Archive for March 21st, 2010
Target Bart Stupak's major Donors starting tomorrow
We’re making Bart Stupak the next target in our project to identify the wealthy individuals and law firms that keep funding bad Democrats.
He and Louise Slaughter will be our test cases — where we work together as a group to identify all their major campaign contributors, and direct the public’s ire at the rich men and women on the Left who keep writing checks to send people like Slaughter and Stupak to Washington to do their bidding.
If these people wish to exercise their right of free speech by way of funding these Leftists’ campaigns, then we the people should exercise our own free speech by letting these large Democrat Donors know exactly what we think of their campaign contributions.
And for the law firms, we need to let all of their clients know what we think of those firms enabling people like Bart Stupak to go to Washington.
The more pressure is put on Dem Donors, the less checks they will write to the DNC and bad Democrats. It’s a surefire way to cripple people like Stupak, and other bad Democrats, and help retire them in the next elections.
Start compiling Stupak’s large donors on this thread.
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Here’s the Facebook page for Dan Benishek (R), running against Bart Stupak for Congress.
He seems like a nice man.
Let’s hope the nation rallies behind him to give him everything he needs to kick Stupak’s sorry can nine ways to Sunday in November.
Benedict Arnold. Samuel Mudd. Bart Stupak.
We nominate Bart Stupak for that special place in American history reserved for men who abandon all principles, forsake their countries, their Gods, and their values, and do something unimaginably terrible to bring eternal disgrace upon themselves and all their descendants.
Stupak is particularly ignoble because only a fool would believe a presidential Executive Order will prohibit tax dollars from funding abortions. Executive Orders are not the law.
Stupak and his band of sell-outs always intended to vote for this bill.
Their grandstanding and showboating was all about getting face time in front of all those marvelous cameras. He wanted to be wined and dined and courted.
Perhaps he had one killer crush on the captains of the football, baseball, and wrestling teams in high school. Maybe he spent many a sleepless night curled up in his bed dreaming — HOPING — they’d all ask him to the prom, then devoted the entirety of his adult life to finding some opportunity to be fawned over and seduced the way he wanted to be all those years ago.
Who knows what goes through someone like Stupak’s mind — but it sure looks like he did all of this for attention and drama.
“Me? You want to interview ME? Oh, shucks. Me? My oh my. Stupak’s in demand these days. I’m loving it!” doesn’t seem that far off what we imagine Stupak saying to his staff, loving every last minute of the attention he was lavished.
We really hope every last one of these fakers who claim to be so pro-life are taken to task in a big way once their constituents realize just how much federal money is going to fund abortions when this bill is signed into law. Millions upon millions of babies will be aborted because of Bart Stupak.
They should, in fact, start naming abortion clinics after him.
Even better…just as Benedict Arnold now stands for “traitor” and “your name is Mudd” is a way of telling someone he’s crossed a line and ruined his reputation, forever more whenever anyone abandons his supposedly rock-solid principles in matters like abortion, he should be called a “Stupak”.
“You stupid Stupak!” should be one of the very worst insults in the future.
May this man and all like him never live March 21st, 2010 down, and may voters hold him accountable until the last of his days for what he has done.
Woman who made hideous clothes couldn't be saved by clothes horse without taste.
If you can't dress yourself properly, in a flattering way for your own figure, then how are you going to design for the current First Lady and NOT have her look ridiculous every day?
Maria Pinto, a woman who makes hideous clothes here in Chicago, was certain her salvation rested in the White House, where the First Clothes Horse has the absolute worst taste of any occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in recent memory.
All despite her “fashion icon” status, as given unto her, by herself.
Well, interestingly enough, so few people buy into this “fashion icon” meme regarding the current First Lady that even with all the attention (or is that ridicule) Pinto’s received for designing many of the eye sores Mrs. Utopia parades around in, Pinto’s shop is closing.
And many in Chicago are saying “good riddance”.
This is one of those weird moments when we actually know some of the people involved in a national story and can tell you someone’s getting exactly what she deserved.
Pinto is a rude, crude, and nasty individual — with a diva attitude undeserved considering her lack of design or construction skills. Every year Chicago hosts Fashion Focus, a smaller scale “fashion week” that Mayor Daley started four years or so ago. It’s a time when all Chicago designers come to the forefront, mix, mingle, and showcase the creative vitality of this city.
Let’s just say the main reason Maria Pinto’s shop is closing is neither the economy nor her lack of talent: it’s the way she treats people.
Even in this economy, local Chicago designers who are kind, friendly, and treat people well are thriving — because despite having to cut back on extravagant purchases, loyal clients are still going back to designers and shop keepers who earned loyal followings.
It is no wonder Maria Pinto and Michelle Obama collaborated together on so many heinous ensembles. They are two peas in a big, ugly, belted, paired-with-a-ridiculous-too-tight-sweater, pod.
Pinto’s work will forever live in infamy as the “Black Widow Spider” dress Mrs. Utopia wore on Election Night 2008 — a leftover Halloween costume apparently substituted for a more appropriate, patriotic, America-inspired dress a more experienced designer with better judgment and sense of history would have encouraged the future First Lady to wear.
Instead of her spider costume.
All she did was take the arms off and, bam, she had an Election Night dress she "was proud of for the first time in her adult life"
One of Pinto's most bizarre business decisions was to manufacture thousands of child-size knockoffs of "The Election Night Dress" for small boys, thinking "they just love Michelle Obama and want to dress up like her for all future Halloweens". Apparently, there's an abandoned warehouse in the Loop with crates of these things still lying around.
No tears are being shed for Maria Pinto today, rest assured.
Rationing Watch Open Thread
"And to all before me I bring Chaos. Let all that was be ripped asunder. For I am the Hope and I am the Change, the Lightbringer to cast all before me into darkness".
If you are near a TV or radio and are monitoring events unfolding in the House, please use this thread to update the drama as it unfolds.
Will the Red Queen Nancy Pelosi find the votes she needs to unleash Hell upon this nation?
Will the Blue Queen Obama get his “historic and unprecedented triumph”, and giggle later with his cadre of fellow socialists?
Track what you know is happening out there as best you can. Pound those antacids if you need to. It’s a stomach turning, anxious day for America…with our only real hope being supposedly pro-life Democrats being counted on to stick to their beliefs and vote no to prevent chaos from reigning over all of us.
We’re not holding are breathes on that one.
Question: How much do you allow the government to take out of your check each week?
Here’s something a great many friends have been asking us, ever since the Leftists have pushed for more government control over our lives.
“How many withholdings do you put down for on your W2 forms at work?”.
There are many people we know who no longer want the government to have interest-free loans from them. Instead of allowing the government to take more than it is owed each year, whereby these friends then expect a refund check once they file their taxes, many people we know are restructuring how they fill out their w2s so that they OWE taxes each April…and they just save up a little each month so that they’ll have their tax bill ready precisely on the day it is due. Not a minute before.
“I just want to stop giving them more money than they are entitled to, and then waiting for them to give it back to me. That’s $100 or so a month I could be using to buy food, take my kids to movies, and enjoy life. I am not going to give that to the government interest free anymore so they can just spend it on garbage,” is what one friend told us recently.
Apparently, all you need to do is just put down 12, 14, 16, whatever you want, for your withholdings and then the government takes less out of your check each week…to the point of only being able to take out the bare minimum.
It’s then YOUR responsibility to save up to pay your taxes each April, no longer having that cushion of overpayment and the refund check that would come to you. YOU need to take ownership and be ready to send your tax payment in on time on April 15th.
But, we like doing things this way better.
And we imagine the seismic shock the government would feel if millions of Americans started handling things this way — which we’ll sure you’ll correct us if we are wrong, but in our understanding is perfectly legal.
As long as the government gets its take on April 15th as mandated, then why should it take more than it is due each week from you when you have the power to keep more of your money during the course of the year when you need it, instead of waiting for the government to pay you back what it was never entitled to in a refund?
Question: Why don't you support the Healthcare Rationing bill?
We want to take this opportunity to address a question posed to us on a regular basis on this site, since we campaigned aggressively for Hillary Clinton in 2008 and supported her healthcare plan, but we do NOT support the actions Congress and the current White House have taken to impose Healthcare Rationing on America.
Simply, Obamacare is not the plan Hillary Clinton put forward in the 2008 campaign and it is not what she would have advocated and steered through Congress if she became President.
We do not support the Healthcare Rationing bill that is Obamacare for the following three main reasons:
(1) This bill was created in a corrupt, illegal, rushed, and chaotic process instead of the rational, measured, clean track Clinton would have taken to forge legislation the American public, healthcare industry, and economists would have favored.
(2) This bill is unconstitutional in that it illegally forces Americans to purchase a product and illegally empowers the IRS to become an intrusive, draconian American S.S.
(3) This bill will tank the American economy, potentially crash the stock market, and close hundreds of thousands of businesses across the country — quite possibly plunging us into a Great Depression as people realize just how much this is going to explode our deficit, lower our credit rating, and wipe us out financially.
Hillary Clinton would not have done any of this as president.
She spent over 15 years studying the healthcare situation in this country, having learned many lessons from the mistakes she made in shepherding an unpopular healthcare proposal in the 1990s. Clinton listened to and engaged healthcare professionals, executives, insurance industry representatives, and average Americans to determine what fixes our system really needed. Her primary focus was on LOWERING COSTS, which everyone agreed needed to be addressed in the current healthcare marketplace.
Truth be told, we thought her plan lacked the key element of healthcare reform no Democrat president would ever advocate, and that is TORT REFORM. Clinton, being a Democrat, would never make a move against the trial lawyers, because trial lawyers fund the DNC. Accepting that reality, and the fact tort reform will only come under Republicans, we supported Clinton’s plan because it was structured to pay for itself and not explode our deficit.
Clinton planned to manage the costs by cutting government waste in other areas — and there is an awful lot of waste to cut.
Instead of doing this, Democrats under Obama created a pork-laden Healthcare Rationing bill that is chock full of bribes. It is less a healthcare bill than the Christmas wish lists of greedy, self-serving Democrats, who cobbled together every lux dream they ever had for personal enrichment and stapled all the pages together into “a healthcare bill”.
There is no way Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson’s bribes would have been in a bill overseen by Hillary Clinton.
Clinton, unlike Obama, would not have abdicated creation of this bill to Congress itself, leaving greedy pigs to their own devices and giving them an unlimited number of pages to fill up with pork to their hearts content.
Call her a control freak, because she kind of is in many ways, which we think is a good thing. Hillary Clinton is a workhorse not a show pony. Instead of trapsing off on extravagant trips and vacations, and hosting star-studded cocktail parties every other day, Clinton would have had her nose to the grindstone, as usual, working hard to craft legislation that achieved all of her priorities without bankrupting the country.
Instead, what we have before us is a legislative monstrosity. Not a single member of Congress knows exactly what’s in this bill or what it will do to our economy.
Reprehensible magic tricks were used to score the economic impact of this beast. Deliberate lies to the American people have been told about its costs. The tick they’ve pulled whereby taxes are collected to pay for this scheme immediately, while benefits won’t begin for years is beyond despicable.
We know small business owners who are going to have to lay off employees or close up shop because of what they see in this bill. Many of these people are just skating by on the margins as it is. The taxes, fees, and penalties in this monstrous bill will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs — at a time when cities like Chicago are suffering with 25% unemployment, if THOSE numbers were accurately reported as well.
On top of all of this is the reality that the Healthcare Rationing bill grants dictatorial powers to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, who is elevated to near God-status in this bureaucracy. No man or woman in government should be given the power to decide who lives and who dies, by determining what procedures should be covered by insurance and who can receive medical care. That is the most un-American thing we have ever heard of, and it terrifies us to imagine someone as inept, incompetent, and downright ignorant as Kathleen Sebelius assuming those powers as Health and Human Services Secretary.
We love and trust Hillary Clinton, but we wouldn’t give that kind of power to her either. It’s just too dangerous. There isn’t, in fact, anyone on this Earth we would give so much authority over the lives and deaths of millions of people. It is a recipe for catastrophic disaster, considering, as noted, the regularity of incompetence in the H&HS Secretaries this nation has been burdened with.
More terrifying than that is, of course, the prospect of the IRS becoming an American S.S. — with 20,000 or so new agents, banging on doors, bursting into homes demanding your “papers!” to prove you have complied with the unconstitutional requirement to purchase a product from a private company.
It is unconstitutional for federal agents to enforce a requirement for an American to purchase ANYTHING.
What concerns us with this bill is the precedent it sets.
If today the IRS forces you to buy health insurance you don’t want, will the IRS force you to buy a case of Coke tomorrow — should Coke make enough donations to the DNC that its executives in Atlanta buy the right to force Americans to buy another product, namely their battery acid tasting soda pop? Liz Claiborne is a big Democrat donor too. Will every man, woman, and child be forced to carry a purse soon? Will the Left decide everyone would have a much better life if all citizens were required to purchase the new Matt Damon movie on DVD? When the government starts requiring people to purchase items against their will, we slip down a rabbit hole into a dystopian nightmare that reads like bad Phillip K. Dick.
The IRS has too much authoritative power as it is.
The government has no Constitutional right to require citizens to buy anything.
It’s that simple.
In their zeal to pass something they call “historic Healthcare Reform” — anything — Democrats have paid far too little attention to the impact this madness is going to have on our economy. We’ve seen the projections for what this is going to do to taxes going forward — it’s terrifying. We’ve also been to Europe many times, to places like Scandinavia, which Liberals believe is a socialist utopia.
We’ll let you in on a little secret. It’s terrible in Sweden. Even the Swedes think so.
Liberal policies and Leftist socialist thought have destroyed Sweden, economically and socially. The ostriches there have no idea why things are so bad and forever worsening. It’s because the taxes are so high and all the “free” things the government doles out like candy has to be paid by SOMEONE. Nothing in this life is free. Costs can be hidden for only so long before they catch up with and overwhelm you.
With this Healthcare Rationing bill, the price will be paid by the elderly, who will lose access to medical care as Medicare is dismantled. The Democrats’ plan flies in the face of even the most basic understanding of supply and demand. When the Red Queen Nancy Pelosi passes this bill and our current president signs it into law, there suddenly won’t be millions of new doctors and nurses to take care of the flood of people demanding medical care they would not have sought if they had to pay for it themselves. It’s going to be a pushing and shoving free for all, and the biggest losers will ironically enough be people too infirm and sick to aggressively fight for the services they need.
We imagine Soviet-style bread lines for services, where people lined up all day not knowing what they were actually in line waiting to buy, or if there’d be anything left to purchase once they got to the counter.
We saw this throughout the socialist paradises of Europe on trips overseas in the 80s. It was not pretty. It is exactly what’s going to happen here with medical care. There is nothing in this Rationing bill to prevent it.
This is perhaps the greatest mistake our government has made in the history of this Republic.
It’s going to bring ruination to all of us.
Pure and simple, economic and medical ruin.
It didn’t have to be this way.
It would not have been this way with Hillary Clinton at the helm.
No one, not even Republicans, believed reform WASN’T needed, but this bill is not reform. It is a hodge-podge of Democrat pet projects and pork spending sprees couched as “healthcare reform”, without any concept of economic reality or a real desire to lower costs and effectively increase medical access to those who need those services most. This is a spending spree on a Swedish scale, with Scandinavian tax burdens to crushingly follow, leading to Soviet-style lines and brutal rationing of services.
It is an inept, ugly, sloppy bill that sets up dictatorial powers for what’s usually an inept, ugly, and sloppy Department of Health and Human Services while morphing the already abusive IRS into the White House’s personal goon squad.
It’s un-American.
It’s dangerous.
It’s unconstitutional.
THAT’s why we don’t support it.
Democrats fire up the Death Star today, not realizing they're going to destroy themselves in the end
The Red Queen Nancy Pelosi is poised today to fire up the Death Star and aim it square at the Constitution and politics as we know it today.
She and her fellow Leftists are at the absolute zenith of their power on this Sunday.
Once she pulls the lever and passes the unconstitutional Healthcare Rationing bill this evening, the Red Queen will perform an act on par with Grand Moff Tarkin ordering the Death Star to fire upon the halcyon haven of Alderaan — using the Empire’s ultimate weapon to obliterate perceived enemies and flex enormous imperial muscle.
The thing is, that act of supreme destruction didn’t work out so well for the Galactic Empire. Neither will the Red Queen’s actions today do any good whatsoever for Democrats going forward.
In the Star Wars saga, using the Death Star crossed a line the Empire never recovered from.
A nascent, seemingly insignificant rebellion came of age the day Alderaan was destroyed. Rebels were born on every planet, in every sector, on every moon, even on the imperial home world itself. Princess Leia herself was steeled from relative innocent and troublemaker into a ferocious rebel commander hellbent on bringing down the Emperor himself and restoring the Republic at all costs.
There will be millions of Leias created by Democrats’ actions today.
More than a few Han Solos and Luke Skywalkers, too.
Because today is the day when any excuses many people use while trying to defend Democrats die — exploded by the ramifications of what the Red Queen is doing in passing a destructive bill that should have been scrapped, a bill Americans do not want. After Democrats pass this monstrosity, there is absolutely no more defending these people. The Rationing Bill is pure socialism. Democrats pushing it are in fact Communists. There is no way to ever undo the damage passage of this bill will do to the Democrat Party.
In this single act, the Red Queen will confirm every bad thought Americans have ever had about Democrats: reckless, tone-deaf, anti-American, anti-Constitution, self-serving, elitist, profligate spenders, corrupt, abusive, COMMUNIST.
The same thing happened to the Empire. Alderaan’s destruction confirmed everything people felt about the oppression and evil of life under the Emperor. It was a psychological jolt felt around the galaxy, the last straw needed to push billions over the edge and into the rebellion.
Politics in America changes today for good.
The mask Democrats have tried to wear since the 1990s, the mask of moderate centrists, is removed today — and much like the gruesome, scarred, bloated face of Darth Vader, Americans are not going to like what they see.
We don’t know how independents, moderates, and conservatives ever trust Democrats with elected office again — not after they’ve passed a bill that’s so blatantly unconstitutional and against public opinion.
Democrats’ real undoing won’t happen until 2011, though.
That’s how long it’s going to take for the ripples of today’s actions to start coming back to haunt the DNC in ways the Red Queen and her band of thugs don’t realize yet.
Republicans will win the House and come damn close to winning the Senate, if not taking both bodies in the November election. We believe the public will remain so incensed over the Rationing Bill that, for once, Republicans will have spine enough to open thorough investigations into every rotten thing Democrats have done in the last two years. This won’t happen until Republicans are handed gavels in the next Congress, but we believe those investigations will be aggressive and far-reaching enough that the 2012 elections will become a referendum on Democrats’ culture of corruption.
We believe all of this, in total, will drive a generation or two away from the Democrat Party.
It’s also going to alienate one of the core Democrat constituencies, senior citizens.
Without independents and the elderly, we don’t see how Democrats manage to win national elections with just blacks, urban elites, liberals, college kids, and gay voters.
Many of you think Democrats’ amnesty schemes to pump millions of illegal aliens into the voting pool is their plan for salvation, but even if that happens Democrats are fools to believe Hispanics will side with them as blindly as blacks do. They might start off as Democrats, but once they start achieving prosperity they vote their economic interests and turn Republican.
So, amnesty for illegal aliens is another Death Star just waiting to blow up in Democrats’ faces as well.
None of this is comforting for anyone who loves this country, of course.
Today is very much like standing on the bridge of a moon-sized battle station and watching a verdant, jewel of a planet smashed to bits by frightening jolts of neon green Death Rays. It’s watching America as we know it stabbed in the heart by a bill we truly believe is illegal and unconstitutional, driven by a party we also believe is doing all of this to tank the economy in order to create a dictatorship and third world style socialist utopia.
When they pass this bill today, Democrats will declare open war on the American people.
They might think they are showcasing how powerful they are, and what they can force through when they try, but in reality all they are doing is sending up a giant call to millions to join the American Resistance…the rebellion against this tyranny…and setting in motion a chain of events that will inevitably lead to the Democrat Party’s own destruction.
