Charley Rangel- Drain the Swamp

Rangle faces further investigation.

From the AP This means I have to Paraphrase, but instead of giving you direct quotes and the link, I'll just give you a summary, so if you want to read more, there is no reason.

Ethics investigation is looking at the charges.

• He violated house Rules by using his position to Raise money for his building at the City College of New York.
• His Committee was considering legislation at the same time he was soliciting donations.
• Provided a tax shelter for oil drilling company, Nabours Industries. The CEO donated to His Center.
• Used Four Rent-controlled apartments, as his Primary Residence.
• Information and disclosure of the financing of his guest unit in the Cana Yacht Club in punta cana.

From McClatchy.

Even after Rangel's announcement, Republicans continued to blast Democrats on ethics. The National Republican Congressional Committee released a statement accusing vulnerable Democrats in 55 districts of accepting "tainted" campaign contributions from Rangel and challenging them to give the money back.

Democrats pledged to "drain the swamp" of unethical practices during the previous 12 years of Republican House control. Pelosi pledged that in the first 100 days after the new House would convene in 2007, new rules would be put in effect to "break the link between lobbyists and legislation."

Yep, Nancy you Bitch! Drain the Swamp and you find out it's filled with Crocodiles, and you are one of them. It's extra funny, when it looked like, even Nancy, had to Strong arm Rangel's Corrupt ass out.

Lets not forget about the Millions in Random Bank accounts!

Good For Jim Bunning

Good for him.

Bunning wants the $10 billion price of extending the programs offset by reductions in spending elsewhere in the budget in order not to drive up the deficit. The Senate can overcome his objection if 60 of its 100 members vote to do so. So far they haven't, and doing that would take at least four days under Senate rules.

No mater what you say, you have to agree that, he is standing for something. A rare thing in Congress. The arguments of Moron Democrats like Harry (dickless) Reid, arguing "well you were a hypocrite before, Come over and be a hypocrite again. Just like the rest of us.

Bunning once again stressed he supports the programs and funding in the measure and criticized Reid and Democrats for not sticking to recently passed "pay-go" provisions, which require paying for such programs with readily available funds rather than additional borrowing

If you are not smart enough to realize, Everybody is fiscally conservative when the Other party is in Power. But nobody has the Balls to, put the brakes on it, and take the Heat that Bunning is taking. If you notice, it has been four days already, Just like congress to whine about, working the weekend. Talk to real american workers about how many times they have had to dig in and work the weekend.

It's easy to talk about Cutting the Deficit when things are easy, Real Hero's are brave enough to do it when it is hard.

Congress can't vote for every tax cut, and for every spending bill, and just hope things will work out.

Of Course these Liberals are Embarrassed.

, wouldn't you be if you were Ed.

I hate to break this to people(Ok, that is a Lie. I love to say this stuff), But it is called a JOB... J-O-B. You take what you can get. I don't care if you used to make 100K. Apparently you weren't earning your money, and they had to Fire your Worthless Ass. So you take a step down in pay, you do a lesser job, you find a 50K job that someone is dying to hire a 100K employee for. If that Fails, YOU TAKE A JOB SWEEPING FLOORS.

I have run or had a hand in managing, hundreds of companies. I KID YOU NOT! An Employee who is unwilling to sweep a Floor, Who is "ABOVE SWEEPING"... is an employee, who has no business holding a job ABOVE FLOOR SWEEPER. Those are the Lazy ones in the office, and that is why you get rid of them. The good Workers, are the ones who ROLL UP THEIR SLEEVES and get the job done. If you aren't this kind of employee for your company. YOU ARE OVER PAID, and lucky you still hold a job.

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It's fascinating that, "The Media" can shed a Crocodile Tear for these people.

So the solution for these people, is to take any job you can find. It is 'because you won't', that is the reason you don't have a job.

YOU WORK YOUR WAY UP THE EMPLOYMENT LADDER. Sometimes it's a step back, to take a few steps forward. WHAT YOU DON'T DO IS RUN AROUND WHINING ABOUT HOW YOU CAN'T GET THE SAME JOB AT THE SAME PAY AS YOU HAD, AND DON'T HAVE INSURANCE......YOU FREELOADER!!!

"Too Good" to take A job, they are not Qualified for.... and probably never were.

THANK GOD!

Good! Thank the lord Almighty. Frank Luntz has a plan to kill financial Reform. The last thing wee need is government stepping in and interfering with the inner workings of our financial system.

If only they would Truly let the markets be free. THEN WE WOULD GET SOMEWHERE!

"That government is best which governs least."
-- Thomas Paine

Language of Financial Reform -

This is fantastic, there is now a republican blueprint to stop Financial Reform

Luntz urges opponents of reform to frame the final product as filled with bank bailouts, lobbyist loopholes, and additional layers of complicated government bureaucracy.

"If there is one thing we can all agree on, it's that the bad decisions and harmful policies by Washington bureaucrats that in many ways led to the economic crash must never be repeated," Luntz wrote. "This is your critical advantage. Washington's incompetence is the common ground on which you can build support."

This is the way we can stop, any form of financial reform.!!

Latest from ZoNation- Political Game Theory

I never quite agree with everything, who does, but it's amusing. Many good examples of the Political Game theory.

It's Math, You can Do on your fingers

You have to give Jeb Hensarling Republican from Texas some credit, he almost levels with the american people. Do the math.

78.2 million Baby Boomers,

There are only 304 Million people in the United states.

You can't have 1/3rd of the population drawing Social Security and Medicare.

You may only have 1/3rd or 1/2 of the population as wage earners when the Boomers Retire.

That is 2 people or less paying the Entitlement benefit for Every Retired person.

That is Wage Earners Paying Their Insurance 12Grand, Then a Babyboomers Insurance Roughly 20-30 Grand(old people are more expensive to insure!), and on top of that... Social Security Some Odd $1000.

WHEN THE BOOMERS RETIRE, it will be EACH WORKING ADULT PAYING some $20,000-$30,000 Grand Before you even get to Keep any money. To maintian current lifestyles, it will require you to make on average, some where around $150,000 per family. That will be Just to Maintain the median lifestyle.

I know that the Shrill Mathews is calling a Spade a Spade with Jeb Hensarling, But this is what Hensarling is saying!

"THE SYSTEM IS COLLAPSING UNDER THE WEIGHT OF THE BABY BOOMERS! and by Boomers, they mean BOOM!!!!"

But what the Politicians know and refuse to say is this same thing. But hopefully they will be out of town with the Loot, before it all Collapses. So what Henserling is saying... which he Flubs... IS TRUE, but he shudders because he wants to say it a Nice way.

SOCIAL SECURITY MUST BE CUT! And MEDICARE! It was Gone 20 years ago, and few of the politicians will man up and tell you!

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OUR COUNTRY WILL GO NOWHERE UNTIL POLITICIANS MAN UP AND ADMIT THIS TO YOU!... THEY HAVE TO STOP LYING!

Obama's Budget Calls for Tax Hikes

Tomorrow's Headlines in the DJ newswire. I couldn't find a link to the story.

President Barack Obama proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2011 that will add fuel to the debate over the size and scope of government with proposals for big increases in personal and business taxes, modest spending cuts and increased outlays for education, defense and jobs initiatives.

The Obama Administration has focused in the days leading up to Monday's formal release of the budget blueprint on proposals to cap so-called "discretionary" spending, roughly 17% of the total budget, as part of a plan to start narrowing the record $1.6 trillion gap between proposed budget outlays and tax receipts. But the budget plan calls for nearly $1 trillion in tax increases on upper income families -- largely through allowing Bush tax cuts to expire. Banks, bankers and multi-national corporations would face new fees and levies. And oil companies would lose $39 billion in tax breaks.

Overall, Obama's budget plan would shrink the current deficit to $727 billion, or 4.2% of the gross domestic product, by 2013. But if annual deficits shrink, the total federal debt will keep growing.

States seeking to ban mandatory health insurance

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Although President Barack Obama's push for a health care overhaul has stalled, conservative lawmakers in about half the states are forging ahead with constitutional amendments to ban government health insurance mandates.

The federal bills also would require many businesses to pay a penalty if they fail to provide employees health insurance that meets certain standards, though details and exemptions vary between the House and Senate versions.

Dem sources: Senate “fix” for ObamaCare could add another $300 billion to price tag

From here:

The bill in its original form was projected as costing $849 billion over 10 years. Slap on another $300 billion in programs added via reconciliation to placate Pelosi and you’re now talking about a bill in excess of the magical $1 trillion mark.

WHAT is wrong with them? It is no longer the health care bill as far as I’m concerned, it is the the pols on the hill. Health care is rapidly becoming secondary to the horror of what our Federal legislators have become.

Watchdog: Bank Bailouts Created More Risk in System

Watchdog: Bank Bailouts Created More Risk in System

The problems that led to the last financial crisis have not yet been addressed, and in some cases have grown worse, says Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the trouble asset relief program, or TARP. The quarterly report to Congress was released Sunday.

Bachmann and Blackburn Pull Out of Tea Party Convention

Bachmann and Blackburn Pull Out of Tea Party Convention

In another sign that controversy is taking a toll on next week’s National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn., two of its top attractions — Reps. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) — have decided to opt out of their prior plans to speak at the event.

There is no Tea Party. There are people who believe in the Tea Party principles. There is NO leader, no big corporation, no puppet master (George Soros). You cannot stop what has begun, not with corrupt lawyers, not with sleazy unions, not with corporate greed. We live and thrive on a fundamental set of values that regard personal responsibility, liberty, fiscal restraint as virtues to be promoted in the country we all love. You can whistle in the dark and pretend we are not here, or you can dismiss us as a fractured experiment that burned out before it began, but to do so is a big mistake. We are the USA, we are Democrats (not progressives), Republicans, Independents, and the formely apathetic now awake. I know you will deny that we exist and that is just fine with us. Our truth and our numbers will reveal themselves in November 2010...this WILL be change you can believe in.

Taliban Leader Possibly killed.

Pakistan Taliban Chief Reportedly Killed in U.S. Drone Strike
The head of the Taliban in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, was killed in a U.S. drone attack, Pakistan state television reported Sunday.


Pakistan Checks Reported Death of Taliban Chief

ISLAMABAD, (AP) – The Pakistani army said Sunday that it was investigating reports that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud died from injuries sustained in a U.S. drone missile strike in mid-January.

Report: Pakistani Taliban leader killed

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistani military on Sunday was looking into a local report that the region's Taliban leader had died, officials said.

Obama and the Declaration of Independence

Does Obama know the difference between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence?

Remember when we were force-fed by many in the media articles about the storied legal career of Barack Obama? The first black President of Harvard Law Review (who never wrote a signed legal opinion; nor released his transcripts) and the teacher of Constitutional Law at the University ofChicago. He was our last best hope to restore respect for the Constitution in the Oval Office.

Fourth Reich

Fourth Reich is Upon us

Acting on a complaint by Max Baucus (D-Mont)who is the chair of the finance committee (gang of six), concerning a mailer that was sent out by Humana Inc. to it’s customers, he said “it is not acceptable for insurance companies to mislead seniors regarding ANY subject, particularly on a subject as important to them and to the nation as health care reform”.

So, I guess according to “Der Fuehrer”, Humana Inc., (which entity is the same as a person under law), does not have the right of free speech to express an opinion?

ACHTUNG, ACHTUNG, ACHTUNG!: You will immediately cease and desist, you will say nothing that is not first cleared by “Der Fuehrer” or one of his appointed deputies (read that Czars).

9% Expect Obama’s Spending Freeze To Have Big Impact on Deficit

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A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just nine percent (9%) think the freeze will reduce the deficit a lot.

Eighty-one percent (81%) disagree, including 42% who say it will have no impact. Another 39% say the freeze in nearly all areas except defense, national security, veterans affairs and entitlement programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will reduce the deficit a little.