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From a hearing today on restoring felon voting rights where Hans A. von Spakovsky testified before the House Judiciary Committee.

From The Corner – The Right of Felons to Vote: The House Takes On the Constitution [Hans A. von Spakovsky]

But the most revealing admission during the entire hearing was made by Representative Cohen. When confronted with our constitutional arguments, he said that if there is a constitutional problem, we just have to find a way to get around it. There seems to be a lot of that going on in the House of Representatives these days.

This is what you get when you vote for a Democrat. After all, they believe the Constitution is nothing more than bill of negative rights.

Rep Steve Cohen D-TN, felons voting, Democrats, US Constitution

This.Is.Perfect!

The Obama Sitcom, Obama, Healthcare, Democrat Corruption

Oh yeah, this is Queen Pelousi all the way. She and Obama are just sweeping away the US Constitution and anything resembling our Constitutional Republic.

Courtesy of The Corner from a post by Jack Fowler.

Pelosi, Doorstep of History, Constitution, Healthcare, Democrat Corruption

The Post American President doesn’t think it’s a good thing for Haitians to know which relief installation is from the United States of America. Just because every other country providing assistance in Haiti is flying their country’s flag Obama thinks if the US flies it’s flag that would indicate we are an OCCUPYING FORCE! This man is ashamed of his country.

From Warner Todd Huston at Big Government:

Never mind that all the other nations have their flags proudly flying above their military relief installations in Haiti. Even Croatia has its coat of arms flying outside its base. Yet not the U.S. Army. No U.S. flag flies anywhere despite the fact that we are far and away the largest force and have supplied the most relief supplies and money to the earthquake recovery effort.

According to USAID, as of January 19, 2010 the U.S. had spent $130,864,571 on aid to the Haitian people to help them recover from the devastating earthquake. By Jan. 25 that number had already increased to $179,883,065. It is only going up from there.

So why did the Obama administration forbid flying our own flag in Haiti?

“We are not here as an occupation force, but as an international partner committed to supporting the government of Haiti on the road to recovery,” the U.S. government’s Haiti Joint Information Center said in response to a query about the flag.

Obama is a disgrace to his country.

Haiti, American Flag, Obama, No US Flag in Haiti

Minnesota is really coming up with the billboards. This one is of the Gipper!

On I-94E near Albertville. I love it, love it, love it.

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has all the info on the sign.

Billboards, Minnesota, Hope and Change, Ronald Reagan

This graphic demonstrates exactly what Pelosi and Slaughter plan to do with the healthcare bill.

From Michelle Malkin – Constitution Butchers: Stop Pelosi’s Slaughter House; Update: Dems don’t have the votes

Meet Constitution-butchers Nancy Pelosi and Louise Slaughter.

Cleaning House…by bloodying it:

Slaughter Option, Rep Louise Slaughter, Rep Nancy Pelosi, healthcare, Obamacare

We’ve seen this so many times with Democrats in government who don’t think they need to pay their taxes. There’s quite a list of Democrat legislators who seem to be immune from paying taxes and then add in Obama’s appointments the picture is very clear. Democrats in power want to tax the rest of us death yet don’t think the rules or laws apply to them because THEY WON! All you have to do is a search of tax cheats at Michelle Malkin’s site and list of ‘Corruptocrats‘ appears.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)introduced legislation that would prevent the hiring and force the firing of government employees and contracted private contractors with tax delinquencies. Funny thing though, the Democrats in the House aren’t interested and according to them, the legislation is ‘dead’.

From Kevin Williamson at National Review – Tiny Tims:

According to data from the IRS and the Office of Personnel Management, nearly 100,000 current federal employees are behind on their taxes. Not all of them are big offenders, but they are delinquent to the tune of nearly $1 billion — an average of about $10,000 each. If retirees collecting federal pensions and military personnel are included, the number is about 267,000, and they owe a total of about $3 billion.

Wonder why the Democrats don’t think Federal employees need to pay their income taxes? Could it be that most of them are Democrats and union members?

Rep Jason Chaffetz, IRS, tax cheats, Democrats, federal employees

If you didn’t catch Glenn Beck’s interview with Rep Eric Massa regarding his ethics charges, you’re lucky! It was an hour of one tall tale after another. This guy is a total degenerate hack. Only the clever and astute writing of David Bellavia even comes close to expressing true disgust at this man’s lies and distortions.

BTW, David Bellavia has written one of the all time BEST non-fiction stories about combat experience in Fallujah, Iraq. His book reads like an intense action novel yet it’s true and his story. See House to House.

Vote Vets’ Rep. Eric Massa: Frakking Full of Shazz

It took FIVE men to peal him off atop his tear streaming tickle-victim.

Mass was endorsed by the tough guy Veterans Political Action Committee (PAC) VoteVets. VoteVets is led by tough guys like Jon Soltz, a veteran of four months of duty in a division extended for fifteen months in Iraq. So far since 2006, VoteVets (click here for the This Ain’t Hell breakdown) has lied about Body Armor issues in a multi-million dollar campaign commercial used against Senator George Allen, had another veteran lie about his service in a Missouri Senate campaign commercial for Claire McCaskill. Still following? VoteVets used a veteran who lied about being a veteran in Denver. A veteran who is not a veteran. There are lies and then there are VoteVets’ Richard Strandlof who is now facing jail time for claiming to be a wounded warrior.

For the past week, Massa has further disgraced VoteVets in a gay scandal.

This is the legacy of VoteVets. You can’t blame them. When you are so desperate to prove your argument, even though you are absent factual truth or first hand testimony, you tend to get that guy on camera quick. So when you meet a fellow defeatist, pro-victimizing veteran, you grab them with both arms. Sometimes vetting these liberal “war heroes” would a good idea. But if Jon Soltz and VoteVets vetted everyone in their group claiming to have served in a combat zone, hell even Jon Soltz wouldn’t be a member of VoteVets.

Eric Massa is the new mascot for everything that is VoteVets.

I’ve taken only a small segment of David Bellavia’s article on Rep. Massa, you really need to go read the WHOLE THING.

Rep Eric Massa, Glenn Beck, David Bellavia, Ticklegate

Scott Rasmussen and Doug Schoen wrote this editorial in the WSJ Online today.

Why Obama Can’t Move the Health-Care Numbers

Why can’t the president move the numbers? One reason may be that he keeps talking about details of the proposal while voters are looking at the issue in a broader context. Polling conducted earlier this week shows that 57% of voters believe that passage of the legislation would hurt the economy, while only 25% believe it would help. That makes sense in a nation where most voters believe that increases in government spending are bad for the economy.

snip….But the bigger problem is that people simply don’t trust the official projections. People in Washington may live and die by the pronouncements of the Congressional Budget Office, but 81% of voters say it’s likely the plan will end up costing more than projected. Only 10% say the official numbers are likely to be on target.

As a result, 66% of voters believe passage of the president’s plan will lead to higher deficits and 78% say it’s at least somewhat likely to mean higher middle-class taxes. Even within the president’s own political party there are concerns on these fronts.

Continue reading….

Obama, Healthcare polling numbers, Scott Rasmussen, Doug Schoen

As if Obama and the Democrat takeover of the US Healthcare industry isn’t enough, Obama’s bureaucrats are going after FISHING!!!! He’s got the leftwing enviro groups like World Wildlife Fund(WWF), Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife, Pew Environment Group……what’s not to worry about? All that is being considered with this panel of government bureaucrats and leftwing environMENTAL activists is concern for animals. There’s no analysis for economic impact included.

This will affect ALL waterways in the US.

From ESPN: Culled out – Obama administration will accept no more public input for federal fishery strategy

The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.

This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is “fluid” and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn’t issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters.

That’s a disappointment, but not really a surprise for fishing industry insiders who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force. These angling advocates have come to suspect that public input into the process was a charade from the beginning.

Guess Obama is just ticking off his list of leftwing groups who supported his campaign.

Fishing regulations, Obama, US waterways