" THE SYNTHESIS " 9-26-2011 EDITION: LAME-DUCKY, NON-CITIZEN OBAMA IS CLUELESS ON THE AMERICAN ECONOMY AND HIS SHOVEL IS RUSTING FOR THE “SHOVEL-READY” JOBS HE PROMISED....
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It's been 875 days since the Democrats passed a budget.
@BarackObama @SenatorReid deficits of leadership = fiscal deficit of $14.7 trillion..... you really are a #NONCITIZEN #LAMEDUCKY
@BarackObama @SenatorReid holding the nation hostage to $9 trillion of debt that can be cut as a matter of budgetary items is shameful.
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Republicans Criticize Obama Trip to Ohio Bridge Years From Being 'Shovel-Ready' fb.me/TDgSNWo5
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Find out what's getting under @talkmaster skin in D.C. Listen at 12:25 for the Government Outrage of the Day. #NealBoortz
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President plays political games to advance a wireless network. Read my open letter to my constituents here. tiny.cc/onehh #tcot
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@BarackObama we got change alright: TOO FAST, TOO MUCH, TOO SOON WHICH TOOK ALL OUR CHANGE! #NONCITIZEN you're also #politicalcharlatan
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@BarackObama THE REASON JOBS AREN'T SHOVEL READY: your EPA rules threaten to close cement mfgs. and costs THOUSANDS in job loss #hypocrite
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9-12 annual meeting September Snapshot
by Aja Brooks on Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 7:06am
Many of us have to switch gears: with summer ending, GA's bleak job market looks hopeless. Far from HOPE&CHANGE, the 10.2% unemployment, census compilation and the new district maps, GA is facing even more challenges than the fruitless economy that has plagued the private sector for 3yrs. :
GA is listed 3rd on the poverty level index, of the top 8 most uninsured, and 5th on the crime level index for burglary. Even with GA shedding nearly 6,000 jobs in AUG. with 2,000,000 remaining unemployed for 3yrs. at a consistent rate of 9-10%, this remains regardless of previous stimulus, with GA having one of the highest numbers of bank failures. The "trickle-down stimulus" amounted to super-power poles and a visit from Obama dropping off Energy star vouchers for appliances we already own or can't afford to buy to begin with, let alone, replace. When Obama does not meet the basic citizenship requirements to be President, taxpayers see a lawless and unethical rule of power by means of misappropriation and breach of public trust: Obama wastes $9 trillion in less than 3yrs., refuses to write a 2011 budget, let alone to make cuts to his 2010 budget to avoid default and the credit downgrade that occurred. This calls into question Obama's motives for leadership: his shady&sketchy donors and ties to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and China, who possess New Palestine and anti-Israeli& anti-American sentiments and agendas. While the House has been waiting for court rulings on the Hawaii Dept. of Health not producing Obama's birth certificate on 8-8, for a subpoena that took 3yrs. to get, America is seeing Obama's political caveat fully unraveled, and we are all suffering the DNC and election board cheating us out of a fair election in 2008. Even Obama's political harlots are finding very few reasons to worship him nowadays. With the House mired in Super Committee collaboration and 6wks. spent tending to constituents who have voter trepidation about Obama's leadership with taxpayers being jarred by economic anxiety, fully knowing the most effective solution to the problems Obama's created is impeachment, the House has been so busy caught in the tailspin of Obama's seemingly treasonous acts and contrived treachery that they have not formally brought him up for a hearing. With the 2012 election just around the corner: *we can not stop pushing for Obama's removal from office *we can not stop insisting that he be investigated, charged, and fined, or *we are permitting ourselves to be stuck with the results of poor leadership and grand theft that has generational consequences.
May this be a formal declaration on behalf of the private sector, that not only do we renounce HR 4872 and its funding based on court ruling that it is unconstitutional and overreach of the federal government, we also declare that the 219 regulations enacted by the Obama Admin. are hereby null and void, as his ineligibility negates what he has signed into law. The offset meets the goal of reducing the deficit $1.5 trillion, to deter default in March. With the deficit growing at a rate of $58,000 per second due to interest, it is a matter of life or death to sacrifice a dead limb infected with the gangrene of Obamacare. Now through Thanksgiving, you will be receiving bi-weekly circulars on our communications with the Super Committee regarding government expense cuts, items that do not fall under the design of the 4 umbrellas of government.
Like Speaker Boehner, I agree: people haven't lost their way; government has let us down. Obama's Job Act is a poor substitute for the pro-growth policies to remove the obstacles so businesses can create jobs, in order to hire, to put people back to work. The private sector creates jobs, the very heart of job creation! Obama fundamentally misunderstands the economy, which has led to this slew of bad decisions that have negatively impacted our nation. The Jobs Act is a far cry from making incentives outweigh the total operating costs of business: a $4,000 credit, when regulations and taxes are gobbling up profit and hopes for business expansion, does little to address economic uncertainty, nor does it redress anxiety that taxes may continue to rise to offset the revenue of credits, interest on the deficit/out-of-control spending, yet even more regulations, and economic meddling and manipulation. Business owners feel like they are losing control of their dreams, and this anxiety has turned to fear and a toxic job economy. Government has reduced opportunities and made America less confident. WE MUST LIBERATE THE ECONOMY FROM THE SHACKLES OF GOVERNMENT: -reduce excessive regulations -fundamental tax overhaul -stop the spending binge that is a direct threat to prosperity and job creation -enforce the Budget Control Act of 2011 -reduce the deficit hanging over job creation like a dark cloud -the Senate should pass the House approved legislation instead of meddling in private sector -pass the Reins Act -domestic energy -trade agenda -SENATE MUST STOP IDLING ON BILLS, JOBS, AND THE BUDGET!
What we can do: Speaker Boehner assures us that the government will not shut down in March, that our obligations will be met to our citizens and creditors. We must tie infrastructure to energy, Balanced Budget Amendment, and cap spending. An all or nothing approach like Bachmann's on the debt ceiling when this economy has broadbased systemic problems requiring more repair than a pledge or a single vote against raising the debt ceiling. We can't miss an opportunity because it is dressed up in overalls and looks like work; we can't wait until 2012 to be dealt a better hand. Therefore, we are auditing our government! Like Speaker Boehner says, we can not simply make a list of rotten House and Senate members to remove from a barrel of apples and hold our breath until the mext election. If we do, we will surely explode before we get to November 2012!
Which is why I'm not calling for all-out revolt. WE KNOW Obama is the problem, Democrats' leadership is problematic to the economy so we pink slipped them. The rest of Congress has breathed a collective sigh of relief, and they are more than happy to engage us and work past these deficits of leadership. You will hear a lot of gimmicks, promises, and platforms, and while I feel that the GOP of today isn't the same disingenuous GOP of 2006 of the last climax of the Bush Jr. era, this is only because of the rise of the Tea Party holding the GOP accountable. We can't be distracted, shaken, or despair until 2012; we must set our successor up for success. Now is the time to question the Senate and Harry Reid mercilessly about stalemating the work the House is done and why they have to plan but to dig in their heels and refuse to do anything but spend money.
Now is the time to attack them where it hurts the most: their committee positions and their pockets, when it comes to corruption and special interest groups. I say with chagrin "let the mudraking begin!"
Recalling them would be too good for them: the election of 59 Tea Party Caucus members, the election of Brown, and then Turner still have yet to persuade them that if they won't reasonably cut spending, their blue seats will get painted over red to make purple and we won't stop until they heed the will of the American people! Let us remind them daily we do not want them or their policies every single day until November 2012, and then celebrate by crowning a new era of government! We need to give them hell: every single day, hour-by-hour, day-by-day, week-by-week until the jobs come back, by relentless assault of attacking stupidity at every possible turn, to the last seat is given up from the spirit Kleptocrat!
If it were as simple as electing Ron Paul to reduce the size of government or electing Rick Perry to solve our job crises and economic woes to assure the future of Social Security, certainly we'd have already done it. One man actually has no control over all the strings to bring everything into perfect orchestration when needing to replace over 200 members of Congress. But with Obama conducting, we see his false claims of getting everyone to sing the 3 part harmony of bipartisanship because his concert of failure to try to force a few to sing his own tone deaf melody and it alone. America is ready for a New song! The successor will work like cement, merely taking the brush and applying the glue to broken government. The solutions or glue so-to-speak come from us. Lord make our paths smooth; let our nation no longer follow misguidance or trust in Obama who fails, but in You, who has never left us or forsaken us. Provide us a leader of Your choosing.

@BarackObama DEMOCRATS = KLEPTOCRATS = STUPIDCRATS WHO HAVE FACELESS LEADERSHIP. You are estranging your party even !!!!!@BarackObama the level of dissatisfaction with you is such that you have to have a Professor arrest a student for speaking out about you?!@BarackObama have you learned: you can't waste 9 trillion, not write a budget in like 900 days, and not expect offices not to be vandalized
@BarackObama so your HQ vandalized in LA w/ a BB GUN Campaign office's windows were shattered ow.ly/1eOjIX #notme #IwasinGA #sorry by 2011teaparty#Obama Campaign Office Vandalized - Police say Los Angeles office's windows were shattered, possibly by a BB gun. ow.ly/1eOjIX
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Memo to Congress: Impeachment probe needed now!
Posted: September 09, 2011
4:38 pm Eastern
© 2011
Barack Obama is indeed succeeding in his plans to "transform America," but not in the way voters expected on Election Day in 2008. The number of the president's actions that arguably qualify as impeachable offenses is staggering.
The question before the country is what to do about it.
True, Obama faces the voters in 14 months, and that will be seen by many as a reason to avoid the turmoil of an impeachment proceeding. But one process has nothing to do with the other. Elections proceed on an established calendar, but if he has committed acts that warrant removal by way of impeachment, that process should proceed independent of the election calendar. While impeachment must never be used to override an election victory, neither should the prospects of electoral defeat be used as an argument to avoid impeachment.
Obama has demonstrated contempt for the Constitution and is increasingly resorting to rule by decree. He is recognized by a growing number of Americans as a danger to the republic – certainly a danger to our liberties and also a serious threat to our national security.
It is time for the House of Representatives to take its constitutional responsibility seriously and launch an impeachment investigation. The investigative committee should hold hearings, collect and weigh the evidence, and then present its findings to the Congress and the nation.
Has Obama committed "high crimes and misdemeanors" that warrant impeachment and removal? There is much evidence that says, yes, he has.
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Impeachment of the president is justified on constitutional grounds if any of the following 12 questions is answered in the affirmative:- Did President Obama have personal knowledge of the illegal "Fast and Furious" project run by ATF and approved by top officials in the Department of Justice, a plan to sell over 2,000 guns to Mexican drug cartels, weapons now linked to numerous crimes on both sides of the border including the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry?
- Did the president have knowledge of the ongoing effort by Attorney General Eric Holder and other Justice Department officials to cover up the true purpose and scope of that ill-conceived, illegal project?
- Did the president direct his appointees on the National Labor Relations Board to bring a lawsuit against Boeing as a political payoff to organized labor?
- Did the president act contrary to the advice and pleas of his own CIA director, four previous intelligence agency heads of both parties and numerous experts on covert operations when, on April 16, 2009, he made public four internal Justice Department memos on terrorist interrogation techniques, thereby deliberately emasculating our anti-terrorist intelligence operations and endangering the lives of many intelligence agents?
- Did the president have knowledge of a plan by the Department of Homeland Security, ordered by Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano and the deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, David Aguilar, to distort and falsify the Border Patrol's southwest border illegal-alien apprehension numbers by means of a deliberate, planned undercount – for the purpose of misleading the public and Congress about the true (abysmal) state of border security?
- By choosing not to secure the border against unlawful entry, has the president willfully disregarded his clear duty under Article IV, Section 4, of the Constitution to protect the states from foreign invasion? Did the president admit this in a candid exchange with Sen. Jon Kyl, telling him the reason he was not stopping the cross-border human trafficking was to force Republicans in Congress to strike a deal for amnesty legislation?
- Is the president showing contempt for the Constitution, the separation of powers and the rule of law by ordering an "administrative amnesty" for millions of illegal aliens through the implementation of the John Morton memo of June 2011?
- Has the president demonstrated contempt for the Constitution and violated the separation of powers by issuing numerous executive orders and agency rules that have no basis in statute and often contradict congressional votes against such actions?
- Did the president authorize Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to violate current federal laws against aiding and abetting illegal aliens by signing agreements with foreign countries and pledging to protect and fund educational efforts to inform illegal aliens of their workplace "rights"? Also did these "agreements" she signed with foreign countries violate Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution which clearly establishes the manner in which treaties are to be undertaken and ratified?
- Did the president violate his oath of office when he instructed the Department of Justice not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in federal courts? Does the Constitution permit the person designated by Article II, Section 1, as holding the "executive power" of government to decide unilaterally to not enforce a law he disagrees with?
- Did the president authorize or approve the offer of a federal job to Rep. Joe Sestek if he would withdraw from the 2010 Democratic primary race for U.S. senator in Pennsylvania?
- Did the president violate the War Powers Act by conducting military operations in Libya beyond the 60-day limitation?
If the president is not guilty of any of these crimes, then a thorough investigation by a House committee with subpoena power will clear the air. If he is guilty, then the U.S. House of Representatives has a moral obligation to vote for a resolution of impeachment, and the U.S. Senate must bring him to trial.
If the leaders of the House believe that some or all of these actions are indeed impeachable offenses but nonetheless refuse to launch a formal investigation to ascertain all the facts, then there are two parties involved in Obama's assault on the Constitution – the perpetrators and their accomplices. In layman's terms, Obama and his radical cronies are busy robbing the bank, while the House Republican leadership waits in the getaway car.
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If some or all of the allegations are adopted as true by the House but rejected by the Senate as inadequate grounds for removal, that means the president of the United States can ignore the particulars of his oath to defend the Constitution. It means he can govern by edict instead of "taking care to faithfully execute the laws of the United States." It means that Barack Obama has indeed succeeded in his plans to "transform America." It means we are perilously close to crossing the line between constitutional republic and dictatorship.
There is no question that the impeachment and removal of Barack Obama is within the proper scope and purpose of the Constitution's impeachment provisions.
The history of the nation's two presidential impeachment cases shows that although treason and bribery are the only crimes mentioned by name, this does not limit Congress' authority to bring an indictment on other serious charges. Constitutionally speaking, "high crimes and misdemeanors" can mean almost anything Congress in its wisdom wants it to mean.
Clearly, the authors of the Constitution did not intend that presidents should be vulnerable to removal for light or petty reasons, hence the use of the adjective "high" in front of the words "crimes and misdemeanors." Nevertheless, what constitutes a "high crime" is up to Congress to decide.
It is also clear from history that the identification and naming of impeachable offenses is as much a political judgment as a legal one. The assignment of separate and distinct roles to the House and the Senate – and the two-thirds vote requirement for conviction and removal – were deemed by the founders as sufficient safeguards against removal of a president for transient or narrowly partisan reasons.
We learned that lesson forcefully in the Clinton impeachment case. Politics can and will play a part in the process, but that is expected and entirely consistent with constitutional principles.
President Clinton was charged with two counts each of perjury and obstruction of justice. The House thought the crimes serious enough to adopt the impeachment resolution in December of 1998. Two months later, the Senate disagreed and voted for acquittal – or more precisely, failed to muster the required two-thirds vote for conviction. In the House vote, only five Democrats voted for impeachment, and in the Senate, not a single Democrat voted for conviction. So much for keeping politics out of the courtroom.
The peculiar and revealing thing about those two Clinton impeachment votes is that no one seriously doubted the guilt of the president on the perjury and obstruction charges. But Democrats in Congress believed that even if true, the charges did not warrant removal from office. They reasoned that the charges dealt with a private matter – Clinton's sexual escapades – and not government business.
The Clinton case illustrates that for both Democrats and Republicans, in the last analysis,what is an impeachable offense is inevitably a political question as much as a legal one. Scholars and lawyers may have an opinion, but Congress' opinion is the only one that matters. Congress' supreme authority on impeachment questions is as much an embodiment of our separation of powers doctrine as the president's broad prerogatives in foreign policy.
Admittedly, the likelihood of the present Democrat-controlled Senate casting a two-thirds vote for conviction and removal is almost zero. However, this does not discharge the House from its constitutional obligation to pursue the matter if – in their considered judgment – the evidence warrants.
The questions posed above all relate to actions affecting national security and unlawful political intervention in the execution of our nation's laws – not mere policy differences. Obama's disastrous economic policies, his ideological war against domestic energy production and his reckless proposals to add new trillions to our national debt– all are policies that are damaging to our nation's well-being. However, such policies are not in themselves impeachable crimes. His contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law is a different matter altogether.
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Solyndra employees: Company suffered from mismanagement, heavy spending
By Carol D. Leonnig and Joe Stephens, Published: September 21
Former employees of Solyndra, the shuttered solar company that exhausted half a billion dollars of taxpayer money, said they saw questionable spending by management almost as soon as a federal agency approved a $535 million government-backed loan for the start-up.
A new factory built with public money boasted a gleaming conference room with glass walls that, with the flip of a switch, turned a smoky gray to conceal the room’s occupants. Hastily purchased state-of-the-art equipment ended up being sold for pennies on the dollar, still in its plastic wrap, employees said.
As the $344 million factory went up just down the road from the company’s leased plant in Fremont, Calif., workers watched as pallets of unsold solar panels stacked up in storage. Many wondered: Was the factory needed?
“After we got the loan guarantee, they were just spending money left and right,” said former Solyndra engineer Lindsey Eastburn. “Because we were doing well, nobody cared. Because of that infusion of money, it made people sloppy.”
Solyndra’s ability to secure federal backing also made the company eager for more assistance, interviews and records show. Company executives ramped up their Washington lobbying efforts, hiring a former Senate aide to work with the White House and the Energy Department. Within a week of getting a loan guarantee commitment from the Energy Department, Solyndra applied for another, worth $400 million. It never won final approval.
On Friday, company executives are scheduled to appear before a House committee investigating how Solyndra obtained its loan and whether the Obama White House rushed its approval for political reasons. Chief Executive Officer Brian Harrison and Chief Financial Officer Bill Stover were supposed to face a grilling about the company’s spending and collapse, but they announced Tuesday that they would assert their Fifth Amendment rights because of a criminal probe of the company by the Justice Department.
A key question for lawmakers is whether Solyndra executives misled Congress about the financial state of the company as late as July, when questions about the loan surfaced on Capitol Hill. Solyndra filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Aug. 31, laying off 1,100 workers and leaving taxpayers on the hook for repayment of the guaranteed loan made through the Federal Financing Bank.
Solyndra was once touted by President Obama as the flagship of his administration’s effort to spur the clean-energy industry. The Washington Post reported earlier this month that e-mails showed that White House officials pushed federal reviewers for a decision on the Solyndra loan as they sought to schedule a press announcement with the company and Vice President Biden.
An Energy Department spokesman said the agency was unaware that Solyndra sales projections, part of the justification for the new factory, had been too rosy. Spokesman Damien LaVera declined to comment on the employees’ accounts of company spending.
Solyndra, founded by enterpreneur Chris Gronet in 2004, pushed the Obama administration to support its niche solar technology — efficient cylindrical solar panels that were relatively expensive to make but cheaper and easier to install on the roofs of “big box” stores and other commercial buildings. The new administration awarded the company its first loan guarantee under the stimulus program.
The leading investors in Solyndra were two investment funds with ties to George B. Kaiser, a major campaign fundraising “bundler” for Obama.
The White House had scheduled a press event around the time of Solyndra’s factory groundbreaking on Sept. 4, 2009. Federal reviewers gave their final nod to the deal on Sept. 2.
With the loan guarantee in hand, Solyndra built a second, seven-acre factory with 19 loading docks. As part of the expansion, Gronet and fellow managers hoped to cut costs by speeding up the automated assembly. To do so, they bought a custom-made assembly tool from VDL, a Dutch company. The company had never built that kind of equipment, but it promised the assembly tool would arrive in the summer of 2010. By that time, Gronet had been pushed out as chief executive. Workers told The Post in interviews that they were shocked that summer when Harrison, newly installed as CEO, told them that sales projections used to justify the new factory to federal agencies had been far too optimistic.
“Obviously their forecasts weren’t correct,” said Peter M. Kohlstadt, a research engineer. “We just didn’t have the sales we thought we had.”
Employees said that in 2010 they noticed that solar panel inventories were growing — raising questions about why they weren’t being sold. The new assembly equipment arrived late and had technical problems. VDL officials did not respond to a request for comment.
In a July 13 letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, then probing his company’s loan, Harrison insisted that the company’s future was bright.
“Solyndra’s revenues grew from $6 million in 2008 to $100 million in 2009 to $140 million in 2010,” Harrison wrote. “For 2011, revenues are projected to nearly double again.”
Bankruptcy filings show the company was at the time desperately looking for bridge financing to keep its doors open. It shut down six weeks later.
Although Harrison stressed in a Post interview earlier this year that he focused on business, not “the political aspect of what happens in Washington,” public records show that since 2008, Solyndra has spent more than $1 million on lobbying inside the Beltway.
Lobbying expenditures of $160,000 a year in 2008 and 2009 accelerated as Solyndra’s financial and political troubles mounted. By 2010, such spending had grown to $550,000. So far this year, Solyndra has reported spending $220,000, but that number will grow as more reports filter in.
Sakera Alima, who began working at Solyndra as a financial analyst in the fall of 2010, said she was warned by a mentor that the company wasn’t doing well financially.
“She said, ‘I’ve been working here the past three years and I feel like any day now I might not have my job,’ ” Alima recalled. “I knew it was a risk.”
Kohlstadt said employees arrived at work to find the company closed, and they lost vacation pay and benefits without notice.
Kohlstadt said Solyndra’s collapse leaves him doubly affected.
“I’m being hit twice: As a taxpayer, $500 million, where did it go?” he said. “I’m hit a second time: I’m not getting money that is owed to me and the government hasn’t done anything to look out for us.”
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GOP steps up pressure on Obama with Fast and Furious investigation
By Jordy Yager - 09/24/11 01:40 PM ET
Top ranking Republicans are increasing pressure on the Obama administration over a botched gun tracking operation, as the White House falls under tight scrutiny in two other separate investigations.House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday, stressing that the congressional investigation into the Fast and Furious operation would not slow down or cease because of two recent departures of high-ranking officials within the Justice Department (DOJ) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).“The department cannot...pin this scandal on a few individuals and expect it to be forgotten,” said Smith in his letter. “Fast and Furious was a result of systematic problems at the ATF.”
Congressional interest will continue until we fully understand who authorized the failed program and how a federal agency could allow such decision-making to occur.”Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa), the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, also wrote to the DOJ’s acting inspector general (IG) this week, blasting the office for sending secret audio recordings of a special agent involved in the operation to the agent himself.The lawmakers contend that the move cost them the upper hand and that it has compromised the IG’s investigation into the Fast and Furious operation, which is being conducted simultaneously to Issa’s.“Each of these disclosures undermines our ability to assess the candor of witnesses in our investigation and thus obstructs it,” wrote Grassley and Issa.“Moreover, your decision to immediately disclose the recordings to those you are investigating creates at least the appearance, if not more, that your inquiry is not sufficiently objective and independent.”Soon after the letter was sent, Issa hit the airwaves, doing numerous interviews with Fox and CNN about his investigation, which is five months old.“We will continue our investigation,” said Issa on Fox News. “We will get to the bottom of it probably more by whistleblowers that we will by the administration. And it will only be to the detriment of the administration. We’re shocked that it’s become the cover-up rather than the admission that this was indefensible long ago.”The operation authorized the sale of thousands of weapons in the southwest region to known and suspected straw buyers for Mexican drug cartels and may have contributed to the death of a Border Patrol agent.The mounting congressional heat comes as Issa launched a separate investigation this week into the Obama administration’s process of approving government loans to private corporations out of a concern that political or financial influence might have played a role. Issa, who has subpoena power as chairman, commenced his latest investigation after solar panel-maker Solyndra declared bankruptcy late last month.The Obama administration had touted the company, which received a $535 million government loan, as part of its stimulus program and green-jobs agenda.But emails between the White House and Energy Department show administration officials pushing for quick consideration of the loans. One of Solyndra’s private investors is a major Obama campaign contributor, raising as much as $100,000 for the president’s 2008 victory. The emails depict efforts by the administration to give the donor a quicker return on his investment into the company than taxpayers.The House Energy and Commerce Committee is also investigating the Solyndra loan.Issa was quick to tie the two investigations together, painting a picture of a corrupt administration.The White House and Energy Department officials deny any wrongdoing.“The administration broke rules repeatedly,” said Issa on Fox. “They broke long precedents in Fast and Furious and Brian Terry is dead as a result. They broke the very rules that protect the taxpayers from finding themselves first or early on the hook in the case of a failed company.”The acting director of the ATF Kenneth Melson was replaced last month in the wake of the flawed Fast and Furious operation. The U.S. Attorney for Arizona, Dennis Burke, who oversaw the legal aspects of the operation, resigned the same day.Melson has testified before Issa’s and Grassley’s staff that he was not aware that agents involved in the operation were being authorized to let the guns “walk” unsupervised in the hands of known and suspected criminals.
Both President Obama and Holder have also said they were unaware of the program.Issa has argued that as the head of the agency, Melson should have been aware of the operation. He has also blasted Holder for not knowing about an operation of its magnitude in his own agency, calling for him to be fired.In his letter, Smith asked Holder to notify him if the DOJ planned to make any additional staff changes in response to the Fast and Furious operation and questioned why the immediate supervisors had not been disciplined. Smith also requested an explanation of what role officials at DOJ played in the decision-making process.“It is simply difficult to believe that no one at main Justice was aware of the long-standing operation,” he said.
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Posted: 2:59 am EDT September 23, 2011Updated: 8:21 pm EDT September 23, 2011
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Democratic-controlled Senate rejected a House GOP temporary spending bill Friday, inching the federal government closer to yet another potential shutdown and risking the loss of sorely needed disaster recovery funds.
Before the measure was even formally presented, senators cast it aside in a 59-36 vote.
Hours earlier, GOP leaders pushed the bill through the Republican-controlled House in a 219-203 vote after adding a series of cuts vehemently opposed by their Democratic counterparts.
Both chambers of Congress must agree on new spending legislation to avoid a partial shutdown after the close of the current fiscal year September 30.
The measure currently under deliberation -- which would keep Washington running through November 18 -- includes critical new disaster funding assistance for states hit hard by Hurricane Irene, Tropical Storm Lee, and a series of recent wildfires and tornadoes.
But Republicans want less disaster aid than their Democratic counterparts, and want to pay for it partly by cutting funding for programs designed to spur clean energy innovation.
The House passed a "common sense measure," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters during the Senate vote. "It's time for the Senate to move."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, announced his intention to push for a new vote Monday on a compromise package incorporating the GOP's lower overall disaster relief spending levels while eliminating any cuts to clean energy programs.
Congressmen and senators need to "cool off for a little bit," Reid said Friday. "There's a compromise here."
"More reasonable heads will prevail," he predicted.
This is the third time the government has been threatened with a shutdown this year alone. Legislators nearly forced Washington to start closing its doors in mid-April and again during the debt ceiling imbroglio in August.
Tea party-backed legislators have used a series of statutory deadlines -- typically dealt with through non-controversial funding extensions -- to push an ideological agenda of spending reductions at sharp odds with priorities in the Obama administration and elsewhere.
The latest standoff in Washington, however, could have far-reaching negative consequences beyond the political arena. Among other things, the new shutdown threat could further damage an already sputtering economy. Global trading partners are increasingly confused by a "political system that looks manifestly broken," Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner warned Thursday.
Meanwhile, the agency responsible for doling out disaster relief money -- the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- could run out of funds as soon as Monday, according to Reid.
"If Congress does allow the balance of the Disaster Relief Fund to reach zero, there are laws that govern federal agency operations in the absence of funding," according to a FEMA statement released Friday. "Under law, FEMA would be forced to temporarily shut down disaster recovery and assistance operations, including financial assistance to individuals until Congress appropriated more funds. This would include all past and current FEMA recovery operations."
FEMA spokeswoman Rachel Racusen told CNN Friday that the agency is exploring other funding options as a way to continue providing disaster relief.
The House GOP legislation includes $3.65 billion in new disaster relief funding -- $1 billion in emergency funds available when the bill is enacted and roughly $2.6 billion to be budgeted for those federal response agencies for the 2012 fiscal year that begins October 1.
One key sticking point is that the House bill requires that the $1 billion in immediate disaster funding be offset with $1.5 billion in cuts to a loan program that helps automakers retool their operations to make more fuel-efficient cars. Another $100 million would be cut from an alternative energy loan program that provided funding for the solar panel firm Solyndra, a company that declared bankruptcy late last month despite receiving a $535 million federal guarantee in 2009.
Last week, the Senate passed a spending bill with bipartisan support that would provide $6.9 billion for FEMA and other federal agencies, to be used both for immediate disaster relief as well as in the new fiscal year. The Senate version required no spending offsets.
Democrats have said they will continue to oppose any offsets to counter the emergency spending for natural disasters.
One senior Senate Democratic leadership aide said Thursday night that the party's caucus is united against Republican-tailored versions of the measure.
"We are looking for a real attempt to compromise, not just an attempt to appease their own people," the aide said.
Forty-eight conservative Republicans initially voted against the GOP measure Wednesday -- an embarrassing setback for Boehner. But they changed their minds when additional alternative energy spending cuts were added to the legislation, according to a GOP aide. In the end, 23 Republicans who initially opposed the bill flipped to support it, giving it enough votes to pass.
Boehner's struggle to control an unwieldy House GOP caucus has become an ongoing issue on Capitol Hill this year.
During the debt ceiling debate over the summer, Boehner had to withdraw his own plan for deficit reduction at one point when it became clear he lacked sufficient support within his caucus to get it passed.
This time, the speaker threatened members with pulling them from committee assignments if they failed to support the continuing resolution Wednesday, according to a Republican source who attended the GOP conference meeting.
The source, speaking on condition of not being identified, said Boehner "cracked the whip" at the Wednesday morning meeting and told Republicans bluntly they needed to back the measure or he'd go to the steering committee and start pulling committee assignments for members who didn't vote for it. The Republican steering committee approves member committee assignments.
On Thursday, Boehner shrugged off the defeat as the price of trying to get legislation through the democratic process.
"I have no fear in allowing the House to work its will," he said, adding: "Does it make my life a little more difficult? Yes it does."
Rep. Bill Huizenga of Michigan, a conservative freshman Republican who opposed the resolution, said removing the offset provision -- as Democrats want -- would be "more problematic for me and probably for more of the caucus."
Asked if he was concerned about Boehner's threat to take away committee posts, Huizenga said: "It's far less of a concern than going back home and not being able to explain my vote."
Meanwhile, during House floor debate on the measure, Democrats complained that any kind of offset would be unprecedented for emergency funding to help Americans in need.
"Even if they had the best offset in the world, I still think it's wrong" to require equivalent spending cuts when getting money to disaster victims, said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California.
Conservative Republicans argued that the nation's expanding deficits require as much spending restraint as possible.
"We're trying to effect change in a way that we spend taxpayer dollars. That's what this whole thing is about," Cantor, R-Virginia, said Wednesday night. "No one is denying anyone disaster aid if they need it, and we're trying to be responsible and to do the right thing."
CNN's Alan Silverleib, Deirdre Walsh, Mike Ahlers, Ted Barrett and Kate Bolduan contributed to this report
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by 2011teaparty by 2011teaparty“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” --Thomas Jefferson #TeaPartyteaparty-platform.com@SenatorReid disaster relief $ is in our bill, double your request. There is no reason Reid is holding this up other than politics.@BarackObama disaster relief $ is in our bill, double your request. There is no reason Reid is holding this up other than politics. by 2011teapartyThe disaster relief money is in our bill, double the President's request. There is no reason Reid is holding this up other than politics. by 2011teaparty"In short, FEMA’s running out of money. They are almost broke.”-@SenatorReid House GOP passed a bill to #FundFEMA, time for Senate to act by 2011teapartyMT@SpeakerBoehner: FEMA will run out of money as soon as Mon unless Sen Dems pass House CR today: http://j.mp/pFXWyA #FundFEMA
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Comments on the GOP Debate held at the Reagan library:
All candidates made a strong showing and upped the ante from political personalities to their stance on the issues. This debate really moved to the meat and potatoes; we moved passed name identification and ideology to a serious discussion on fixing the problems America faces. When picking a party nominee, one must decide which approach is best.
So far we have these 2012 ballot issues, of voter importance:
A - economy B - health care/future C - security
Legend:
RED - GOP policy PURPLE - Tea Party policy BLUE - Democrat/Stupidcrat/Kleptocrat policy
1) The Perry Platform:
A) negating federal regulations/reduction of government to create jobs
B) reform Social Security, return Medicaid reform to states, defunding Obamacare
C) accountable border control policy where the federal government does its job
2) The Cain Platform:
A) the 9-9-9 base budget plan - prevents waste, fraud, and abuse and returns the fiscal sanity of paying taxes
B) repeal Obamacare, by tweaking Social Security, tweaking Medicaid and reforming Medicare
C) we will not permit our soil to be used as an operating base or financing mechanism for the Taliban
3) The Paul Platform:
A) government must return to the four umbrellas of original design
B) government must get out of health care; that is left up to the individual and funding to the states
C) immediate troop withdrawal/funding for all conflict goes through Congress, no a bilateral Executive-Military decision
4) The Bachmann Platform:
A) wants a Balanced Budget Amendment to remove uncertainty, (vote is scheduled on that for the end of this year)
B) repeal Obamacare as it has destroyed jobs and created uncertainty about taxation
C) eradicate the Obama ideology that makes us vulnerable to attack
5) The Santorum Platform:
A) sees job creation as an integral societal problem
B) repeal Obamacare
C) feels that Obama’s corruption has eroded the social and moral fabric of America, which must be replaced with different leadership
6) The Palin Platform:
A) sees job creation through reduction of government spending and paying down the deficit/restoring America’s credit rating and integrity financially
B) strike through Obamacare funding - declare it null and void, according to court rulings, and work on substantive health reform
C) taking back our country, through grassroots initiatives will secure our country without bell and whistles of massive federal funding of security initiatives
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7) The Newt Platform:
A) systematic Reagan-style job creation plan
B) systematic repeal and reform of health care
C) will be more actively engaged with military expenses
8) The Obamoney Platform:
A) doesn’t see job creation except as a tax-related issue/out-of-touch
B) *offers Obamacare waivers, which doesn’t go far enough in defunding unconstitutional and corrupt legislation originally designed to function as a funnel program for Thomson prison
C) relies on military rather than militia for advice for the future of national security
9) The Huntsman Platform:
A) thinks Obama’s policies have killed jobs - yet has no clear strategy
B) has a different idea than Obamacare on health care reform, but it’s not Obamacare
C) doesn’t hold a staunch debate posture on security, just feels it is an arm of government instead of an integral part
Obamoney and Huntsman can’t win the GOP nomination: their platforms reflect the same ideas and approaches of Moderate Democrats. I would comment further on the Democrats’ platforms, but I have seen no debate or appeals to the public. It is as if they have already lost the 2012 election and have no fresh ideas on how to fix our nation’s problems.
Democrats have resigned to spin the wheels of Obama’s bus in the rut of economic hell. Obama doesn’t even have a platform!!
His “economic plan” is a dirty trick bag of stimulus.
Though not as large as the super bank bailouts, where the bank has held onto $1 trillion of taxpayer money without loaning or fixing their “MORTGAGE-CRISES-BANKER-SPURNED GAMBLING ADDICTION”, they have arrested Geithner and Bernanke’s ability to do anything to thwart a second market collapse. This is good for the stock market, but bad for Main Street. Not that anyone wanted the Geithner-Bernanke New World Order style banking system, when global markets have weighed heavily on top of our $14.5 trillion dollar growing deficit.
The Obama-Biden debt financing to China can’t continue; as China will not allow us to do so, as their market is strained by our lack of recovery.
The only thing Obama proposes is a cosmetic approach before the 2012 election:
MINI STIMULUS #1,#2,#3
#1 UNFUNDED unemployment checks/unemployment insurance extensions
#2 UNFUNDED infrastructure, which should be left up to states applying for grants
#3 UNFUNDED tax cuts for businesses to create jobs
= $1.5 trillion of UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING interest included
WITH SUCKER BONUS - some people will be eligible to temporarily receive Social Security that are capable of working at least a part-time job
All the while Obama is facing impeachment over his lack of citizenry on 9-14 with the Hawaii Department of Health summoned to court to answer to the court as to why they could not produce ANY birth certificate on 8-8, when it took three years to get a court ordered subpoena in response to numerous lawsuits filed and corresponding FBI investigations, regarding pending corruption and and criminal fraud charges.
I have heard Harry Reid speak twice on CSPAN since the “DEBT CEILING DEBACLE”, and he blames the Republicans and the Tea Party for what he calls “NO IDEAS” presented by his party: he cites “their obstructionism” and “they’re holding the American economy hostage”, and these are the only things that they can contribute on their part.
Yeah, I guess when Democrats only present more spending as “the Holy Grail” to job growth and economic restoration when there is no gold to back it, Democrats really only do the best job projecting the problems that they created onto the other parties by further obstructing and holding the economy hostage to their fiscal insanity.
I have not seen any different ideas Democrats have other than UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING. When you don’t have the money, and spend it anyway, it is called STEALING. This is why I will refer to Democrats as Kleptocrats and Stupidcrats from now until 2012.
The leadership of the Democratic Party displays no palatable nominees for the Presidency with UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING AS THEIR PLATFORM.
Their party has catered to 20% of voter base and alienated the majority of taxpayers, 65% of the emerging majority is attuned with the GOP and Tea Party.
Why taxpayers feel that the Democrats’ approach has not worked:
nearly half of the voter base that is not Republican or Tea Party have not paid in taxes regularly for the past 15-20 yrs., and
Obama’s “CONSTITUENTS” have increasingly demanded more w/o paying taxes:
1) food stamps
2) Medicaid/Medicare
3) cell phones
4) housing loans based on racial privilege without income or intelligence quotient
5) education funding, rather than earned scholarships for talent or scholastic achievement
When $.42 of the dollar goes to defense, you can’t have $.50 leveraged in public debt in the form of UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING.
Obama borrowed nearly $9 trillion against gold to fund his 2010 budget and the 2011 budget that he never wrote, by expanding UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING in the form of social programs and unemployment without job creation or revenue from cuts or reforms.
Obama has levied the debt of 20% of constituents on the back of 65% of taxpayers, to the point taxpayers are losing jobs from economic slowdown and causing those who would not be on food stamps to join the roll, adding to the burden.
Instead of attacking poverty, as was his pledge state-by-state, he has IMPOVERISHED the entire nation, trying to spend his way out of poverty, rather than working America out of it by jobs, revenues, and cuts.
America could never afford or wanted Obama’s agenda in 2008; Obama lied about it all, and his supporters see now that they were duped as well. We now see if for what it really is: a grand scheme of theft, LIKE GRAND THEFT LOTTO: where you pay in a little and cash in on the money you never had to earn or have to pay back.
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HA !!! MAY THE BEST PERSON WIN 2012 -- AND WE KNOW IT AIN'T OBAMA !!!!@MittRomney thinking you get a cheap shot in on Perry about Social Security when Perry is only making considerations and not decisions #lame@MittRomney your UTAH-slick policies don't go around Texas and Georgia, get me??@MittRomney Newt, despite the pretentious purple tie and makeup, gave the best rebuttals to debate themes, and he's not a consideration!!@MittRomney YOU DO NOT HAVE THE GUTS OF HERMAN CAIN, BACHMANN, PALIN, PAUL, PERRY, OR EVEN SANTORUM! You have political hair syndrome #4real@MittRomney let me tell you something else: you can spit out a 6pt. plan, but you don't have the integrity or balls to carry it out!@MittRomney you are a Democrat parading as a Republican, and you having the most Congressional endorsements makes me distrust you even more!@MittRomney Hands-off law for Social Security-privatization, or state-controlled program stops it being used as a pearl among federal swine!
Gov. Rick Perry Announces Shepard as Vermont Campaign Chairman
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Posted on September 22nd, 2011
AUSTIN – Texas Governor Rick Perry today named Jay Shepard as Campaign Chairman for the State of Vermont. Shepard will serve as the point person in support of the Perry for President grassroots efforts within the state of Vermont.
“I am proud to have the support of so many Vermonters who support my record and vision for job creation and fiscal conservatism,” said Gov. Perry. “I’m proud to have Jay taking the reigns of our grassroots efforts in this important state.”
Shepard is a longtime Vermont Republican activist and party leader having served with distinction on the VTGOP Executive Committee for eight years. He has played an instrumental role in the election of Republican candidates statewide. Shepard represented Vermont as a delegate to the RNC National Conventions in 2004 and 2008. In 2008, Jay served as Vermont’s only member of the National Convention’s Platform Committee.
“I’m excited to be part of the Rick Perry for President team,” said Shepard. ”America needs Rick Perry’s leadership and vision for the future, and he is the candidate our country needs to get America working again.”
Obama's FY 2011 Debt Bigger Than Nixon's Entire Government
By Terence P. Jeffrey
September 24, 2011
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President Barack Obama, backed by teachers and students, speaks at the White House on Sept. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)(CNSNews.com) - The administration of President Barack Obama has already increased the national debt in fiscal 2011--which ends this coming Friday--by an amount greater than the cost of the entire federal government in fiscal 1970, when Richard Nixon was president.
In 1970, according to the historical tables published by the White House Office of Management and Budget, total federal spending was $195.649 billion. That equals approximately $1.14236 trillion in 2011 dollars, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' inflation calculator.
As of the close of business on Sept. 22, according to the Bureau of the Public Debt, the total federal debt was $14.72679 trillion. That was an increase of $1.16517 trillion from Sept. 30, 2010, the last day of fiscal 2010.
The $1.16517 trillion in new debt the Obama administration has accumulated so far in this fiscal year is about $22.81 billion more than the $1.14236 trillion in inflation-adjusted dollars than the entire federal government spent in 1970.
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