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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 (80436)	3/5/2010 1:44:03 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224868

San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) (The Keystone Cops?) Imagine being a cop in San Francisco . Chief Heather Fong (left), The first SFPD female chief of police; Theresa Sparks (center, former male), President of the San Francisco Police Commission, CEO of a multi million-dollar sex toy retailer, And a Trans gender woman. Sgt. Stephan Thorne (right, former female), The first transgender SFPD police officer. Their Representative in Congress is Nancy Pelosi. This pretty much explains why we are where we are, doesn't it?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (80436)	3/5/2010 2:05:48 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224868

Rash of Scandals Tests Democrats at Sensitive Time WASHINGTON — The ethical woes facing Democrats are piling up, with barely a day passing in recent weeks without headlines from Washington to New York and beyond filled with word of scandal or allegations of wrongdoing. The mix of power and the temptations of corruption can be a compelling political narrative at any time. But with voters appearing to be in an angry mood and many already inclined to view all things Washington with mistrust, the risks for Democrats could be that much greater this year. With Election Day still eight months away, there is time to avert a history-is-repeating-itself storyline. But Democrats, who are already on the defensive over the economy, health care and federal spending and are facing a re-energized conservative movement, suddenly have a set of ethical issues to deflect as well. “Speaker Pelosi famously promised the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history,” Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the Republican leader, said Thursday. “Yet here we go again.” Tim Kaine, a former Virginia governor and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Thursday that the recent spate of allegations against several political figures in his party was troubling.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (80436)	3/5/2010 2:06:00 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224868

Ms. Pelosi moved quickly this week to deal with escalating criticism surrounding Mr. Rangel, who was admonished by the House ethics committee for accepting corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean. He remains under investigation on more serious accusations. Mr. Rangel stepped down on Wednesday as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, heading off any possibility of a drawn-out political battle over his fate. The National Republican Congressional Committee has been intensifying its pressure on Democratic lawmakers in districts across the country to return political contributions from Mr. Rangel, who was among the most generous contributors to fellow members of Congress. “All Aboard for the Ride to Victory,” screams a poster depicting Mr. Rangel against a train, showing how many Democratic campaigns he helped finance. Republicans have sent around the old Rangel campaign posters this week to highlight his influence. Since last Friday, 29 House Democrats have given back or donated to charity more than $400,000 in contributions from Mr. Rangel’s three political fund-raising committees. But several others have not returned the money. Representative Michael E. McMahon, Democrat of New York, is among those who have not returned the money, in his case more than $70,383.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (80436)	3/5/2010 2:07:05 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224868

Mr. Blagojevich, who was impeached last year as the governor of Illinois, faces a criminal trial in June. The proceedings are expected to be unfolding at the very moment that Democrats are battling in several races, including a campaign for the Senate seat once held by the man who now sits in the Oval Office.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (80436)	3/5/2010 3:08:01 PM
From: JakeStraw	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224868

What a Disaster Looks Like MARCH 5, 2010 online.wsj.com ObamaCare will have been a colossal waste of time—if we're lucky. It is now exactly a year since President Obama unveiled his health-care push and his decision to devote his inaugural year to it—his branding year, his first, vivid year. What a disaster it has been. At best it was a waste of history's time, a struggle that will not in the end yield something big and helpful but will in fact make future progress more difficult. At worst it may prove to have fatally undermined a new presidency at a time when America desperately needs a successful one. In terms of policy, his essential mistake was to choose health-care expansion over health-care reform. This at the exact moment voters were growing more anxious about the cost and reach of government. The practical mistake was that he did not include or envelop congressional Republicans from the outset, but handed the bill's creation over to a Democratic Congress that was becoming a runaway train. This at the exact moment Americans were coming to be concerned that Washington was broken, incapable of progress, frozen in partisanship.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (80436)	3/5/2010 3:14:33 PM
From: JakeStraw	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224868

The Corruptocrats investors.com • President Obama's shady nomination on Wednesday of the brother of Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, a swing vote on health reform, to the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. • The forced — but only temporary — and long overdue suspension of Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., from his powerful perch as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee many months after it became known that he failed to pay 20 years of back taxes on a Caribbean villa, on top of tax issues related to four rent-controlled apartments in Harlem used by his campaign, plus other newly revealed House rules violations. • The "Louisiana Purchase" of $300 million in exclusive Medicaid funds for Louisiana to buy the support of a swing voter, Sen. Mary Landrieu, for health reform. • The similar "Cornhusker Kickback" of $100 million in exclusive Medicaid funding for Nebraska to secure the vote of Sen. Ben Nelson for ObamaCare. • President Obama's "Union Carve-Out" to shield his Big Labor supporters from health reform's tax on more-expensive so-called Cadillac health plans. • The failure of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner since 2001 to pay nearly $40,000 in his Social Security and Medicare taxes because he worked for the International Monetary Fund, which conveniently didn't withhold those taxes as U.S. firms do. • The Democrats' massive stimulus bill last year, practically written by the party's supporters in Big Labor, with construction projects forced to use union members and pay union wages — in spite of the fact that nonunion workers make up close to 85% of the country's construction work force.