AMERICAN FREEDOM

2010-03-10T20:46:00.000-08:00

LOWER THAN A SNAKES BELLY !!!
LIE, CHEAT and saunder naked through the showers with your thingee flapping in the breeze, to intimidate congressman into voting for the vapor healthcare bill. That screws Americans. Why not? Fishy Rahm has been screwing the people of Chicago for years.
Why doesn't Rahm Emanuel pay property taxes?
According to the Cook County Assessor's website, the Chicago home of four-term Democrat Congressman and White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, doesn't exist. While the address of 4228 North Hermitage is listed as Emanuel's residence on the Illinois State Board of Elections' website, there seems to be no public record of Emanuel ever paying property taxes on this home.
The Cook County Assessor's and Cook County Treasurer's online records indicate Emanuel's Chicago neighbors pay between $3,500 and $7,000 annually. However, Illinois Review has
been unable to locate any evidence that the former Clinton advisor and investment banker is paying his fair share of Cook County's notoriously high tax burden.
Why wouldn't 4228 North Hermitage property owners Rahm Emanuel and wife A my Rule pay property taxes?

One reason may be because Emanuel and Rule declared their 4228 North Hermitage home as the office location for their personal non-profit foundation called the "Rahm Emanuel and Amy Rule Charitable Foundation". As the non-profit's headquarters, their home could be exempt from paying property taxes.
In January 2007, USA Today reported on Emanuel's foundation:
The Rahm Emanuel and Amy Rule Charitable Trust was formed in 2002, when the Chicago lawmaker was first elected. The former Clinton White House aide and his wife, Amy Rule, are its only donors. Emanuel was an investment banker after serving in the White House.
The trust reported having $2,900 on hand at the end of 2005 after receiving $34,000 from Emanuel and donating more than $31,000
During the past three years, Emanuel's charity gave nearly $25,000 to the Anshe Emet synagogue and school [a private school that the Rahm/Rule children attend]..., and $15,000 to the foundation run by former president Bill Clinton. It also gave $14,000 to Marwen, a Chicago charity that provides art classes and other educational help to low-income children. Rule is on Marwen's board.
(He doesn't pay any property taxes and he gets income tax write-offs by donating $25000 to the Synagogue
and other amounts of money to his Foundation. This allows his kids to attend school tuition-free
and allows him to expense a lot of personal expenses. What a racket!
Take all your income and donate it back to yourself via tax exempt orgs where you can spen d it on as
expenses to operate your car, pay the electric and water bills, etc.
I guess if you are a hypocritical "liberal" democrat who advocates raising taxes on everyone else, this is all permissible.)
Emanuel's 4228 North Hermitage home is one of the largest in the neighborhood, with a side yard that appears to be a vacant lot, making the Emanuels' property the largest portion on the block.
Other North Hermitage homes on Emanuel's block are valued in the $500,000 plus range. According to Cook County Treasurer's website, the Chicago owners of nearby 118 year old 4222 North Hermitage pay almost $6800 annually. The family at 4224 North Heritage pays $6000 each year in property taxes.
President Obama - himself a connected, Chicago insider who has benefited from questionable land deals - may find it difficult to explain why his very own Chicago-based chief of staff doesn't pay property taxes like the "little guy" he claims to represent. Or perhaps allowing his wealthy friends to avoid taxes is part of Obama's trickle down redistribution economics. It's certainly the kind of "change" we Illinoisans can believe in...since we're quite familiar with it here in the federal indictment land of Daley, Blagojevich, Madigan, Jones, Cellini, Rezko, etc.

2010-03-08T17:03:00.000-08:00

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical........... Thomas Jefferson

2010-03-08T02:41:00.000-08:00

The House Vote on the Senate Healthcare Bill Is the Final Vote; Obama Will Sign It Into Law
Americans need to understand the devastating significance of the House vote on the Senate health care bill set for March 18th. The Democrats have-by design-created the perfect storm to take over the US healthcare system, while providing an ideal distraction-reconciliation.
First, let's examine exactly how we got here. In late December, while Americans were arguing that no one had read the bill, Leiberman was posturing to vote against the bill with a public option, and the debate on abortion continued, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) took an existing HOUSE-passed bill, H.R.3950-the Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009-and here's how it unfolded . . .read full story
This is the same throw up awful Senate VAPOR Health Care Bill. These articles and more are archived on American Freedom. It's time America to stand up AGAIN and protest the taking away your freedom of choice. The government's unlawful takeover of 1/6th of the nations economic output. CALL 202-224-3121 and tell your Congressman and Senator to VOTE NO on the bureaucrats making decisions on YOUR HEALTHCARE.BE
HEALTH CARE….IT’S ABOUT SEIZING POWER Posted 3-8-10
NO GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTHCARE PERIOD!!!! Posted 12-07-09
ABORTION is not healthcare, it’s MURDER Posted 12-18-09

2010-03-07T06:32:00.000-08:00

Mayor Vernon Parker is a candidate for retiring Arizona Congressman John Shadegg's seat in Congress.
Parker, 50, is the current mayor of Paradise Valley, Arizona. Paradise Valley lies in the heart of Congressional District 3, a place where Parker garnered a record number of votes in his initial run for office two years ago.
He previously served as General Counsel of the United States Office of Personnel Management, then in the White House as Special Assistant to President George H. W. Bush. Later, Parker was nominated by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed with bipartisan support by the United States Senate, as an Assistant Secretary at the United States Department of Agriculture.
A small businessman, Parker also served as a pastor for two years at a small non-denominational church in Paradise Valley. He is a graduate of Georgetown Law School in Washington, D.C., where he met his wife, Lisa, a second generation native.
Raised by his grandmother and mother in a severely underprivileged neighborhood, Parker was able to escape the drugs and violence of his environment through love, education, and the commitment of family.
Parker will take his message of cutting taxes and creating policies that help the private sector create jobs to the nation’s capitol.

2010-03-07T02:35:00.000-08:00

JUKEBOX JOHN

CHANGING HIS TUNE on Every issue.

AMERICAN FREEDOM IS DOING A SERIES on John McCain
Domestic Policy { 3 }

1. McCain defended privitizing Social Security. Now he says he’s against privatization (though he actually still supports it.)
2. On Social Security, McCain said he would not, under any circumstances, raise taxes. Soon after, asked about a possible increase in the payroll tax, McCain said there’s “nothing that’s off the table.”
3. McCain wanted to change the Republican Party platform to protect abortion rights in cases of rape and incest. Now he doesn’t.
4. McCain supported storing spent nuclear fuel at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Now he believes the opposite.
5. He argued the NRA should not have a role in the Republican Party’s policy making. Now he believes the opposite.
6. In 1998, he championed raising cigarette taxes to fund programs to cut underage smoking, insisting that it would prevent illnesses and provide resources for public health programs. Now, McCain opposes a $0.61-per-pack tax increase, won’t commit to supporting a regulation bill he’s co-sponsoring, and has hired Philip Morris’ former lobbyist as his senior campaign adviser.
7. McCain is both for and against earmarks for Arizona.
8. McCain’s first mortgage plan was premised on the notion that homeowners facing foreclosure shouldn’t be “rewarded” for acting “irresponsibly.” His second mortgage plan took largely the opposite position.
9. McCain went from saying gay marriage should be allowed, to saying gay marriage shouldn’t be allowed.
10. McCain opposed a holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., before he supported it.
11. McCain was anti-ethanol. Now he’s pro-ethanol.
12. McCain was both for and against state promotion of the Confederate flag.
13. In 2005, McCain endorsed intelligent design creationism, a year later he said the opposite, and a few months after that, he was both for and against creationism at the same time.
14. And on gay adoption, McCain initially said he’d rather let orphans go without families, then his campaign reversed course, and soon after, McCain reversed back.
15. In the Senate, McCain opposed a variety of measures on equal pay for women, and endorsed the Supreme Court’s Ledbetter decision. In July, however, McCain said, “I’m committed to making sure that there’s equal pay for equal work. That … is my record and you can count on it.”
16. McCain was against fully funding the No Child Left Behind Act before he was for it.
17. McCain was for affirmative action before he was against it.
18. McCain said the Colorado River compact will “obviously” need to be “renegotiated.” Six days later, McCain said, “Let me be clear that I do not advocate renegotiation of the compact.”

2010-03-05T05:41:00.000-08:00

"What Has McCain Done for AZ?" Not Many Voter Answers
PHOENIX, AZ. March 3, 2010. A new video shows Senator McCain saying he is confident that voters will judge him not for what he has done for Arizona during his 28 years in Washington, but bizarrely what he might do for them. That might be a good strategy on the part of Arizona's senior senator, as the video shows puzzled voters trying to answer the question, "What has Senator McCain done for Arizona?"
In the video, Sen. McCain is heard saying that he is confident that the people of Arizona will ".judge me on not what I've done for them, but what they think I can do for them." Most politicians who have spent as many years in the U.S. Senate as McCain has would be expected to run on their record - not their potential.
Vulnerable to the more conservative Hayworth on taxes, pro-life issues and illegal immigration, McCain has resorted to attacking Hayworth on spending, despite Hayworth having a better lifetime rating from Citizens Against Government Waste. Hayworth has a 98-percent rating from the American Conservative Union.
McCain also voted for the $850 billion bailout of the big banks which included $150 billion in earmarks, proposed a $300 billion bailout for mortgage lenders and, according to the Heritage Foundation, sponsored an amnesty bill that would have cost taxpayers $2.6 trillion over the long-term.
McCain Says "Misled" On TARP Support;
Nothing Misleading About His Support From Big Banks
PHOENIX, Ariz. March 1, 2010. Campaign finance records show that during the 2008 election cycle alone, AIG employees gave Senator John McCain almost $74,000. Not only that, but AIG also contributed more than $50,000 to the Reform Institute, a so-called "think tank" co-founded by Sen. McCain in 2001. Although the institute billed itself as a "nonpartisan, not-for-profit educational organization," many critics say it was nothing but a jobs program for McCain's campaign.
I may be a little naïve but, a Senator who is an integral part of the Washington establishment being mislead on a bailout bill? Seems very unlikely to me. If in fact it is an accurate statement then after 24 years in the Senate he needs to be replaced with a conservative candidate who can’t be mislead. BE
MCCAIN AGAIN COMMITS TO BIG GOVERNMENT, ELIMINATING CONSUMER CHOICEPHOENIX, ARIZONA. FEBRUARY 12, 2010.
Renewing his commitment to big government in the face of growing skepticism about Washington's expanding powers, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) introduced legislation last week to further regulate vitamins and supplements. His partnership with U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota) follows other liberal efforts with Joseph Lieberman on global warming, Ted Kennedy on amnesty and Russ Feingold on First Amendment regulations, recently overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Moi thinks McCain is more interested in “working across the aisle” than he is representing the people of Arizona and America. Introducing legislation to eliminate choice and regulate vitamins is really NOT helping lower the cost of preventative healthcare. With the stroke of a pen and little interest in Americans health McCain (R- AZ.) and Dorgan (D- North Dakota) will make it more costly for families and seniors to take vitamins. YEAH!! John way to go.BE

2010-03-04T14:53:00.000-08:00

(Hat tip Tom)
THE BIG QUESTION IS? will the Obama Administration outsource our SHAMOBAMANATION HealthCare to China? Can't be bad after all Kung Fu traveled across America curing everything from warts to heart attacks with snake eyes and beetle juice.BE Uncle Sam points out the problems we have when we buy cheap products from China. "Buy, Buy American Pie" was written and performed by the Capitol Steps. This is a parody and involves exageration. Tastykakes are made in the United States and not in China and definitely contain no harmful ingredients. Little Debbie is also located in the United States and not in China and their products contain no harmful ingredients.
Ten REAL reasons to avoid products made in China: 1. Products made with hazardous materials 2. Lack of quality control, monitoring, and safety regulations, plus corruption 3. Tainted food, deadly drugs, adulterated products 4. High levels of antibiotics and toxins in seafood 5. Exploitation of the Chinese workforce and use of child labor 6. Predatory pricing and unethical business practices 7. Massive industrialization at the expense of the environment 8. Deforestation and mining has destroyed the water supply in Asia 9. Chinese military manufactured goods 10. Manufacturing in forced (laogai) labor camps and prisons

2010-03-03T05:05:00.000-08:00

(Hat tip cartoon David)
AGAIN OBAMA USES BAIT AND SWITCH
in trying to sell the American public on a vapor healthcare bill that is fraught with higher taxes, more government interference, sweetheart deals for special interest groups, purchase of vote ie: Lousianna purchase, Cornhusker kickback, it's the same old seante bill in a different wrapper. And needs to be rejected, it's un-constitutional and reeks of a government power grab of 1/6th of the nations enconomic output. BOOOOO Obamaa for trying to pull yet another fast one. BE
RSC Policy Brief: President Obama’s Proposal - Still a Government Takeover of Health Care
On February 22, 2010, the President unveiled an outline of a healthcare proposal, three days in advance of the White House-led healthcare “summit.” The President had not put forward actual bill language, but rather has re-branded and made changes to the Senate-passed bill, H.R. 3590, in order to gain the support of more liberal House members. Presumably, this means that all of the provisions previously included in the Senate bill that are not explicitly changed under the President’s proposal, will remain intact. No CBO score is available as, according to CBO, “preparing a cost estimate requires very detailed specifications of numerous provisions, and the materials that were released this morning do not provide sufficient detail on all of the provisions. Therefore, CBO cannot provide a cost estimate for the proposal without additional detail, and, even if such detail were provided, analyzing the proposal would be a time-consuming process that could not be completed this week” – or in time for the health care “summit”. According to the White House’s own estimates, the proposal would cost $950 billion over ten years ($50 billion above Obama’s own target).
1.The President’s proposal still contains: Mandates: The proposal maintains the individual mandate and the Senate’s “free-rider” employer mandate.
2.Cuts to Medicare and tax increases to pay for the expansion and creation of new entitlement programs: Specifically the proposal increases cuts Medicare Advantage plans and raises the Medicare payroll tax even higher (adding it to a tax on earned income in addition to a tax on “high income individuals”).
3.No real medical liability reform: No changes to the insufficient medical liability provisions as passed in the Senate bill.
4.New bureaucratic boards that cede the definition of quality and gives more power to the federal
government:
5.Maintains provisions such as the comparative effectiveness research board (Patient
Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the Independent Medicare Advisory Board (IMAB) or
“MedPAC on steroids”, and more.
6.A form of a government-run plan: The proposal maintains the OPM overseen Multi-State Plans and Co-Ops.
7.Sweetheart deals: including the “Louisiana Purchase”, various provisions of the “Cornhusker kickback”, carve outs for unions, and many more.
8.Broken promises: Obama set several parameters, including that the bill would cost under $900 billion, not raise taxes on those making under $250,000, families’ health insurance premiums will go down by $2,500 a year, and if individuals liked what they had they could keep it – however none of these promises are kept or restored by President’s rewrite of the Senate bill.
HAROLD FORD BLASTS DEMOCRATS FOR BEING "TOO SLOW TO CHANGE," FOCUSING ON GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE INSTEAD OF JOBS. "These ar e tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity ... And yet too few in the Democratic Party are really willing to break with orthodoxy to meet these challenges. We need leaders as good as the people they represent -- leaders focused on creating jobs, keeping taxes low, helping
small businesses and restoring faith in government. Voting for health care legislation that imposes billions in new taxes on New Yorkers ... is not good for thepeople of this state ... the party has been too slow to change." (Harold Ford, Jr., "Why I'm Not Running For The Senate," The New York Times, 3/2/10)

2010-03-01T01:22:00.000-08:00

WHICH WOULD BE MOST EFFECTIVE THIS?

OR THIS?
SOLUTION TO AIRPORT SECURITY!!!! ( hat tip Joe) An engineer (ex-NASA project director) has what I think is the near perfect solution for airport security!*Date: *February 3, 2010 1:35:01 PM PST**Subject: **Problem solved for airport and federal bldg security**Here's a solution to all the controversy over full-body scanners at the airports. Have a booth that you can step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have on you.**It would be a win-win for everyone, and there would be none of this crap about racial profiling and this method wouldeliminate a long and expensive trial. Justice would be quick and swift..**Case Closed!**

2010-02-28T11:30:00.000-08:00

JUKEBOX JOHN

CHANGING HIS TUNE on Every issue.

AMERICAN FREEDOM WILL BE DOING A SERIES on John McCain
Foreign Policy { 2 } in series of 10
1. McCain was for kicking Russia out of the G8 before he was against it. Now, he’s for it again.
2. McCain supported moving “towards normalization of relations” with Cuba. Now he believes the opposite.
3. McCain believed the U.S. should engage in diplomacy with Hamas. Now he believes the opposite.
4. McCain believed the U.S. should engage in diplomacy with Syria. Now he believes the opposite.
5. McCain is both for and against a “rogue state rollback” as a focus of his foreign policy vision.
6. McCain used to champion the Law of the Sea convention, even volunteering to testify on the treaty’s behalf before a Senate committee. Now he opposes it.
7. McCain was against divestment from South Africa before he was for it.

2010-02-28T11:07:00.000-08:00

Alas, the residual glow of my first CPAC gathering has begun to wane. And so my daily commute once again injects me directly into the logic vacuum of D.C. to be greeted by a far less agreeable crowd.
PREPAC
I spared no expense and purchased the diamond package (Moi also) which basically granted me access to any and all events, and if I so chose, best seat in the house and line-cutting capabilities (more detail on this later). As a result, my check-in was Wednesday night instead of Thursday morning. CPAC sponsors and all-around conservatives David Keen and Cleta Mitchell were there to greet the attendees. Hors d’oeuvres and drinks were served generously.
This is the Message I received from Gary and of course I remembered him. We had quite an interesting verbal chase after our first meeting. “In the bar of course.” I’m very flattered that he remembered me enough to allocate a paragraph in his column however; I do wish he had left out the “senior citizen” part. I will never attract anyone under 65 again. OH WELL!! The one I like is barely 65 and that’s young enough for me to be called a cougar. BE

Hi Barbara,
I'm not sure if you remember me but you can visit me at Stop Apologizing For Me. I will finally get around to posting my CPAC highlights on my site tomorrow. I enjoyed our time together and will most definitely seek you out in the crowd next year.
CPAC in retrospect
Barbara Espinosa. Barbara is a senior citizen whirlwind. You must strap yourself in tight to properly appreciate what I have lovingly come to call “The Espinosa Experience”. We developed instant rapport, she and I. Visit American Freedom for the overview, but whatever you find on her website, I assure you, it will pale in comparison to the live version. She is a blast! There are 2 things I know about Barbara Espinosa. One – she knows how to have fun; two- she really likes J.D. Hayworth. ( I didn't have a Vernon Parker T Shirt to wear) Barbara lives in Scottsdale thus I have a profound understanding for her political fervor. If I had to live in the aftermath of John McCain and Janet Napolitano’s immigration policies, I would be a J.D. Hayworth disciple too. If J.D. Hayworth has any sort of acceptable record on illegal immigration then I’m sold. If not, then the citizens of Arizona need to dedicate all tax revenue forthwith for the immediate research to facilitate the cloning of Sherriff Joseph Arpaio. Normally I would be against cloning but Arizona needs more Sherriff Joes and fewer John McCain’s.

2010-02-28T10:08:00.000-08:00

A LITTLE LEVITY THIS RAINY SUNDAY MORNING IN SCOTTSDALE,AZ.

For some of the
POLITICIANS
(Democrats mostly)

FOR
THOSE
POLITICIANS
IN FAVOR
OF THE
OBAMANATION
HEALTH CARE BILL

BECAUSE I'M SHORT!!!!!

2010-02-28T09:34:00.000-08:00

Fannie Taps Treasury for $15.3 Billion More After a 10th Loss

Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Fannie Mae will seek $15.3 billion in U.S. aid, bringing the total owed under a government lifeline to $76.2 billion, after its 10th consecutive quarterly loss.
The mortgage-finance company posted a fourth-quarter net loss of $16.3 billion, or $2.87 a share, Washington-based Fannie Mae said in a filing yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
When I read the above story It precipitated me writing the story below. I have previously written a story called; "HOW IT HAPPENED AND WHO DID IT"
The Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) was created in 1938 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the collapse of the housing market in the depression. Fannie Mae originally operated like a national savings and loan, allowing local banks to charge low interest rates on mortgages for the benefit of the home buyer. Creating a secondary lending market.
Since 1968 when Lyndon Baines Johnson privitized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (created in 1970) it has operated as a government sponsored enterprises (GSEs). This means these two companies are privately owned and operated by shareholders, they are protected financially by the support of the Federal Government. These government protections include access to a line of credit through the U.S. Treasury, exemption from state and local income taxes and exemption from SEC oversight.
GSEs such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mae, with their combination of private enterprise and public backing have experienced a period of unprecedented financial growth over the past few decades. The current assets of these two companies combine for a total that is 45 percent greater than that of the nation's largest bank.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s combined debt is equal to 46 percent of the current national debt. It is this combination of rapid growth and over leveraging that has lead to the current concerns of Congress, the Justice Department and the SEC with regards to the financial practices of these GSEs.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the only two Fortune 500 companies that are not required to inform the public about any financial difficulties that they may be having. In the event that there was some sort of financial collapse within either of these companies, U.S. taxpayers could be held responsible for hundreds of billions of dollars in outstanding debts. A recent investigation by the Justice Department and the SEC into the accounting practices at Freddie Mac revealed accounting errors in the amount of 4.5 to 4.7 billion dollars. At last with the recent accounting scandal at Freddie Mac Congress the Justice Department and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) are finally beginning to show concerns of the status these GSEs enjoy in the market. 2001: Republicans try repeatedly to bring fiscal sanity to Fannie and Freddie but Democrats blocked any attempt at reform; especially Rep. Barney Frank and Sen.Chris Dodd who now run key banking committees and were huge beneficiaries of campaign contributions from the mortgage giants.
2003: Bush proposes what the NY Times called "the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago". Even after discovering a scheme by Fannie and Freddie to overstate earnings by $10.6 billion to boost their bonuses, the Democrats killed reform.
2005: Then Fed chairman Alan Greenspan warns Congress: "We are placing the total financial system at substantial risk". Sen. McCain, with two others, sponsored a Fannie/Freddie reform bill and said, "If congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system and the economy as a whole". Sen. Harry Reid accused the GOP of trying to "cripple the ability of Fannie and Freddie to carry out their mission of expanding homeownership" The bill went nowhere.
FAST FORWARD TO 2008

It’s now 2010 and the Republicans have been trying since 2001 to subvert a housing crisis waiting to happen.

2010-02-27T11:58:00.000-08:00

JUKEBOX JOHN ISSUED CHALLENGE TO DEBATE
February 25, 2010

In an unusual political move, conservative challenger JD Hayworth will visit the campaign office of the 24-year incumbent for a memorable moment, major announcement and press conference.
Hayworth Asks For As Many McCain Debates As McCain Asked Of Obama, Conservative Challenger Wants At Least Ten Debates with 24-Year Incumbent
PHOENIX, Ariz. February 25, 2010. Senator John McCain asked for ten debates when he faced Barack Obama in 2008. And conservative U.S. Senate challenger JD Hayworth doesn't think the people of Arizona deserve less.
At McCain Campaign headquarters in Phoenix on Thursday morning, Hayworth presented an official letter to McCain staff requesting the public debates for Arizona voters. The letter specifies that he wants - at minimum - the amount of debates that McCain asked for in the 2008 campaign.
"Senator McCain has always demonstrated himself to be willing to face off with his opponents in political campaigns. I look forward to a vigorous and respectful series of joint appearances where we can discuss how we view the future of the Republican Party and our country," said Hayworth.
Hayworth feels that, given the years Senator McCain spent away from Arizona to run for President, he can certainly spend a few days away from Washington to better inform the people of Arizona he represents
"It should not be acceptable to any Republican, indeed any Arizonan, that Senator McCain would debate more in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina than he would before his constituents," Hayworth said.

"What a welcome change it would be were presidential candidates in our time to treat each other and the people they seek to lead with respect and courtesy as they discussed the great issues of the day, without the empty sound bites and media-filtered exchanges that dominate our elections," McCain said in a letter to Obama released by McCain's campaign in June of 2008.
That public letter to Obama asked for the candidates to travel by plane together to the first of ten debates in the spirit of the Goldwater-Kennedy race that never came to fruition.
"The Hayworth campaign encouraged all Arizona and national media to immediately schedule debates with the McCain campaign. They should begin in March," Hayworth officials said.
Hayworth agrees and is encouraged that McCain has shown a propensity to engage in public discourse with those who disagree with him on key issues. Hayworth and McCain disagree on tax cuts, fighting illegal immigration, pro-life and pro-family issues as well as other key conservative concerns. McCain has also urged such ideas as "Question Time" for the American President.
"My campaign is open to all ideas regarding the format of these important debates including town hall formats," said Hayworth. "But we won't settle for anything less for Arizona than Senator McCain asked for America in 2008."

2010-02-27T11:04:00.000-08:00

"HARRY TRUMAN'S BEST QUOTE"
A different kind of Democrat ( hat tip David)
Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!
Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence Missouri . His wife had inherited The house from her mother and other than their years in the
White House, they lived their entire lives there.When he retired from office in 1952, his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year..
After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There were no Secret Service following them.When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale." Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise." As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food. Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today!, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices. Political offices are now for sale.

2010-02-27T09:45:00.000-08:00

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
President Obama and congressional Democrats seem to be doing everything in their power to revive their national health care plan, but the public still isn’t buying.
A survey this past week prior to the president’s televised bipartisan summit on the topic found that voters still oppose the plan – and question many of its details - just as much as they have for months. Forty-one percent (41%) favor the proposed health care plan, while 56% oppose it. Those figures include 45% who strongly oppose the plan versus 23% who strongly favor it.

SHAMASUMMIT
The Shamasummit hasn’t scammed the American people they still are not buying into “The One’s” Obamanation debt ridden, overtaxed healthcare plan.
After months of “We the People” holding townhalls, marching on DC, twisting, shouting and screaming for the world to hear WE DON’T WANT GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTHCARE the Obama administration is still not listening. BE

At summit, Obama mostly hears Obama AKA SHAMASUMMIT by American Freedom
President Obama pledged to "listen" at the outset of his much-ballyhooed bipartisan health care summit on Thursday. Turns out he meant he'd be listening to his own voice.
By the end of the televised event, Mr. Obama had spoken for 119 minutes - nine minutes more than the 110 minutes consumed by 17 Republicans. The 21 Democratic lawmakers used 114 minutes, giving the president and his supporters a whopping 233 minutes, according to a "talk clock" kept by GOP aides.
From the beginning, no one could agree on anything, even how much time each side had used. When a miffed Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, pointed out early on that Democrats had controlled 52 minutes to Republicans' 24, Mr. Obama jumped in to dispute even that.
"I don't think that's quite right," he said.
But then, with a twinkle in his eye, he added: "You're right, there was an imbalance on the opening statements because - I'm the president." Half the room laughed. "I didn't count my time in terms of dividing it evenly."

Summit shows Dems uncompromising
”Says Obama 'truly not that interested in listening to the other side”
Rep. Tom Price, Georgia Republican, on Friday gave high marks to the TV debate on health care reform -- including one for President Obama -- despite Democrats and Republicans failing to reach a compromise.
"I'd give [the president] the grade of 'A' for hogging the time," he said. "I think the American people saw a president who is truly not that interested in listening to the other side."
Mr. Price also praised the six-hour debate for highlighting the challenges in trying to reform U.S. health care and proving to Americans that Republicans have indeed been sidelined in the debate.

2010-02-26T06:26:00.000-08:00

"SHAMASUMMIT" for OBAMA TO PONTIFICATE

You can be sure of one thing it' not going to be bipartisan.
Obama Renews Health Push
Retooled $950 Billion Plan Aims to Get Legislation Through Over Republican Objections
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is upping the ante on health care.
In a last-ditch effort to salvage his overhaul of the sector, the president unveiled a $950 billion plan that lays the groundwork for his party to try pushing its legislation through Congress without Republican support.White House Health Summary
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Instead of paring his ambitions, as some in the White House had recommended, the president proposed a new plan based on what the Senate passed in December, adding more spending, more subsidies and a revised mix of taxes.
Mr. Obama's plan, released ahead of a televised health summit with congressional leaders Thursday, didn't include any additional nods to Republican ideas. Republican leaders denounced it, suggesting that the summit is unlikely to lead to bipartisan breakthroughs. White House aides said the president was prepared to incorporate Republican ideas
OBAMA LECTURES SHAMASUMMIT ON HEALTHCARE

HEALTHCARE BILL IS ABOUT BURNING YOUR RIGHTS GRANTED BY THE CONSTITUTION.
This isn’t about providing healthcare it’s about control of the American people, it’s about greed, it’s about power, healthcare has nothing to do with it. It’s about controlling 1/6 of the nation’s economic output.
The Democrats always threaten to use measures to get their way, or create new ones. This whole meeting was a manipulated setup - the bill is a warmed up version of SB 3962 which is an Obamanation. Americans have repeatedly voiced their opposition to government controlled healthcare and still the Congress, Senate and The Executive Branch of OUR government refuses to listen to “We the People” damn’it we have spoken now listen or you will be looking for work in the next election. BE
A Short Spelling Lesson.....

The last four letters in American ......... I Can
The last four letters in Republican ....... I Can
The last four letters in Democrats ........ Rats

2010-02-24T06:02:00.000-08:00

Three U.S. Senate Democrats named to deficit panel

The trio of senior Democrats became the first members to be named to the panel after it was set up last week by President Barack Obama.
The panel will have broad leeway to consider tax hikes or spending cuts to come up with a strategy to balance the budget, excluding interest payments, in five years.
Its recommendations would have to be approved by Congress, which could be reluctant to take the unpopular steps necessary to stem the tide of red ink amid heavy lobbying by outside groups.
The above piece of news caught my attention; because I think it is the most blatant sham to be fostered on the public besides Obamanation healthcare in quite some time by the Democrats.

What responsible adult needs a deficit panel to tell them they are spending too much money? When you are borrowing 40% of your national debt from foreign countries plus paying interest. Your national debt is umpteen trillion dollars. You need a commission to point out that you are overspending and sliding a country in bankruptcy? Hope and Change is really not working for me. Full disclosure, I didn’t like the Hopey, Changy thing from the git go, I voted for the other guy.BE

2010-02-24T04:57:00.000-08:00

Obama avoids hard choices
A weak leader talks tough and passes the buck

President Obama said on Thursday, "The politics of dealing with chronic deficits is fraught with hard choices, and therefore, it's treacherous to office holders here in Washington. As a consequence, nobody has been too eager to deal with it." He then handed the problem off to a commission, thus proving his point.
Mr. Obama likes to use the expression "hard choices," but he has yet to make any when it comes to federal spending. After announcing his fiscal commission, he went to Las Vegas and announced a $1.5 billion housing assistance program, seeking to bolster the flagging fortunes of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. It is hardly a hard choice to treat the government budget like an unlimited checkbook, funding targeted programs seeking political advantage. That part is easy. Paying for it is difficult, but that is not Mr. Obama's problem.
I'm Sick of BLAME BUSH and I "Inherited"
The MAINSTREAM MEDIA babbled again about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush, yada,yada, ya. Amazingly enough, a lot of people swallow this pig slop.
So once more, I'll try a short civics lesson.
Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress, and the party that has controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party. They have controlled the budget process for fiscal years of 2011, 2010, as well as 2009 and 2008. In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases. For fiscal year 2009, though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets. Barack Obama has selective memory of where he was during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009.
Take a look at what the deficits looked like during that period:

(hat tip Sharon)

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets. If Obama inherited anything,he inherited it from himself.
Bottom line in an acorn, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20, 2009.

2010-02-23T13:02:00.000-08:00

JUKEBOX JOHN
CHANGING HIS TUNE on Every issue.

AMERICAN FREEDOM WILL BE DOING A SERIES on John McCain

Beginning with: {1}
NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY:
1. McCain thought Bush’s warrantless-wiretap program circumvented the law; now he believes the opposite.
2. McCain insisted that everyone, even “terrible killers,” “the worst kind of scum of humanity,” and detainees at Guantanamo Bay, “deserve to have some adjudication of their cases,” even if that means “releasing some of them.” McCain now believes the opposite.
3. He opposed indefinite detention of terrorist suspects. When the Supreme Court reached the same conclusion, he called it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”
4. In February 2008, McCain reversed course on prohibiting waterboarding.
5. McCain was for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay before he was against it.
6. When Barack Obama talked about going after terrorists in Pakistani mountains with predators, McCain criticized him for it. He’s since come to the opposite conclusion.

2010-02-23T09:55:00.000-08:00

WHO SHARES YOUR VALUES?
John McCain vs. J.D. Hayworth

1. John McCain .....Opposed the Bush tax cuts. Voted against repealing the Death Tax. The Club for Growth says McCain’s overall record on taxes “is profoundly disturbing and anti-growth.”
J.D. Hayworth.....Taxes Helped to author the Bush tax cuts and supports repealing the Death Tax. JD has a higher lifetime rating from Citizens Against Government Waste than John McCain does.
2. John McCain.....Voted FOR the big bank bailouts and proposed an additional $300 Billion bailout of all bad debts, making the taxpayers responsible for the bad decisions of others.
J.D. Hayworth....Bailouts Opposed the big bank bailouts, opposed the Obama plan, and opposed the McCain plan to leave taxpayers holding the bag for the nation’s bad loans.
3. John McCain.....Wrote the bill granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. McCain’s bill was estimated to cost the taxpayers more than $2.6 Trillion.
J.D. Hayworth.....Amnesty Helped lead the fight against the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill. JD is a national leader in the fight to secure our borders and protect our nation.
4. John McCain......Opposed the Federal Marriage Amendment that would have protected and preserved marriage as between one man and one woman.
J.D. Hayworth.....Marriage Supported the Federal Amendment and believes it is critical that marriage be protected from those who would redefine it.
5. John McCain....Co-authored the McCain-Lieberman Cap and Trade bill.
J.D. Hayworth....Cap and Trade Opposes all Cap and Trade legislation and rejects phony climate change data.
6.John McCain......Authored the McCain-Feingold legislation that violated the First Amendment rights of every American and silenced conservative groups like Right to Life and the NRA.Free Speech
J.D. Hayworth....Opposed McCain-Feingold and believes that a free and vigorous debate is always in the best interests of our state and our nation.
7.John McCain...Opposes enhanced interrogation techniques, supports closing Guantanamo Bay, and supports treating terrorists like criminal defendants instead of enemy combatants. Terrorism
J.D. Hayworth...Supports our military and its use of enhanced interrogation techniques. Believes that Guantanamo Bay should remain open and that terrorists should be treated as such.
8. John McCain.....Voted to confirm this far-left activist Eric Holder Attorney General of the United States.
J.D. Hayworth...Opposed the confirmation of Eric Holder as Attorney General of the United States.
Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.

2010-02-23T08:52:00.000-08:00

Flying the friendly skys!!!!

Trip Home from CPAC

Out of the cold of Washington, D.C. to sunny Arizona was another learning experience, proving the adage “you are never too old to learn” is true.
The airline was hustling everyone they could to give up their seat with airline dollars, pay for your hotel, food, transportation and booking you on another flight of your choice. Several people waiting to get on jumped at the chance to stay over, the ones of us who got on the flight were told by the attendant (Is that what they are called now days?) if three more of you don’t volunteer to give up your seat, we will start choosing who will have to leave the plane. Could this be why they have financial trouble?
After all of that was settled and we were in the air I met the Captain in the attendant area and I asked him why did 9 people have to get off and leave the seats empty? He was very helpful and explained it to me. Can you guess? I couldn’t, because they had too much fuel or cargo and plane was overweight. It seems they have a formula to calculate the weight they carry and calculate how many passengers to dump when plane is overweight and because it’s less expensive to dump people than fuel or cargo. The people gotta go!! He recited the formula weights etc. but who can remember all that math stuff. These pilot's are friendly guys and really like to talk. Who Knew? be

2010-02-22T10:33:00.000-08:00

(Hat tip David)
I-75 Lake City bill-board... every state should have one!!
As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given
the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his
name, but that America gave him the White House based on
the same credentials." Newt Gingrich
I-75 Lake City bill-board ; Anyone out there that knows who's responsible for sign, please send info via comments. The attached photo is of a billboard recently established on I-75 just south of Lake City [Florida]. We gathered there today to celebrate its unveiling. The cost of 10 months rental of the billboard and doing the artwork was $6500. We feel that is a reasonable cost to reach out to 1,000,000 vehicles per month and perhaps motivate their participation in the electoral process to get our country on a sound footing.
Americans taking action, Elected Officials listen to "We The People" be

2010-02-21T20:24:00.000-08:00

JOHN McCAIN gets by with a little HELP from his LIBERAL friends!!!

John McCain stated in the Republican debates at the Reagan Library that people can judge him by the company he keeps. Well let's take a little look at the people John McCain considers his "company".
Deceased Senator Ted Kennedy from the McCain-Kennedy immigration amnesty bill.
Senator Lindsey Graham who once called those opposed to amnesty for illegal aliens "bigots" at a La Raza conference.
Senator Mel Martinez an open borders proponent who favors amnesty and was a coauthor of the Hagel-Martinez amnesty bill prior to the McCain-Kennedy bill. Martinez once called enforcement without amnesty a "harshness only" approach.
Juan Hernandez, a former Mexican government official, a dual citizen and major proponent of rights and amnesty for Hispanic illegal aliens and the end of the sovereignty of America. He currently is working on the McCain campaign as his Hispanic Outreach Director.
Congressman Luis Gutierrez, a good friend of La Raza, who has put forth his own legislation for illegal aliens called the STRIVE act and was involved in formulating the amnesty bills. In addition he personally put forth a bill to give Elvira Arellano permanent residency - this was before she hid out in a church. He also called the police on a group of citizen lobbyists who came to question him on his stance on illegal immigration.
Senator Russ Feingold who was half of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform fiasco.
Joe Lieberman, who together with McCain brought forth the McCain-Lieberman Stewardship bill to fight global warming.
Former Senator John Edwards who along with McCain and Kennedy wrote the McCain-Edwards "Patient's Bill of Rights".
Are you starting to see a pattern here? Lots of Democrats and Republicans (who are really Liberals) working together with McCain. This is the company he keeps and asks us to judge him by.
McCain will state that he is a "Reagan Republican", but nothing could be further from the truth. There's working together and then there is outright "being a member of the other party". Things to watch out for with McCain include the passing and implementation of the "fairness doctrine". Something that would censor and shut down talk radio stations, websites like this one and limit free speech in the United States. You don't think he'd sign it? Just watch him!
Watch the above video and tell me this is someone who really is looking out for the American people and not just some illegal foreigners, big business and future Democrat voters.
Thanks for some help from Ruth of Illegal Protest

2010-02-20T18:43:00.000-08:00

I have posted Glenn Beck’s CPAC 2010 for those of you who may have missed his speech; he received a tsunami wave of applause upon entering the stage. In the bloggers lounge the new media blogger gave him a loud welcome as well.

I had invited Les Phillip into the lounge to watch with us and he kept shaking his head yes when Glenn would talk about smaller government, less spending, follow the constitution Les is another consistent conservation seeking office. Alabama if you are in the fifth {5th} district vote for this guy.

Glenn chastised the Republican Party his best comment; “it’s not enough to not suck as much as the other side.”
His comment the other side is like Hollywood they know how to package. My take is the other side can lie better than a Republican can tell the truth and that makes the difference.
The finale ended with a thunderous standing ovation from the audience and throughout the bloggers lounge/new media.