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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (48514)	9/24/2008 11:00:48 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224746

Obama campaign's Franklin Raines stole $25 Million from Fannie Mae as it's former CEO.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (48514)	9/24/2008 11:03:59 AM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224746

Democratic Voter Fraud, Party-Funded Lies and Fear-Mongering (with an assist from the MSM) By Nick, Section News Posted on Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 02:43:14 PM EST Over the last week, Michigan residents received a crash course in exactly how far Michigan Democrats are willing to go to win an election and exactly how eager the mainstream media is to accommodate them. Character, honesty and integrity weren't just tossed out the window towards a waiting dumpster, they were forcefully thrown through plate-glass, shredding them to ribbons on their way. In the span of four days we've discovered evidence of significant and coordinated voter fraud by a far-left Democrat front-group (receiving almost zero media attention) and watched Democrat activists fabricate a scandal using, literally, nothing more than a flashy headline, a bald-faced lie and a heck of a lot of paid, staff level coordination. The fair and balanced, non-biased press, by the way, has had a field day with the lie, taking it, running with it and reporting on it ad nauseum. It all started late last week when the Michigan Messenger posted a story asserting that Republicans were planning on preventing African-Americans in Macomb County from voting by blocking anyone whose home had been foreclosed. Their evidence was... well, they didn't have any evidence. They have a far-left blogger on Jon Stryker's payroll claiming a Republican confided in her and confessed to the nefarious scheme. No word on whether or not he rubbed his hands together rapidly, twisted his handlebar mustache or belted out a throaty cackle. The Republican, Macomb County GOP Chairman James Carabelli, flatly and forcefully denies ever making the statement. Read on... Each party sends poll challengers to the ballot box to ensure "ballot integrity." The only tool they can use, legally, to challenge a voter at the polls is a copy of the qualified voter file. A list of foreclosed homes wouldn't do the most conniving evil-doer any "good." Suppose for a moment one attempted to stifle a vote based on a foreclosed home list. What does this vagabond tell the clerk? "I'm sorry, this voter can't cast a ballot because his name is on this meaningless list that has zero legal connection with his right to vote?" Suppose further that some how, some way each of the poll workers temporarily lose their minds and permit the challenge. According to the 2000 Census, the African-American population in Macomb County is less than 3%. Home foreclosure is not based on race. In other words, the overwhelming preponderance of voters who have seen their homes foreclosed are Caucasians. Preventing any three percent minority from voting in Macomb County by blocking anyone with a foreclosed home from casting a ballot would be like trying to kill a fly by chugging a bottle of Ortho Insect Fogger. All you're going to do is wind up a corpse with an insect problem. To believe the Messenger story is not just to choose the less credible side in a he-said, she-said, it is to suspend one's use of reason to the umpteen-and-twelfth degree of ridiculousness. The story LITERALLY makes no sense. As a story. As a sewer level Democratic Party strategy it is brilliant and, literally, straight out of their Party playbook. Page 54, section 2 in the 2004 Democratic National Committee "Election Day Manual" to be specific. It reads, in part: 2. If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a "pre-emptive strike" (particularly well-suited to states in which there techniques have been tried in the past). Issue a press release i. Reviewing Republican tactic used in the past in your area or state ii. Quoting party/minority/civil rights leadership as denouncing tactics that discourage people from voting Prime minority leadership to discuss the issue in the media; provide talking points Place stories in which minority leadership expresses concern about the threat of intimidation tactics Warn local newspapers not to accept advertising that is not properly disclaimed or that contains false warnings about voting requirements and/or about what will happen at the polls According to the Chicago Tribune the Messenger lie was only the start of the liberal game plan. A liberal group in Lansing and a political consulting firm in East Lansing that works with Democrats and was behind the proposal that would have made sweeping changes to the state constitution if it had been allowed on the November ballot began pushing the story to state media outlets Thursday. That's Diane Byrum's lobbying outfit, for the sake of clarity. The same lobbying outfit that is regularly and profitably employed by Mark Brewer and the Michigan Democratic Party. The Michigan Messenger, they get their money elsewhere. According to the Detroit News: The Messenger is one of six online publications aided by the Center for Independent Media, a 2-year-old nonprofit funded by a variety of liberal organizations. We're talking Stryker, Soros, Moveon.org... you name the liberal extremist billionaire group or individual and they're on the CIM Christmas card list. Just to be thorough, let's recap... Ultra-liberal John Stryker pays bloggers to write liberal blogs lying about Republicans. Stryker funded liberal blogs concoct a total and complete lie, astronomically far from the believable but outrageous enough to stoke and enflame racial tension. MDP funded liberal lobbyists and other liberal groups immediately pick up story and begin paid effort to distribute the lie nationwide. Mainstream media laps up the kool-aid like a four-hundred pound NFL lineman after two-a-days under a 120 degree sun. The press picked up the story and ran with it, BS and all. And in spades. According to a Google Search there are already forty-seven news articles and two-hundred-seventy-seven national blog articles about the Messenger lie. All of that in a matter of days. Thus, from outright lies a scandal is born. Contrast that with documented, chronic voter fraud being perpetrated by a liberal front group here in the Great Lakes State. According to the Ivory Tower: "There appears to be a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications," said Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Michigan Secretary of State's Office. "And it appears to be widespread." ...In recent years, ACORN's voter registration programs have come under investigation in Ohio, Colorado, Missouri and Washington, with some employees convicted of voter fraud. ACORN officials said they were looking into the problem. Sure they are. ACORN's little ethical problem certainly isn't new. These are issues they have cycle after cycle, election after election, and is a problem in Michigan that local clerks have been complaining about for months. Still, this story only "broke" a few days ago. The coverage, according to Google? Eleven news articles and one-hundred-eleven national blog posts. The disparity in blog activity speaks more to the developmental stages of the blogosphere and activist coordination (nationally, conservatives are still down though we're kicking butt here in Michigan). The disparity in mainstream media activity is inexcusable. Forty-seven to eleven. Forty-seven covering a blatant and obvious lie planted and advanced by ultra-liberal billionaires. Eleven for genuine fraud, identified statewide by both Republican and Democrat clerks. Not that the giant chasm in (biased) coverage should surprise us. Accurately reporting on Democratic fraud isn't anywhere in the official DNC election day manual. rightmichigan.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (48514)	9/24/2008 11:05:29 AM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224746

ken...."Americans will also know that McCain's campaign manager was paid $15,000 a month to lobby for Fannie right up to last month and his Transition manager was paid by Freddie right up to last month."... So ..Were these lobby guys in charge of the money and in control of fannie like democratic party thieves? or were they just trying to get some of the money for whatever reasons.?? Who was in charge ken??

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (48514)	9/24/2008 11:18:12 AM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224746

Democrats to Let Offshore Drilling Ban Expire, Conceding Defeat in Battle With GOP Tuesday, September 23, 2008 foxnews.com WASHINGTON — Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in a months-long battle with the White House and Republicans set off by $4 a gallon gasoline prices this summer. House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., told reporters Tuesday that a provision continuing the moratorium will be dropped this year from a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running after Congress recesses for the election. Republicans have made lifting the ban a key campaign issue after gasoline prices spiked this summer and public opinion turned in favor of more drilling. President Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling in July. "If true, this capitulation by Democrats following months of Republican pressure is a big victory for Americans struggling with record gasoline prices," said House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio. Democrats had clung to the hope of only a partial repeal of the drilling moratorium, but the White House had promised a veto, Obey said. The House is expected to act on the spending bill Wednesday. The Senate is likely to go along with the House. "The White House has made it clear they will not accept anything with a drilling moratorium, and Democrats know we cannot afford to shut down the government over this," said Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. "We look forward to working with the next president to hammer out a final resolution of this issue." While the House would lift the long-standing drilling moratoriums for both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, a drilling ban in waters within 125 miles of Florida's western coast would remain in force under a law passed by Congress in 2006 that opened some new areas of the east-central Gulf to drilling. Just last week, the House passed legislation to open waters off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to oil and gas drilling but only 50 or more miles out to sea and only if a state agrees to energy development off its shore. It quickly became clear that measure would not get the 60 votes needed in the Senate. Republicans called that effort a sham that would have left almost 90 percent of offshore reserves effectively off-limits. The Interior Department estimates there are 18 billion barrels of recoverable oil beneath the Outer Continental Shelf, about half of it off California. While the ban on energy development will be lifted if the Senate goes along with the House action, it doesn't mean any federal sale of oil and gas leases in the offshore waters -- much less actual drilling -- would be imminent. The Interior Department's current five-year leasing plan includes potential leases off the Virginia coast but probably would not be pursued unless the state agrees to energy development. And the state is unlikely to do so without Congress agreeing to share federal royalties with the state. The congressional battle over offshore drilling is far from over. Democrats are expected to press for broader energy legislation, probably next year, that would put limits on any drilling off most of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Republicans, meanwhile, are likely to fight any resumption of the drilling bans that have been in place since 1981. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, has promised to make offshore oil drilling a priority if elected president. He has called for developing the oil and gas resources along all of Outer Continental Shelf and for the federal government to share royalties with states who go along with drilling. Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama has said he would support limited drilling in certain areas -- possibly the South Atlantic region -- if it is part of a broader energy plan to shift the U.S. away from oil to alternative fuels and more energy efficiency. The debate over offshore drilling is not expected to subside in the first months of the next presidency -- no matter who sits in the White House. Lifting the drilling ban gives considerable momentum to the underlying bill, which includes the Pentagon budget, $24 billion in aid for flood and hurricane victims and $25 billion in loans for Detroit automakers in addition to keeping the government open past the Oct. 1 start of the 2009 budget year. But Democrats decided not to use the must-pass measure as a battering ram to carry an extension of unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless past White House veto promises, prompting grumbling among some lawmakers. Efforts to boost food stamps and give states billions of dollars to help with Medicaid bills also fell through. But the measure would double, to $5.2 billion, funding for heating subsidies for the poor, Obey said. The measure also would provide more than $600 billion to fund the 2009 budgets for the Pentagon, Homeland Security Department and the Veterans Affairs Department. Nine other spending bills for the 2009 budget year starting Oct. 1 remain unfinished. Bush had threatened to veto bills that don't cut the number and cost of pet projects known as "earmarks" sought by lawmakers in half from current levels or cause agency operating budgets, taken together, to exceed his request. Obey said, however, the White House would reluctantly sign the measure.