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Handel visits, speaks with Newton GOP
COVINGTON — Republican gubernatorial candidate Karen Handel stopped in Covington on Monday to speak to the Newton County Republican Party as the date nears for a runoff election between her and former U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal.
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The recent passage of the new healthcare bill in the U. S. House of Representatives has sparked fierce opposition by Republicans on health care reform legislation. Senate Republicans are planning to introduce a sequence of amendments to the legislation broadening the newly passed healthcare reform bill, a component of a Republican party promise to make use of each and every parliamentary means existing to challenge the measure.
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(You can receive a free Walmart or Target gift card just for voting and participation. )The amendments additionally are intended to pressure members of the Democratic party to cast unpopular votes leading up to the midterm elections in November. The fixes bill proposed by the Democrats was seen as essential to try to get a hesitant House of Representatives to approve the Senate’s healthcare reform bill. The thin margin of endorsement of the bill authorized President Obama to provide his signature making it into law, providing him a triumph on his primary domestic issue. However, Democratic representatives in the House are currently anticipating the Senate will approve the compromises incorporated into the fixes bill. The compromise bundle adds more than sixty billion dollars to the total program’s cost partially by broadening health insurance financial aid for middle and lower income households. This would likely also increase Medicare’s prescription medication benefit whilst scaling back the measure’s taxations on costly ınsurance coverage plans. Numerous pro-reform organizations, such as Families USA, Health Care for America Now, and the AFL-CIO, are recommending Democrats to vote in opposition to all amendments, including items that they would usually be in favor of, so the reconciliation bill may be approved quickly. In the event that any of the amendments are approved, the reconciliation bill would be returned to the House of Representatives for an additional vote. In the meantime, as the debate on reconciliation started, 3 different committees in the Senate had been about to have hearings: one on a nationwide high speed broadband program, a hearing on federal government fiscal administration as well as one about the environment. All of these were suddenly canceled, though, due to the Republican obstruction.
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It’s no secret that republicans are lost these days which is a sad state. Between Sarah and Rush the moderate middle is running away from their rhetoric and the party. There needs to be stock taken with the talking heads on the news that are doing more harm than good to the party overall. Their mission is not to promote Republican ideals but rather to profit from strife and boost ratings. There needs to be a transformation of sorts with the party where they stop, take a breath, and collect themselves. There is a need for the party to move towards a fiscal conservatism and move away from moral issues. In the end, we will never be the party of the Regan era without a more moderate approach to how we lead and govern.
I propose the next time we hear Rush tell us that he hopes someone fails, or Glenn calls Obama a racist and then literally in the next sentence says something else we call them out on it. We have the power to stop these talking heads from hurting our party. Call their sponsors and complain, call their stations, or blog on them directly. But don’t let them selfishly ruin the Republican party because they feel it’s more important to scare and shock to create ratings than to simply find a solution to our problems and truly participate in the process.
I want to hear from you out there. Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike. We are all in this together and will need to work as a unified group to solve these difficult problems. So put down your biases, walk away from your extreme beliefs and let’s find some middle-ground we can all live with.
What Say U?
Posted by: Kattfish 8/21/2009
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And what are the employment laws? Is Texas an at-will employment state?
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The United States Senate passed the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Customer Protection Work on July 15, 2010, by a vote of 60-39. Final passage from the bill came in the afternoon after the United States Senate voted to end argument by the vote of 60-38 that morning. 3 Republicans voted to invoke cloture, giving the bill’s proponents the sixty votes they required. President Obama was anticipated to sign the bill through the subsequent week. The Dodd-Frank Work will institute far-reaching reforms, such as the creation of an independent Bureau of Consumer Monetary Safety inside the Federal Reserve Board and new federal federal government energy to wind down large, failing monetary organizations. The Act will establish a 10-member Financial Stability Oversight Council to oversee systemic danger, strengthen regulation of financial holding companies and abolish the Workplace of Thrift Supervision, transferring its functions towards the Fed, Office of the Comptroller from the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. How will this effect Fha mortgage lenders?The Act places new limits, referred to as the Volcker Rule, on the quantity of cash a bank can invest in hedge resources and private equity funds. It also discourages monetary organizations from excessive risk-taking by imposing tough new funds and leverage needs. The Work successfully ends new lending under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Additional, it enables the Government Accountability Workplace to conduct a one-time audit from the Fed’s emergency lending activities through the monetary turmoil and establishes the Federal Insurance Office to supervise insurance plan items, other than health insurance plan, in the federal level. Other provisions will establish strict oversight of the over-the-counter derivatives marketplace, such as mandatory clearing and trading and real-time reporting of derivatives trades. Among other measures, the bill will institute numerous investor protections, such as stricter oversight of credit score agencies, securitization reforms and expanded Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement powers. The laws establishes powerful mortgage protections requiring lenders to ensure that their borrowers can repay their loans by establishing a simple federal standard for all house loans. The Work also demands every federal agency to set up an Workplace of Minority and Women Inclusion which will be responsible for all matters from the agency relating to diversity in management, employment and business actions. Subsequent approval from the Conference Record, Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke released a declaration calling the Dodd-Frank Act “a welcome and far-reaching action toward stopping a replay from the recent monetary turmoil. ” He additional “Even before passage of reform laws, the Federal Reserve may be overhauling its supervision and regulation of consumer banking organizations and working to strengthen monetary market infrastructures and practices. We will probably be focused and diligent in carrying out our responsibilities below the new law. ” FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said “a meaningful framework is now in location that addresses many from the weaknesses in our monetary program that led towards the financial turmoil. ” She said how the bill would enforce market discipline by making obvious thatDODD ACT PASSES and creditors will bear the losses that could arise from their measures, and additional that she was “very pleased” that the bill would strengthen funds needs. Through the July 15, 2010, debate on the cloture movement, Senate Republicans continued to criticize the expenses. Banking Committee Ranking Member Richard Shelby, R-Ala. , called the expenses a “2,300 page legislative monster that expands the scope and power of ineffective bureaucracies, creates vast new bureaucracies with little accountability, and seriously undermines the competitiveness of the American economic climate. ” He also charged how the development of a customer safety bureau “will slow financial growth and kill jobs by imposing substantial new regulatory burdens on businesses. ” In his floor comments, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. , complained how the expenses did nothing to tackle the difficulties at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and that it imposed too a lot new federal control. On the other hand, Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, praised the bill’s consumer safety and education provisions. He specifically mentioned new protections for investors and for buyers who send money to relatives outside from the United States. Sen. Michael Bennett, D-Colo. , stated the bill “is the strongest reform of Wall Road since the 1930s. It’ll finish taxpayer-funded bailouts, bring much more transparency and accountability to Wall Street and guard and empower Colorado consumers. ” He also praised the consumer and investor safety provisions, and noted his personal amendment that will end the Troubled Asset Relief Plan. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N. J. , mentioned “The U. S. Senate took an essential step these days by securing the 60 votes required to pass Wall Road reform. The expenses, which will be sent towards the President for his signature subsequent a last vote within the Senate, seeks to bring responsibility and accountability to our financial system. ” He added, “Passage of this expenses will help restore confidence and transparency in our monetary system. ” Prior to the cloture vote, the American Bankers Association released a statement expressing its “disappointment” over the Dodd-Frank Work. The ABAnoted “While its core provisions provide required reform, it’s overloaded with new rules and restrictions on traditional banking institutions that did not cause the monetary turmoil. The result will be more than five,000 pages of new regulations on traditional banking institutions and many years of uncertainty as to what the massive new guidelines will mean. ” In an previously debate about the cloture motion held on July 14, 2010, Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo. , noted the “financial reform bill prior to us is being sold towards the American people as holding Wall Road accountable for that financial turmoil that has hurt each and every American loved ones and company in each and every community across the nation. ” He added, “Unfortunately, just as the stimulus expenses was intended to reduce unemployment, and also the health-care expenses was supposed to reduce well being care costs and reduce the deficit, this expenses, too, will do the opposite of what is advertised. ” Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, mentioned how the he would vote against the Conference Report out of “concerns about changes created to the Senate bill, which I supported. ” He mentioned that “there there’s new spending having a new offset that is a large problem. ” Grassley additional, “I desired to make the derivatives marketplace transparent. The conference record weakened the United States Senate derivatives title. ” He also cited modifications in the provisions dealing with conflicts of interest with credit score companies and accountability with the Federal Reserve Board. In his floor declaration, Sen. George Voinovich had “hoped the House and United States Senate would make some changes towards the expenses in conference committee to tackle the root causes of the monetary turmoil as well as scale back again the over-reaching powers granted towards the new consumer protection bureau. Unfortunately, neither of these modifications occurred, and I nevertheless believe the bill largely ignores the glaring, fundamental problems that led to our present fiscal catastrophe while growing regulatory burdens on business when the economic climate is nevertheless struggling to recover. ” During the July 14, 2010, cloture debate, a number of United States Senate Democrats known as for passage from the expenses. Carl Levin, D-Mich, the Chairman from the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, stated his help for the Dodd-Frank Work and urged his colleagues to do the exact same. He mentioned that “The laws prior to us contains numerous important provisions, but it’s, in sum, an make an effort to develop a firewall between the worst high-risk excesses of Wall Road, on 1 hand, and also the jobs and houses and futures of normal People in america, on the other. ” Levin concluded, “it is time to place the cop back about the beat on Wall Road. It is time to finish Wall Street’s ‘heads we win, tails you lose’ game. ” Voicing her support for that Conference Report, Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark. , Chairman from the Agriculture Committee, mentioned “This historic laws that the United States Senate stands poised to approve will rein in the reckless Wall Road behavior that nearly destroyed our economy, hurting Arkansas small companies and costing millions of People in america their work. ” She added, “This legislation offers 1 hundred % transparency and accountability to our shattered financial markets and regulatory system” and that “bill is strong, thoughtful, and groundbreaking reform which will fundamentally change our monetary system for the much better. ” Finally, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. , stated her support for the laws noting that it’ll “protect Washington point out families, maintain Wall Road accountable, and ensure that Washington state taxpayers will never once again be on the hook to bail out Wall Road or clean up right after big banks’ messes. ” In her floor declaration, Murray also highlighted the contrast in between those who are standing up for Washington point out families and supporting Wall Street Reform, and those who are standing up for Wall Road, big banking institutions, and unique interests and trying to water down or destroy reform. Va loans Texas
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If anyone had any doubts whatsoever that the Republican Party has lost its way and is no longer a true friend to the core conservative values of individual liberty and limited government, those doubts should be put firmly to rest considering the current debate in Washington over the proposal for socialized health care coming out of the far left. It is no wonder that conservatives, people who actually believe in the Constitution, are upset with Republicans who time and again run out to stand before the cameras and at Tea Parties to proudly proclaim how much they understand us and that they will stand with us only to stab us in the back with the longest and sharpest knives they can find on any given day once the crowds have dispersed.
For history’s sake, because history is important, let us roll back the clock to the 1990’s and the Clinton Administration. With the Republicans in charge of Congress, and swept in on a wave of desire for fiscal discipline, there were calls for cuts in the rates of growth for government welfare programs. Not actual cuts mind you, which of course showed them as not really Constitutionalists concerned for the liberty of Americans, but just cuts in the increases from year to year of tax payer money handed to those these slimy politicians were trying to buy votes from.
And Republicans were excoriated by the leaders of the left as well as their minions for such talk. Oh the wails and the complaints were nearly deafening as those with their grubby little hands in the cookie jar felt threatened that they might actually have to take responsibility for their own welfare after being whipped into a frenzy by the hard core socialists within our government.
Now let us fast forward to the modern day. It is a day of strife caused by rampant spending where the economy has suffered because the left, and aided by moderates who cannot decide which side of the fence to land on, refused to understand how spending money government did not have for people to buy goods they could not afford (such as houses) was a bad idea. It is a day where we are living in the aftermath of government compassion where they leveraged every unconstitutional law passed over decades to force banks to lend to the unworthy. It is also a day where the left wants to once again repeat the same mistakes of the past as they try and push socialized medicine upon the American people thinking that this time is the time that they can make the case for it considering the suffering they have succeeded in causing. And baring that, well, they plan on passing it anyway even if they cannot convince Americans that what is not good for them is really good for them.
However fiscal reality is catching up to the left and they seem to realize this, which is astonishing in and of itself. With deficits as far as the eyes can see and more on the way, they are realizing that the only hope they have of not being drummed out of Washington on the points of pitchforks and then burned with torches next year is to play tricks with the American people. Their latest trick, worthy of the proponents of man made Global Warming, is that they are proclaiming that their latest unconstitutional spending plan will be paid for with cuts in other unconstitutional programs.
In other words, we will have the same amount of unconstitutional spending just now in different places. They propose to cut waste, fraud and abuse in one place and bring us waste, fraud and abuse elsewhere.
Enter the milk toast Republicans. They raise a stink excoriating the left for trying to cut unconstitutional spending in programs like Medicare. The left, which once supported higher rates of growth, now however has gone back to the well and reworked their claims. Now they are trying to calm cries of outrage against them by senior citizens and others seeing that they want to raid this and other programs to pay for new ones by saying that the cuts really are not cuts but just cuts in the rate of growth and will be mostly made by eliminating the aforementioned waste, fraud and abuse. Yep, a complete turn around from the 90’s for both sides as they both try to triangulate how to gain support and either pass or defeat the plan.
You expect this sort of stuff from the political far left because they have always been about their own power and will give a group just enough slop from the public trough to earn their support until that support is no longer needed. Then they throw these same poor souls under the bus in favor of someone else. Usually a bigger and more influential special interest group.
But this sort of diabolical act from the Republicans? Well, it is no surprise if you read my columns every week! The fact that many so-called Republicans have gone from seeking cuts in the rate of growth of unconstitutional spending to defending the unconscionable increases and the status quo on unconstitutional spending might shock you if you have had you head under a rock lately. But not me as RINOs with their own vision of a soft-socialist economy and political structure with themselves at the head continue to infest the party lead by RINO in Chief Senator John McCain and his lieutenants.
For all the tough talk coming out of the Republican Party lately, they are still letting the RINOs, the milkiest of milk toast Republicans, run the show because the party is too damn scared of what would happen if they actually stood up and supported the proposed cuts, albeit for different reasons, than the far left. The far left wants to pay for a new unconstitutional program and pay off a whole new special interest group with the “savings. ” The Republicans want to continue to pay off senior citizens by maintaining the status quo.
Neither is a good option for America.
Of course all these poor, coddled souls in Washington D. C. living the high life have put themselves in this position with no easy way out. Americans too, especially seniors, have done the same. For decades politicians have defended unconstitutional programs growing far too fast and paying out far too much in benefits in order to help their reelection chances. Yes, even Republicans. Over those same decades, the poor, seniors, and other special interest groups have all allowed themselves to become depended on that government check each and every month believing that there was no way in Hell the federal government would ever run out of money.
And while conservatives have screamed about ourselves and our children and our children’s children being sold into slavery to pay off these debts the milk toast Republicans have kept attaching their names to nearly every bill the left threw in front of them that expanded the federal government beyond its constitutional bounds. And if they did not do so when the bill was first passed they refused to end it when they themselves were in power proving their culpability as accomplices.
Thanks guys and gals. You have done a bang up job handing America to the same people that destroyed so many nations over the past century. How about taking an extended leave of absence and a permanent vacation and letting the grownups drive for a while?
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Should getting blown mean you should sit in prison?
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For a year now I have been tracking the “non-candidacy” of Michael Bloomberg for President. On July 12 of last year I started a web site devoted just to his candidacy (or non candidacy). You can go back and track with me or just start now. The bottom line is that Michael was in Texas this past weekend drumming up “non-support”. But here’s the latest rhetoric on Mr. Bloomberg, the ultimate outsider!
Bloomberg, who says he’s not running for president, chose delegate-rich California from which to deliver a scorching assessment of Washington for failing to keep up with the need for new airports, roads, water systems and bridges across America. While China and other nations are investing heavily in ports and high- speed trains “Washington doesn’t have a plan” to address crumbling U. S. infrastructure, Bloomberg said. Las Vegas odds-makers still aren’t yet betting on Bloomberg. He’s a natural 8 the hardway!
Here’s the one time been a Democrat, and then the Republican mayor of New York, now an independent mayor of New York. How could he be a Republican and running on a third party ticket? And while everyone in both parites are claiming to be the candidate of CHANGE, Bloomberg would truly represent CHANGE!
In remarks clearly aimed at a national audience, the mayor said politics trumps common sense in Congress, where pork-barrel spending takes priority. Washington “spends money to win votes,” Bloomberg said. “It’s hurting our country. ”
The Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent mayor appeared with Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, a Republican, and Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania, a Democrat, to announce a coalition that would push for more investment in ports, highways and other infrastructure. Both governors are known for reaching across party lines to achieve compromise. Standing at a transit station with the governors, Bloomberg said that independent and nonpartisan solutions were needed.
Schwarzenegger was asked if he was staying neutral in the presidential race to see if Bloomberg would jump in, and he answered that he did plan to make an endorsement. And Bloomberg is NOT a candidate. Hey, we’re not stupid. We know the political game.
It was the second day of a trip that also took Bloomberg to Texas, another key state on the presidential election map where he met privately Friday with an expert in third-party ballot access who served as campaign manager for H. Ross Perot. In an era when the public views government with suspicion and loathing, the billionaire mayor appears to be honing an image as an innovative problem-solver working outside the partisan scrum of Washington politics.
Bloomberg has been quietly polling and analyzing voting trends in every state as he contemplates launching a campaign. On Tuesday, his supporters launched a 50-state petition drive in an attempt to draft him into the race.
My bet is that the draft works! He’s the ultimate outsider!
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Point Austin: What the GOP Wants for You: The state Republican Party platform is a real nightmare
The 2010 Republican Party platform is a real nightmare
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