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Nov 22, 2013 19:16:42 GMT -5
Post by Tails82 on Nov 22, 2013 19:16:42 GMT -5
Why not become even more unlikeable when you can't sink much lower as it is?
www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/22/dems-reveal-2014-strategy-smash-and-grab/
Dems reveal 2014 strategy: Smash and grab
The Obama administration will delay by one month next year’s ObamaCare enrollment period, pushing what promises to be broader and even more painful disruptions to existing policies past midterm elections. With Democrats poised to lose control of the Senate, this could be a very big deal. With new regulations set to ban more policies and the prospect of millions of Americans being dumped from their employer-based health insurance, next fall promises to be a painful season for ObamaCare implementation. But by delaying the start of the enrollment season, the White House may be able to push some of the outrage past Election Day and perhaps spare vulnerable Democrats. With massive disruptions and exploding premiums for existing policy holders expected, a Nov. 1 start date will come just four days ahead of voting and long after many citizens have gone to the polls to cast early ballots.
"Early vote for us without thinking so we can steal your insurance a few days later!"
Do they think we're stupid?
The move by Senate Democrats to dump nearly 225 years of precedent and end the 60-vote threshold for presidential appointments for every post other than Supreme Court justice will give President Obama a historic opportunity to ram through his nominees...It would seem to be a rather unfortunate time for Democrats in Washington to make a naked power grab. Americans already don’t trust them with the powers they have amid the ObamaCare crash and nobody likes to see politicians do anything naked. At all. Fire up the base, prepare for months of terrible turmoil and know that if you lose the Senate, at least you will have left a legacy of a liberal judiciary and new regulations enacted by swiftly-confirmed appointees. These are not the actions of people who expect things to improve anytime soon.
online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304791704579212213849755246
Senate Rules for Radicals
the great irony is that Democrats voted to end the practice of judicial filibusters that they pioneered when George W. Bush was President. As the minority from 2003-2005, Democrats demanded 60 votes to confirm executive-branch nominees like John Bolton for U.N. Ambassador.
For the first time they also insisted on 60 votes for judicial nominees Miguel Estrada, Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen, Carolyn Kuhl, Henry Saad, William Pryor, David McKeague, Richard Griffin, Charles Pickering and William Gerry Myers.
Only when Republicans threatened to break the filibuster themselves in 2005 did Democrats agree to allow a vote on some judges. But Mr. Bolton was still blocked, and when Democrats regained the majority in 2007 they began a new filibuster jag to block nominees of all sorts through the end of Mr. Bush's term. Yet now that Republicans are returning the favor, Democrats are up in arms.
The move shows how foolish Republicans like John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Orrin Hatch were to worry that if they broke the filibuster, Democrats would then do it too. Democrats did it anyway. The only way to deter bloody-minded Democratic behavior is to treat Democrats as they treat Republicans. Democrats sicced special prosecutors on GOP Presidents for years, but they gave up the independent-counsel statute only after Ken Starr investigated Bill Clinton.
The next time they hold the Senate and White House, Republicans should employ the same weapon. Democrats are pretending that they are only breaking the filibuster for lower-court nominees, not for the Supreme Court. They can dream on.
The next GOP President should line up Federalist Society alumni for judicial nominations like planes waiting to take off at O'Hare International Airport. Imagine two or three more Clarence Thomases on the High Court confirmed with 51 Senate votes. Planned Parenthood can send its regrets to Harry Reid.
Democrats who rewrote Senate rules on Thursday should also understand that they have now opened the door to repeal ObamaCare with only 51 votes.
Revenge will be sweet, but will it happen? Or are Democrats doing this because they think they're comfortably at the authoritarian stage? We've already had Obama tell people he'll ignore Congress, maybe he'll ignore elections? We had a Democrat governor actually tell him to do that. So we'll see if this gets resolved through ballots or bullets.
www.frc.org/washingtonupdate/dems-nuke-rules-say-bomb-voyage-to-bipartisanship
Apparently, the Majority Leader lives by the same creed as the President: if you don't like the law, break it. When his party was in the minority, you can bet he wasn't fighting to give the Republicans more control. In fact, Reid is on record calling the same idea, "un-American!" Why the urgency to change the rules? Now that Democrats have forced all sorts of radical policies on Americans, they need a way to protect them. And stacking the courts with Obama loyalists is the most logical way to accomplish that.
Some might be surprised, but foreign welfare works about as badly as domestic welfare:
www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/22/fraud-corruption-and-bid-rigging-allegations-continue-to-hit-usaid/
USAID programs hit by fraud, corruption and bid-rigging allegations
One new investigation shows millions are being stolen and sold on the black market from money meant for malaria drugs in Africa.
The malaria initiative was set up to help fight the disease but has been hijacked by organized networks in the region that steal large amounts of the drug and resell it on the street.
Of the drugs sent, more than 20 percent were diverted each year, with a street value of $60 million, according to a recent Wall Street Journal investigation.
The allegations in Africa come on the heels of widespread concern about how $1.1 billion in Haiti earthquake recovery aid has been spent in the three years since the disaster hit, as well as aid funding in Afghanistan.
Fitton’s organization has documented multiple allegations of money marked for foreign aid being funneled, mismanaged and used in unintended ways.
“Foreign aid is notoriously corrupt,” Fitton said. “The surprise is that anyone is surprised by this anymore. Twenty percent of aid is lost. If this happened in the private sector, (the program) would have been shut down.”
The conservative Heritage Foundation also claimed that patterns of abuse abroad demonstrate the USAID model of aid has repeatedly failed to deliver sustained economic growth and development.
“Traditional development assistance does not work, at least not if the goal is to foster sustainable development in poor countries,” Heritage researcher James Roberts wrote in a 2011 paper.
There have also been a series of problems with U.S. cash going to Cuban aid and allegations of widespread bid-rigging for projects in Iraq...nearly all of the $74 million USAID spent to promote democracy in Cuba had been distributed without any competitive bidding or oversight that ultimately led to massive amounts of fraud and waste.
According to the report, a Miami-based group used taxpayer dollars to buy “a gas chainsaw, computer gaming equipment and software (including Nintendo Game Boys and Sony PlayStations), a mountain bike, leather coat, cashmere sweaters, crab meat and Godiva chocolates.”
online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304439804579208262999418146
More on the EPA employee fraudster. How could the agency be so dumb? Well, if you believe in climate change, you'll believe in anything.
Cruz news
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFjCTgxL_n4
www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/22/dems-reveal-2014-strategy-smash-and-grab/
Dems reveal 2014 strategy: Smash and grab
The Obama administration will delay by one month next year’s ObamaCare enrollment period, pushing what promises to be broader and even more painful disruptions to existing policies past midterm elections. With Democrats poised to lose control of the Senate, this could be a very big deal. With new regulations set to ban more policies and the prospect of millions of Americans being dumped from their employer-based health insurance, next fall promises to be a painful season for ObamaCare implementation. But by delaying the start of the enrollment season, the White House may be able to push some of the outrage past Election Day and perhaps spare vulnerable Democrats. With massive disruptions and exploding premiums for existing policy holders expected, a Nov. 1 start date will come just four days ahead of voting and long after many citizens have gone to the polls to cast early ballots.
"Early vote for us without thinking so we can steal your insurance a few days later!"
Do they think we're stupid?
The move by Senate Democrats to dump nearly 225 years of precedent and end the 60-vote threshold for presidential appointments for every post other than Supreme Court justice will give President Obama a historic opportunity to ram through his nominees...It would seem to be a rather unfortunate time for Democrats in Washington to make a naked power grab. Americans already don’t trust them with the powers they have amid the ObamaCare crash and nobody likes to see politicians do anything naked. At all. Fire up the base, prepare for months of terrible turmoil and know that if you lose the Senate, at least you will have left a legacy of a liberal judiciary and new regulations enacted by swiftly-confirmed appointees. These are not the actions of people who expect things to improve anytime soon.
online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304791704579212213849755246
Senate Rules for Radicals
the great irony is that Democrats voted to end the practice of judicial filibusters that they pioneered when George W. Bush was President. As the minority from 2003-2005, Democrats demanded 60 votes to confirm executive-branch nominees like John Bolton for U.N. Ambassador.
For the first time they also insisted on 60 votes for judicial nominees Miguel Estrada, Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen, Carolyn Kuhl, Henry Saad, William Pryor, David McKeague, Richard Griffin, Charles Pickering and William Gerry Myers.
Only when Republicans threatened to break the filibuster themselves in 2005 did Democrats agree to allow a vote on some judges. But Mr. Bolton was still blocked, and when Democrats regained the majority in 2007 they began a new filibuster jag to block nominees of all sorts through the end of Mr. Bush's term. Yet now that Republicans are returning the favor, Democrats are up in arms.
The move shows how foolish Republicans like John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Orrin Hatch were to worry that if they broke the filibuster, Democrats would then do it too. Democrats did it anyway. The only way to deter bloody-minded Democratic behavior is to treat Democrats as they treat Republicans. Democrats sicced special prosecutors on GOP Presidents for years, but they gave up the independent-counsel statute only after Ken Starr investigated Bill Clinton.
The next time they hold the Senate and White House, Republicans should employ the same weapon. Democrats are pretending that they are only breaking the filibuster for lower-court nominees, not for the Supreme Court. They can dream on.
The next GOP President should line up Federalist Society alumni for judicial nominations like planes waiting to take off at O'Hare International Airport. Imagine two or three more Clarence Thomases on the High Court confirmed with 51 Senate votes. Planned Parenthood can send its regrets to Harry Reid.
Democrats who rewrote Senate rules on Thursday should also understand that they have now opened the door to repeal ObamaCare with only 51 votes.
Revenge will be sweet, but will it happen? Or are Democrats doing this because they think they're comfortably at the authoritarian stage? We've already had Obama tell people he'll ignore Congress, maybe he'll ignore elections? We had a Democrat governor actually tell him to do that. So we'll see if this gets resolved through ballots or bullets.
www.frc.org/washingtonupdate/dems-nuke-rules-say-bomb-voyage-to-bipartisanship
Apparently, the Majority Leader lives by the same creed as the President: if you don't like the law, break it. When his party was in the minority, you can bet he wasn't fighting to give the Republicans more control. In fact, Reid is on record calling the same idea, "un-American!" Why the urgency to change the rules? Now that Democrats have forced all sorts of radical policies on Americans, they need a way to protect them. And stacking the courts with Obama loyalists is the most logical way to accomplish that.
Some might be surprised, but foreign welfare works about as badly as domestic welfare:
www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/22/fraud-corruption-and-bid-rigging-allegations-continue-to-hit-usaid/
USAID programs hit by fraud, corruption and bid-rigging allegations
One new investigation shows millions are being stolen and sold on the black market from money meant for malaria drugs in Africa.
The malaria initiative was set up to help fight the disease but has been hijacked by organized networks in the region that steal large amounts of the drug and resell it on the street.
Of the drugs sent, more than 20 percent were diverted each year, with a street value of $60 million, according to a recent Wall Street Journal investigation.
The allegations in Africa come on the heels of widespread concern about how $1.1 billion in Haiti earthquake recovery aid has been spent in the three years since the disaster hit, as well as aid funding in Afghanistan.
Fitton’s organization has documented multiple allegations of money marked for foreign aid being funneled, mismanaged and used in unintended ways.
“Foreign aid is notoriously corrupt,” Fitton said. “The surprise is that anyone is surprised by this anymore. Twenty percent of aid is lost. If this happened in the private sector, (the program) would have been shut down.”
The conservative Heritage Foundation also claimed that patterns of abuse abroad demonstrate the USAID model of aid has repeatedly failed to deliver sustained economic growth and development.
“Traditional development assistance does not work, at least not if the goal is to foster sustainable development in poor countries,” Heritage researcher James Roberts wrote in a 2011 paper.
There have also been a series of problems with U.S. cash going to Cuban aid and allegations of widespread bid-rigging for projects in Iraq...nearly all of the $74 million USAID spent to promote democracy in Cuba had been distributed without any competitive bidding or oversight that ultimately led to massive amounts of fraud and waste.
According to the report, a Miami-based group used taxpayer dollars to buy “a gas chainsaw, computer gaming equipment and software (including Nintendo Game Boys and Sony PlayStations), a mountain bike, leather coat, cashmere sweaters, crab meat and Godiva chocolates.”
online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304439804579208262999418146
More on the EPA employee fraudster. How could the agency be so dumb? Well, if you believe in climate change, you'll believe in anything.
Cruz news
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFjCTgxL_n4
Spinning round and round like the deadly hands of a radium clock. 
