The spread of the infectious disease, Potomac Fever, would be reduced if more politicians would limit their time in office voluntarily, as Michele Bachmann has.
She’s finishing up her time in the U.S. Congress after eight years, making her announcement with enough time for another conservative candidate to set up a campaign.
The big question: can another conservative succeed in blue Minnesota?
From Breitbart, we learn that Lois Lerner signed the IRS letters sent to the TEA Party groups. These letters amounted to an ‘anal probe’ of personal information from TEA party members, which was entirely inappropriate and unneeded for granting tax exempt status to non profit groups of volunteers. She has declared her innocence before congress and invoked the Constitutional Bill of Rights in refusing to offer more testimony.
Lerner is making a deal to preserve her finances and her life. Taking the fifth and refusing to resign from the IRS keeps her in the public eye and helps to ensure that she will not be made to “disappear”.
Dr Anthony P Levatino MD, an Ob-Gyn practitioner in New Mexico has performed about 1200 abortions during his career, with many of them being in the second trimester. After reevaluating the issue of abortion, he discontinued that part of his practice, and is now supporting Trent Frank’s House Bill to limit abortions to less than 20 weeks gestation.
Listen to Dr. Levatino’s testimony HERE.
One of his most salient points is that late term abortion is not useful for saving the life of a woman. The procedure is much too long and harrowing in contrast to the option of delivering a live infant.
You knew it would happen. Members of congress, including all Democrats, understand that Obamacare really sux. They want no part of it for themselves, their families, or their staff.
That’s why they have been engaging in secretive talks to exempt themselves and their staff members from requirements to join the abysmal government exchanges.
The government officials know that entry level staffers cannot afford the ravages of rising health care insurance costs under the “Affordable” Health Care act. They fear that the best staffers will leave Washington in search of more lucrative jobs in order to be able to afford the M A N D A T E D health care insurance.
The thought of “brain drain” in Washington DC (mentioned by the Politico) is vastly amusing. Are Americans to believe that intelligent people planned this debacle for us, and chained us to debt eternally?
Readers should be aware that Finance Committee Chairman, Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) ripped into Sebelius and stated that Obamacare is going to be a train wreck. Recall that he was one of the original authors of this disaster. Immediately after this show, he announced that he will not be running for office again.
The Sequester is not really a cut in spending at all, but a reduction in the projected increase. The spending in 2013 will still be larger than 2012. However Obama promised a lot of pain to be associated with the sequester, and it would appear that federal officials are being ordered to make this happen.
And example comes from an internal email exchange by an Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service official, Charles Brown. He asked if he could spread whatever cuts might affect his region to make them as painless as possible. The answer was that he was not to do anything to lessen the impact on fish inspections, so that the effects would be as dire as Obama warned Congress they would be. Cuts in his area are to eliminate aid to prevent wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry in 24 states.
In other words, we have direct evidence that Obama is going to make HIS sequester painful, and blame the whole idea on the Republicans.
Obama also has threatened that he has an ability to target cuts, eliminating meat inspectors, for example, so as to reduce the available food supply. He might not remember that his supporters will be punished most of all, as this cut would affect the inner city “food deserts” more than the most rural areas. (Pharmer recalls to mind the increasingly severe cuts in DRUG supply which the nation has been experienced during Obama’s tenure.)
Since this APHIS email came to light, the USDA is walking back the implications of the report, saying that they will try to mitigate the effects of the sequester as much as possible.
The Washington Times also noted that the White house was facing questions on the 50 million dollar order for new TSA uniforms that it made just before the sequestration took effect.
Obama is also closing the White house to tours, and blaming this on the sequester. Perhaps he fears blowback from his obviously vengeful attitude towards Americans. Inside the beltway, people are asking why Obama can’t keep the White house open, noting that President Lincoln was able to do so throughout the time of the Civil War.
Barrie Obama is no Abe Lincoln.
Pelosi opposes the Congressional pay cut which would accompany the relatively minor spending reductions of the ‘sequester’.
“I don’t think we should do it; I think we should respect the work we do,” Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol. “I think it’s necessary for us to have the dignity of the job that we have rewarded.”
via Pelosi: Congressional pay cut undermines dignity of the job – The Hill.
Below is the list of Republicans whobent over and yes to the bogus Obama tax deal. Pharmer is pleased to see no Indiana names on that list of wimps and wusses.
The interesting name to see on this list is Paul Ryan. Perhaps he is tired and wants to go home.
Obama used the fraudulent fiscal cliff method as a final stab to the republican party, which will permanently remove it from power.
Conservatives won’t be able to get behind the people on this list. Since the Republican establishment can’t tolerate conservative candidates, it necessarily means that the Republican party will not be able to take the majority in either house, or win the presidency.
They are finished.
House Votes ‘Yes’ on The Senate’s ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Bill\
The answer is NO!
Newtown middle schoolers Max Goldstein and his brother VOLUNTARILY quit playing the shoot ‘em up video games. Goldstein says that continuing to indulge in them is “rude and disrespectful to the families” of the Sandy Hook victims. They’re encouraging others to follow suit. The CBS headline (below) describing Goldstein’s initiative is inaccurate, as he’s asking for people to follow his example of their own free will. His goal is to reduce the presence of the games in the U.S. by a third.
Newtown 7th Grader Starts Movement To Rid America Of Violent Video Games « CBS New York.
It’s more reasonable to suppose that continuous overindulgence in extremely graphic video violence would have more influence over a developing mind than the mere presence of guns. Maybe if the kids get outside and interact with each other a bit more, some of these tragedies might be averted.
Rather than asking people to change their gaming habits, the big kids in Washington want to pass federal versions of the ineffective regulations banning guns in schools, and heavily restricting them in the entire state of Connecticut. The federal lawmakers have gone home for Christmas. Hopefully next year they’ll be too distracted by angry tax payers looking at their shrunken January paychecks to waste time with the gun laws.
Rising number of states seeing one-party rule – Washington Times.
The Dems now have veto-proof majorities in California and Illinois. Expect those two states to die. Develop an escape plan.
One party rule has become dominant in the states, whether it is Republican or Democrat. There are only 12 states with divided government. Republicans still hold most of the one party states, with 23, and the Dems now hold 14, having picked up 8. Republicans picked up 2. Interestingly, the Republicans picked up the Wisconsin senate. With that news, Pharmer now has some work to do in Wisconsin. Republicans also picked up Arkansas and really own the Old South, with 11 states. They added one governorship, for a total of 30 to the dems 20.
Pharmer isn’t so worried about one party rule in the case of republicans That really isn’t one party rule anymore, as that group itself is going to discover over time.
Jesse Jackson Jr. Wins Reelection From Mayo Clinic | NBC Chicago.
As you might know, Jesse Jackson Jr. has been in a treatment center in Arizona, and in the Mayo Clinic, where he has been diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder, and gastro-intestinal problems.
More significant than the medical difficulties preventing Jackson from functioning at work, or campaigning, the FBI has launched a criminal investigation of Jackson’s financial improprieties. An Ethics committee is investigating his attempt to buy the vacant senate seat of Barack Obama.
These problems did not prevent Jackson from winning Illinois 2nd Congressional seat in a LANDSLIDE!
Around the time of Jackson’s June disappearance into the medical facilities, Raghuveer Nayak was arrested for multiple counts of fraud. Nayak had testified in Governor Blagojevich’s trial, that Jackson sent him to offer up to 6 million bucks for the Senate seat appointment.
With all this pressure from criminal investigations, Jessie Jackson Jr. might wish he had not ridden Obama’s coat-tails to an utterly effortless victory.
Media Blackout: GAO Says Obama's Welfare Waivers Illegal.
THe General Accounting Office has announced that Obama’s welfare waivers, which end the work requirement set up during the Clinton administration, are illegal.
This news will be hidden from the public which hasn’t figured out that the BOOB TUBE and the other mainstream media are not the places to get information.
Congress was supposed to be involved in any changes in the welfare requirements. It’s Budgetary!
The House oversight committee is throwing the Fast and Furious issue, and Eric Holder’s obstruction of justice to the federal court system.
Holder has been stonewalling and withholding documents which have been subpoenaed by the Oversight Committee for months and months, as he tries to prevent discovery of his and the president’s complicity with the very illegal, Fast and Furious, gunrunning operation.
Over the weekend, Issa tweeted that he will sue Eric Holder for the information.
This ought to give Republicans something to talk about during the campaign season.
Listen to Rep.Mike Kelly exhorting Congress to address the cost of big government. You’ll want to give him a standing ovation. Let’s hope he stays on target.
The lead of Rep. Charlie Rangel over Adriano Espaillat has narrowed to 802 votes in the Manhattan-Bronx 13th district Democrat Primary. Meanwhile, a report that Latino/Dominican voters were turned away at polls, with a claim that their names were not on voting rolls, and that there was inadequate translation has led to a request for a federal investigation.
House panel votes 23-17 to place Holder in contempt of Congress – TheHill.com.
As expected, the 17 Dems of the house committee supported Holder, but the majority of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is sending the vote to place Holder in contempt of Congress to the full body of the house.
Obama is channeling Nixon, and after denying any knowledge of Fast and Furious, has now claimed executive privilege to conceal the details of the gun running operation.
Here’s Obama speaking against Bush’s executive privilege with respect to his firing of U.S. district attorneys.
NOW Obama invokes executive privilege to withhold fast and furious documents, the contents of which he previously claimed to have no knowledge.
House committee schedules contempt vote against Holder – Political Hotsheet – CBS News.
Pharmer has been waiting a long time for the House to begin proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder, for his refusal to cooperate with their investigation of the gun running of the Fast and Furious operation in Mexico. Possibly Holder’s ridiculous claim, that emails mentioning Fast and Furious were not about Fast and Furious, was the tipping point.
The U.S. government sent guns to Mexico in order to raise controversy about their use by drug cartels, and use this as an excuse to undermine our Second Amendment rights.
The executive branch of government has assisted the killings by Mexican drug cartels in order to whip up antipathy towards American gun owners.
Congressional action against Eric Holder is long overdue.
Happy Weinerversary: The Lessons of WeinerGate.
Memorial Day is a more solemn type of holiday, but Congressman Anthony Weiner provided us with a circus sideshow over this holiday weekend in 2011.
Dana Loesch recounts the days during which the conservative blogosphere overwhelmed the hush efforts by the main stream media, and eventually propelled one N.Y. Democrat Congressman, Anthony Weiner out of office, for showing his namesake to young ladies on yfrog social media.
The main point has not the particulars of Weiner’s very stupid actions, but a demonstration that the New Media of online bloggers and real journalists is fully capable of overwhelming the tired OLD Media. Collectively, all of us can fulfill the watchdog function which is protected in the First Amendment. This is what Andrew Breitbart showed us.
Breitbart is here.
Memory number 2
Allen West gave the Republican Response
Anthony Weiner’s wife Huma Abedin gives birth to a baby boy, Jordan Zain Weiner – NYPOST.com.
On Dec 21, “sparkling wonder” Jordan Zain Weiner was born to former Congressman Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma.
Anthony (of the famous twittered photos- reminiscent of his surname) had better treat this kid like gold……. He owes him EVERYTHING.
The Stop Online Piracy Act, SOPA, by Lamar Smith as lead author, a Republican who needs a new job, is so bad that even Google doesn’t want it. They’re already pretty used to censorship. Pro-lifers are able to notice the disappearing content. Certain copyright owners such as those in Hollywood, would stand to benefit from SOPA, and have given us a new reason for boycotting them.
Congress is considering a bill which would give copyright owners and the agency that loves themthe ability to have whole websites deprived of advertisers and shot down due to potential infringement on just one page.
Compliance and continued operation would be impossible for sites which are driven by user content. Not only would the cost of policing be prohibitive, no one would want to go there anymore.
Jimmy Wales is contemplating a total Blackout of Wikipedia in protest over SOPA, which could inconvenience a huge number of people, and perhaps generate some email to Congress.
We could save the time, cost and inconvenience of proving the law to be unconstitutional by not allowing it to be passed in the first place. < < Just click and write your Congressman and tell him in flowery language that SOPA sux.
Barney Frank not seeking re-election in 2012 – CNN.com.
Democrat Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts is not seeking reelection in 2012. After “serving” 16 terms and much destruction of the banking and housing industries, as well as Jerry Springer style scandals, we are losing one of America’s leftmost congressmen.
There is a reason to give thanks.
Barney will announce during a press conference at 1 pm today, says CNN.
Women urge others to go public about abortions.
Harriet Hills Stinson, (85 year old member of the Hills Bros. Coffee family) has publicly announced that she had an abortion in her 20s, and does not regret it to this day.
She’s part of the NARAL push to get women to announce their post-abortive status in order to deter Congress from passing a bill that excuses the rest of us from funding the procedures.
Pharmer suspects that NARAL, who bestowed honor on Ms. Stinson at their “Power of Choice” banquet, may be taking unfair advantage of a elderly woman in mental decline.
Steve Ertelt grabbed this bit of video of Pelosi commenting on the latest attempt to defund abortion and protect conscientious health care professionals, being addressed in Congress.
Nancy is frothing at the mouth with more intensity than usual, fueled possibly by the cognitive dissonance in her mind. Nancy professes some connection with Catholicism, which expressly states that the killings of humans by abortion are wrong. It is up close and personal for Pelosi, who wants these procedures available for her daughters. Living inside the head of this woman would not be pleasant.
From Nancy’s mind to yours, (4/20/07) decrying the upreme Court decision to uphold the ban of partial birth abortion:
“This isn’t really an abortion issue. That is what really saddens me about what the justices said.
“This is about a procedure that any parent would want her daughter to have access to if she needed it. And to frame it as an abortion issue is doing a disservice to medicine and to our young women and our country. So I hope we can get the focus back on the fact that this Supreme Court is deciding what medical procedures are necessary for child-bearing women.”
Pharmer invites Pelosi to present a single medical case in which any procedure of carving up a human in utero is necessary specifically to save the life of a mother.
Don’t hold your breath for a response.
A retired media executive, Bob Turner beat NY Dem. Assemblyman David Weprin in Anthony Weiner’s (9th) NY Congressional district. One might gather that the negative political influence of Obama has become extreme.
Fun facts: This district comprises parts of Brooklyn and Queens. The population is 40% Jewish with Dems spinning the results with the fact that many are Orthodox (actually religious Jews). Obama has a 37 percent approval in this district. Turner is Catholic. Weprin is Jewish. Some say that his vote in favor of gay marriage in the NY state assembly did not help his chances. This congressional district has not been in Republican hands since the 1020′s. The current administration’s lack of support for Israel likely was a heavy influence causing the huge shift in voter sentiments.
A beer summit isn’t going to fix this problem for Obama.
Obama moves jobs speech date to Sept. 8 | The Ticket – Yahoo! News.
Obama’s original plan ( to suggest a third Porkulus package) to “stimulate jobs” has been rescheduled.
It’s “deja vu all over again” as the president comes off of a Martha’s Vineyard vacation and makes a speech about jobs. The idea was to address a joint session of congress on Sept 7, in an attempt to upstage a republican presidential debate.
Boehner rejected the idea, and asked for rescheduling to Sept 8.
Obama has complied, and will now be up against the opening game of the professional football season.
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