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“I’m a Christian by choice,” the president said. “My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Being my brothers and sisters’ keeper, treating others as they would treat me, and I think also understanding that Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we’re sinful and we’re flawed and we make mistakes and we achieve salvation through the grace of God.”
J Street Liberal Lobby Group Designed To Manipulate American Jews
None other than George Soros and most likely his alter ego a.k.a. Consolacion Esdicul funneled 2/3rds of J Street's total FY 2008-2009 funding all the while keeping Soros' association hidden.
Now that Soros has been outted as the force behind J Street, The Obama regime is moving quickly to distance themselves from this leak.
J Street fancies itself a lobby group representing "progressive" American Jewish interests. It is this group who would bargain away the Israeli homeland in the name of Arab appeasement. While 95% of Israelis oppose the Obama pro Palestinian agenda, J Street fronting for Soros, does the bidding for the New World Order.
Only one word is fitting for J Street- Betrayer.
Steve
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By Eli Lake
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The Washington Times
September 24, 2010
The Jewish-American advocacy group J Street, which bills itself as the dovish alternative to the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobby, has secretly received funding from billionaire George Soros despite previous denials that it accepted funds from the Hungarian-born financier and liberal political activist.
Tax forms obtained by The Washington Times reveal that Mr. Soros and his two children, Jonathan and Andrea Soros, contributed a total $245,000 to J Street from one Manhattan address in New York during the fiscal year from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009.
The contributions represent a third of the group's revenue from U.S. sources during the period. Nearly half of J Street's revenue during the timeframe — a total of $811,697 — however, came from a single donor in Happy Valley, Hong Kong, named Consolacion Esdicul.
Jeremy Ben Ami, J Street's executive director, said in an interview that the $245,000 was part of a $750,000 gift from the Soros family to his organization made over three years. Mr. Ben Ami also said that in this same period he had raised $11 million for J Street and its political action committee.
Mr. Soros made billions as a hedge fund manager and currency speculator, founding the Quantum hedge fund that, until the early 1980s, was based in an offshore tax haven in the Dutch Antilles Islands. Both his business success and his subsequent charitable giving in support of favored political and social causes have made him a figure of immense controversy both in the United States and around the world.
One of the world's wealthiest philanthropists, Mr. Soros gave initially gave money to support Eastern European dissidents at the end of the Cold War, particularly in his native Hungary, through the Open Society Institute.
But during the George W. Bush administration, Mr. Soros stepped up his funding of more partisan liberal organizations in the United States, including MoveOn.org and Media Matters for America. He has also strongly criticized U.S. policies regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including the Bush administration' decision in 2007 not to recognize a Palestinian unity government that included the militant Islamist Hamas movement.
He specifically criticized AIPAC at the time in a New York Review of Books article, saying the group had "overreached itself" in trying to ensure a hawkish, pro-Israeli policy in the U.S. government.
AIPAC "became closely allied with the neocons and was an enthusiastic supporter of the invasion of Iraq," Mr. Soros wrote.
Mr. Ben Ami in past interviews has described J Street as President Obama's "blocking back" in Congress, with the group billing itself as the lead Jewish-American group supporting elements in the Israeli political spectrum who favor negotiating a lasting two-state peace deal with the Palestinians.
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Now that Soros has been outted as the force behind J Street, The Obama regime is moving quickly to distance themselves from this leak.
J Street fancies itself a lobby group representing "progressive" American Jewish interests. It is this group who would bargain away the Israeli homeland in the name of Arab appeasement. While 95% of Israelis oppose the Obama pro Palestinian agenda, J Street fronting for Soros, does the bidding for the New World Order.
Only one word is fitting for J Street- Betrayer.
Steve
+++++++++++++++++++++++
By Eli Lake
-
The Washington Times
September 24, 2010
The Jewish-American advocacy group J Street, which bills itself as the dovish alternative to the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobby, has secretly received funding from billionaire George Soros despite previous denials that it accepted funds from the Hungarian-born financier and liberal political activist.
Tax forms obtained by The Washington Times reveal that Mr. Soros and his two children, Jonathan and Andrea Soros, contributed a total $245,000 to J Street from one Manhattan address in New York during the fiscal year from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009.
The contributions represent a third of the group's revenue from U.S. sources during the period. Nearly half of J Street's revenue during the timeframe — a total of $811,697 — however, came from a single donor in Happy Valley, Hong Kong, named Consolacion Esdicul.
Jeremy Ben Ami, J Street's executive director, said in an interview that the $245,000 was part of a $750,000 gift from the Soros family to his organization made over three years. Mr. Ben Ami also said that in this same period he had raised $11 million for J Street and its political action committee.
Mr. Soros made billions as a hedge fund manager and currency speculator, founding the Quantum hedge fund that, until the early 1980s, was based in an offshore tax haven in the Dutch Antilles Islands. Both his business success and his subsequent charitable giving in support of favored political and social causes have made him a figure of immense controversy both in the United States and around the world.
One of the world's wealthiest philanthropists, Mr. Soros gave initially gave money to support Eastern European dissidents at the end of the Cold War, particularly in his native Hungary, through the Open Society Institute.
But during the George W. Bush administration, Mr. Soros stepped up his funding of more partisan liberal organizations in the United States, including MoveOn.org and Media Matters for America. He has also strongly criticized U.S. policies regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including the Bush administration' decision in 2007 not to recognize a Palestinian unity government that included the militant Islamist Hamas movement.
He specifically criticized AIPAC at the time in a New York Review of Books article, saying the group had "overreached itself" in trying to ensure a hawkish, pro-Israeli policy in the U.S. government.
AIPAC "became closely allied with the neocons and was an enthusiastic supporter of the invasion of Iraq," Mr. Soros wrote.
Mr. Ben Ami in past interviews has described J Street as President Obama's "blocking back" in Congress, with the group billing itself as the lead Jewish-American group supporting elements in the Israeli political spectrum who favor negotiating a lasting two-state peace deal with the Palestinians.
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Obama Erases “Creator” from Declaration — Again
September 28th, 2010 Terrence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com
Just seven days after he sparked controversy by omitting the word “Creator” when he closely paraphrased the passage from the Declaration of Independence that says all men “are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights,” President Barack Obama again omitted the Creator when speaking about the “inalienable rights” that “everybody is endowed with.”
This time the president was speaking at a Sept. 22 fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, and his reference to “inalienable rights” was not as close a paraphrasing of the Declaration as it had been the week before.
“And what was sustaining us was that sense that, that North Star, that sense that, you know what, if we stay true to our values, if we believe that all people are created equal and everybody is endowed with certain inalienable rights and we’re going to make those words live, and we’re going to give everybody opportunity, everybody a ladder into the middle class, every child able to go as far as their dreams will take them–if we stay true to that, then we’re going to be able to maintain the energy and the focus, the fight, the gumption to get stuff done,” Obama said at the DCCC/DSCC event, according to the transcript posted by the White House.
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Dear Friends:
This is the last week the Senate is in session before recessing for the November elections, and the Democrats are hoping to ram a mountain of legislation through the Senate with no debate and no votes. Yesterday, I announced that I will stop them. You can read more about this in the Politico report entitled, "Jim DeMint Vows Roadblock."
The practice of passing secret bills by "unanimous consent" has grown out of control in recent years. Rather than scheduling time to debate and amend measures, Harry Reid waits until the last minute and then demands that a stack of bills be passed without debate. If anyone objects to his demands, he calls them an obstructionist and tries to publicly embarrass them into submission. You may remember earlier this year when he tried to do this to Senator Jim Bunning from Kentucky. Bunning wanted the next unemployment insurance extension to be paid for (not an unreasonable request) but Reid thought he could get his way if he staged a showdown that made it look like Bunning was blocking emergency release for unemployed workers.
Now Reid is at it again. With just a few days left before the Senate adjourns, he's preparing to force a number of bills through at the last minute. But I'm not going to play along and I don't care if he or if anyone attacks me. In fact, my staff has notified every office in the Senate that if they don't disclose their last-minute bills by the close of business today, I will object to their passage.
Americans are tired of watching Congress pass bills without ever reading them, debating them, or even voting on them. Democrats complain all the time about obstructionism, but Americans aren't upset about Congress doing too little. They're mad that Congress is doing too much without any concern for the consequences.
According to a new report by the Congressional Research Service, over 90 percent of all legislation passed by the Senate is done without a vote. Many of these bills are non-controversial measures to rename post offices, but many contain substantial policy changes that carry big price tags. It's time to stop knee-jerk policy-making and start carefully reviewing legislation to ensure it's constitutional and supports the principles of freedom that are the backbone of this great country.
I'm sure Harry Reid and his liberal allies will scream "obstruction!" as I force them to be transparent with the American people, but someone needs to stand up to this nonsense. The American people did not elect us to look the other way while Harry Reid bankrupts our country with bills that neither he nor anyone else has even read.
If you agree that senators should not be allowed to rush dozens of bills through at the last minute before Congress adjourns and if you want more senators in Washington to stand up this destructive process, then please support the Senate Conservatives Fund and our group of principled candidates.
Unlike the establishment in Washington, these new leaders have the backbone to fight for our principles. They have the courage to stand up to the big spenders in both political parties and will help us put an end to secret bills in Congress.
There are just five weeks left until election day and the Senate Conservatives Fund is pulling out all the stops to raise another $2 million. Our plan will help raise additional support for these candidates and to run hard-hitting television ads to defeat their liberal opponents. Here are the 10 conservative patriots we're working overtime to push across the finish line:
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- Mike Lee in Utah
- Sharron Angle in Nevada
- Ron Johnson in Wisconsin
- Dino Rossi in Washington
- Joe Miller in Alaska
- Christine O'Donnell in Delaware
Thank you all for your continued support and encouragement. The establishment is very threatened by what you've accomplished so far this year. Let's keep fighting until the very end to make sure this is an earthquake election that ends business as usual in Washington.
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Coons: I Will Bring Yale Divinity School Values to Senate
Serving in the United States Senate would be a "great way for me to apply the principles and values that were honed at YDS." --Delaware Democrat and U.S. Senate nominee Chris Coons, to the Yale Divinity School Notes from the Quad, September, 2010Wow.
Chris Coons, the supposedly sure-thing Democratic opponent of Delaware Republican U.S. Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell, gave an interview published this month in Notes from the Quad, a publication of the Yale Divinity School (YDS) -- the school where Coons spent the early 1990s earning a Master of Arts in Religion (M.A.R.) specializing in ethics, graduating in 1994.
Topic?
Coons repeatedly expressed his determination to bring what he calls Yale Divinity School "values" to the U.S. Senate and public life in general. He wants, he says, to "put the educational and faith-formation experience of YDS into practice in the world." Coons says he has always been interested in "values-based leadership" and "enjoys the challenge of integrating across the practical and the values based." He sees his function as a public official as engaging in a "values formation role" and says he intends to use elected office as a chance to "apply the principles and values that were honed at YDS." After listing the issues he would face in the U.S. Senate he says that making the "tough choices…is all about values-based leadership."
So.
If you've spent two or three years in a significant institution of learning like the Yale Divinity School getting a Master's degree in Religion -- and boast that when elected to the United States Senate you intend to bring the values you learned at that institution to Washington and the world, then the question becomes, in the case of Chris Coons:
What values does Yale Divinity School teach?
Values are transmitted by a university in at least three ways: courses, assigned reading, and last but certainly not least through the leadership and professors of the school. Which makes the following three questions about the Yale Divinity School values Chris Coons insists he will bring to Washington very important questions. They are:
• What kind of values are taught in Yale Divinity School courses?
• What kind of values are found in the books Yale Divinity School assigns as required reading to its students?
• What kind of values are role modeled by the professors or leaders of Yale Divinity School through their own writings and publications?
So. Are you sitting down? Sure? Good. We begin.
Yale Divinity School Courses and Required Reading
• Witchcraft and Witch Hunting: Specifically listed as REL 717: Witchcraft and Witch Hunting, the "REL" presumably stands for "Religion." Apparently Christine O'Donnell's main offense when it comes to dabbling in witchcraft in high school on a date is some sort of Ruling Class snobbery that she didn't go to Yale Divinity School, where witchcraft has been quite officially part of the school's curriculum. The very same school from which Chris Coons insists he has taken his values.
Not to get too non-Ruling Class here, but, like, cool! What do you study at Yale Divinity School when you are learning the values behind witchcraft as officially assigned on the Witchcraft reading list? (As opposed, of course, to non-Ruling Class girls doing the teenage-rebellion thing in high school.)
Well, apparently Witchcraft for the Ruling Class (graduate school division) consists in re-classifying witchcraft as -- don't you just love this? -- multiculturalism. That's right. Multiculturalism. Ahhhh but of course! The multicultural perspective on witchcraft! So what about the reading on witchcraft? If only Christine O'Donnell had just gotten a heads up on the Yale Divinity School-approved reading list for witchcraft! For example, let's peer into one of the assigned Yale Divinity School reading texts on the subject: Witches of the Atlantic World: An Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook.
What is this book all about? Well, Amazon.com tells us in its "Product Description" section that this bit of assigned reading from the Yale Divinity School, the precise Yale Divinity School from which Chris Coons proudly tells us he gets his values -- values he wants to bring to Washington -- that "this unique anthology is the first to provide a multicultural perspective on witchcraft…."
So in other words, Christine O'Donnell's real mistake when she mentioned a rebellious teenage-date while on Bill Maher's show over a decade ago was that she didn't blush and gush: "Ohhhhh Bill, witchcraft is sooooooooo multicultural."
Of course, not being a member of the Ruling Class like the Ruling Class Hollywood Bill, who has demonstrated his sophistication by smartly declaiming on The Conan O'Brien Show that Americans are "stupid" -- Christine O'Donnell was made to sound clueless. When in fact she just didn't understand how smart and sophisticated -- how Yale -- her nano-second high school-rebellion date with a witchcraft guy really was. And to think Maher took video advantage of this Country Class Lass on her visit to Hollywood when across the continent in staid New Haven in 1994, Chris Coons was getting a Master's Degree from Hogwarts --sorry -- the Yale Divinity School.
Yale Divinity School, the school that quite officially teaches witchcraft values -- make that multicultural witchcraft values -- in a course labeled "RELIGION 786." Or, as they might say at Hogwarts, Witchcraft 101.
Two questions: Is Bill Maher really Lord Voldemort? Is Chris Coons Draco Malfoy without the hair?
But let us not be Bewitched (sorry, Samantha). There's more than studying Witchcraft going on at Yale Divinity, the place from which Chris Coons says he gets his values. There is, for example:
• Queer Worship. You read that right. The formal name for this course is REL 786, Liturgy and Gender (Queer Worship). Queer Worship, you see, stands for…stands for…well, let's just say the course description says in the wonderfully baroque style of academia that the course offers students like Mr. Coons once was "the opportunity to reflect critically on how ….queer theories and theologies are impacting how Christian worship is performed and reflected upon."
Uh-huh.
So, what does one do if absorbing the values of Queer Worship? When one tires of reading up on the multicultural wonders of witchcraft, of course. If one is intent on becoming a United States Senator from Delaware, and transmitting the values of Queer Worship as you guide the ship of state -- what do you read?
Well, the official Yale Divinity School reading list -- the same one that presents witchcraft as an example of multiculturalism -- suggests (OK, mandates; this is the school's official reading list) Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism is a great place to start. And Queer Globalizations? What values are to be found there? A check over at Amazon shows such interesting chapters and sections as "The Wily Homosexual" "Queer Values in a Global Economy" "Redecorating the International Economy: Keynes, Grant and the Queering of Bretton Woods," "Stealth Bombers of Desire," and, um, more of exactly the kind of values Chris Coons promises (or is that threatens?) to bring to the United States Senate.
• Feminist/Womanist/Gendered Theologies:This course is listed as "REL 749." It is designed, the course description says, "to formulate a robust theological understanding of today's theopolitical issues" by "using feminist, womanist, and ethnic gendered theologies." Womanist theology? That would be? A religious movement focusing on how exactly to liberate -- there's that pesky Marxist word again -- African women in America. Drawn from feminist and liberation theology, there appears to be not a word of Witchcraft 101 or Queer Worship in this course.
Mandatory YDS reading for this gem? Since this course includes but is certainly not limited to liberating African women in America, can you guess what leads the reading list? Why, what better book to have on your shelf in the U.S. Senate if you're Chris Coons than a tome on Liberation Theology, Feminist Division? (Presuming you've already gotten the Witchcraft and Queer Worship collection in hand.) The Marxism-as-Christianity philosophy that Mr. Coons himself favored when hustling over to South Africa to volunteer for the Liberation Theology crowd that is the South African Council of Churches. Liberation Theology, remember, originated in Latin America -- and sure enough the first book on the mandatory reading list is the classic (?) Mujerista Theology by Ada Maria Asisi-Diaz. Mujerista theology brings it all together. Feminist theology and Latin American liberation theology nicely stirred so that when Coons is assigned to, say, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, Delaware voters can rest assured the values Coons learned at Yale Divinity School are shared with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.
• Introduction to Christian Ethics II:Yet another opportunity here in "REL 715" for Coons to study up on his favorites. Black Liberation Theology guru James Cone is mandatory reading here. Values taught in the reading for a class on Christianity? In God of the Oppressed Cone salutes the values of Marx in a chapter called "Marx and the Sociology of Knowledge" while also musing about "Jesus is Black and the "Meaning of Liberation."
Think of this. Marxism being taught in a course on Christian Ethics. Now there's an interesting value.
Perhaps even more telling about the Yale Divinity School values Chris Coons professes to admire are those learned through the mandatory reading of The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience by Ronald J. Sider.
Who is Ronald J. Sider?
Sider, is, like Coons, a Yale Divinity School graduate and "social justice" advocate.
He is described by fellow left-wing evangelist Tony Campolo this way: "If it looks liberal, and it smells liberal, and it tastes liberal, it's liberal." Sider pushes the values behind the idea that Evangelical Christians "are more likely to hold racist views than other people" and that capitalism is sinful if not outright immoral. Says he in the language of the values admired at Yale Divinity School:
If God's Word is true, then all of us who dwell in affluent nations are trapped in sin. We have profited from systematic injustice.… We are guilty of an outrageous offense against God and neighbor.Sider has his own think tank, the Sider Center working with the Evangelicals for Social Action (ESA). The ESA began with the issuing of "The Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern" (linked at the website above), a gem of a value-laden left-wing document that says in part:
We must attack the materialism of our culture and the maldistribution of the nation's wealth and services…. Before God and a billion hungry neighbors, we must rethink our values regarding our present standard of living and promote a more just acquisition and distribution of the world's resources.In other words, these would be the values of wealth redistribution and social justice of not only Yale Divinity School and Obama-enthusiast Chris Coons -- but yes indeed, the Obama administration itself.
We could go on and on and on here. There isn't room enough to talk in depth about the values to be found in the mandatory reading that is, say, Indecent Theology. This value driven beauty of a book, according to its reviews, integrates "Latin American liberation theology, feminist theology, queer theology, and other theologies of the poor and oppressed" to emphasize that "all theology is sexual."
And so on.
Are we getting the idea of what kind of values so impressed Mr. Coons at Yale Divinity School? This is a school devoted to the divinity of secular leftist extremism, the philosophical golden calf that is the real God at the center of Yale Divinity School. This is the real core set of values taught to students like Chris Coons.
And Chris Coons is dead serious about bringing these Yale Divinity School values to Washington.
LET'S MOVE FROM THE COURSES and reading list of Yale Divinity School on to the third category, personnel. The people on the ground who help run the place. Here are but two who are representative of the larger belief system on full display in terms of courses and reading material offered or required. It must be noted here that no one is questioning their First Amendment rights to speak or write their beliefs. Rather, the point is the stunning lack of intellectual diversity, itself a notable value in a prestigious school whose values Chris Coons insists he will bring with him to Washington if elected.
Yale Divinity School Professors:
• Thomas Ogletree: The Dean of the Yale Divinity School during Coons' time at YDS was Thomas Ogletree. Professor Ogletree has also been the Frederick Marquand Professor Emeritus of Ethics and Religious Studies at YDS. He is now listed among "Faculty Emeriti" after years of teaching Ethics, the very subject in which Coons received his degree from YDS.
A snapshot of Dr. Ogletree's view of the world that he imparted to his Ethics students can be found in a 1974 book he co-wrote that bears this title: From Hope to Liberation: Towards a New Marxist-Christian Dialogue Co-wrote? And with whom did Professor Ogletree, future Dean of Yale Divinity School and Ethics Professor for almost two decades, have as his co-author?
That would be the late Herbert Aptheker. The same Mr. Aptheker who is known to history famously in the day as a prominent member of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA and the founder of the American Institute of Marxist Studies.
• Sister Margaret A. Farley: Sister Margaret, Professor Emerita of Christian Ethics -- Ethics being Coons' focus at YDS -- has her own interesting background. She shares with a late colleague the fact of being the first Catholic member of the YDS faculty.
But Sister Margaret is not your run-of-the-mill Catholic nun. She is, in Catholic circles, famous as the Sister of Mercy feminist, pro-abortion activist. In 1984, Sister Margaret signed a statement supporting abortion that appeared as an ad in the New York Times. In a review of Sister Margaret's book Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, Anne Barbeau Gardiner, herself a Professor Emerita (of English at John Jay College of the City University of New York), titled her review of Sister Margaret's book: Reverend Mother Libertine. Ouch. Why? Because among other things Sister Margaret is a staunch supporter of abortion, defends masturbation, "heaps contempt on the Catholic view that marriage involves the 'total gift' of self," "contradicts the teaching of the Catholic Church by endorsing divorce and remarriage," and makes a "full-throated defense of homosexual relationships." Or, again quoting Gardiner, "defends the entire gamut of sexual activity outside of marriage."
One does not have to be a Catholic, as I am not, to understand instantly that all of these positions are in flagrant opposition to Catholic Church doctrine. If one disagrees with such vehemence on the fundamentals of one's religious faith, is it ethical to claim the privileges bestowed by the church on a nun? Yale obviously sees no conflict-of-values here, not the slightest ethical problem in the world. Which is presumably why Sister Margaret gets to teach Ethics at Yale Divinity School. And why Yale Divinity School has a "Margaret A. Farley Assistant Professor of Social Ethics."
Really.
One last Yale Divinity School values reading assignment to take a look at in order to understand the values of Chris Coons and what they really mean for both Delaware voters and the rest of America.
That course would be Just Hospitality. REL 922. The mandatory reading features The Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Written some thirty years ago by Paulo Freire, a Brazilian educator who died in 1997, Freire was…can you guess? -- a committed socialist.
Now.
LET'S WIND UP by keeping the focus on Chris Coons, the Democrat opposing Christine O'Donnell for the U.S. Senate in Delaware.
Coons is already holding public office, the job of New Castle County Executive. Knowing that he is eager to implement the values he so "animatedly" (in the words of his interview) embraces, how has he gone about this in New Castle County?
Here are but two examples of his Yale Divinity School values at work in New Castle.
• Prevailing wage costs: Coons put the Yale Divinity School social justice philosophy to work as a county council president by voting for a prevailing wage provision for county-funded construction projects. The ordinance insisted in its language that the social justice policy "means lower construction costs on public projects." A year later, on October 1, 2004, the Wilmington News-Journal's Ron Williams reported that, lo and behold, as a result of Coons actions the prevailing wage provision not only didn't lower construction costs as promised, this Yale Divinity School value in action "has cost taxpayers more than $4 million for 12 county contracts" -- meaning an extra $4 million than would have been the case without applying this particular YDS value. Coons also voted to have "the County or its Agents" authorized to inspect any employer's private payroll records "to ensure compliance," the latter precisely the type of "soft tyranny" that has helped ignite the Tea Party.
• Sick Leave Policy: In 2008 Coons employed his Yale Divinity School values to pay $1.2 million in taxpayer monies to just 58 county retirees -- for unused sick time. The next year -- 2009 -- he did the same thing, this time paying over $600,000 to just 40 county retirees for unused sick leave. When taxpayers protested Coons made clear he had no intention of changing the policy.
Sound familiar? The wildly wrong spending estimates, the intrusion by government into the private sector, the stiff arrogance and refusal to change course when constituents express concern? This is, of course, the core Obama/left-wing value system at work, the values taught day-in-and-day-out at Yale Divinity School.
Coons, reported his YDS interviewer, "animatedly" vowed he was determined to bring the values he learned at YDS to Washington as a Delaware Senator. Those values -- formed by a school teaching Witchcraft as multiculturalism, Queer Worship, feminist theology, liberation theology and recognizing a Catholic nun as an ethicist because she openly opposes Catholic doctrine while accepting the offices and honors of her church -- would be considered little short of bizarre by millions of Americans were they aware of them. Tellingly, like many liberals who live out the famous quote from the late liberal New Yorker film reviewer Pauline Kael (who is said by the New York Times to have remarked after Nixon's 49-state victory over George McGovern that she couldn't understand this because "I only know one person who voted for Nixon"), Coons is clueless, adrift in the liberal bubble.
Yet his background, beyond a cursory and predictably shallow look at his Amherst-college "Bearded Marxist" article, is being completely ignored by a liberal media obsessed with painting Christine O'Donnell as some sort of out-of-the-mainstream kook.
OH YES. DON'T FORGET the values behind the Coons appeal to atheists.
That's right. To top all of this off Coons also said his job as a public official was to show that "I… value those that have no faith in a higher being." Which is to say, not satisfied with the values he has learned from a school that instructs on the multiculturalism of witches not to mention the values found behind Queer Worship, socialists and Marxists, Coons is making a determined pitch for the atheist vote. What a guy! What values!
And Christine O'Donnell is not in the mainstream? How utterly laughable. Among other lessons in looking at the values Coons promotes is the realization that liberals who study in glass covens shouldn't throw broomsticks.
Again. Hello? Republican Establishment? Delaware is in the middle of one of the greatest smear campaigns in recent American political history -- purposely designed to distract from the reality of what is happening all over America right this minute.
Why? Are you kidding?
Without doubt, the central problem in America at this instant is the economy -- no jobs, no paychecks, bankruptcies, lost homes, lost savings. Americans are quite justifiably both livid and scared to death.
And what values does Chris Coons insist he will bring to bear on this problem?
The values taught at Yale Divinity School. Values exemplified by the exotic, overripe teachings, readings, preachings, and writings of socialists, Marxists, and camp followers of Liberation Theology who believe in one variation or another that capitalism is immoral, a sin. This includes the one-time Dean Thomas Ogletree and his late writing partner the American Communist Party's Herbert Aptheker, the assigned writings of Liberation Theology's James Cone, Ronald Sider the anti-capitalist Evangelical leftist, and the Brazilian socialist Paulo Freire. Their philosophy, it is now abundantly clear, is at the core of the values taught by the Yale Divinity School that Coons so admires.
Except, of course, these values are already in Washington. These are the values (think the Community Reinvestment Act, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) that brought the U.S. economy to its knees in the first place.
These values are in fact the centerpiece of the Obama Administration and the actions of the Harry Reid-led U.S. Senate Coons hopes to join. These are the values that are in the process of turning America from a job-and-paycheck entrepreneurial society to a nation of food stamp recipients as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich recently noted on The Sean Hannity Show.
In fact, the left-wing Center on Budget and Policy Priorities -- say again, that's left-wing!! -- reports that the number of food stamp cases in Delaware has shot up over 45% in just two years -- a tragic reminder of exactly what happens when the Yale Divinity School values Chris Coons so admires become public policy.
Which makes the question for voters in Delaware and across the country a simple one: paycheck or food stamps? A job -- or begging from the government?
When you cut through all the academic jargon, intellectual pretense, and nonsense, the end result of the values Chris Coons wishes to bring to Washington from the Yale Divinity School are the same as they always are with the dismal socialist experiment through the centuries. Inducing poverty, financial and personal humiliation, they are legendary in creating unsustainable debt and the cruelest of economic misery. In the case of the values learned at Yale Divinity School by Coons this is all served up with a side dish of utter nuttiness.
And that's no joke.
More Evidence of Rampant Voter Fraud in 2008
September 27th, 2010 Robert Moon, Examiner.com
From one of the group’s founders, Catherine Engelbrecht:
“What we saw shocked us. There was no one checking IDs, judges would vote for people that asked for help. It was fraud, and we watched like deer in the headlights…
…The first thing we started to do was look at houses with more than six voters in them [a common red flag for voter fraud]…Vacant lots had several voters registered on them. An eight-bed halfway house had more than 40 voters registered at its address. We then decided to look at who was registering the voters.”
Their report, which unsurprisingly found that SEIU was at the center of the voter fraud operation, is now being reviewed by the Texas secretary of state’s office and by the Harris County district attorney for possible prosecution.
Read more.
GOP MAJORITY HAD BETTER INVESTGATE ALL ASPECTS OF OBAMA'S BACKGROUND AND CORRUPTION IN THE WHITE HOUSE!...
Dem Whip: GOP majority will issue birther subpoenas
- 09/27/10
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) warned Republicans will investigate President Obama's birthplace if they take over Congress.
Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, said Republicans will grind the government to a halt by issuing subpoenas against the Obama administration over a number of issues if they take power. He predicted that "gridlock" in Congress would "define" Obama's first term if Republicans win the House, but expressed confidence his party would prevail.
Clyburn noted that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the ranking Republican on the House Oversight panel, has said will will issue "subpoenas everywhere" if Republicans win the majority.
"The White House will be full-time responding to subpoenas about where the president may or may not have been born, whether his mother and father were ever married, and whether his wife's family is from Georgetown or Sampit," Clyburn said in an interview published Monday on TheGrio.com, an African-American news website. "That will define the next two years of the president's administration.
Issa has promised to ramp up his probes into the Obama administration, but his spokesman said he would not pursue the "birther" controversy and that the congressman has not spoken about the issue. [WHAT?????...ISSA BETTER NOT TAKE THIS ISSUE OFF THE TABLE...INVESTIGATE ELIGIBILITY AND OBAMA WILL BE FORCED TO RESIGN!...HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND THE SCRUTINY!]
“The Democratic Caucus doesn’t take Jim Clyburn seriously – Americans shouldn’t take his ridiculous claims seriously either," said Issa spokesman Kurt Bardella in an e-mail. Bardella noted that Issa has already released his "blueprint for oversight" that focuses on investigating the expansion of government.
Some Republican congressional candidates and lawmakers have raised questions about Obama's country of birth and citizenship since he took office. Activists who have expressed skepticism of Obama's American citizenship have been labeled "birthers."
Obama was born in Hawaii, [EXCUSE ME!...WHO SAYS?????] and the White House released a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate [YEAH...RIGHT...SAME OLD BULL CRAP!...SORRY YOU LEFTIST IDIOTS...NOT TRUE!...EDUCATE YOURSELVES!] . But that has failed to silence arguments that he was not born in the U.S. [DAMN RIGHT!...]
In the minority, Issa has gone after the administration on several issues including their alleged intervention in the Pennsylvania and Colorado Democratic Senate primaries.
But Clyburn suggested that those investigations will turn from political issues into Obama's personal life if the GOP takes over the House.
Clyburn blamed conservative media for the phenomenon and said others could rebut those views if the Fairness Doctrine, a government policy abolished in the 1980s that required broadcasters to give both sides equal time on political programs, was still in place.
"Twenty-five years ago, we didn't have Rush Limbaugh spewing hate all day, every day, and others on the radio, and we didn't have a TV station dedicated to misrepresenting the facts and people making $20 million to go out and say what they know not to be true," he said. "This has created an atmosphere of toxicity."
Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, said Republicans will grind the government to a halt by issuing subpoenas against the Obama administration over a number of issues if they take power. He predicted that "gridlock" in Congress would "define" Obama's first term if Republicans win the House, but expressed confidence his party would prevail.
"The White House will be full-time responding to subpoenas about where the president may or may not have been born, whether his mother and father were ever married, and whether his wife's family is from Georgetown or Sampit," Clyburn said in an interview published Monday on TheGrio.com, an African-American news website. "That will define the next two years of the president's administration.
Issa has promised to ramp up his probes into the Obama administration, but his spokesman said he would not pursue the "birther" controversy and that the congressman has not spoken about the issue. [WHAT?????...ISSA BETTER NOT TAKE THIS ISSUE OFF THE TABLE...INVESTIGATE ELIGIBILITY AND OBAMA WILL BE FORCED TO RESIGN!...HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND THE SCRUTINY!]
“The Democratic Caucus doesn’t take Jim Clyburn seriously – Americans shouldn’t take his ridiculous claims seriously either," said Issa spokesman Kurt Bardella in an e-mail. Bardella noted that Issa has already released his "blueprint for oversight" that focuses on investigating the expansion of government.
Some Republican congressional candidates and lawmakers have raised questions about Obama's country of birth and citizenship since he took office. Activists who have expressed skepticism of Obama's American citizenship have been labeled "birthers."
Obama was born in Hawaii, [EXCUSE ME!...WHO SAYS?????] and the White House released a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate [YEAH...RIGHT...SAME OLD BULL CRAP!...SORRY YOU LEFTIST IDIOTS...NOT TRUE!...EDUCATE YOURSELVES!] . But that has failed to silence arguments that he was not born in the U.S. [DAMN RIGHT!...]
In the minority, Issa has gone after the administration on several issues including their alleged intervention in the Pennsylvania and Colorado Democratic Senate primaries.
But Clyburn suggested that those investigations will turn from political issues into Obama's personal life if the GOP takes over the House.
Clyburn blamed conservative media for the phenomenon and said others could rebut those views if the Fairness Doctrine, a government policy abolished in the 1980s that required broadcasters to give both sides equal time on political programs, was still in place.
"Twenty-five years ago, we didn't have Rush Limbaugh spewing hate all day, every day, and others on the radio, and we didn't have a TV station dedicated to misrepresenting the facts and people making $20 million to go out and say what they know not to be true," he said. "This has created an atmosphere of toxicity."
"President" Barack Obama Coddles International Outlaws At the United Nations
By Joseph A. Klein Full Story
President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said that “Normal practices of diplomacy . . . are of no possible use in dealing with international outlaws.”
Rather than listen to FDR’s advice, President Barack Obama squandered yet another opportunity to confront today’s international outlaws during his annual visit to the United Nations.
By Joseph A. Klein Full Story
President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said that “Normal practices of diplomacy . . . are of no possible use in dealing with international outlaws.”
Rather than listen to FDR’s advice, President Barack Obama squandered yet another opportunity to confront today’s international outlaws during his annual visit to the United Nations.
Washington Times Ad: Obama can't cover this up by plastering an internet copy of his phony Certification of Live Birth on his forehead.
This full page ad is running in today’s issue of the Washington Times National Weekly edition, page 5. It will be in 10s of thousands of mail boxes all over the USA by the end of today or tomorrow. Obama...
Sunday, September 26, 2010
A Census-based estimate has revealed an unexpected twist on reapportionment.
From Politico
RICHARD E. COHEN
9/26/10
A new estimate of House reapportionment gains and losses resulting from this year’s Census reveals a larger-than-expected impact on Florida and New York. According to Washington-based Election Data Services, which reviewed new Census data from a private-sector demographic firm, Florida would gain two House seats and New York would lose two seats.
They would join two other states that already were projected to have multiple-seat changes. Based on the tentative Census data, Texas is expected to gain four House seats and Ohio likely will lose two seats.
According to the EDS estimate, six other states each would gain one seat: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington. Eight states would each lose one seat: Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
In addition to the Florida and New York changes, the other major switch in the projected reapportionment is that Missouri will lose a House seat instead of Minnesota, according to EDS President Kimball Brace. He released the study for a redistricting seminar of the National Conference of State Legislature in Providence, Rhode Island, this weekend.
Brace said that he had an “inkling” of the Missouri/Minnesota switch, but added, “We were most surprised at the shift of an additional district out of New York and down to Florida, even though that follows the population movement in this country since World War II.”
Although these estimates likely will be close to the official outcome, there are no guarantees until the Census Bureau’s scheduled announcement in late December of the final Census population totals for the 50 states. With those numbers, a long-standing statutory formula will quickly apportion the 435 House seats. That, in turn, will lead to the state-by-state redistricting of House seats, which will revise the congressional maps for the 2012 election.
Assessing the partisan impact remains speculative, not least because November results will determine who controls the state legislature and governor’s office in many states—partisan changes would affect who controls the map-drawing in many states. The outcome of congressional elections in November likely will create additional variables, including partisan control of seats and the relative influence of House members within a state delegation.
Still, some early projections can be made based on current population data, especially for the four states projected to have multiple-seat changes.
In Texas, Republicans are expected to retain control of the legislature and Republican Gov. Rick Perry has a small lead over Democratic challenger Bill White. Even with complete GOP control of redistricting, however, the surge in Hispanic population likely will result in a Democratic gain of one or two of the expected four new seats—including one each in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and in the Houston metropolitan area.
Republicans expect to add a seat in the Austin-San Antonio region and in other rapidly-growing suburban areas. There could be significant redistricting tweaks in heavily Hispanic border districts, which have had large population gains, and in sprawling rural areas where population has been relatively stagnant.
In Florida, Republicans are virtually certain to keep control of the legislature. But Democrat Alex Sink has a narrow lead in polls for the governor’s office that Charlie Crist is vacating. If Sink wins, that would boost Democrats’ redistricting leverage. Earlier Census data have shown that the areas with the largest population increases are in the center of the state—to the north, west and south of Orlando.
The outcome of stiff November challenges to first-term Democratic Reps. Alan Grayson and Suzanne Kosmas could affect those changes since each represents an Orlando-area district. The other districts surrounding Orlando are currently held by Republicans. Districts now held by African-American Democrats and Cuban-American Republicans have had smaller net population changes.
Prospects in the two states that might each lose two House seats are more speculative.
In New York, where Democrat Andrew Cuomo is the front-runner for governor, Republicans have a chance to regain control of the state Senate; Democrats currently have a one-seat edge in that chamber. While Democrats now have 27-to-2 control of the congressional delegation, Republicans are waging serious challenges for several of those seats--if they win in November, some GOP first-termers could find that their seats are early targets of redistricters.
Another factor that will affect New York redistricting if the state loses two House seats is that one of them likely would be carved from the New York City metropolitan area, and the other would come from Upstate. According to early estimates, areas that have had net population losses include Nassau County on Long Island, and Upstate around Rochester and Buffalo.
In Ohio, where GOP challenger John Kasich leads Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland in the contest for governor, Republicans have a good shot to take over the legislature. With GOP control of redistricting, Democrats would face a risk of major losses in the congressional delegation, which they now control 10-to-8. But several House Democrats could be defeated in November, which would affect the redistricting calculus. Population losses have been most striking in Democratic-dominated northeast Ohio.
In the six states expected to gain one seat each, all but Washington have strong Republican influence. That suggests—but does not guarantee—GOP pick-ups. In the eight states that are expected to lose a seat, Democrats appear to be at greater risk. In Massachusetts, for example, each of the 10 seats is now held by a Democrat; the state is certain to lose one Democratic congressman. But in Louisiana, Republicans could be at risk in the likely event that they end up with all of the state’s House seats after Election Day except for the New Orleans-based district.
Aside from these 18 states that could be gaining or losing House seats, other states could see their own sharp-elbowed redistricting battles.
In California, with its 53 seats, Hispanics represent 36 percent of the state’s population and hope to increase their current six seats. Depending on how the new maps are drawn, that could place at risk some of the three African-American House Democrats in Los Angeles, and several Anglo Democrats in southern California and the Central Valley. In the past, the influence of the state’s Hispanics has been limited because large numbers of their population are not citizens or registered voters.
RICHARD E. COHEN
9/26/10
A new estimate of House reapportionment gains and losses resulting from this year’s Census reveals a larger-than-expected impact on Florida and New York. According to Washington-based Election Data Services, which reviewed new Census data from a private-sector demographic firm, Florida would gain two House seats and New York would lose two seats.
They would join two other states that already were projected to have multiple-seat changes. Based on the tentative Census data, Texas is expected to gain four House seats and Ohio likely will lose two seats.
According to the EDS estimate, six other states each would gain one seat: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington. Eight states would each lose one seat: Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
In addition to the Florida and New York changes, the other major switch in the projected reapportionment is that Missouri will lose a House seat instead of Minnesota, according to EDS President Kimball Brace. He released the study for a redistricting seminar of the National Conference of State Legislature in Providence, Rhode Island, this weekend.
Brace said that he had an “inkling” of the Missouri/Minnesota switch, but added, “We were most surprised at the shift of an additional district out of New York and down to Florida, even though that follows the population movement in this country since World War II.”
Although these estimates likely will be close to the official outcome, there are no guarantees until the Census Bureau’s scheduled announcement in late December of the final Census population totals for the 50 states. With those numbers, a long-standing statutory formula will quickly apportion the 435 House seats. That, in turn, will lead to the state-by-state redistricting of House seats, which will revise the congressional maps for the 2012 election.
Assessing the partisan impact remains speculative, not least because November results will determine who controls the state legislature and governor’s office in many states—partisan changes would affect who controls the map-drawing in many states. The outcome of congressional elections in November likely will create additional variables, including partisan control of seats and the relative influence of House members within a state delegation.
Still, some early projections can be made based on current population data, especially for the four states projected to have multiple-seat changes.
In Texas, Republicans are expected to retain control of the legislature and Republican Gov. Rick Perry has a small lead over Democratic challenger Bill White. Even with complete GOP control of redistricting, however, the surge in Hispanic population likely will result in a Democratic gain of one or two of the expected four new seats—including one each in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and in the Houston metropolitan area.
Republicans expect to add a seat in the Austin-San Antonio region and in other rapidly-growing suburban areas. There could be significant redistricting tweaks in heavily Hispanic border districts, which have had large population gains, and in sprawling rural areas where population has been relatively stagnant.
In Florida, Republicans are virtually certain to keep control of the legislature. But Democrat Alex Sink has a narrow lead in polls for the governor’s office that Charlie Crist is vacating. If Sink wins, that would boost Democrats’ redistricting leverage. Earlier Census data have shown that the areas with the largest population increases are in the center of the state—to the north, west and south of Orlando.
The outcome of stiff November challenges to first-term Democratic Reps. Alan Grayson and Suzanne Kosmas could affect those changes since each represents an Orlando-area district. The other districts surrounding Orlando are currently held by Republicans. Districts now held by African-American Democrats and Cuban-American Republicans have had smaller net population changes.
Prospects in the two states that might each lose two House seats are more speculative.
In New York, where Democrat Andrew Cuomo is the front-runner for governor, Republicans have a chance to regain control of the state Senate; Democrats currently have a one-seat edge in that chamber. While Democrats now have 27-to-2 control of the congressional delegation, Republicans are waging serious challenges for several of those seats--if they win in November, some GOP first-termers could find that their seats are early targets of redistricters.
Another factor that will affect New York redistricting if the state loses two House seats is that one of them likely would be carved from the New York City metropolitan area, and the other would come from Upstate. According to early estimates, areas that have had net population losses include Nassau County on Long Island, and Upstate around Rochester and Buffalo.
In Ohio, where GOP challenger John Kasich leads Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland in the contest for governor, Republicans have a good shot to take over the legislature. With GOP control of redistricting, Democrats would face a risk of major losses in the congressional delegation, which they now control 10-to-8. But several House Democrats could be defeated in November, which would affect the redistricting calculus. Population losses have been most striking in Democratic-dominated northeast Ohio.
In the six states expected to gain one seat each, all but Washington have strong Republican influence. That suggests—but does not guarantee—GOP pick-ups. In the eight states that are expected to lose a seat, Democrats appear to be at greater risk. In Massachusetts, for example, each of the 10 seats is now held by a Democrat; the state is certain to lose one Democratic congressman. But in Louisiana, Republicans could be at risk in the likely event that they end up with all of the state’s House seats after Election Day except for the New Orleans-based district.
Aside from these 18 states that could be gaining or losing House seats, other states could see their own sharp-elbowed redistricting battles.
In California, with its 53 seats, Hispanics represent 36 percent of the state’s population and hope to increase their current six seats. Depending on how the new maps are drawn, that could place at risk some of the three African-American House Democrats in Los Angeles, and several Anglo Democrats in southern California and the Central Valley. In the past, the influence of the state’s Hispanics has been limited because large numbers of their population are not citizens or registered voters.
The Tea Party is now more powerful than President Obama
Members of the Tea Party rally in Washington (Photo: Getty)
As CNN puts it:
A solid majority of all Americans — 56 percent — say that Obama has fallen short of their expectations. As a result, the president is not in a position to help struggling Democratic candidates; only 37 percent of likely voters say they are more likely to vote for a congressional candidate backed by Obama.The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll also gives President Obama his lowest approval rating so far – just 42 percent, which will be deeply worrying to the White House. This is nearly three percentage points below the RealClearPolitics average of polls which currently gives the president a 44.9 percent approval rating, and three points lower than the latest Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll, which has Obama at 45 percent.
In contrast, half of all likely voters now say they are likely to choose a candidate supported by the conservative Tea Party — contributing to the GOP’s 53 to 44 percent lead when such voters are asked which party’s candidate they will choose in November.
Significantly, the CNN poll comes after several days of intense attacks by the Left on the Tea Party in the wake of its surge in the recent political primaries, and reports of a planned campaign by the White House against the movement. As the assault on the Tea Party intensifies in October, support for it will probably rise even further, with President Obama’s own lacklustre popularity taking a deeper hit.
The reason for the Tea Party’s stunning success and President Obama’s equally remarkable decline is relatively simple. A truly popular grassroots movement has captured the fears and concerns of tens of millions of Americans over the relentless rise of Big Government and the growing threat to economic and individual freedom under the Obama administration, while channeling their hopes and aspirations for the future based upon a return to the founding ideals of the Constitution.
In contrast, an out of touch presidency that exudes arrogance and elitism at every turn continues to contemptuously spend other people’s money with abandon, building up a crippling debt that will ultimately destroy America’s long-term prosperity if left unchecked. It is a stark choice that the two sides offer, and it’s not surprising that a clear majority of Americans are opting for political revolution rather than the status quo.
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Look what's on horizon in San Antonio
'Where's the birth certificate?' billboard posted deep in the heart of Texas
--WND
Look what's on horizon in San Antonio
'Where's the birth certificate?' billboard posted deep in the heart of Texas
--WND
Editorial: Obamacare's bill quickly adds up
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi infamously promised that after the far-reaching, 2,500-plus page bill was passed, we'd know more about it. True enough. On March 23 when President Barack Obama signed the law, 53 percent of voters already were opposed to it, according to Rasmussen Reports. After six months of familiarity, that's grown to 61 percent.
President Barack Obama smiles before a meeting with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in New York on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Pool, Spencer Platt)
These improvements, of course, could be achieved without overhauling the nation's entire health care system. They certainly would have been easier to implement if other costly mandates were removed. Instead, Obamacare piles on these along with numerous other new mandated costs, regulations, taxes and burdens, belying the law's euphemistic title.
"It is going to cost somebody something," said Greg Thorson, a University of Redlands health care policy expert.
After six months, the bills are beginning to arrive.
Contrary to the president's claim that health care will be more affordable, premium increases up to 9 percent are planned by Aetna, Inc., some BlueCross BlueShield plans and others, "to pay for extra benefits required under the law," the Wall Street Journal recently reported.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a federal agency, now reports Obamacare will increase health care spending, contradicting the president's promise the law would cover more people at less cost. Despite another promise that Obamacare would reduce the deficit, some now estimate its nearly $2.7 trillion cost over a decade will add hundreds of billions to the national debt.
In March, Americans were promised they could keep coverage and doctors they liked. Now Health and Human Services says as many as 67 percent of individual policies and 80 percent of small business policies will be forced to change. Meanwhile, studies predict Obamacare's massive expansion of Medicaid, which pays 56 percent compared to private sector fees, combined with other requirements and restrictions will result in a 300,000-nurse, 100,000-doctor shortage by 2020, says the conservative Heritage Foundation.
We don't need another six months of Obamacare. Congress' first order of business should be to repeal it.
Doubleheader: LTC Terry Lakin would be violating his sworn oath to the Constitution to obey orders from "ILLEGAL" authority.
THE PRESIDENT AKA COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IS THE APPROVAL AUTHORITY... By Pixel Patriot [note: click pause on player below] "The President is the approval authority, determines the extent of support, and...
MUST READ...TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND OBOTS TOO!...
BORN IN THE USA?
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Hawaii Dems button-lipped
on Obama eligibility status
Doc missing statement candidate
'qualified' under U.S. Constitution
--WND
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Hawaii Dems button-lipped
on Obama eligibility status
Doc missing statement candidate
'qualified' under U.S. Constitution
--WND
ATTENTION MEDIA AND SO-CALLED JOURNALISTS...IF YOU'RE HAVING TROUBLE GETTING YOUR HEAD AROUND THE ELIGIBILITY ISSUE...
... read the articles at the three links below, and review the citations at the embedded links, you will be “literate” about the facts of the “eligibility” story and will be able to inform the public objectively. GOOD INFO FOR OBOTS TOO! (at least those who can read).
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An attorney reviews the evidence relevant to Obama’s eligibility to serve:
Why Can’t Obama Give a Simple and Truthful Answer to the Birth Certificate Question?
by Mario Apuzzo
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An objective view of both sides of the eligibility issue
Obama Presidential Eligibility – An Introductory Primer”
by Stephen Tonchen
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Complete factual biography scrupulously researched:
The Obama Timeline
by Don Fredrick
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An attorney reviews the evidence relevant to Obama’s eligibility to serve:
Why Can’t Obama Give a Simple and Truthful Answer to the Birth Certificate Question?
by Mario Apuzzo
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An objective view of both sides of the eligibility issue
Obama Presidential Eligibility – An Introductory Primer”
by Stephen Tonchen
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Complete factual biography scrupulously researched:
The Obama Timeline
by Don Fredrick
Saturday, September 25, 2010
By Betty Freauf
September 25, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
NewsWithViews.com
Excerpt:
Right now the two party system – especially the Republicans- are in a state of panic because independent Tea Party folks are becoming so successful in America with their only agenda of smaller government and fiscal responsibility.
We, the people, have finally discovered the political party rivalry is merely superficial and meant to keep us busy fighting each other –the politics of distraction. When a third party candidate manages to get on the ballot, the two major political parties immediately begin lecturing voters who would dare support principle over party that their vote would be wasted and the lies are repeated every election but is a vote wasted when people vote their conscience?
Now that the people are becoming educated, my next fear is election fraud and what about all that stimulus money that Barack Obama has stashed away. Will the Black Panthers be at the election precincts with their clubs in hands trying to intimidate voters? They got away with it once. The Barack Administration’s appointed judicial department did nothing about it.
Democrats, who once excelled at voting absentee for Chicago’s dead and a community from which Barack Obama has his roots and his community activism may be suffering “battered party syndrome” at this time but don’t count them out. Electronic voting is easily manipulated.
... The Democrats and Republicans have betrayed us. They have abandoned the ideas and principles upon which our country was founded and sought instead the lure of money and power. Let’s be honest. Ordinary men in the past couldn’t become extraordinary because the two-party system accomplices, the media, keeps them out. The two party system in this country has been a sham and a hoax and as a result, many people simply stay home on Election Day but this election cycle, it appears as though they are being rejuvenated.
Read the full article HERE
Administration’s inaction criminal and impeachable »
OBAMA IS AIDING AND ABETTING CRIMINALS AND THEREFORE GUILTY OF TREASON by Don Hank (Sept. 25, 2010) — I recently published a column on the gradual seizure of ranches in Arizona by Mexican cartels with...September 25 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »
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| Come on Sarah...Time to Step Up To The Plate and Question Obama's Eligibility - GUL |
Sarah Palin questions why the media is so interested in Christine O'Donnell's school records, but NOT Obama's
By Steve Cooper
The Conservative Monster.com
That is a great question Sarah and maybe you should ask your boss Rupert Murdoch that same question? While you are at it ask the puppets Glenn Beck and Bill O' that are also protecting Obama from releasing his records.
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An election for President and Commander in Chief of the Military must strive to be above reproach. Our public institutions must give the public confidence that a presidential candidate has complied with the election process that is prescribed by our Constitution and laws. It is only after a presidential candidate satisfies the rules of such a process that he/she can expect members of the public, regardless of their party affiliations, to give him/her the respect that the Office of President so much deserves.
