Take Back the 20!

We're "The Party of Hell, No"

Barack Obama and their media minions are doing their darn worst to falsely characterize recent acts of vandalism and threatening messages as acts coordinated by Republicans and the Tea Party Movement, particularly former Alaska Governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Far from being intimidated, Palin has come out swinging as she paraphrased Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's description of the Republicans not as the "Party of No" but the "Party of HELL NO!"

The administration and media attempts to shame and smear conservatives is blowing up in their faces. The more they smear principled Americans who dissent from Barack Obama's and Congressional Democrats' abuses, the more their ranks swell.

Meet Jim Engstrand

Jim Engstrand is a veteran who has served in combat areas and wants to serve First District with the same honor and distinction with which he served the country in uniform.

Jim Engstrand is a 22-year Armed Forces veteran who is seeking the nomination for First District Congress. He has reserved space at Whistle Binkies North and South for a meet and greet with delegates and potential supporters on Thursday, March 25 at the following times and locations:

South Binkies 5:30– 7pm

247 Woodlake Dr. SE

Rochester, MN 55904

507-424-1227

North Binkies 7:30– 9pm

3120 Wellner Drive NE

Rochester, MN 55906

Their website is http://www.whistlebinkiespub.com/

Bend Over, America!

Stupak Payola

Obama Administration Awarded Hundreds of Thousands in Airport Grants to Stupak’s District Two Days Before Vote

Was this Yet Another Backroom Deal to Force Obama’s Bill Down the American People’s Throats?

Three airports in the district of infamous fence-sitting and ultimately kowtowing Democrat Bart Stupak were awarded $726,409 in grants by the Obama Administration just two days before a vote on Obama and Pelosi’s government takeover of healthcare.

Did Stupak compromise his supposed principled stand against taxpayer funding of abortion in exchange for taxpayer dollars for pet projects?

See the list of payola projects here. For all of Stupak's self-righteous posturing about being a "pro-life" Democrat, as if such an animal existed outside the realm of his delusional fantasy world, before Sunday's vote, his mind was made up for him two days prior to the health care showdown.

Washington was corrupt enough before Obama but now his "Chicago Way" has brought a new brand of rot and moral decay to the nation's capital.

Doctor Obama Will See You Now

"This is What Corruption Looks Like"

Judas Stupakariot

In his most shameful quid pro quo yet, Barack Obama bought off the votes of Rep. Bart Stupak and his supposedly pro-life Democrat coalition with the promise of issuing an executive order barring the use of federal funds for abortions once the socialist health care distortion bill is approved by the House of Representatives.

Barack Obama has done something that even Bill Clinton, the most shameless president in American history until up to a little over a year ago, never dared to do: he threw Planned Parenthood and the abortion obsessed base of the Democrat Party under the bus.

Democrat Candor: "If you don't tie our hands, we'll keep stealing."

Obama's Health Care Lies

"I don't spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or Senate. What I can tell you is that the vote that's taken in the House will be a vote for health care reform. And if people vote yes, whatever form that takes, that is going to be a vote for health care reform. And I don't think we should pretend otherwise. And if they don't, if they vote against it, then they're going to be voting against health care reform and they're going to be voting in favor of the status quo."

~ Barack, The Liar

The pretense comes from Obama and his minions in Congress. The truth is altogether different from what the president claims. The procedural rules that would circumvent the Constitution have Obama's stamp of approval on them. Moreover, if Obama and Pelosi have their way, the House won't vote on the bill at all. If the "Slaughter Solution" is approved, the senate version of the Democrat's healthscare bill would go to Obama for signature without a single vote taken in the House.

Notice how Obama tries to dodge the question as to whether crooked deals like the "Louisiana Purchase," the "Cornhusker Kickback" and the "Gator Aid" are part of the final bill.

Kudos to FNC's Bret Baier for not allowing Obama to filibuster answers.

Obamacare's "Final Solution": Slaughter the Constitution

Louise Slaughters the Constitution

House aid confirms Slaughter Solution never used before; Still, 'they are moving down that road'

By: Mark Tapsc

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have never before been asked to pass legislation by "deeming" it approved under a House rule instead of following the process required by the U.S. Constitution in which they actually vote on the proposal itself, according to a senior aide to House Republicans.

The procedure - dubbed by critics as the "Slaughter Solution" - is the brain-child of House Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-NY, who, at the request of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, is trying to fashion a rule that would allow the House to move toward passage of a health care reform bill without a recorded vote on the Senate version.[More]

Meanwhile, the Constitution, that ever-evolving document in the socialist's feeble mind, states the following:

U.S Constitution, Article I, Section VII, Clause II. Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively...

What the "Slaughter Solution" essentially means is an end run on the Constitution of the United States of America for the sake of Big Brotha's shameful legacy. The Chicago Way has infected Washington under the auspices of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

Tea Party Power!

First District Republican candidate Jim Engstrand

1,046 Days to Go: Hang in There, America!

Dan Rather Wouldn't Buy Watermelons From This Man

Barack Obama's War on Jobs: Mission Accomplished

Payrolls fall by 36,000; U.S. jobless rate steady at 9.7%

By Rex Nutting, MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. nonfarm payrolls declined for the 25th time in the past 26 months, falling by 36,000 in February to a seasonally adjusted 129.5 million, the Labor Department estimated Friday.

The nation's jobless rate was steady at 9.7% as the number of people employed rose by 308,000, according to the household survey.

Severe snowstorms during the survey week may have depressed the payroll count, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics said it could not quantify the impact. Read the full report on the Labor Department website.

Ahead of the report, economists cautioned against reading too much into the data, in light of the likely impact of the storms. It'll take until April before a clean count can be given. [More]

Wait until April and they will revise the unemployment rate upwards more likely. Blaming the weather for the 9.7% unemployment number is voodo. There is absolutely no way they can blame one factor on the disappointing report.

We are being lied to. Again. And for the sake of propaganda.

How's the president's "focus" on jobs working for America?

Obama is the reverse Midas. Everything he touches turns to crap.

"No Fingers Left to Wag": Corrupt Democrats and Their Hypocrite Leadership Exposed

Democrats Mired in Swamp They Vowed to Drain
Thursday, 04 Mar 2010 06:35 PM

A rash of ethics lapses has given Democrats an election-year headache: how to convince skeptical voters that they're any cleaner than Republicans they accused of fostering a "culture of corruption" in 2006.


From the conduct of governors in Illinois and New York to backroom deals over President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul, Democrats are drawing their own criticism when it comes to the ethics of public officials.


The party that pledged to "drain the swamp" if given control of Congress finds itself sinking in the muck nine months from Election Day, when every member of the House and 36 Senate seats will be chosen.


The sword of sanctimony cuts both ways, warns a Republican felled by his own scandal in the weeks before the 2006 elections, as then-Rep. Nancy Pelosi led the campaign cry to end "the culture of corruption that has thrived under this Republican Congress."


"If you claim that you are going to hold a group accountable, as she professed, then it requires you to really be serious about that and not make excuses when members of their own party don't meet those same standards," former Rep. Mark Foley, who resigned weeks before the 2006 election because of allegations he pursued former House pages, told The Associated Press.

Anyone who believed Speaker of the House self-righteous pronouncements that she and the Democratic Party majority were going to change the Republican "culture of corruption" in Congress are either woefully or wilfully ignorant of the morally bankrupt recent history of the the socialist party itself.

While peddling a crusade against "The Culture of Corruption," Pelosi managed to secure "A Monopoly on Corruption" for her party and administration. From Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's tax evasion to Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd's sweet mortgage deal from Countrywide, corruption and wrongdoing have been the hallmark of Pelosi's tenure and Obama's presidency.

And now, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, is forced to "temporarily" give up the chairmanship of the tax-writing arm of the United State Congress because he has cheated on his taxes. You can't make that up, folks.

Obama's audience for health care: House Democrats

A group of health care professionals watched President Obama's speech yesterday at the White House; cable television networks also tuned in.

But neither the live crowd nor the television viewers appeared to be his primary audience. Instead, Obama seemed to speaking to wavering House Democrats -- particularly the more conservative Democrats -- who hold the keys to the "up-or-down" health care vote that the president demanded.

It won't be easy. For example, Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., told ABC's Good Morning America, he will oppose the president unless anti-abortion language is included in a final bill.

One of the arguments Obama presented in order to convince "wavering" Dems that they should pass his health care abomination bill is that "government can work." Notice he didn't say that it does, only that it "can." Sounds like even he admits it hasn't yet.

Dems are not "wavering." They are scared spitiless and won't fall on their swords for Obama.

Obamacare 2.139

Time to act on health care, Obama declares

Mar 3 02:59 PM US/Eastern

By ALAN FRAM
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama urged Congress Wednesday to vote "up or down" on sweeping health care legislation in the next few weeks, endorsing a plan that denies Senate Republicans the right to kill the bill by stalling with a filibuster.

"I don't see how another year of negotiations would help. Moreover, the insurance companies aren't starting over," Obama said, rejecting Republican calls to begin anew on an effort to remake the health care system.

The president made his appeal as Democratic leaders in Congress surveyed their rank and file for the votes needed to pass legislation by majority vote—invoking rules that deny Senate Republicans the right to block it through endless stalling debate. Obama specifically endorsed that approach

GOP leaders were unmoved, despite Obama's declaration that he had incorporated a few of their proposals into his revised legislation.

The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said a decision by Democrats to invoke rules that bar filibusters would be "met with outrage" by the public, and he said Obama was pushing a sweeping bill that voters don't want.

"They've had enough of this yearlong effort to get a win for the Democratic Party at any price to the American people," McConnell said on the Senate floor.

At its core, Obama's proposal would extend health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans while cracking down on insurance company practices such as denying coverage on the basis of a pre-existing medical condition.

With his remarks, delivered at the White House, Obama took the lead in a bid by congressional Democrats to mount a party-line rescue mission for the health care legislation that appeared on the cusp of passage late last year, only to be derailed when Republicans won a Massachusetts Senate seat that gave them the ability to block it.

There is still no certainty about the outcome—or even that Democrats will agree to the series of changes that Obama said represented Republican contributions.[More]

It's the totalitarian way. Al Gore said the same thing about "global warming" when he unilaterally declared that "the debate is over." Obama has declared that everything that needs to be said about health care reform has been said and that he will be the final arbitrer. The man's arrogance has no limits.

Obama's challenge continues to be his own corrupt party's inability to coalesce around a single bill. December elections are weighing heavier on Democrats' minds than Obama's legacy.

Democrat Culture of Corruption

“In order to avoid my colleagues having to defend me during their elections, I have this morning sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi asking her to grant me a leave of absence until such time as the ethics committee completes its work.”

~ Self-serving congressman Charlie Rangel (D-NY) on the deep ethical doodoo he is in.

Rangel Steps Aside from Post During Ethics Inquiry

By CARL HULSE and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

WASHINGTON — Representative Charles B. Rangel of New York announced on Wednesday that he would temporarily step down from his powerful post as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in an attempt to avert a politically bruising fight over permanently stripping the gavel from his hands.

But Republicans on Wednesday afternoon said they had received a ruling from the presiding officer of the House that Mr. Rangel’s decision had indeed permanently removed him from the helm of the committee, which exerts enormous legislative influence in the House as it controls legislation involving taxes and revenues.

The events set in motion intense jockeying for advantage just as the House and Senate Democrats try to accelerate action on health care legislation.

“In order to avoid my colleagues having to defend me during their elections, I have this morning sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi asking her to grant me a leave of absence until such time as the ethics committee completes its work” on a number of accusations against him, the congressman said in a hurriedly scheduled meeting with reporters.

The ethics committee admonished Mr. Rangel last week for violating Congressional gift rules by accepting corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean in 2007 and 2008.[More]

Ironically, later in the NY Times piece, we read the following:

"Mr. Rangel’s announcement came as Republicans were pressing for a vote calling for his ouster, while several Democrats had already made clear that they would no longer support Mr. Rangel."

Democrats were not going to defend Mr. Rangel during the next election. They would rather throw him under the proverbial bus sooner rather than later, i.e. during the thick of the midterm elections. And don't even get me going on the sham of "temporarily stepping down" from the powerful chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee," the tax writing arm of Congress. Rangel is a crook and a cheat.

Wasn't Pelosi going to deal with the "culture of corruption" in Congress? Instead, she's become an enabler.

Annie, Get Your Gun: It's Open Season on RINOs

“I think the message is pretty clear: conservatism has never been stronger than it is today, and we are taking our country back.”

~ Texas Governor Rick Perry, during his gubernatorial primary victory speech after defeating RINO senator Kay Bailey Hutchison for the Republican nomination.


Hutchison Concedes Texas G.O.P. Primary to Perry
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and CLIFFORD KRAUSS

HOUSTON — A year ago, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison had all the advantages when she laid her plans to run for governor: a high popularity rating, a party shaken by President Obama's victory, a big bankroll and, most important, the backing of influential Republicans, who felt the incumbent governor, Rick Perry , was too divisive and too conservative.

But by the time Republican voters went to the polls here in a primary on Tuesday, the political ground had shifted under Senator Hutchison, who lost in a three-way race to Mr. Perry.

Early on, he had courted the Tea Party movement and had wooed social conservatives worried about abortion and right-wing Republicans fed up with Congress. Throughout the campaign, Mr. Perry had run against Washington, portraying Ms. Hutchison as a spendthrift who had supported pork barrel projects and the bailout for the banks.

Speaking to supporters on Tuesday night in Driftwood, Tex., the governor said the election had proven the conservative movement in America was alive and well despite the Obama presidency.

“I think the message is pretty clear: conservatism has never been stronger than it is today, and we are taking our country back,” Mr. Perry said.

So strong was the anti-Washington sentiment here that a political neophyte from the far-right wing of the Republican Party, Debra Medina, came in third in the race with a respectable showing, despite having only a fraction of the money of Mr. Perry and Ms. Hutchison.

The senator called the governor and conceded defeat at 9:30 p.m. Central time, when the returns showed she was losing 31 percent to 52 percent, putting Mr. Perry over the mark he needed to avoid a run-off. She thanked her supporters, including former President George Bush, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and former Vice President Dick Cheney .

“It has been a long road and a hard-fought campaign, but tonight we fell short,” she said, calling on the party to unite behind the governor.

Mr. Perry will face Bill White, the former mayor of Houston, in the general election. Mr. White cruised to an easy victory over six other Democrats.

“You have got to give Rick Perry and his team a great deal of credit for being the longest-serving governor in Texas history and still running a campaign as an outsider,” said Mark Sanders, a Republican consultant. “Outsiders are what people want right now.”

The Republican primary in Texas reflects the grass-roots rebellion among conservatives against moderate Republicans and Democrats that has shaken up politics across the country, beginning with the defeat of the Democratic candidate for Senate in Massachusetts by Scott Brown, a Republican.

RINOs and Democrats beware! The American people are coming for you.

Parenthetically, Perry knows that the Tea Party Movement is instrumental in restoring fiscal and political sanity to the government.

Update: The NY York Times update the headline for the story above. It now reads, "'Yes for Governor Is 'No" to Washington." I guess they figure the story was about Perry's victory, not Hutchison's defeat. There may be hope for the lamestream media yet.