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Backroom Deal Will Hide Abortion Funding From Public In Healthcare Bill

Congress has been exposed for making a backroom deal which will keep abortion funding language in the health care bill hidden from public view until the last minute where it will be re-inserted just before the vote.

Lawmakers said the abortion compromise may not be included in the final version of the bill to be released as soon as Wednesday, called the “manager’s amendment.” Instead, it may be included in the “rule,” which is done the day before the vote. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday he did not consider that a violation of his pledge to have the bill language available for three days before a vote.

“If Democrats continue to add closed-door deals to their bill after their manager’s amendment has been introduced, they will break their 72-hour promise,” said Brad Dayspring, spokesman for House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.). “What else might they include in the final version without Congress and the American people knowing about it?”

Centrists and liberals are at odds over language that some interpret as allowing federal funds to go toward abortions.

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What 'WE' Is McConnell Talking About?

EDITORIAL:

Jacob Payne over at PageOneKentucky noted that Kentucky's Mitch McConnell yesterday expressed optimism for the 2010 elections based upon Tuesday nights election of republican governors in Virginia and New Jersey.  But who the hell does he think gets the benefit of those results, him?

McConnell, R-Ky., said the election results will make it more difficult for the president to convince Democrats to support a sweeping health care bill.

McConnell offered strong support for Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, the one Republican who has voted in favor of Democrats’ health care proposals to date.

“The return of the independents is extremely important. And if they’re there a year from now, we’ll have another very good election.” [ABC]

"We" who, Mitch?  The republican power brokers, like yourself, who continue to support RINO's for the sake of party label only?  Don't you get it?  The move afoot in this nation is not based upon blind party loyalty. 

The move afoot in this country is based upon a new awareness that the only loyalty that counts is a loyalty to the people and principles of this nation which have made us great.  And that "we" ain't you.

The Bad Lesson That Is The GOP

Paul Ibrahim, writing for the North Star National has hit upon a disturbing trend.  A bunch of former GOP donors are finding more than one reason to not send money to the RNC, republican candidates or their local party.

“No one’s life is a waste,” a colleague wrote me in reaction to Dede Scozzafava’s withdrawal from the NY-23 congressional election. “You can always serve as a bad example.”

While we can certainly agree with this statement, it is about time we ask, how many bad examples does the Republican establishment need before it learns its lesson?

In 2004, strong support from the Republican establishment allowed liberal senator Arlen Specter to survive a Republican primary challenge from conservative congressman Pat Toomey by a minuscule margin.

In 2006, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) wholeheartedly catapulted itself into a Rhode Island Republican primary, where it spent $1.2 million on behalf of left-wing senator Lincoln Chafee and against his conservative opponent, Steve Laffey, while the Republican National Committee (RNC) deployed the 72-hour get-out-the-vote drive it usually saves for general elections against Democrats. At around the same time, conservative Virginia Senator George Allen lost reelection by a razor-thin margin, handing the Senate over to the Democrats. To say that all the resources wasted by the Republican establishment in Rhode Island would not have had a good chance of giving Allen an extra 0.2 percent of the vote in Virginia would be naïve, to say the least.

In incredible irony, conservatives who had contributed money both to Laffey and to the Republican Party (with the assumption that the money would be used to protect conservative policies against liberal ones) were now seeing their hard-earned cash fighting itself on the airwaves of Rhode Island. Chafee won the primary, lost the general election, and when he no longer needed the Republican establishment, he predictably left the Republican Party and endorsed Barack Obama for President.

Of course, this does not mean conservatives should withhold their money from all elections. There are alternatives. They can contribute to individual candidates.

But enough with the blind contributions to the Republican Party, and with the blind voting for establishment-backed candidates. That the establishment attempts to save face every time it loses, at it is doing now by supporting Hoffman two days before the election, should not blind anyone from the fact that only hours ago, it was throwing money at a genuine leftist while trashing Hoffman, and that in the coming months, it will be supporting a decidedly non-conservative Charlie Crist over a perfectly conservative and perfectly electable Marco Rubio in the Florida Republican Senate primary.

Thus, until the Republican establishment truly gets it – and it might take a long time – conservatives must unite in pledging not one more cent to the Republican Party. There is no sense in subsidizing a permanent Republican minority – and one that isn’t even true to its principles.

For a continued discussion of the un-learned lessons of the GOP, this one article is a must read for conservatives who continue to get fund raising letters from the GOP establishment.  The upshot of the article?  "Not one more cent to the Republican Party"

"The Hill" Says The Real Winner Is Ron Paul

When "The Hill" speaks, people listen.  Just listen to what they said today:

Forget the spin and the slop. The real winner of the 2009 elections is the public official and candidate who has championed the core insurgency driving the election. It is Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul.

Paul embodies the anti-Washington, anti-tax, anti-big government, anti-financial insiderism viewpoints that are galvanizing large numbers of activists and voters. It is not a majority, but a majority has never been Ron Paul's goal. Paul is a conviction politician, an idea man, an advocate and a change agent.

I agree with some things Paul says, and disagree with others, but the truth of the matter, politically, is that his agenda has moved center stage and his people are highly motivated and this is a serious movement that is underestimated and misunderstood by Washington insiders.

But for now, for today, my take is forget the smarties and forget the smoothies, because the real winner of the 2009 elections is the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Ron Paul.

FULL STORY HERE

Same Sex Marriage Rejected In Maine

Voters in Maine repealed a state law which allowed for same sex marriages.  Many had suspected that Maine would be the most likely place for the legislation to survive, however its defeat there brings the total to a unanimous 31 states which have said "NO" to same sex marriage when it has been put to a vote by the people.

Gay marriage has now lost in every single state — 31 in all — in which it has been put to a popular vote. Gay-rights activists had hoped to buck that trend in Maine — known for its moderate, independent-minded electorate — and mounted an energetic, well-financed campaign.

With 87 percent of the precincts reporting, gay-marriage foes had 53 percent of the votes.

The contest had been viewed by both sides as certain to have national repercussions. Gay-marriage foes desperately wanted to keep their winning streak alive, while gay-rights activists sought to blunt the argument that gay marriage was being foisted on the country by courts and lawmakers over the will of the people. [Yahoo News]

New York 23 Race Won By Dem With Less Than 50%

"Ordinary Guy" Doug Hoffman stepped up and ran for Congress in NY district 23.  He ran as a conservative.  The Republican candidate, Dede Sozzafava, dropped out, but remained on the ballot.  Between them they got 52% of the vote against the democrat, Bill Owens, but Owens won.

According to the latest news this morning, with 88% of the vote counted, Hoffman conceded to Owens who is apparently the winner with only 49% of the vote.  The majority of the voters wanted somebody else.

Yet you can bet your sweet bippy that the democrats will spin this as a victory for themselves against the backdrop of a night when John Corzine (D), governor of New Jersey was defeated despite substantial efforts on his behalf by President Obama.  They will also use the NY race to offset their stunning loss in Virginia where conservative candidate Bob McDonnell trounced the democrat, Creigh Deeds in a state which made history by voting for Barack Obama last year.

All in all the night clearly spoke to a growing dissatisfaction with the current progressive fiscal agenda being pursued by Obama, Reid and Pelosi.  It also spoke loudly for the role of independents in the upcoming elections of 2010 as they broke heavily for the conservative candidates in what many see as a complete reversal of their course over 2008.

POLITICO: Uncivil War-The Conservative Challenge To GOP Officials

It has been brewing for many years, a sense that the leaders at the top of the republican party were manipulating the system to secure their power and to discourage the emergence of a conservative grassroots effort.  As Jeremiah Wright might have himself said about the situation, the chickens are coming home to roost.

POLITICO has written that this could prove "a nightmare scenario" for party officials.

In what could be a nightmare scenario for Republican Party officials, conservative activists are gearing up to challenge leading GOP candidates in more than a dozen key House and Senate races in 2010.

Conservatives and tea party activists had already set their sights on some of the GOP’s top Senate recruits — a list that includes Gov. Charlie Crist in Florida, former Rep. Rob Simmons in Connecticut and Rep. Mark Kirk in Illinois, among others.

But their success in Tuesday’s upstate New York special election, where grass-roots efforts pushed GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava to drop out of the race and helped Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman surge into the lead on the eve of Election Day, has generated more money and enthusiasm than organizers ever imagined.

Activists predict a wave that could roll from California to Kentucky to New Hampshire and that could leave even some GOP incumbents — Utah Sen. Bob Bennett is one — facing unexpectedly fierce challenges from their right flank.

“I would say it’s the tip of the spear,” said Dick Armey, the former GOP House majority leader who now serves as chairman of FreedomWorks, an organization that has been closely aligned with the tea party movement. “We are the biggest source of energy in American politics today.”

“What you’re going to see,” said Armey, “is moderates and conservatives across the country in primaries.”

Sound familiar Kentucky?

From Congressman Mike Pence: "Let Your Voice Be Heard"

This video is from Congressman Mike Pence.  You might also note that radio host Mark Levin will join Congresswoman Michele Bachmann on capital steps this Thursday for the March On Washington in opposition to the  massive health care bill due to be voted upon on Friday.

Valerie Jarrett Calls Out GOP For "Extremeism"

Valerie Jarrett is an Iranian American slum lord with close political ties to the most corrupt politicians in Chicago.  According to one report, she knows where all the bodies are buried.  She is also Barack Obama's "Godfather", Tony Rezko's friend and closely linked with Chicago scandals.  She is now a White House Senior Adviser.

She was the one who brought on board the so called "Green Czar" Van Jones who was an open and proud communist who loudly advocated for the adoption of socialist policies through the enforecement of a "Green Agenda."

Now Valerie Jarrett has called the GOP "extreme".  Commenting on Dede Scozzafava's decision to drop out of the race giving the Conservative party candidate a better shot at winning the New York Congressional seat tomorrow, Jarrett said :

"[T]he rise of a Conservative Party challenger in a closely watched upstate New York House election shows that the Republican Party leadership is “becoming more and more extreme, and more and more marginalized.”

“It’s rather telling when the Republican Party forces out a moderate Republican and it says, I think, a great deal about where the Republican Party leadership is right now,” Jarrett said.[POLITICO]

When the likes of Valerie Jarrett call the GOP extreme, you know we are on the right track.

Redistribution Of Wealth Is Real

It is being reported that the health care bill under consideration this week in Washington DC will provide substantial benefits for the poor and be funded by a huge tax increase on the wealthy.

The bill is funded largely from a 5.4 percent tax on individuals making more than $500,000 a year and couples making more than $1 million, starting in 2011. The tax increase would hit only 0.3 percent of tax filers, raising $460.5 billion over the next 10 years, according to congressional estimates.

But unlike other income tax rates, the new tax would not be indexed for inflation. As incomes rise over time because of inflation, more families — and more small business owners — would be hit by the tax.

"Twenty years from now, we're going to see more and more small businesses ensnared into paying higher taxes," said Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan, the top Republican on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.[Yahoo News]

Socialism by any other name stinks just as bad.