Senate GOP Considers Filibuster of Obama Judicial Nominee Who Compared Pregnancy to Slavery

Posted by on April 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

President Obama’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel once compared “forced pregnancy” with slavery. Now Republicans are considering a filibuster to block her confirmation.

The controversy stems from comments made 20 years ago by Dawn Johnsen, a law professor at Indiana University, whose nomination is pending before the full Senate.

In a brief filed when she was a lawyer with the National Abortion Rights Action League, Johnsen cited a footnote that said forcing women to bear children was “disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the 13th Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires a woman to provide continuous physical service to the fetus in order to further the state’s asserted interest.”

At least 45 House Republicans have co-signed a letter to Obama asking him to withdraw Johnsen’s nomination because of her “brazen” abortion rights stance.

NARAL said this week it is mobilizing its nationwide network of activists and supporters to pressure the Senate to confirm Johnsen and two other Obama nominees — Judge David Hamilton and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius — and stop what it deems attacks on nominees who support abortion rights. Filibusters won’t be tolerated, the group said.

“The use of the ‘F’ word when referring to any of these nominees is unacceptable — and this threat will not go unanswered,” NARAL president Nancy Keenan said in a press release

But during the Bush Administration, how many appointees were filibusterd? How hypocritical can they be?
This party is so out of wack, it is just scarry.

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The Shut Up and Swallow Congress

Posted by on April 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

Michelle Malkin

Deliberation in Washington is dead. We don’t have legislators. We have lemmings. We don’t have debates. We have high-speed hysteria sessions. After ramming through stimulus legislation that no one read and bailout bills that no one understood, Congress is now poised to stuff down taxpayers’ throats a deficit-exploding $3.5 trillion budget that enshrines the largest tax increase in American history.
Welcome to the cap-and-trade crap sandwich.

The Democrats want to rig the game so you don’t have time to figure out this latest act of collective thievery before it’s perpetrated. They have been colluding on a plan to circumvent the Senate’s 60-vote threshold and amendment process by attaching their massive green tax scheme to a special budget legislative maneuver (“budget reconciliation” in the parlance of the Washington sausage-makers)

On the Senate floor Tuesday, Republicans valiantly tried to stop the cap-and-trade bullet train…
Boxer and Durbin indignantly accused GOP senators of “fear-mongering” over the costs of radical greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

This global warming reduction proposal amounts to an unprecedented national energy tax on every man, woman and child. Every household. Every business.

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Reid Leaves Open Option for Extreme Maneuver on Health Care, Energy Overhauls

Posted by on March 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is holding the option of using a legislative maneuver to create not only a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system but also a controversial cap and trade energy program, a move that could torpedo bipartisanship.

The maneuver, known as “reconciliation,” protects legislation to which it’s attached from a Senate filibuster. Republicans, in their deep minority status, are in an uproar over the possibility that they will be all but eliminated from the legislative process.

But Republicans are not alone in their opposition. A sizable number of Democrats have protested the move; first and foremost, Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., who excluded it from his committee’s budget passed Thursday.

The House has reconciliation instructions in its budget for health care, and Reid left open the door Thursday to adding energy protections as well.

“We’re leaving nothing off the table,” Reid told reporters Thursday, a move that has touched off a firestorm of concern behind the scenes.

So concerned about the possibility of it being used, Sens. Robert Byrd, D-W.V., and Mike Johnanns, R-Neb., sent a letter of strong protest to the majority leader.

As opponents of proposed cap and trade measures, Byrd, the Senate’s most senior member and lead watchdog of Senate rules and decorum, and Johanns told Reid, “Enactment of a cap-and-trade regime is likely to influence nearly every feature of the U.S. economy.

“Legislation so far-reaching should be fully vetted and given appropriate time for debate, something the budget reconciliation process does not allow. Using this procedure would circumvent normal Senate practice and would be inconsistent with the Obama administration’s stated goals of bipartisanship, cooperation, and openness,” they wrote.

******As you all can see, Sen Majority Leader Reid will stop at nothing to Win. Win at any cost! To heck with soaring budget deficits, lost jobs, lost GDP, inflation. Lets tax and spend our way into oblivion for some crazy socialist agenda of Pelosi and Reid.*******

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Senate Panel Endorses Modified Version of Obama’s Budget Plan

Posted by on March 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

WASHINGTON — A key Senate panel stacked with allies of President Barack Obama approved his ambitious budget blueprint Thursday, giving the president a symbolic endorsement of efforts to boost clean energy, fight global warming and improve access to health care.

*****As you all know, this was a major theme of the “Press Conference” and “Web-Hall Meeting” upon which the theory is social spending will cure many of the ales the plague America.   So where is the job creation for the American worker who was displaced by outsourcing, plant closings, or downsizing?******

Senate Budget Committee approval by a party-line vote sets the stage for floor debate next week, where moderate Democrats unhappy with deficits wield more influence. The Senate measure is a nonbinding road map for major legislation later this year on health care, energy and education.

******This is a chance the Republican minority needs to seize upon and woo the Blue Dogs into our corner.  These Dems see things a lot more our way than the Presidents way.  Education and Health are important things, but throwing cash at these things do nothing to solve the root problems******

But general agreements on fighting global warming and boosting health care promise to be severely tested later in the year as details are penciled in.

The Senate plan and its House counterpart will both go to the floors of their respective chambers next week over passionate protests from Republicans, who warn of big spending increases and record deficits.

******Lead by our number one Congresswoman—Michele Bachmann—against the out of control spending*****

Obama’s budget would leave a deficit of $749 billion in five years’ time, according to congressional estimates — too high for his Democratic allies — and would grow to unsustainable levels exceeding 5 percent of the economy by the end of the decade.

For their part, House Republicans unveiled their response to Obama’s budget plan Thursday in a glossy pamphlet short on detail and long on campaign-style talking points. Among the few details was a promise to simplify the tax code and cut income tax rates to 10 percent for people making $100,000 or less.

******If that is what you call rolling out something (I mean come on Rep Boehner! EDS (our Dept of Navy enterprise network provider) did a better job, and that was a disaster!! You have to come out with meat and potatoes, not a wimpy appetizer!*******

Republicans pointed out budgetary sleights of hand in the congressional plans, such as abandoning Obama’s promises for permanent relief from the alternative minimum tax and other politically essential legislation, such as money to shelter doctors from cutbacks in payments they receive for serving Medicare patients.

During Senate panel debate Thursday, Democrats shot down a series of GOP amendments, including a plan by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to save $200 billion by freezing spending on non-defense domestic programs for the next two years and allowing modest increases in the future.

The panel also defeated an amendment by top panel Republican Judd Gregg of New Hampshire to block Democrats from passing a health care reform bill that uses deficit dollars to finance a health care reform bill in the first six years of the plan.

*******And the Dems sit there, on their high thrown and tell the American people, that the GOP sits by and do nothing, when time after time, any republican suggestion, amendment, or proposal is shot down by the majority party.  This is why we must make bed fellows with the Blue Dogs. We must combat this situation and stop it now befor we are bankrupt.*********

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Senator Orrin Hatch has Lost his Mind!

Posted by on March 26, 2009 · 2 Comments 

The Senate is really taking care of important matters up on the Hill today.  The top Republican for the Senate Judiciary’s subcommittee on antitrust, Orrin Hatch, wants to introduce legislation that would rectify how college football teams are ranked and seeded. 

Maybe it is me who has lost their mind, but I thought we had bigger fish to fry and more pressing matters like the budget and the economy? 

Everyone from President Barack Obama on down to fans has criticized how college football determines its top team. Now senators are getting off the sidelines to examine antitrust issues involving the Bowl Champion Series.

The current system “leaves nearly half of all the teams in college football at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to qualifying for the millions of dollars paid out every year,” the Senate Judiciary’s subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights said in a statement Wednesday announcing the hearings.

All I can say to this video clip is WTF!? This is someone who was elected… Do you think she should be overseeing committees or the markets?

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