The time no longer draws nigh… the time is upon us.  The future of our Country teeters on the fulcrum of freedom.

We’ve been going to Tea Parties, Townhalls, and Council meetings.  We’ve been writing on our blogs and venting our frustrations in blasts of 140 characters or less.  We’ve been calling, writing, faxing our Congress; talking to neighbors, friends, and family.  We’ve been protesting outside media outlets, local, State, and Federal offices.  We’ve been begging for our elected leaders to hear us.  And now, one of those leaders has not only heard us but has answered us by opening the door to the House and inviting us to enter.  If we don’t accept her invitation and cross that threshold we deserve exactly what we will get: an ObamaNation.

Few members of Congress have taken our pleas seriously.  We have been called tea baggers, astroturfers, radicals, and extremists.  If loving my Country and the freedom she stands for means I am all of those of things then so be it.  I wear those epithets proudly.

Our Country is being usurped and unless we take our stand now, she could be irretrievably abducted.  Michele Bachmann is right.  Speaker Pelosi’s Health Care bill is the crown jewel of socialism.  Progressives, aka Repressives, have always known that to take over a people it has to be done in the dark of night while they lay sleeping.  For too long Americans have slumbered in their freedom.  We became an apathetic people not wishing to see the light that was being snuffed out of our Constitution.  Pelosi’s Health Care bill has little to do with actual health and everything to do with socialism and the corruption it is founded on.  And this coming week, our freedom will slip from our grasp and onto the floor of the House of Representatives if we let it.

We can stop this.  But it will take more than phone calls, letter, and faxes.  We have to show up on the steps of the Capitol on Thursday, November 5, 2009 and storm thru the hallways of our elected officials.  We have to knock them from their self-erected thrones and show them we say what we mean and mean what we say.  Unless we heed Rep. Bachmann’s call to action then the freedoms we grew up with, the freedoms our fathers, grandfathers, and Founding Fathers fought hard to attain for us will be gone.  And unless we heed her call, we deserve what we get.

The time is now.  If we put this off because of our responsibilities at home, then we will lose the liberty to attend to those responsibilities.  We will no longer be working to provide for our families.  We will no longer be striving for our own goals.  We will no longer be free to follow the path of self-determination.  If we don’t heed the call, everything from here on out we will be doing for our government; not our Country… our government- and all the connotations that surround a socialized institution.

This is it.  This is our moment in time.  This is that point in history for which we will be judged by our children, grandchildren, and all who follow.  We can turn this bloodless revolution around and save our country now or we can risk time and wait until it is too late to save it peacefully.

I will be joining Rep. Bachmann on the Capitol steps and I will march thru the hallways of Congress.  I will also be taking copies of the 5 Pledges for each member of Congress to sign.  For those who refuse to sign, I will publish their names and their comments.

I will not let this country’s cornerstone – The Constitution – be destroyed by corrupt men and women whose only goal is greed and power over the very people who put them in office.  If you don’t stand up now, while standing up is still possible, when will you?

If you can’t go but these words ring true to you, please link to this article on every site you are a member of and email the link to every list you are on and to every person you know.  Spread the word!

UPDATE-11/02/09

If you are or you know of a group or site organizing  a trip to  Stand Up With Bachmann, please tell us in the comment section and provide a link if you have one.  Let everyone know!

UPDATE-11/01/09

In an effort to rally as many people as possible to Stand Up With Bachmann, members of several sites are organizing groups and getting the word out to be in DC on Nov 05.  If you or your site plans on attending the the rally please complete the form provided here and let us know who you are and what help you may need. Thanks!

UPDATE-10/31/09

Per Rep. Bachmann’s site:

Make a House Call on Congress on November 5th and Stop the Government Take Over of Health Care!

November 5th, 2009

Democrat leadership in the House wants to pass a government run health care bill before Veteran’s Day, and it’s up to us to make sure this prescription for socialized medicine doesn’t pass.

If you can come to Washington to look your Member straight in the eye and tell them to keep their hands off your heatlh care, do it. If you can’t make it to Washington, go to your Member’s district office. And, if you can’t do that at least call and email.

Also, Americans for Prosperity is organizing a House Call to legislators district offices on Thursday at noon, and I encourage you to check out their website at www.americansforprosperity.org to see how you can take part in their efforts if you can’t make it to D.C.

Thanks so much and let’s keep up the fight!

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Just out of curiosity I began digging on the past and current donations of the 8 Benedict Arnold’s of the Republican Party who voted in favor of cap-and-trade.

As I began to investigate who donated significant amounts to each candidate’s piggy bank, I noticed there was a common trend; these 8 GOPers all had enviro-groups, unions, & alternative energy companies putting money in their coffers.

As an interesting aside, there is a PAC called the Tuesday Group PAC and for all intents and purposes, it may as well be called the RINO PAC ~ 6 out of the 8 tr8ors were funded by this PAC.

Those same 6 are also funded by the Republican “Main Street” Partnership PAC ~ another RINO group.

Recall that GE and Honeywell at one point tried to merge – Honeywell has contributed to almost all of these 8 candidates and GE to some as well.  GE is predominantly Democrat, so that should tell you something and at times GE has contributed for the 2010 campaign but did not contribute prior to that… Could the “eight” be getting a deal from both? GE and Honeywell are advocates of global warming and the cap-and-trade system.

Mary Bono Mack:

Mary Bono Mack is part of the energy and commerce committee, headed by none other than, Henry Waxman, of the Waxman-Markey notoriety.  One could surmise that she was promised something by Waxman and Pelosi and possibly wanted to make her “boss” proud.  However, I was also interested to find out who donates to her.

In 2008 the following contributed:

General Electric (enough said) ~ $4.5K

Edison International/Edison Electric Institute ~ $10.75K

PG&E Corporation ~ $3.5K

Calpine Corporation ~ $2.5K

Sempras Energy ~ $2.5K

Excel Energy, FirstEnergy Corp, Electric Power Supply Assn, American Electric Power, Constellation Energy, etc. ~ $10K

SEIU (union is for a cap-and-trade system) ~ $10K

B&D Consulting/Lobbying ~ $3.5K

Honeywell International ~ $10K

And What about 2010?

General Electric (enough said) ~ $1K

Edison International ~ $5K

B&D Consulting/Lobbying ~ $3K

Honeywell International ~ $1K

Mike Castle:

Mike Castle is part of the Education and Labor Committee and is backed by a lot of trade/labor unions – most of which support a cap-and-trade system.  He is also part of the Financial Services Committee, which I also question…

Contributions in 2008:

PEPCO Holdings, Inc.  ~ $2.5K

Koch Industries (supported by EPA) ~ $1K

Operating Engineers Union ~ $5K

Other AFL-CIO Unions ~ $8.5K

National Education Assn ~ $10K

SEIU ~ $6K

Financial Institutions ~ $371.9K

League of Conservation Voters & Sierra Club ~ $770

Honeywell International ~ $10K

Contributions in 2010:

The Operating Engineers Union (In ’08 wrote a memo to the senate thanking them for attempting to bring cap-and-trade back) ~ $5K

NRECA (for cap-and-tax) ~ $1K

Heavily Funded by Financial Institutions (kick-backs were put into the cap-and-trade bill for financial companies/mortgages ~ $44.5K

Mark Kirk:

Mark Kirk is on the Appropriations Committee and has been a long-time RINO from Illinois.

Contributions in 2008:

Exelon Corporation (put out press release congratulating the House reps for passing cap-and-trade on Friday). ~ $34.1K

Financial Institutions ~ $136.5K

National Education Assn ~ $19K

Goldman Sachs ~ $15.7K

Honeywell International ~ $5K

League of Conservation Voters ~ $1K

Ocean Champions ~ $4K

Republicans for Environmental Protection ~ $4K

Solar Energy Industries ~ $2K

Peabody Energy(Coal Mining company that thinks Waxman-Markey is cup half full legislation)!? ~ $2.5K

Edison International ~ $2K

Westinghouse Electric ~ $2K

Operating Engineers Union ~ $6K

PMA Lobbying Group (under investigation) ~ $2K

Microsoft Corp. ~ $1.5K

Contributions in 2010:

GE ~ $1K

Honeywell International ~ $1K

Operating Engineers Union ~ $10K

Leonard Lance:

There isn’t much information prior to Mr. Lance’s election in 2008, however, he currently sits on the Financial Services committee.

Contributions in 2010:

League of Conservation Voters ~ $250

Honeywell (believes in cap-and-trade) ~ $1K

Public Service Enterprise Group ~ $1K

National Education Association ~ $1K

Financial Institutions ~ $49.7K

Frank LoBiondo:

Contributions in 2008:

Public Service Enterprise Group ~ $6.5K

Honeywell International ~ $3.5K

Labor Unions ~ $235.8K

Sierra Club/League of Conservation Voters ~ $1.3K

Contributions in 2010:

Labor Unions ~ $53.2K

John McHugh:

Contributions in 2008:

Constellation Energy ~ $10.8K

Honeywell International ~ $10K

Operating Engineers Union ~ $10K

PMA Group ~ $10K

Electric Companies (heavily funded by them incl. Exelon, Edison, FirstEnergy, Progress Energy, etc.) ~ $34K

Environmental Services (MWH Americas) ~ $1K

Labor Unions ~ $133.5K

Contributions in 2010:

Operating Engineers Union ~ $10K

Honeywell International ~ $5K

Labor Unions ~ $11K

Dave Reichert:

Contributions in 2008:

It appears that Dave is an enviro-nut RINO.  He was on the Space Committee and receives a lot of funding from Microsoft.

Microsoft ~ $48.2K

National Education Assn ~ $10K

Avista (support cap-and-trade) ~ $1.3K

Puget Sound Energy ~ $7.9K

Financial Institutions ~ $121.5K

Illinois Tool Works gave to Mark Kirk which is understandable but why also to a rep. from Washington state? ~ $2K?

Contributions in 2010:

GE ~ $1K

Honeywell International ~ $3K

Operating Engineers Union ~ $5K

Labor Unions ~ $4.5K

Chris Smith:

Contributions in 2008:

Operating Engineers Union ~ $10K

Laborers Union ~ $10K

National Education Assn ~ $3K

SEIU ~ $5K

Other Labor Unions ~ $92K

League of Conservation Voters ~ $250

Contributions in 2010:

Operating Engineers Union ~ $10K

Other Labor Unions ~ $13K

The Washington Examiner had a brief article on some of the campaign contributions that various members of the GOP 8 were a part of, many of which are already captures here – but as a source you can go here.

I believe there is a lot more investigation that will need to be done in order to fully grasp what these 8 were promised from Waxman and Pelosi, rather than just reviewing their campaign contributions.  I also have suspicions regarding the New Jersey 3 as to where many of these green companies and technologies reside.  New Jersey has its very own clean energy initiatives/policies for its state and a long list of companies who are involved.

I hope we can get to the bottom of it and find out what it takes to sell out your party, your constituents, but worst of all; your country.

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The country was sold into government slavery and economic chaos by the traitorous GOP 8, who voted for the Cap and Tax bill today.  The House spent over 5 hours debating this piece of legislation and there were high hopes that the Democrats didn’t have enough votes to pass it.  It turns out that the GOP had some Benedict Arnold’s in their midst.

I have two new posters for these RINOs:

(created by Leo Alberti via Michelle Malkin)

(H/T FReeper Tophat9000)

If these 8 traitors had voted against the bill the final vote would have been 211 ayes vs. 220 nays, rather than 219 ayes vs. 212 nays.  Jeff Flake was MIA for his daughter’s beauty pageant and Rep. Sullivan was in rehab. 

There were also 44 Democrats who voted against this nightmare:

PA-4 Altmire, Jason
NY-24 Arcuri, Michael
GA-12 Barrow, John
AR-1 Berry, Robert
OK-2 Boren, Dan
AL-2 Bright, Bobby
PA-10 Carney, Christopher
MS-1 Childers, Travis
CA-20 Costa, Jim
IL-12 Costello, Jerry
PA-3 Dahlkemper, Kathleen
AL-7 Davis, Artur
TN-4 Davis, Lincoln
OR-4 DeFazio, Peter
IN-2 Donnelly, Joe
TX-17 Edwards, Thomas
IN-8 Ellsworth, Brad
IL-14 Foster, Bill
AL-5 Griffith, Parker
SD-0 Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie
PA-17 Holden, Tim
AZ-1 Kirkpatrick, Ann
NC-8 Kissell, Larry
OH-10 Kucinich, Dennis
GA-8 Marshall, James
NY-29 Massa, Eric
UT-2 Matheson, Jim
NC-7 McIntyre, Mike
LA-3 Melancon, Charles
ID-1 Minnick, Walter
AZ-5 Mitchell, Harry
WV-1 Mollohan, Alan
VA-2 Nye, Glenn
TX-27 Ortiz, Solomon
ND-0 Pomeroy, Earl
WV-3 Rahall, Nick
TX-23 Rodriguez, Ciro
AR-4 Ross, Mike
CO-3 Salazar, John
CA-13 Stark, Fortney
TN-8 Tanner, John
MS-4 Taylor, Gene
IN-1 Visclosky, Peter
OH-6 Wilson, Charles

To see the entire Roll Call Vote visit here.

I want to know what each traitor was offered to sell us out and I’m very curious to figure out the money trail in New Jersey, which has a huge clean energy program as well as various renewable energy sources.  Even Rohrabacher R-CA didn’t vote for the bill even though Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (the company that T. Boone Pickens and Pelosi are vested in) is headquartered in his district (46). 

It would have been nice if the media actually did its job and discussed real news that has a massive effect on the lives of Americans, rather than Michael Jackson’s obvious drug use and death.  Most Americans are opposed to this legislation, but many were unaware that Congress was voting on it today – Wouldn’t it be nice if we could one day have an objective media that would actually give both sides to every story and read things like the suppressed EPA report on GloBull Warming?  It’s late, so I can dream about it…

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Nancy Pelosi is set to make millions of dollars if cap and tax is passed on Friday.  She currently has an estimated $15K-50K worth of shares invested in Clean Energy Fuels Corporation (CLNE).  This company is of course heavily vested in alternative energy sources and given the fact that any legislation that passes effecting the energy sector will undoubtedly up the price of any public company currently trading in that sector on the stock market.

T. Boone Pickens is also a big investor of CLNE and he has been lobbying for clean energy for a number of years.  He is set to make millions, if not billions from cap and tax.  T. Boone was not very happy when he found out about Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin’s deal with Exxon Mobile, Trans-Canada and AGIA.  Natural gas and oil supplies, if we were able to manufacture them in our own backyard would put big “Green” moguls out of business.  Natural gas is also a compound that CLNE is vested in and given the fact that supply would be limited and demand high, prices would sky-rocket - now, if Palin’s gas-line comes to fruition, volume and supply of natural gas will increase for everyone and therefore the price will go down…

Shares of CLNE have gone up and down in value in recent years, thanks to the fluctuations in the price of natural gas and changes in the oil industry worldwide. And a Pelosi spokesman told The Washington Examiner last year that her husband takes care of their stock portfolio, so she has no knowledge of how any of her family investments will be affected by any particular piece of legislation before Congress.

Another prominent public figure with an interest in OWM is CLNE’s major domo, T. Boone Pickens, best known of late as a wind-energy investor and the man behind the largest-ever single donation to a state university, $165 million to Oklahoma State University for its athletic programs three years ago. CLNE is a cog in Pickens massive plan to create a giant wind farm in West Texas to generate electricity.

Pelosi will profit because OWM will boost the price of natural gas on the market. This is because natural gas burns with significantly less carbon emissions than other fossil fuels. For companies trying to get under OWM limits for greenhouse gases emissions, burning more natural gas instead of, say coal, will be a no-brainer. That will drive up demand for natural gas, which in turn will create upward price pressures.

So my next question for Pelosi, Gore, Pickens, GE, and all other entities that have banked on “Green” legislation; will money be made off of taxing cow farts?

Yes, folks, there was an idea floating around out there to tax methane and cow farts.  All living beings happen to pass gas, so I would assume that they would first come for the cows, and then for us… There are those that are getting into the business of breeding cows that pass less flatulence, believe it or not.  Would green cows make green burgers and would green burgers make my flatulence green?  Yeah, didn’t think so…

The government is becoming Godzilla, toppling tall buildings and destroying everything it touches.  I guess you could consider the government much like the opposite of Midas… everything it touches turns to…

Reagan was right when you said: ”If it moves tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it.  And if it stops moving subsidize it.”

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Late last Tuesday night the House Democrats made a deal on cap and tax (cap and trade) so the more  conservative Democrats felt better about the bill and would ensure their vote for the legislation.  The deal involved many of the Democrats from the mid-west and farm country where agriculture was a major concern for these representatives. 

The House is prepared to vote on the bill to push it through the Senate by this Friday.  Nancy Pelosi believes that given 2 days’ time she will have enough votes for a majority. 

This bill is incredibly harmful, hurtful, expensive, and it quite frankly is one of the nastiest pieces of legislation I have seen in a long time.  Liberals continuously use the straw-man argument that Republicans try to fear monger others into voting a certain way or believing certain things… I could say the exact same thing for GloBull warming, which is the biggest hoax of this century.  In fact, when people finally wake up and figure out that the politicians are all in bed with “Green” companies, holding significant amounts of equity, and wanting legislation like this passed, not because it’s based on a true premise, but because it will line their pockets – then maybe common sense can reign supreme.

This cap and tax bill will have very little effect on the poorest – because they don’t pay taxes to begin with.  They are leeches on productive society.  The top quintile of the country, or the richest, will be burdened with this particular tax, but not as much as their federal income taxes.   No, cap and tax will fall squarely on the middle class.  Whether you are lower-middle class, middle, or upper, you will feel this significantly. 

If you look at only the bottom quintile, C&T is more progressive than anything else in the federal tax system. But it’s downhill from there: The share of cap and trade paid by the middle quintile is three times the federal tax system’s average, and the share paid by the richest quintile is half that of the average.

I don’t really have a strong normative point to make here. Progressivity is in the eye of the beholder and all that. Nonetheless, I hope this puts some of the debate over the burdens of cap and trade in context.

If you are the least bit curious you can actually calculate the cap and tax burden on your household/family. 

I have written several times regarding Cap and Tax – whether it was posting a video clip of Democrat Rep. Dick Durbin stating that all this legislation is one big tax, or Henry Waxman’s incompetency.  I have written about our economy and how this will completely destroy sectors, increase the cost of living, increase our gas and energy prices, decrease our standard of living, and repress those who work hard to make a living.

Most of America disagrees with Cap and Trade, and congress was trying to come up with ways in wich they could cover up the bill and pass it off as some other cleverly deceptive rubbish:

The latest IBD/TIPP poll shows that cap and trade is a no go in the public eye.  More people are beginning to understand what it actually entails/means.  Indiana has also found a way around cap and trade this past week.

However, the Obama administration seems as though it may want to advance this agenda, but just under a different name.

How does the “The Clean Energy Divide” sound to you?

The Obama administration is exploring alternative names for cap and trade legislation.

People don’t really know what cap and trade means, but they don’t like it. So a new name is being concocted to gather support for the legislation.

It doesn’t look like the names “carbon tax” or “regressive tax” are in the mix, though. How does “clean energy divide” grab you?

WSJ: Seeking to bolster public support for climate legislation, the Obama administration is consulting pollsters who advocate avoiding phrases such as “cap-and-trade” and “global warming.” On Monday, the White House Council on Environmental Quality was scheduled to meet with Robert Perkowitz, president of ecoAmerica, a Washington-based nonprofit that uses “psychographic research” to “shift personal and civic choices of environmentally agnostic Americans,” according to its Web site.

“We’re trying to give them phrases that work,” Mr. Perkowitz said in an interview. He said that in a survey of some 2,000 Americans conducted by his group in March and April, less than half of the respondents said they would support a “cap-and-trade” policy, and that only 24% said they knew what the phrase means. “If you call it ‘clean energy dividend’…almost anything other than ‘cap and trade,’ you’ll get people responding a lot more favorably,” he said.

Isn’t that nice?  let’s trick the American people so we can still strap the poor and the middle class with tax hikes to obtain our faulty liberal green agenda so Al Gore can receive a bunch of profits as well as GE, Google and Microsoft…

Not only will we have to ration Obamacare we will be back to rationing gas and unemployment will not only reach 10%, as Obama predicts, but higher – you cannot destroy the mining/coal industry and expect your unemployment rate to stay the same.  Coal is one of the most abundant natural resources that America has… it is one thing that keeps us competitive abroad – and with this legislation you can kiss that goodbye.  Is it really so “tin-foil” hat to think that the Democrats are in bed with foreign countries, selling out America for a little extra cash?  (I’m sure we will also figure out who some of the Republican Reps./Senators are after the vote as well). 

There still exist some principled Congress-critters and politicians, but they are few and far between.  Michele Bachmann has been on the forefront of this debate, Jim DeMint is pretty outspoken when it comes to fiscal irresponsibility and unconstitutional legislation… but, other than that, it’s hard to make a case for most who waffle on their principles – so much so they may as well say “Leggo” my values.

The only way we can at least attempt to curtail the passage of this bill Friday is through melting the phones.  Many of our represenatives won’t listen to our pleas or our common sense logic – believe me, my Senator and Represenative are Progressives!  (Sarbanes & Cardin), but it’s still imperatiave that we at least try. 

Find your Reps. here.

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I would probably be there protesting her taxpayer funded Botox, or her addiction to lying.

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As Michele Bachmann points out the devil is in the details:

What the Administration would like for you to think is that by enacting this policy, Washington wouldn’t be able to spend a dollar unless they save a dollar and the national debt would cease to swell as it has these past several months.

However, this is really a charade – and the details tell the story. First of all, this PAYGO has no impact whatsoever on entitlement spending — Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, which make up a very sizable portion of the budget.  They’d continue to grow on autopilot.  In fact, even if this PAYGO were fully enforced, entitlement spending would continue to grow 6% a year without offsets.

Second, this PAYGO includes an enormous $3.5 trillion loophole.  The President’s proposal specifically exempts a wide array of expensive policies.  Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget remarked that, “This is like quitting drinking, but making an exception for beer and hard liquor.” And, Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee has criticized the plan, adding, “I’m not for waiving PAYGO for $3.5 trillion of items, much of which I think ought to be paid for.”

And more from the Wall Street Journal:

Mr. Obama must think the press and public are dumb enough to buy it, because there he was Tuesday re-selling the same “paygo” promises that Democrats roll out every election. Paygo is “very simple,” the President claimed. “Congress can only spend a dollar if it saves a dollar elsewhere.”

WSJ, Obama and the politburo have no respect for middle America, of course they think we are stupid!

That’s what Democrats also promised in 2006, with Nancy Pelosi vowing that “the first thing” House Democrats would do if they took Congress was reimpose paygo rules that “Republicans had let lapse.” By 2008, Speaker Pelosi had let those rules lapse no fewer than 12 times, to make way for $400 billion in deficit spending. Mr. Obama repeated the paygo pledge during his 2008 campaign, and instead we have witnessed the greatest peacetime spending binge in U.S. history. As a share of GDP, spending will hit an astonishing 28.5% in fiscal 2009, with the deficit hitting 13% and projected to stay at 4% to 5% for years to come.

Nancy Pelosi strikes me as the fiscally responsible type, the type that really cares what happens with taxpayer money.  Well, I guess she does care, but that’s only when it’s used to pay for her botox injections and her flights back and forth to San Fran. in military aircraft.

The truth is that paygo is the kind of budget gimmick that gives gimmickry a bad name. As Mr. Obama knows but won’t tell voters, paygo only applies to new or expanded entitlement programs, not to existing programs such as Medicare, this year growing at a 9.2% annual rate. Nor does paygo apply to discretionary spending, set to hit $1.4 trillion in fiscal 2010, or 40% of the budget.

Does this not provide incentive to the government to create more entitlements to try and prove that PayGo was put to good use?  New entitlements on top of too many old entitlements…

This loophole matters, because on the very day Mr. Obama was hailing paygo the House Appropriations Committee was gleefully approving a 12% increase in 2010 nondefense discretionary spending, the third year running that Democrats have proposed double-digit increases. Or consider that the 2010 budget resolution included a $2 billion increase for low-income heating assistance as an entitlement change that should be subject to paygo. But Congressional Democrats simply classified it as discretionary spending, thereby avoiding the need for $2 billion in cuts elsewhere. C’est-la-paygo.

Mr. Obama’s new proposal includes even more loopholes. There’s an exception for Congress’s annual alternative-minimum tax “patch,” which is worth at least $576 billion over 10 years; for any of the Bush tax cuts that Mr. Obama decides he wants to extend past 2010; and to protect against planned cuts in Medicare doctor payments. These carve-outs alone spare Democrats from having to come up with some $2.5 trillion in spending cuts or new taxes. To add insult to profligacy, the rules also allow the Administration to run huge early deficits for its looming health-care bonanza, and only pay for it later — say, after 2012.

The President also revived the myth that paygo was somehow responsible for eliminating budget deficits during the Clinton years. In fact, that brief era of balanced budgets was due to: mid-decade spending reductions by a GOP Congress elected on a balanced-budget pledge; an excessive cut in defense spending to 3% from 5% of GOP across the decade; and an unsustainable revenue boom due to the dot-com bubble. But harking back to the 1990s lets Mr. Obama avoid having to defend his own spending record.

The real game here is that the President is trying to give Democrats in Congress political cover for the health-care blowout and tax-increase votes that he knows are coming. The polls are showing that Mr. Obama’s spending plans are far less popular than the President himself, and Democrats in swing districts are getting nervous. The paygo ruse gives Blue Dog Democrats cover to say they voted for “fiscal discipline,” even as they vote to pass the greatest entitlement expansion in modern history. The Blue Dogs always play this double game.

Ahhh yes, more Kabuki theater, as Michelle Malkin so succinctly puts it.

The other goal of this new paygo campaign is to make it easier to raise taxes in 2011, and impossible to cut taxes for years after that. In the near term, paygo gives Mr. Obama another excuse to let the Bush tax cuts he dislikes expire after 2010, while exempting those (for lower-income voters) that he likes. In the longer term, if a GOP Congress or President ever want to cut taxes, paygo applies a straitjacket that pits those tax cuts against, say, spending cuts in Medicare. The Reagan tax reductions would never have happened under paygo.

We are so Scr—d!  It’s like a game of chess they are playing – no concern for the country, just for their own political interests.  If Obama is ousted in 2012 it makes it that much harder for the incoming administration to resolve the mess he created.

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Uh Oh!  Could this be the moment of reckoning for the Democrats?  Jack Murtha and Steny Hoyer may both be in the lime light in the coming days.

The Democrat Culture of Corruption Continues:

First, it was discovered that Murtha moved an earmark over $8 million between his brothers’ clients.  Nepotism and corruption much?  That’s sure to stimulate the economy and doesn’t remind me at all of what dictators did when given money.  No dictator I read about would ever take money and give it to his family members or their businesses to line their pockets rather than provide for the betterment of his/her constituents/sarc.

In early 2005, Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) apparently added language to a tsunami relief bill shifting $8.2 million from a former client of his brother’s lobbying firm to a new client of the same firm.

That earmark is now tangled up in a federal indictment alleging that some of the money was skimmed by contractors and a Defense Department employee for their personal use.

Murtha’s spokesman said that no one in his office has any recollection of the transaction, and the House Appropriations Committee was unable to provide any information about how the language appeared in the tsunami relief bill.

Of course they knew nothing about it – seems like this is the norm coming from Washington, D.C. these days – I don’t think they know much of anything, in fact scratch that, they don’t know anything.

But sources familiar with the appropriations process agreed it was impossible that a provision removing earmarks from one company in Murtha’s district and transferring the money to another company in his district could have been added to the bill without Murtha’s involvement, since he was at the time the ranking member on the subcommittee with jurisdiction over the language.

The provision appears in the House committee report of a March 2005 bill providing billions of dollars worth of military spending and aid to the Asian countries that were devastated by the December 2004 tsunami that killed more than 250,000 people.

The bill included a “technical corrections” section, which transferred $8.2 million to “other procurement, Air Force” for a project called the “mobile common data link gateway.” This project — later called the “ground mobile gateway” — was an effort to build a unified battlefield communications platform for the Air Force by a Pennsylvania company called Coherent Systems.

Read roll call for the fully story and timeline of this corruption…

Steny Hoyer (D-MD) is also being pressured into complying with the federal probe into PMA and their long ties with top/senior Democrat officials.  One of which was the aforementioned Murtha who probably has the most ties – I think this may be Murtha’s last stand!

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) plans to offer as early as Wednesday afternoon a privileged resolution to force the ethics committee to disclose whether it is investigating senior Democratic appropriators’ ties to the PMA Group, Democratic sources say.

Hoyer’s move follows eight attempts by Republican anti-earmark crusader Rep. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) to jump-start a probe — and aims to pre-empt Flake’s ninth stab at the issue, which was due for a vote on Thursday. It marks a sharp break from Democratic leaders’ previous approach to the burgeoning controversy involving the now-defunct lobbying firm, which amounted to them trying to keep their ranks in line opposing the Flake resolutions.

In late winter, when Flake began his assault, Hoyer argued in leadership meetings that Democrats should embrace the resolution to neutralize it.

But Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) pushed back, contending that such a move would open lawmakers up to ethics witch-hunts down the line. Since then, Democrats have slowly peeled off to support Flake: While only 17 broke ranks on his first attempt, 29 supported his latest, offered just before the Memorial Day recess.

The move comes just after Rep. Peter Visclosky (D-Ind.) acknowledged his offices and some staff had been subpoenaed as part of a federal probe into PMA. Other Democratic appropriators, including Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), have long ties to PMA and its clients.

Hoyer squared off against Murtha in 2006 for the Majority Leader post, beating him by an overwhelming margin.

Jeff Flake has been proposing an ethics panel for a couple of years and has been blocked by the Democrat majority in the House and it’s understandable as to why – they are guilty!  Most of the ethics violations are within the Democrat Party, that’s not to say that some Republicans may be found guilty of some violations, but as of now the culture of corruption lies within the majority party.

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I really wouldn’t have expected anything less from the liberal House.  This is probably the most progressive House we have had in a long time and it unfortunately gives Pelosi a lot of leeway to get away with impeachable offenses like throwing an entire intelligence agency under the bus and accusing them of lying.

House Republican Leader John Boehner on Thursday demanded that a bipartisan congressional panel investigate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claims that the CIA misled her in 2002 about whether waterboarding had been used against a terrorism suspect.

“We have no choice,” Boehner told reporters, arguing that Pelosi’s remarks were having a chilling effect on the intelligence community.

Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, introduced a resolution on Boehner’s behalf calling for the probe.

Even though Democrats want to argue that this is a partisan investigation, what would they call their little truth commission of the Bush administration?  I also would like to know, as an independent thinker, who is telling the truth here, the CIA or Nancy Pelosi?  I think it’s important for the American public to get the facts, but the House voted against the probeand stated that Nancy Pelosi already requested the declassification of her notes/files which would corroborate her claims.

House Democrats have defeated a Republican push to investigate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claims that the CIA misled her in 2002 about whether waterboarding had been used against terrorism suspects.

The House voted 252-172 to block the measure that would have created a bipartisan congressional panel.

If Nancy really did request that information, will she publish her request that she sent to the CIA like Dick Cheney did?  Remember how the media and the leftist bloggers questioned Cheney’s honesty when he said he made a request to the CIA?

Hypocrites, hypocrites, hypocrites – how many times can it be said – it’s getting really old and tiresome.

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The RNC/GOP is definitely capitalizing on the opportunity to take down one of the most liberal members of congress and most partisan at that! Nancy Pelosi, as speaker of the House, has shown a lack of responsibility, maturity, ethics, and character. In my opinion, a person like this should be nowhere near a leadership position.

The latest videos are very creative and quite apropos.

These ads as well as Nancy Pelosi’s own actions have caused her approval ratings to plummet.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released this afternoon found that the approval of how Pelosi is doing her job as speaker has dropped from 51 percent in January to 46 percent in March to 39 percent now.

In the new survey, conducted Thursday through Sunday while Pelosi was embroiled in controversy over how much she was told about waterboarding of terrorist suspects, 48 percent of respondents said they disapproved of her performance.

In a news conference on Thursday, she said she had been misled by the CIA — an accusation that prompted officials of both parties to defend the spy agency and that provoked some angry Republicans to say she should put up proof or shut up and apologize.

That plummet is shown on the lefty CNN poll of all places, so you can only imagine what her real approval rating is!

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