And now it is news?

Rising unemployment taxes could hinder hiring

Most business’s struggle to stay open during good times. Add the government intervention and over taxation and you have job killers baby. And Obama the Marxist cannot keep his glee in check when he keeps saying that government is the answer. No Mr. Obama - government is NOT the answer. People do not want to rely on unemployment to live. Now if this “HealthCare Reform” becomes law then you can kiss about 30,000,000 jobs goodbye - or maybe more. How will tens of millions of people “buy” health insurance without a job? Will 30,000,000 people be locked up?

Can we see where this is headed?

Go to 4:05
Lavelle Stewart of ACORN bragging about a meeting she had with Larry Flynt.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK

Last week Texas was shocked by tragedy and loss after the horrific shooting at Fort Hood, but the response by Texas and the nation has shown just how much we appreciate the contributions and sacrifices of those who put their lives on the line to defend our freedoms here and abroad.

To honor those who lost their lives last Thursday, I immediately ordered the lowering of all Texas flags to half-staff through Sunday. I also authorized the immediate deployment of a variety of state resources to the Fort Hood area, including Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers, Texas Rangers and helicopters, to assist in securing the perimeter of the base and provide other necessary support. The Texas Rangers are now part of a multi-jurisdictional force investigating this tragedy.

Although we are all deeply saddened by these events and mourn the loss of those whose lives were taken, I hope you will join me in my emphatic support of our troops and their mission. As those injured begin the road to recovery and as Fort Hood families impacted by the shootings work to move forward with their lives, you can help by contributing to the Central Texas-Fort Hood Chapter, Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

Soldiers and their families will receive 100% of all funds. Please write “Community Response to 11/5″ on the memo line of your checks and mail them to this address:

The Central Texas- Fort Hood Chapter
Association of the US Army
Attn: Community Response to 11/5
PO Box 10700
Killeen, TX 76547-0700

I ask that you continue to pray for the victims, their families and the extended Fort Hood community as they recover from this horrific event and as our soldiers continue defending our freedoms here at home and overseas.

Thank you,
Rick Perry

The $787 billion stimulus bill was passed in February and was promised as a job saver and economy booster. Here is where some of the money went: (I picked my favorites)

- $300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.

How about we let hunters pick off the rabbits for free? No rabbits - No radioactive rabbit droppings.

- $11 million for Microsoft to build a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway.

? - One of the richest guys on earth can’t buy his own bridge? Bill Gates makes $11 Million in about 30 seconds - let him buy his own bridge.

- $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.

I am confident that Syracuse University male students would do this for free.

- $2.3 million for the U.S. Forest Service to rear large numbers of arthropods, including the Asian longhorned beetle, the nun moth and the woolly adelgid.

Why are we paying to mate bugs? There are 50 billion bugs on the planet. We don’t need to pay for bugs.

- $3.4 million for a 13-foot tunnel for turtles and other wildlife attempting to cross U.S. 27 in Lake Jackson, Fla.

Build a fence for a $1000 so the stupid turtles won’t cross the road.

- $9.38 million to renovate a century-old train depot in Lancaster County, Pa., that has not been used for three decades.

Arlen Specter has not done anything in three decades either.

- $6 million for a snow-making facility in Duluth, Minn.

Is this to combat global climate change? I guess they will fund more sno-plows to get rid of the snow they make?

- $1 million to study the health effects of environmentally friendly public housing on 300 people in Chicago.

Wow, at $3333 per person that is quite a bargain!!!

- $148,438 for Washington State University to analyze the use of marijuana in conjunction with medications like morphine.

I knew many college students who use to pay to study the same thing.

- $462,000 to purchase 22 concrete toilets for use in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri.

$21,000 per toilet….quite an expensive dump?

In Iowa, Second Thoughts on Obama

I will post the great quotes from the article. These are priceless:

“Until I see some progress and he lives up to his promises in Iowa, we will not give one penny.”

“I’m afraid I wasn’t realistic,”

“I really thought there would be immediate change,”

- Pauline McAreavy

“I’m scared,”

“The competition right now, with all the people who have lost jobs that are highly qualified, really puts you up against the wall trying to compete.”

- Chris Bollhoefer

“I think he was more presidential when he was running for office than he is now,”

- Paul Johnson

“It’s overdue for him to actually take charge here,”

- Kathy Johnson

“He gave a fairly decent presentation, but that’s what it turned out to be — a presentation,”

- John Sager

“I hate to vote against someone, I want to vote for someone.”

- Kathy Shaffer

Maybe there is hope for some real change?

So I read with interest about how Kay “BailOut” is now questioning the Czars of Obama.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that the document founding our democracy must be the anchor of liberty and the blueprint for its preservation. Wisely, they provided a balance of powers to ensure that no individual and no single arm of government could ever wield unchecked authority against the American people.

Nearly 250 years later, these critical lines of separation are being obscured by a new class of federal officials. A few of them have formal titles, but most are simply known as “czars.” They hold unknown levels of power over broad swaths of policy. Under the Obama administration, we have an unprecedented 32 czar posts (a few of which it has yet to fill), including a “car czar,” a “pay czar” and an “information czar.” There are also czars assigned to some of the broadest and most consequential topics in policy, including health care, terrorism, economics and key geographic regions.

The deployment of this many czars sets a dangerous precedent that undermines the Constitution’s guarantee of separated powers. It must be stopped. President Obama should submit each of his many policy czars to the Senate so that we can review their qualifications, roles and the limits on their authority. To deliver anything less is to deny the American public the accountability and transparency the Constitution guarantees.

Good for her. She can do this because in a few weeks she will probably leave Washington and her 16 year career of being a Washington insider. She says she will resign to take on the popular governor of the strongest state in the nation.

I like to follow TexasFred, he gets to the point.

The governor’s campaign spokesman is correct. Hutchison is a RINO Washington insider. She has NO idea what the people of Texas are up against. Case in point; Hutchison was on board with the Bush Amnesty Plan and she was pushing the Immigrant Dream Act for all it was worth, all the while opposing border fences.

Fences make good neighbors. Apparently Sen. Hutchison forgot that Texas axiom along the way.

Hutchison voted FOR the 1st bail out debacle, the mother of all this current bail out obamanure. She was right there in lockstep with George W. Bush on the 1st bailout, as was her partner in the Senate, John Cornyn. And we all know that there’s a group here in Texas that touts Cornyn as, “A strong conservative voice in Washington.”

Hutchison is NOT a Conservative, Texas hasn’t had a Conservative in the Senate for a long time now. Hutchison went to the RINO column several years ago and has never extricated herself from the clutches of Washington politics.

Sen. Hutchison is right, we DO need better leadership. Rick Perry may not be perfect, but he’s far and away better for Texas than Kay Bailey Hutchison. Rick Perry is not, to the best of my knowledge, a hypocrite. Rick Perry turned down federal stimulus money offered by Congress and President Barack Obama. Hutchison criticizes him for it too. As I said, Hutchison, RINO and Washington insider, feeding at the PUBLIC trough!

Rick Perry may have made a few mistakes during his time as Texas Governor. Find me ANY elected official that hasn’t made a few mistakes and I’ll show you an elected official that hasn’t done ANY work, of ANY kind, at ANY time.

“To make a political point, we turned down half a billion in federal money, sacrificed it to other states, and now we’re borrowing three times as much and sticking Texas businesses with the tab,” she said.

“That’s not conservative. That’s irresponsible. We can do better.”

No Senator, that IS Conservative, and you apparently don’t have a clue as to the definition of the word conservative. Texas IS borrowing, and paying back, that is called Doing Business. That half a billion dollars was tax money taken from the American people, and yes, it was being given back to the American people, in a robbing Peter to pay Paul ponzi scheme. I personally applaud Rick Perry for turning down payoffs offered by the spawn of Satan that currently inhabits the Oval Office.

Sen. Hutchison is not evil, but in MY opinion, she is WRONG for Texas. She is long past her time of serious effectiveness in the Senate, and she knows it. Otherwise, WHY is she coming home to run for Governor? And as much as I honestly believe that Hutchison needs to retire from the Senate, I also honestly believe that she will be a disaster if the people of Texas fall for her RINO speeches and hypocritical words and elect her Governor.

Apparently, Washington Kay has figured out a few tricks in her 16 years as a DC insider.

Senator’s campaign website suffers search-engine death penalty for embedding invisible homophobic slur against opponent.

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) is running for governor, but her website has suffered Google and Yahoo’s death penalty and has been removed from the search index. The reason: Hutchison’s webmaster embedded thousands of invisible search-terms in the site in a bid to game search-engines; among them was the phrase “rick perry gay” (Rick Perry is Hutchison’s Republican opponent). The campaign claims the terms were generated automatically by “search engine optimization” software (SEO is a form of Google-Kremlinology in which firms attempt to figure out how to game search engines’ ranking algorithms, rather than trying to create the best, most interesting website they can and assuming that the engines will figure out how to highly rank their material).

So, old Kay Bailout is trying to garner some support from the conservatives by writing an op-ed piece that is pandering to the conservative crowd. Kay Bailout’s lefty supporters won’t be happy. I am sure they will voice their strong opinion on her Facebook page of why Kay Bailout was wrong to question their dear leader.

Special teams of Texas Rangers will be deployed to the Texas-Mexico border to deal with increasing violence because the federal government has failed to address growing problems there, Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday.

“It is an expansive effort with the Rangers playing a more high-profile role than they’ve ever played before,” Perry said of the Department of Public Safety’s elite investigative unit.

The forces, dubbed “Ranger recon” teams, are the latest effort “to fill the gap that’s been left by the federal government’s ongoing failure to adequately secure our international border with Mexico,” he said.

The governor early this year asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for 1,000 National Guard troops and renewed his call last month in a letter to President Barack Obama. The request is bogged down over who will pay for the troops and how they will be deployed.

‘Boots on the ground’

Perry’s announcement Thursday comes amid increasing border violence, particularly in El Paso, mostly involving people with ties to Mexican drug gangs.

“They’ll be deployed to high-traffic, high-crime areas along the border,” he said. “They’ll give us boots on the ground, put people in these hot spots no matter what or where they may exist.”

Perry said the effort also would focus on remote areas where farmers and ranchers have complained of being overrun by smugglers and gangs from Mexico in numbers that also overwhelm local law enforcement and border patrol officers.

“Washington is shortchanging them, not giving them the support they need,” Perry said. “As a result, we’re having to dedicate our resources to deal with the challenges we have along the Texas-Mexico border and ensuing issues that porous border has created all across state of Texas.”

He said the state would pick up the tab of $110 million, allocated by the Legislature in the past two sessions.

Perry’s announcement drew immediate criticism from U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is running against the two-term incumbent in the March GOP primary.

“Today’s announcement is yet another empty election-year promise from Rick Perry on border security,” Hutchison spokesman Joe Pounder said.

Perry fired back that it was the “height of hypocrisy for someone who’s been in Washington, D.C., for 16 years, who’s had the opportunity to help Texas on our border security, and they’ve been no more successful in delivering the resources and help.”

“So please do that job up there first before you come down here and start criticizing about the state of Texas,” he said.

Hutchison also took Perry to task for the absence of any Texas agency from a federal program that allows Homeland Security personnel to work with local law enforcement on immigration issues.

“Texans need a governor they can trust to actually improve our security,” her campaign said in a statement.

“I happen to think we’ve taken advantage of every program that’s been effective,” responded Perry, who has been branding his opponent as someone from Washington out of touch with her home state. “Pointing out one program that has been funded and leaving the 800-pound gorilla — which is 1,000 National Guard troops that we need — I am stunned someone from Washington, D.C., would say they’ve done enough to secure our border.”

Brig. Gen. Joyce Stevens, commander of the Texas Army National Guard, said about 200 soldiers and airmen already have started integrated operations with the Rangers.

Friendly Chat with an Obama Supporter

This past Saturday, Washington Kay stood before Texans and insisted that she was a more “enlightened” leader for Texas. That’s right. If you don’t support Washington Kay, you’re not “enlightened.” Only when you’re responsible for record debt, costly pork, and big-government bailouts will you be “enlightened” enough to stand on the same stage as Sen. Hutchison.
Finally, it all makes sense! The embarrassingly small crowds, the abandonment of conservative principles, the self-serving ambition, and the Washington politics are all part of Kay’s broader campaign strategy—she’s reached a full state of Zen and enlightenment.
Senator, we don’t think you know what that word means—and we KNOW you don’t know what “conservative” means. Earlier this year, Rush had this to say about an “enlightened” GOP full of “country club blue-blood Rockefeller types.” Are you “enlightened” enough to join Kay’s exclusive handful of supporters?

As Congress reconvenes to complete a disastrous year of outrageous spending and intrusive government expansion, D.C. welcomes back a veteran fixture of the Senate: Washington Kay.

“The last thing I want is to be considered
part of the system in Washington, D.C.
because that’s being part of the problem.”
– Kay Bailey Hutchison, 1993

Timing crucial for Hutchison on quitting Senate to run for Texas governor

As Congress returns today from summer recess, Kay Bailey Hutchison opens a final chapter in the Senate, assuming she sticks with her vow to quit soon to focus on her bid for Texas governor.

Congress will be focused almost single-mindedly on health care. But Hutchison will be coping with the reality that she is a self-proclaimed lame duck as she tries to complete unfinished business and score a few political points before stepping down.

“It’s not as if she’s a swing vote,” said Rutgers University political scientist Ross Baker, a leading congressional scholar. He said that once a politician declares an intention to leave, that person doesn’t have a lot of clout. “The assumption is that you’re a short-timer, so there’s not a particular value attached to working with you.”

Mark Lloyd is a radical in communications like Van Jones was a radical in “the green revolution”
Obama has strategically placed these moles into top positions in his organization. Mark Lloyd comes right out of the Marxist playbook. He doesn’t care a whit about freedom of speech. What Mr Lloyd cares about is the government controlling the dissemination of political thought over the airwaves.

Mark Lloyd, Associate General Counsel and Chief Diversity Officer

Mr. Lloyd was most recently the Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights/ Education Fund, where he oversaw media and telecom initiatives. Mr. Lloyd was also an adjunct professor of public policy at the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute, and from 2002-2004 a visiting scholar at MIT where he conducted research and taught communications policy. Previously Mr. Lloyd has been a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, the General Counsel of the Benton Foundation, and an attorney at Dow, Lohnes & Albertson. Before becoming a communications lawyer, Mr. Lloyd had a distinguished career as a broadcast journalist, including work at NBC and CNN.

FCC’s Chief Diversity Officer Wants Private Broadcasters to Pay a Sum Equal to Their Total Operating Costs to Fund Public Broadcasting

Inspired by Saul Alinsky, FCC ‘Diversity’ Chief Calls for ‘Confrontational Movement’ to Give Public Broadcasting Dominant Role in Communications

Mark Lloyd, chief diversity officer of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), called for a “confrontational movement” to combat what he claimed was control of the media by international corporations and to re-establish the regulatory power of government through robust public broadcasting and a more powerful FCC.

Lloyd expressed his regulatory call to arms in his 2006 book, “Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America” (University of Illinois Press).

In the book, Lloyd also said that public broadcasting should be funded through new license fees charged to the nation’s private radio and television broadcasters, and that new regulatory fees should be used to fund eight new regional FCC offices.

These offices would be responsible for monitoring political advertising and commentary, children’s educational programs, number of commercials, and content ratings of the programs.

Frequently referencing one of his heroes, left-wing activist Saul Alinsky, Lloyd claims in his book that the history of American communications policy has been one of continued corporate control of every form of communication from the telegraph to the Internet.

Lloyd proposes six initial goals for wresting control of communications from the corporate interests he claims control it. As his book details:

1. “End the federal subsidy of commercial media, particularly cable and broadcast television. Broadcasters should pay for the great privileges of a federally protected license to operate a business by using the publicly owned [radio or television] spectrum.”

2. “The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) must be reformed along democratic lines and funded at a substantial level. The CPB board should be elected, [with] eight members representing eight regions of the country (New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Midwest, Plains States, Southwest, Mountain States, and the Pacific Coast) and a chairman appointed by the president, with the advice and consent of the Senate.”

“Federal and regional broadcast operations and local stations should be funded at levels commensurate with or above those spending levels at which commercial operations are funded,” said Lloyd.

“This funding should come from license fees charged to commercial broadcasters. … Local public broadcasters and regional and national communications operations should be required to encourage and broadcast diverse views and programs. … Spectrum allocations should be established that create clear preferences for public broadcasters ensuring that regional, local, and neighborhood communities are well served,” he added.

3. “The FCC should be fully funded with regulatory fees from broadcast, cable, satellite, and telecommunications companies. The FCC should be staffed at regional offices, matching those CPB regions, at levels sufficient to monitor and enforce communication regulation.

“Clear federal regulations over commercial broadcast and cable programs regarding political advertising and commentary, educational programming for children, the number of commercials, ratings information about programs before they are broadcast, and the accessibility of services to the disabled should be established and widely promoted.”

4. “Universal service support provided by all commercial telecommunications providers (whether they are classified as information services or not) to fund access to advanced telecommunications services should be expanded to all nonprofit organizations, including higher-level academic and vocational schools, community centers, and 501(c) (3) organizations unaffiliated with either business or government.”

5. “Postal subsidies should be fully restored to small independent nonprofits presses. Postal subsidies should be reduced for commercial and business operations. The postal service should be returned to congressional control with the central mission of ensuring that all Americans have access to the post.”

6. “Public secondary schools should be required to include civics and media literacy as part of their core curriculum. Testing on civic, media, and computer literacy should be required and national standards set.”

For those who think any or all of these recommendations might infringe on the free speech rights of broadcasters, Lloyd says his concern is not the “exaggerated” concerns over the First Amendment.

“It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press,” he said. “This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.”

“[T]he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance,” said Lloyd. “[T]he problem is not only the warp to our public philosophy of free speech, but that the government has abandoned its role of advancing the communications capabilities of real people.”

STATEMENT OF
MARK LLOYD, VICE PRESIDENT OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES,
LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL RIGHTS &
LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND

LCCR believes that access to communications is a fundamental right
of every American. Given the impact the transition will have on all our most vulnerable communities, LCCR applauds Congress for recognizing the need for a government compensation program to be administered by NTIA to assist with the transition. But the process that has been
created raises a number of troubling concerns.

First and foremost, we are deeply concerned that the $5 million that Congress has allocated to NTIA to educate consumers about the coupon program will be woefully inadequate to support the kind of public education effort that the transition requires. In a 2007 letter to members of the FCC, House Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell and Rep. Edward Markey noted that the German city of Berlin spent nearly $1 million to educate its 3.4 million citizens about the transition to digital. The United Kingdom, a country of a little over 60 million, plans to spend $400 million on its public education campaign. While we do not advocate spending an equivalent $100 million to $2 billion dollars to prepare the 300 million American consumers about the digital television transition, we do not think that the $5 million allocated by Congress in 2005 was ever adequate to the task.

Obama’s FCC Diversity Czar Loves Hugo Chavez’s Revolution - Czar Mark Lloyd - Glenn Beck

More thoughts on Mark Lloyd

Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez railed against the West on Saturday, pledging to deepen their ties and stand together against the United States and world powers the two perceive as imperialistic.

How sad for President Obama,

remember when BHO & Hugo were BFF?

And remember Obama’s invitation to Iran to roast weenies on July 4th?

US says hot dog diplomacy still on with Iran

The United States said Monday its invitations were still standing for Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at US embassies despite the crackdown on opposition supporters.

President Barack Obama’s administration said earlier this month it would invite Iran to US embassy barbecues for the national holiday for the first time since the two nations severed relations following the 1979 Islamic revolution.

“There’s no thought to rescinding the invitations to Iranian diplomats,” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters.

“We have made a strategic decision to engage on a number of fronts with Iran,” Kelly said. “We tried many years of isolation, and we’re pursuing a different path now.”

I mean darn it!! Poor President Obama cannot even try to talk to children in America without an uproar!

Texas school districts push back against Obama speech

The Dallas Morning News reports on reactions in the Metroplex:
Dallas school officials won’t require students to watch the speech, and instead will allow teachers and principals to decide. The Highland Park school district did the same, saying, “We trust our faculty members to decide on appropriate instructional content.”

Richardson ISD said it would show the speech a day later to those students whose parents give permission, and that no class time would be spent discussing it.

Some area districts backtracked on earlier plans to show Tuesday’s speech in classrooms.

Allen school officials scratched plans to have some students view the speech live, saying they will record and review it, and then possibly replay it the following week in history and government classes. The Carrollton-Farmers Branch school district made a similar decision.

Mesquite ISD officials said they debated Wednesday whether to allow students to watch it live in some classes. But the district said Thursday that the speech will not be shown because it conflicts with some lunch periods.

Lovejoy ISD also decided Thursday not to show the speech, in part, because the district doesn’t have the bandwidth to support live Web video on WhiteHouse.gov

Well, at least the people that President Obama has surrounded himself with can help him out.

The 2009 TIME 100

Van Jones
By Leonardo DiCaprio

When Van Jones was tapped to serve as special adviser on green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality earlier this year, the appointment was heralded as a significant development for the green movement. And for good reason. A pioneer in fusing economic opportunity and social justice with environmentalism, Jones, 40, represents an important progression in our country’s perception and thus our approach to combatting global warming.

So, as we look towards another exciting Obama speech about the need for National Health Care - RIGHT NOW - we can look back at how great president Obama has been up to this point!!!!

The talk in Washington is that Senate Democrats are preparing to push through health care reforms using parliamentary procedures that will allow a simple majority to prevail in their chamber, as it does in the House, instead of the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster that Senate Republicans are sure to mount.

With the death of Senator Edward Kennedy, the Democrats do not have the votes just among their 57 members (and the two independents) to break a filibuster, and not all of these can be counted on to vote in lock step. If the Democrats want to enact health care reform this year, they appear to have little choice but to adopt a high-risk, go-it-alone, majority-rules strategy.

We say this with considerable regret because a bipartisan compromise would be the surest way to achieve comprehensive reforms with broad public support. But the ideological split between the parties is too wide — and the animosities too deep — for that to be possible.

In recent weeks, it has become inescapably clear that Republicans are unlikely to vote for substantial reform this year. Many seem bent on scuttling President Obama’s signature domestic issue no matter the cost. As Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, so infamously put it: “If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”

You really have to go read the rest of this article. The words “Majority Rule on Health Care Reform” struck me. Majority of what? If the writer meant that the democrats have the balance of power then in their mind I guess that can construed as a “majority”.

No where in the op-ed did the writer mention our representative democracy. Representative democracy is a form of government founded on the principle of elected individuals representing the people, as opposed to either autocracy or direct democracy.

A “majority” of the people are opposed to Obamacare, specifically HR 3200 as written. I have read the bill. It is an afront to American’s liberty. By it’s very nature it is an over reaching, poorly written piece of legislation. Many congress people have said in no uncertain terms. “I am voting YES on healthcare reform weather my constituents want it or not.”

When the congress stops listening to the people that have elected them then we no longer have a representative democracy, we have an illiberal democracy.

In an illiberal democracy freedom of speech and freedom of assembly are attacked and make opposition extremely difficult. We have seen this at the healthcare townhalls. The media carries the water for the socialists in this healthcare debate. Any dissent has been squashed.

Everyone talks about 2010. How will the elections be free & open if groups like ACORN (which receive federal funding) are buying votes?

I was listening to Michele Bachmann on the Mark Levin show the other day. She was saying if this was a bet and she was in Vegas - she is pretty sure the house will ram something through, against the wishes of the American people.

And now the ghost of Ted Kennedy will be urging all those blue dogs to win one in his memory.

I don’t have to post the stats on why Socialized healthcare won’t work. I don’t have to post why tort reform is not in this bill. I don’t have to post the hours & hours of townhall videos showing American’s expressing their displeasure with this bill, their congress and their president.

I leave you with this:

1. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 - you have had 234 years to get it right; it is broke.

2. Social Security was established in 1935 - you have had 74 years to get it right; it is broke.

3. Fannie Mae was established in 1938 - you have had 71 years to get it right; it is broke.

4. The “War on Poverty” started in 1964 - you have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to “the poor”; it hasn’t worked and our entire country is broke.

5. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 - you’ve had 44 years to get it right; they are broke.

6. Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - you have had 39 years to get it right; it is broke.

7. Trillions of dollars were spent in the massive political payoffs called TARP, the “Stimulus”, the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009… None show any signs of working, although ACORN appears to have found a new sucker - the American taxpayer.

8. And finally, to set a new record: ”Cash for Clunkers” was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009! It took cars (that were the best some people could afford) and replaced them with high-priced and less-affordable cars, mostly Japanese. A good percentage of the profits went out of the country. And the American taxpayers take the hit for Congress’ generosity in burning three billion more of our dollars on failed experiments.

So with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record that proves that “services” you shove down our throats are failing faster and faster, you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system?

20% of our entire economy?
With all due respect,
Are you crazy, are you just stupid, or do you just think that we are crazy or stupid?

New Ad for Kay Bailout Hutchison
While Rick Perry won’t say if he supports the Trans-Texas Corridor, his administration and his websites are still touting it as an “achievement.” Either Rick Perry won’t say where he stands because he doesn’t care what the people of Texas think, or because it’s just too politically hard to say and he doesn’t have the courage to stand up for what he believes in.

Perry owes Texans an answer on the Trans-Texas Corridor. While he may still think it’s a good idea, for Texas ranchers and farmers, the Trans-Texas Corridor represents a threat not only to their family’s legacies but their way of life. Join with Kay in demanding the protection of property rights, and that Rick Perry give the people of Texas a straight answer on if he supports the TTC, and if so why!

We need results, not politics.

Oh, really? Where does Kay “Bailout” get her info?

Trans Texas Corridor is dead, TxDOT says

After six years of bold plans, big talk and fierce pushback, the Texas Department of Transportation announced Tuesday that the Trans-Texas Corridor is dead, burying with it Gov. Rick Perry’s visionary but controversial idea to string the state together with some 4,000 miles of highways, toll roads and rail lines.

“Make no mistake: The Trans-Texas Corridor as we have known it no longer exists,” TxDOT executive director Amadeo Saenz said in a speech at an annual transportation conference. In its place will be a smaller, more deliberate plan that assesses individually each of the scores of projects once lumped together as part of the TTC.

And when TxDOT announced the TTC could take 1,200 feet of right-of-way through the length of Texas, rural landowners rebelled too, making the project one of the most controversial in modern Texas history. The issue dogged Perry throughout his 2006 re-election campaign and helped unite increasingly furious lawmakers, who in 2007 attempted to slow, but not kill, the project.

TxDOT, by its own admission, at first turned a deaf ear to the criticism. But in the past 18 months, it has spent hundreds of hours at dozens of public hearings trying to appease its critics. The crowds remained almost universally hostile.

The same lawmakers who were so angry in 2007 return to Austin next week for the 2009 session, and Tuesday’s announcement by TxDOT chief Saenz showed that neither his agency nor the governor – whose staff was involved in the decision to kill the TTC – want to wage the same fight all over again.

“The Legislature has been clear; they want transformation,” Saenz said. “That handwriting is on the wall, in big bold letters.”

TxDOT Website

Trans-Texas Corridor
The transformation of the Trans-Texas Corridor has changed from its original concept.
While ongoing I-69/TTC and TTC-35 environmental studies will continue, the efforts will only be to establish study areas for future multi-modal projects that may be needed in those areas. Future mobility improvements will be based on transportation needs and the focus will be on individual projects tailored to those needs.
Other changes include phasing out the Trans-Texas Corridor name and identifying projects by their original names.Another significant change is for project widths to be closer to 600 feet.

Rick Perry talks about Texas infrastructure

“Businesses will not move to Texas if they

think they cannot move their products or their

people efficiently or effectively.” - Rick Perry

Welcoming new jobs to Texas

Fri, 08/28/2009 -Thursday afternoon, Toyota announced that it was moving its Tacoma truck production facility to San Antonio, Texas, resulting in more than 1,100 new jobs for Texas. This move by Toyota follows major job announcements this year by Caterpillar, Medtronic, and Farouk Systems, which are all moving operations to Texas.

Governor Perry commented on Toyota’s decision:

“Today’s announcement reflects the depth of the ties between Toyota and Texas while underscoring the strength of our state’s workforce and job climate. Even in the midst of a national economic downturn, major employers continue to bring jobs and investment in Texas.

“While we are sympathetic to the hardship of the NUMMI workers in California, we know that Texans will continue to benefit from policies we’ve pursued that have made our state so attractive to employers.

“Following on the heels of major jobs announcements from Caterpillar, Farouk Systems, Medtronic and other employers, the good news from Toyota affirms my unshakeable belief that Texas is the best place to do business.”

Major companies are moving to Texas, even in this tough economic environment, because Texas has kept spending in check, taxes low, regulations fair and predictable, and has prevented oversuing through lawsuit reform.

Help keep Texas on the right track. Re-elect Governor Perry.

Business Leaders Agree: Perry is Right for Texas

Thu, 08/27/2009
Economists all over the nation and world have recently tipped their hats to Texas and Governor Rick Perry. In the midst of a tough national economy, Texas has shined through as a beacon of prosperity and opportunity.

Thomas O. Hicks, CEO of Hicks Holdings LLC in Dallas, wrote an op-ed for the Dallas Morning News echoing such praises which have also been featured in publications like the Wall Street Journal.

Hicks writes: “The State has implemented public policies that make Texas economically competitive. Unlike other states, Texas has kept spending in check and maintained a low tax burden. In addition, Texas has enacted tort reforms and minimized regulations that strangle innovation.”

Because of a commitment to low taxes, predictable regulations and job creation incentives, in 2008 more than half the jobs created nationally were created in Texas. The Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF), created under Gov. Perry in 2003 and the largest job creation fund of its kind in the nation, is an essential component to Texas’ economic strength and one of its most competitive tools to recruit and bolster business. To date, the TEF has attracted more than $14 billion in capital investment and generated more than 55,500 jobs.

The Texas success story is setting an example for the rest of the nation to follow. With your continued support, we can continue to spread Governor Perry’s conservative vision and keep Texas on the right track.

Al Gore and his elitist allies in Congress want to send our electricity and gasoline prices through the roof. The Waxman-Markey energy-rationing bill passed the House in June, but the American people are waking up. We have a great chance to stop it in the Senate. Click here to tell your Senators to vote NO on taxing and rationing our energy use.

The Senate is now considering the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill passed by the House in June on 219-212 vote. This bill, which is supported by Al Gore and his band of global warming alarmists would raise our electricity prices through the roof. It would also send millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs to foreign countries. Working families would be hurt the most by higher and higher utility bills and gasoline prices. But many big corporations hope to strike it rich. Al Gore’s investment funds, General Electric, Dow Chemical, Duke Energy, GM, Ford, Caterpillar, Shell, BP, and Goldman Sachs all support cap-and-trade. Tell your Senators to vote for the American people and against the special interests by voting NO.

In 2003, the Texas state Legislature passed H.B. 4 to further reform the state’s civil justice system. The bill addressed issues such as: limits on noneconomic damages; product liability reform; punitive damages; medical liability reform joint and several liability; and class action reform. Voters also approved a constitutional amendment, Proposition 12, in 2003, which eliminates potential court challenges to the law that limited noneconomic damages to $750,000. Since the enactment of H.B. 4 and the subsequent passage of Proposition 12, Texas has made great strides in growing its economy and providing jobs and accessible healthcare to its citizens.

Texas: Tort Reform Spurs Economic Growth

In 1995 the Texas Legislature passed a series of bills to reform the state’s civil justice system. These bills addressed: limits on punitive damages, joint and several liability, sanctions for filing frivolous suits, limits on venue shopping and out-of-state filings, modifications to deceptive trade practices and medical malpractice reform.

According to the study, The Impact of Judicial Reforms on Economic Activity in Texas, the total cost of the Texas tort system in 2000 was $15.482 billion. Without reforms, it is estimated that the total cost would have been $25.889 billion. Of the $10.407 billion in total direct savings, approximately $2.777 billion may be attributed to improvements at the national level while $7.630 billion in savings were from reforms in Texas. Of the total savings, $2.542 billion went directly to benefit consumers.

The Perryman Group. The Impact of Judicial Reforms on Economic Activity in Texas Overall Economic Impact on State’s Economy. (August 2000)

Facts to Consider: Benefits to Consumers

It is estimated that reforms enacted in 1995 resulted in savings of $2.542 billion that directly benefits consumers.

$1.796 billion in annual cost savings from reduced inflation ($216 per household)

$7.056 billion in annual total personal growth income ($862 per household)

The net result was a savings of $1,078 per year to the typical Texas household.

The Perryman Group. The Impact of Judicial Reforms on Economic Activity in Texas Overall Economic Impact on State’s Economy. (August 2000)

Tort Reform & The Man In The Arena

The number of doctors applying to practice medicine in Texas has skyrocketed by 57 percent. In 2008, the Texas Medical Board received 4,023 licensure applications and issued a record 3,621 new licenses.

In all, in just the first five years after reforms passed, 14,498 doctors either returned to practice in Texas or began practicing here for the first time.

And our reforms finally brought critical specialties to underserved areas. The number of obstetricians practicing in rural Texas is up by 27 percent, and 12 counties that previously had no obstetricians now have at least one. The statistics show major gains in fields like orthopedic surgery, pediatrics, neurosurgery and emergency medicine.

The Rio Grande Valley has seen an 18 percent growth in applications to practice medicine, adding about 200 doctors to this critically underserved area.

And what about the money that used to go to defending all those frivolous lawsuits? You can find it in budgets for upgraded equipment, expanded emergency rooms, patient safety programs and improved primary and charity care.

Scott O’Grady has been asked by an influential group of North Texans and National leaders to run for the U.S. Senate seat that will be vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) this fall. A pledge campaign has begun to immediately raise money to launch a statewide campaign…

Scott O’Grady’s website

You remember who Scott is?

Scott O’Grady is a former United States Air Force combat veteran serving 12 years in the United States military. Scott gained prominence after the Mrkonjic Grad Incident, in which he ejected over Bosnia when a Bosnian Serb SA-6 shot down his F-16 while he was patrolling the no-fly zone. Scott flew 20 missions over Iraq enforcing the “no-fly” zone in 1993 and 1994. He flew 47 missions over Bosnia in 1994 and 1995. He is a recipient of the Bronze Star for valor and the Purple Heart for combat injuries.

Scott is also the recipient of the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Service Award

The Mrkonjic Grad Incident occurred near Mrkonjic Grad in Serb territory. He survived for six days by eating leaves, grass and ants, and avoiding Serb patrols while trying to contact Magic, NATO’s airborne command center. He evaded capture and was rescued on June 8, by U.S. Marines of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit based on the USS Kearsarge.

Scott is a former cadet in the Civil Air Patrol and a 1989 graduate from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. In May 2007, he completed a Master’s degree in Biblical Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary.

Scott at the Dallas Tea Party