged: ACORN, bank terrorist, banks, Bruce Marks, loans, lobbyists, Matthew Vadum, Michelle Malkin, mortgage, NACA, neighborhood stabilization, pork, Voter Fraud | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 28, 2009 by 84rules
Look for many differences between the previous eight years and the next four years. Of course, you already knew to do that. But look at what issues are going to be tackled differently and why. One of those issues is censorship and the manner in which Old Media deals with the Chief Executive. Tony Blankley’s [...]
Filed under: Corruption, First Amendment, Government, Mass Media, Politics, Terrorism | Tagged: American Grit, Barack Obama, Censorship, FDR, Hamas, Hezbollah, Lincoln, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Sedition Act, Tony Blankley, Woodrow Wilson | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 27, 2009 by 84rules
I don’t recall anywhere in the Presidential Oath of Office where it says the President should speak ill of America and Americans. But that is exactly what Obama has done. In his first formal television interview, given on a Muslim cable channel, Obama insulted the American people and trashed the United States. And he didn’t [...]
Filed under: Government, Politics, Terrorism | Tagged: Al-Arabiya, Barack Obama, dictating, George J. Mitchell, Islamics, Israel, Palestinians, Saudi Arabia | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 26, 2009 by 84rules
The white-supremicist Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) would be so proud of Nancy Pelosi! Pelosi invokes “reduced costs to the states” as a reason for spending millions on birth control. (Never mind the fact that birth control is already inexpensively available at any corner drug store and taught about in public school sex-ed classes.) [...]
Filed under: Culture Of Life, Government, Politics, Social Issues | Tagged: contraception, Empty Cradle, Fritz Bernotat, George Stephanopoulos, James Pethokoukis, Joesph Goebbels, Margaret Sanger, Nancy Pelosi, Nazi, Phil Longman, Planned Parenthood | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 26, 2009 by 84rules
The current economic stimulus plan being considered by Congressional Democrats was brought under fire last week by the Congressional Budget Office, or CBO. This week, the CBO (even though it is controlled by Democrats) has been brought under fire by the Democrats. Apparently, Congressional leaders were hard pressed to explain how monies that weren’t to [...]
Filed under: Politics | Tagged: 1984, Appropriations Committee, Barack Obama, CBO, Christina Romer, congress, democrats, George Orwell, Kennedy, Larry Summers, Paul Krugman, Reagan, Robert Barro, stimulus package, Tax cuts | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 24, 2009 by 84rules
Doug Kmiec’s name is going to come up over and over and over again during the next few months. Most notably because he somehow convinced himself and his followers that Barack Obama and the Democrats would make good on a promise to make abortion as rare as possible. Unfortunately, the actions of Obama and the [...]
Filed under: Politics | Tagged: abortion, Barack Obama, Catholic, Doug Kmiec, Mexico City, Planned Parenthood, pro-life, Richard Land, Southern Baptist, useful idiot | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 23, 2009 by 84rules
Dissident Dingo over at Resistance Day blog has penned a terrific essay about Barack Obama’s weakness on national security and what it will mean to us over the next four years. Here are some excerpts: Barack Obama will be tested on the national security front. The tests will not come only from the Islamic terrorists [...]
Filed under: Government, Politics, Terrorism | Tagged: Barack Obama, Clinton Administration, Iran, Islamic, Joe Biden, John Edwards, national security, North Korea, Russia, War On Terror | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 23, 2009 by 84rules
No, you didn’t misread the headline. Barack Obama has effectively given the terrorists what they wanted: rest, respite and a chance to regroup. Obama has ordered that all anti-terrorism policies, the same policies that kept the United States safe from attack for the past seven years, be halted. I have no doubt that terrorists all [...]
Filed under: Government, Politics, Terrorism | Tagged: CIA Operative, Geneva Convention, George Bush, Guantanamo Bay, interrogations, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Obama, Ramzi Binalshibh, Terrorists, War On Terror | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 21, 2009 by 84rules
Well, we voted for change. The question is, will the change be good or bad? I’m betting bad. Just as Jimmy Carter had a liberal Democrat Congress to tinker with the economy, so does Barack Obama, only moreso. But, the Dems today are much further to the left than the Dems of the 70′s. Back [...]
Filed under: Economy, Government, Immigration, Social Issues | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 21, 2009 by 84rules
If Doug Kmiec has any credibility left, it will be gone soon. His support of Barack Obama has helped to bring Roman Catholics to a turning point in American History. A century ago, Irish Catholics were mis-treated more because of their faith rather than their ethnicity. With the election of Barack Obama and the leftist [...]
Filed under: Culture Of Life, Government, Politics, Social Issues | Tagged: abortion, Catholic, Doug Kmiec, FOCA, Freedom Of Choice Act, Melinda Henneberger, pro-life, Robert Bork, Roman Catholic | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 20, 2009 by 84rules
In spite of promises to the contrary, Barack Obama has not left the racial hatred of Jeremiah Wright behind. Instead, he invited it back under a different name: Joseph Lowery. Rev. Lowery invoked race in a derogatory way after Obama was sworn in. According to the Associated Press: After the first black president had been [...]
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Posted on January 20, 2009 by 84rules
Posted on January 19, 2009 by 84rules
It isn’t perfect and still doesn’t rid me of the feeling that Compean and Ramos were wrongly convicted and being held as political prisoners, but it is a start. President Bush commuted the sentances of Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. Their prison terms will end on March 20 of this year. Deb [...]
Filed under: Politics | Tagged: border patrol, commute, Compean, drug smuggler, Ignacio Ramos, Johnny Sutton, Jose Alonso Compean, Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, pardon, Ramos, sentences | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 19, 2009 by 84rules
On January 15, 2009, the Senate voted 74 to 23 to proceed with the Lily Ledbetter Act. I documented this and one other destructive piece of legislation in a previous blog entry here: Gender Equity Frivoulous Lawsuits Will Once Again Jam Our Legal System 84rules January 8, 2009 The Democrats in Congress are hell-bent on [...]
Filed under: Politics | Tagged: Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Kay Bailey Hutchison, lawsuit, Lilly Ledbetter, Paycheck Fairness Act, S. 181, S.166, Title VII Fairness Act | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 16, 2009 by 84rules
One of the hallmarks of a good person is integrity. Integrity means admitting that one is wrong whenever one is clearly wrong. I’m sure that most people have integrity in their private lives but when they go public or are made public by other circumstances, the first thing they lose is their integrity. Unfortunately, Douglas [...]
Filed under: Politics | Tagged: abortion, Barack Obama, Brian Saint-Paul, Catholic, Doug Kmiec, Mark Shea, Melinda Henneberger, pro-abortion, pro-life, Thomas Peters | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 16, 2009 by 84rules
Given on January 16, 2008, at 8:01 p.m. EST: Fellow citizens: For eight years, it has been my honor to serve as your President. The first decade of this new century has been a period of consequence — a time set apart. Tonight, with a thankful heart, I have asked for a final opportunity to [...]
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Posted on January 16, 2009 by 84rules
Have you heard about the alternative plan the Republicans are offering for an economic stimulus package? Probably not given that the Dems are refusing to allow the minority party to offer alternative legislation or even hold alternative hearings on the issues and also because the MSM is cheerleading the Dems. Republicans are not even allowed [...]
Filed under: Economy, Government, Politics | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 15, 2009 by 84rules
You know, when you ignore a very important issue simply because you do not agree with the politics of those driving it, that issue will come back to bite you in the rear-end. Such is the case with those who embrace the idea that there is “concensus” among scientists that Global Warming is going to [...]
Filed under: Global Warming, Government | Tagged: Al Gore, American Physical Society, Climate Change, Global Warming, hockey stick, International Geological Congress, IPCC, Kevin Costner, sun spots | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 15, 2009 by 84rules
Here are two ways you can help to get HR25, the FairTax Act, passed. First, you can encourage the Republicans to rebuild the party around the FairTax by going here: Tell Republicans To Rebuild Their Party Around The FairTax RebuildTheParty.com You can also ask the incoming administration to endorse the FairTax by going here: Let [...]
Filed under: Politics | Tagged: 16th Amendment, 26 USC, alexander hamilton, FairTax, Federal Tax Code, federalist, HR25, Internal Revenue Service, K Street, lobbyists, Rebuild The Party, Republicans, S1025, tax reform | 1 Comment »