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.
11th Circuit says mandate unconstitutional – Jennifer Haberkorn – POLITICO.com.
For the first time, a Democrat- appointed judge has ruled against Obamacare. The standout Judge is Frank Hull, a Clinton Appointee, who concurred with Judge Joel Dubina, a Bush appointee, in the 2-1 decision.
The court has specifically struck down the mandate, and not the entire law as Judge Vinson did in an earlier decision.
The various decisions made on the Obamacare abomination will likely cause it to be brought it to the Supreme Court this fall.
This most recent decision noted that there would be no limit the powers of Congress if it could force people to purchase health insurance, with Judge Stanley Marcus apparently thinking that this is OK.
Democratic Rep. Wu quits amid sex accusations – Washington Times.
David Wu has decided to step down from his position in Congress, earning what might be a Democrat speed record in being able to determine how much sex scandal is too much sex scandal.
Yes, Rep. David Wu was acting too strange for his staff’s comfort, and now he’s on meds and in the process of divorce.
Previously Pharmer thought that Wu’s tiger costume did not rise to a worrisome level by Democrat standards.
Now he’s accused of unwanted sex with a teenage daughter of one of his donors.
That’s enough. Boot him out.
Says Rep. Allen West: “I must confess,when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker,I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.”
McConnell Says ‘Real Deal’ Not Possible With Obama – WSJ.com.
Take note- The debt and economic disaster will be kicked down the road by Obama. Four more years will turn us into a third world Nation.
When our Republican leaders finally act as though they’ve grown a pair, it makes screaming red headlines on the Drudge Report.
Said Sen. Mitch McConnell: “…. after years of discussions and months of negotiations, I have little question that as long as this president is in the Oval Office, a real solution is unattainable,”
This really is the last stand of the republican party. If they don’t deliver on stopping obama’s spending, there will be a third party. In that case, it will be difficult for a single conservative candidate for the presidency to rise above the rest.
Senate Democrats draft debt-reduction plan – The Washington Post.
The Republicans remembered the purpose of the 2010 elections, and have scuttled the debt deal with Obama for one more weekend. Let’s hope they muster the fortitude to continue in this refusal to raise taxes.
Nutty Obama scolds congress today for failing to raise the debt ceiling. This is a quote from his speech, revealing his strategy to pay the debt by incurring more debt.
“These are bills that Congress ran up. The money’s been spent. The obligations have been made. So this is not a situation – I think the American people have to understand this – this is not a situation where you know, Congress is going to say, ‘Okay, we won’t buy this car or we won’t take this vacation.’ They took the vacation, they bought the car, and now they’re saying maybe we don’t have to pay or we don’t have to pay as fast as we said we were going to. That’s not how responsible families act. We’re the greatest nation on earth and we can’t act that way. So this is urgent and it needs to get settled.”
via Obama Scolds Congress, Says Malia and Sasha Are More Disciplined – Political Punch.
Pharmer wonders if Malia and Sasha are being taught to have Mom and Dad raise their debt ceiling to cover irresponsible expenditures.
Reports: Sources Confirm Weiner Will Resign | The Blaze.
Anthony has had enough, or perhaps Huma Abedin has. Congressman Weiner made his decision to resign after his wife returned on Wednesday, and began informing his pals that night.
Boehner gives Obama Friday deadline on Libya – Washington Times.
Obama initiated war number 3 in Libya, claiming that it would be over in days. This, of course never works out, and now he is in violation of the War Powers Act, which allows the Executive branch to initiate military actions, but holds them accountable to Congress for continued support. Obama’s time has been up, and finally the Speaker of the House appears to be addressing the problem directly.
TMZ is carrying the latest crop of Weiner’s blackberry photos of himself taken in the Congressional Gym. The pics are said to have been sent to at least one woman.
The Smoking Gun has a bit of info on the Tights and Cape quotes to Weiner’s 17 year old Highschool cyber buddy.
Calls mount for Weiner’s resignation – CNN.com.
Since Congressman Weiner (D, NY) is known to have been texting the underaged, (though he claims it was not indecent), Pelosi is undoubtedly worried about what will pop up next. She’s has currently determined that Weiner should quit. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Steve Israel concur with Pelosi’s momentary position on the issue.
Since Anthony has held no private sector jobs, and has no law degree, he might have some difficulty with income, should he be booted from his seat, and this is a reason that many speculate that he has not stepped down on his own.
Update: Rehab for Weiner to make him a better family man. He’s asking for a leave of absence from his congressional duties.
You knew it would happen……. further public humiliation of Anthony Weiner. Shock jocks grabbed pic that Breitbart had refused to publish, and released a low quality pic of the pic to Gawker which loves to show us everything.
Weiner’s malformed ego would not let him do the right thing and fade into oblivion. He had to hang on, put his family and associates through misery, and show us the quintessential Leftist. With elections coming, even the dems are wishing he’d go away, but are too wussified to say it out loud. (Plus, they all have their own odd private lives in mind.)
It’s nasty, Jerry Springer stuff, but probably good for the public to have a peek at the model, sexual agenda of the left. It’s just like all of their other agendas……….. NON PRODUCTIVE!. A whole lot of time is devoted to the pursuit, but it elicits NO results! This is just like their idea of health care, their war on poverty, their foriegn policy, their energy policy. etc..
When you think of what the leftists will do for us while they’re in power… just think of Anthony’s non productive cybersex, and how much time he devoted to it.
Anthony Weiner – New York’s 9th District.
Joe Kovacs over at WND found this great page, linked above, spouting Congressman Anthony Weiner’s passion for protecting kids on the internet from the likes of …… HIMSELF!!
Mind you, Weiner was wandering the social media, sexting with ‘females’ whose age was a mystery to him. You know how kids lie about their age to get a facebook page. The congressman has admitted to having no certainty about the age of his sexting partners.
Pharmer wonders if Weiner has contemplated the possibility that those with whom he has been sexting may not all be female.
Anthony Weiner has been tearfully apologizing to everyone in todays press conference, (announced as above by Sean Hannity, on the air) for sexting, sending nasty pics to several women, including a shot like the underwear pic, but without the undies.
Weiner’s disordered mind has not yet come to the conclusion that he should resign his congressional position, however.
This 46 year old guy thinks that people should still trust him after he violated the trust of his wife, did kinky stuff on the internet, lied to people about it, attempted a coverup, and invented a false accusation of hacking which subsequently was pinned by some to conservative reporters.
Being a Democrat, Weiner just might keep his position, as we ALL know that lefties are not held to the same behavioral standards as conservatives. Some, however, believe that since that there will be public access to an actual wiener pic of Anthony, he might reconsider his current attempt to finish out his term and run again in 2012.
Conservative news sources had originally declined to out Meagan Broussard, a 26 year old cyber-pal of Weiner, to whom he sent many electronic messages and photos since April 20, 2011. However Meagan, a single mom in Texas, has decided to out herself in an interview with ABC news, and tell her story before others tell it for her. Perhaps it will bring some funding and help for her to continue in her ambition to become a nurse.
Issa Grills Eric Holder over project Fast and Furious (selling the guns across Mexican border which were used in many killings including two US law enforcement officers). Click the LINK, embedding is disabled.
Chaffetz chews up Eric Holder some more.
The Republicans could not say no to Obama on the budget. We will need to replace more of them.
Over at Jill Stanek’s place the question of Republican strategy and use of planned parenthood funding as a bargaining chip is discussed.
There may be multiple opportunities to show the public how important abortion is to the Dems.
Right now we know it’s more important to the Dems to fund planned parenthood than it is to pay military personnel who are fighting in Obama’s three wars.
People who are forced to work (military can be jailed for going AWOL) without pay are called SLAVES.
Planned Parenthood is one of the very Few groups which Obama and the Dems would not throw under the bus. Others are the Unions and George Soros. Almost any one else is expendable, from the greenies to the anti-war groups, and the military itself. Some of the loyalty stems from planned parenthood’s persistent campaign funding expenditures for democrats.
Obama is ready to shut down the government in order to hold onto the Planned Parenthood group. He does not want to defund them, even though it is within the scope of the rich Dems to replace 330 million of tax payer funds with private funds. Their position is that we should all be forced to pay for abortions, birth control, and aiding the sex slave trade.
The pro-life groups starting long ago with Mark Crutcher have established Planned Parenthood’s complicity with those who sexually abuse minor girls, with his Eight Hundred, 800, calls to abortion clinics, including a large number of planned parenthoods. Here is the collection from just the state of Illinois.
Lila Rose and Live Action gave us more audio and very well done video to drive home the same point. Jill Stanek and Lila Rose provided more audio showing that there is no mammography equipment at the planned parenthood facilities, driving home the point that the cancer screening, and Komen foundation funding is a scam. One can obtain the grope exam at any airport, from the TSA. 
Planned Parenthood is closing its unprofitable clinics, and showing a trend to move towards focus on abortion services. It is also not giving away free services. The claim that they are focused on charitable efforts for low income people is a scam. They do not provide free health care. They outsource the charity patients to public health facilities if medicaid and related funding cannot be obtained.
With all this in mind, Remember that Obama and your Democrats could not produce a budget, and are needing the Republicans to do so.
The Republicans are wanting to defund Planned Parenthood and have prepared a separate bill to fund paychecks for military personnel if the Dems shut down the government on this. It appears that most of the dems oppose this bill.
Pharmer hopes that the Republicans don’t wimp out this time…. and it’s looking like they’ll stick to their guns this weekend.
RealClearPolitics – Video – Obama To GOP On Budget: Getting Your Way “Is Not How It Works”. Obama expects the new congress to do what the Pelosi congress couldn’t : pass a budget that gives him what he wants. He’s not budging on planned parenthood funding.
Shutdown could stop IRS audits. This might cause it to be received very favorably. Pharmer favors shutdown because it might allow people to get a few things done if the regulators are furloughed.
With governnment shutdown looming, Obama is off to a pair of fundraiser speeches to kick off his campaign.
First things first.
is an impeachable offense.
Blast from the past:
But this does not apply to Obama.
Meanwhile, Germany is backing out of NATO surveillance in the Mediterranean. Italy wants to withdraw the use of its airstrips for military flights if the operation is not NATO controlled. No one wants to lead this war, and Obama still says no ground troops no matter what.
Sharron Angle jumps into Nevada congressional race – Yahoo! News.
If at first you don’t succeed……..
Sharron Angle would be a good addition to congress. Without union ballot box stuffing in Nevada, she would have beaten Harry Reid in the 2010 senate race.
1st call for impeachment by member of Congress.
Trent Franks, Republican congressman of Arizona has cited Obama’s refusal to defend existing law as grounds for impeachment. There exists a whole laundry list of possible other grounds, beginning with that job offer to Joe Sestak connected to his vote for obamacare.
David Wu, of Oregon’s first congressional district has caused some concerns with a bit of erratic behavior lately. Some are asking him to step down. Pharmer thinks that saying a few weird things and sending pics of oneself in a tiger costume is pretty benign. Dems are kept in office after doing MUCH WORSE than Congressman Wu.
Whack-jobs who could not be pried out of office before they assumed room temperature: Teddy Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Charlie Rangel, and on and so forth….
Congressional Republicans are fairly productive today, Let’s hope they keep up the pace. Attached to the bill that will keep the government running are amendments to defund IRS collection of mandatory health care payments, an spending of the Dept of Health and Human Services on Obamacare. They should also pinch off Kathleen Sebelius’s salary .
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49830.html
Funding for Abortion and Planned Parenthood, the nations largest abortion provider which has been a prime feature of this blog in the last month, has been cut off. This has been a special project of Indiana’s Mike Pence. Be sure to watch some wonderful videos shot at Planned Parenthoods if you haven’t seen them. Scroll down. The New York and New Jersey videos are the best.
Funding for the implemenatation of the mis-named net neutrality has also been blocked.
Happy Friday.
“I really planned to speak about something else but the gentleman from New Jersey just put my stomach in knots because I’m one of those women he spoke about just now. I had a procedure at 17 weeks pregnant with a child who moved from the vagina into the cervix. And that procedure that you just described is a procedure that I endured,” Speier said.
via Dem reveals abortion in Planned Parenthood funding debate – The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room.
Sometimes legislators might have to recuse themselves from certain decisions, if their tragic personal experiences prevent them from thinking clearly on the matters.
Congress is debating the defunding of elective abortions. Congresswoman Jackie Speier has apparently lost a baby due to a medical problem which she was not able to accurately describe, though she gave it a try.
It is possible that many of the legislators need some coaching on anatomy and other medical details so that they can make a cogent determination concerning what is elective abortion. Most certainly Speier needs some coaching so as to be able to describe her own situation, and distinguish it from the procedures which are about to be defunded.
Pharmer feels quite certain that Speier’s medical difficulty was not as she described, and was not dealt with at a planned parenthood clinic.
Planned parenthood is able to support its abortion industry through the fungible tax allocations and medicaid payments which come from state and federal governments. It will lose more than a third of its income if this is cut off.
The article linked above dishonestly implies that there is a wall of separation between the abortion and other services, facilities and personnel at planned parenthood. Insiders and financial reports from that corporation inform us otherwise.
Addendum:
An afternoon surf over to Jill’s blog digs up a 2003 biographical article found by sharp-eyed Janet, which describes Speier’s “abortion” as a miscarraige. It also describes a life peppered with disasters and tragedies. From the article:
“Instead, she met and married Sierra, becoming the first legislator to give birth in office when her son, Jackson, was born. Then came a miscarriage, then a second miscarriage, in her second trimester. The couple adopted a baby, whom Speier named and joyfully introduced on the Assembly floor, before a fateful call: The birth mother had changed her mind and was going to reclaim the baby.”
Found there also, was the video version, in which the hapless congresswoman makes herself the poster-grrl for abortion, thereby inflicting a disaster on herself.
O’Donnell and Congressman Jason Chaffetz of Utah.
Watch this leftist, fruit&nut-cake, Lawrence O’Donnell say that money which is not spent on rent or motel rooms should be declared a second time as income. He also states that it is illegal to sleep in the Capitol building. This is funny, since we have video showing legislators doing this while “on the job”. Kudos to Chaffetz for saving money so he doesn’t have to hitch a free ride on a military jet to fly home.
Congressman sleeps during State of the Union speech.
Can’t Blame Sen. Byrd for Snoozing through Reid’s Speech.
Coming from ABC:
In the same video, Loughner accuses the government of mind control.
Amazing that even ABC has put a pointer on what really is Loughner’s problem.
Meanwhile the Lefties (who, if they were normal, could have cooler heads) are echoing Spencer Giffords’ emotional outburst.
Spelling the main point out, in case a leftie reads this….. Teapartiers wouldn’t list Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto as their favorite reads.
The leftist moral tenet that criminal profiling is wrong, as well as the seeming incapability for analytical thought, will continue to cause more untimely deaths.
Congress Returns | C-SPAN. Pharmer watched Pelosi’s smile turn into a grimace, as she listened to 260 members of congress voting against her: 241 for Boehner, 173 Pelosi, with 19 voting for others, or present.
Those 19 congressmen were all Democrats. This amount of party defection from the “chosen” Pelosi marks the worst showing of such a contender in since 1923.
One interesting sign of Pelosi’s disconnect was her exit speech, mentioning all of her “accomplishments” for which the voters had removed her party from power. Was she making sure we don’t forget, or rubbing our faces in it?
Robert M. McDowell: The FCC’s Threat to Internet Freedom – WSJ.com.
For one, the FCC has Democrat support for its effort to regulate the internet. Mainly the Dems would like you to believe that they opposed the Net Neutrality rules with which the FCC wanted to regulate the cable and phone companies. That’s not really the case, and while you are busy with snow and holidays, job or job hunting, the push for more government control is taking place.
Also while you extremely busy, the don’t ask, don’t tell policy of the military has been repealed. All the things the Dems wanted to do, but were afraid to try before the elections are being pushed through. This push has been accompanied by talk of resuming the military draft, which may become necessary over time due to increased difficulty in recruiting a volunteer force. For years, the ethically challenged Democrat Charlie Rangel has been the point man supporting this effort. Lately his legislative efforts offer a choice between ‘national service’ and military service.
Even the extension of the Bush Tax Cuts (meaning your taxes will remain the same for two more years) was packed with Democrat spending, and a compromise to extend the unemployment funding. Though the Dems and media present STATIC TAX RATES as cost to the government, it would be good to remember that only the spending portions added to the extension bill fall in this category. It is not a cost to the goverment to allow you to keep the same proportion of your income for another two years.
The START treaty, (a method to decrease U.S. nuclear preparedness while allowing Russia to proceed unabated) is being jammed through before the end of the year, without paying attention to the contents. Sen Jon Kyl of Arizona is to be credited for his early opposition to this treaty. Mitch McConnell appears to be waking up to reality. Sen Dick Lugar of Indiana (home of many RINOS) is still exhibiting signs of encroaching dementia (liberalism).
An attempt to pass an Omnibus Budget Bill, written long ago by Sen Dan Inouye, (in anticipation of Democrat defeat in November) failed in the Senate over the weekend . Harry Reid has pulled the bill. This is the bill most noted for a large pack of old spending earmarks, for which Dems can claim most of the credit.
Congress’ Job Approval Rating Worst in Gallup History.
since it has been rating, says Gallup.
13% Job approval, comparable to the low opinion of Adolf Hitler.
It’s strongly associated with lost freedom for us.
Fun interview with former Governor Huckabee – found on Breitbart TV.
Randy Altschuler has conceded to Tim Bishop in New York’s district 1. This brings the Republican gain to 63 seats in the House.
Meanwhile, Joe Miller is continuing his court battle against Lisa Murkowski in Alaska’s senate election, with a decision from the state court due on Friday. It’s expected that Miller will appeal to the state supreme court if he is not successful.
The real fun is watching those racist Democrats pounding Obama on his tax compromise with the Republicans. Obamanator gave in on extending Bush tax cuts for all tax PAYERS, in exchange for extension of unemployment benefits. But the Dems in congress are pushing Obama under the bus on this issue. In addition, the bill to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell” has gone down in the Senate, due to a republican agreement to stop all bills until the tax cuts are handled. Joe Lieberman promises to resurrect it again as a stand-alone bill.
The Dems have also dumped the DREAM act, an alternate path to citizenship, which really didn’t matter since benefits for illegal aliens, in some states, actually exceed those available to American citizens.
Here’s hoping for a gridlocked lame duck session, and a happier New Year. The less that happens in Washington, the better off we are.
via House May Block Food Safety Bill Over Senate Error : Roll Call.
Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety bill which gives the FDA more authority over food regulation, and putting small food producers out of business, is hung up due to a violation of congressional authority. The Senate bill has tax in it. Taxes are supposed to be initiated in the House. Whupsie, Harry Reid screwed up again.
The house will throw it back to the Senate, and they’ll have to rework it. This would normally require the cooperation of the republicans.
Maybe the bill will DIE this year. One can only hope.
http://themorningafter.us/youtube-so-it-starts-senate-bill-510-organic-farmer-fined-5000-for-growing-crops-on-own-land/
In contrast to the convicted Charlie Rangel, Waters is planning a vigorous legal defense, using attorneys specialized in ethics matters.
The democrat congresswoman says that her ethics trial is suspended because the case is weak.
Pharmer thinks that Waters “knows where the bodies are buried”.
House ethics panel convicts Rep. Rangel on 11 of 13 counts of rule violations – TheHill.com.
However, the Hill assures us, it is OK for congressmen to steal the money of taxpayers, and Rangel is not expected to lose his job.
Testy Barney Frank incensed, even after big win – BostonHerald.com.
In addition, the Dems have lost hundreds of years seniority in the House, and lost powerful committee chairmanships. The balance of power has changed significantly.
Fall entertainment will include the impending ethics trials of Maxine Waters and Charlie Rangel.
Congresscritters are being pressured to obtain campaign funds for their beleaguered fellows in vulnerable elections this fall. Such is the pressure coming down from Pelosi, that Eleanor Holmes Norton left the following (probably illegal) voicemail with a lobbyist and past contributor.
This is, uh, Eleanor Norton, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Uh, I noticed that you have given to uh, other colleagues on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. I am a, um, Senior Member, a twenty year veteran and am Chair of the Sub-committee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management. I’m handling the largest economic development project in the United States now, the Homeland Security Compound of three buildings being built on the uh, old St. Elizabeth’s hospital site in the District of Columbia along with uh, fifteen other, uh, sites here for, that are part of the stimulus .
I was, frankly, uh, uh, surprised to see that we don’t have a record, so far as I can tell, of your having given to me despite my uh, long and deep uh, work. In fact, it’s been my major work, uh, on the committee and sub-committee it’s been essentially in your sector.
I am, I’m simply candidly calling to ask for a contribution. As the senior member of the um, committee and a sub-committee chair, we have (chuckles) obligations to raise, uh funds. And, I think it must have been me who hasn’t, frankly, uh, done my homework to ask for a contribution earlier. So I’m trying to make up for it by asking for one now, when we particularly, uh, need, uh contributions, particularly those of us who have the seniority and chairmanships and are in a position to raise the funds.
I’m asking you to give to Citizens for Eleanor Holmes Norton, PO Box 70626, DC, 20024. I’ll send you a follow-up note with appreciation for having heard me out. Thanks again.
It’s illegal to imply or connect favors or penalties -coming from congress- to campaign donations, as has been done in this telephone message.
Thanks to Andrew Breitbart and the kind contributor of the recorded voice mail, which can be heard at Big Government.
After a while, the cognitive dissonance from repeatedly doing the wrong things causes paranoia and inappropriate responses, such as this physical interaction with a student on a sidewalk in DC.
After seeing this video, Congressman Bob Etheridge could do nothing else but apologize for his behavior.
Something fun to do….. send Rep Etheridge a nice, polite letter or email asking him if he “fully supports the Obama agenda”.