Gallup: GOP Has Largest Poll Lead Ever

Monday, 30 Aug 2010 10:17 PM

A new Gallup poll released Monday shows Republicans with a record 10-point edge over Democrats on the "generic ballot" test — the question of whether voters prefer a Democratic or Republican congressional candidate. It’s the largest GOP polling edge at this stage in the 68 years of the generic ballot poll, Politico first reported.

The news is so discouraging that an increasing number of Democratic strategists now say privately that they fear the House is already lost, Politico reports.

The Gallup poll, coming at the end of a brutal August for Democrats and President Barack Obama, reinforces the rapidly forming prevailing view that the horizon is as bleak for Democrats as it ever has been.

The 51-41 percent edge Republicans have now represents the largest Republican edge heading into a midterm election since the poll was first conducted in the 1942 election cycle, giving them greater reason for optimism than in the weeks leading up to their 1952 and 1994 House takeovers. It also represents a stunning reversal from the 6-point lead Democrats posted in the poll in mid-July.

"You have millions of Americans worried about the economy, jobs, deficits, their children's future, and we're out there talking about what - Bush, Iraq?" Chris Kofinis, a longtime Democratic strategist, told Politico. "Our message needs to be more positive, more hopeful, more focused, and we need talk to the economic reality of everyday Americans and their families. There is time to pivot, but we're just not there yet."


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Brewer to State Department: Remove Reference to Arizona Law from UN Report Published August 27, 2010 | Associated Press

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer demanded Friday that a reference to the state's controversial immigration law be removed from a State Department report to the United Nations' human rights commissioner.

The U.S. included its legal challenge to the law on a list of ways the federal government is protecting human rights.
In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Brewer says it is "downright offensive" that a state law would be included in the report, which was drafted as part of a UN review of human rights in all member nations every four years.
"The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a state of the United States to 'review' by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and unconstitutional," Brewer wrote.
Arizona's law generally requires police officer enforcing other laws to investigate the immigration status of people they suspect are illegal immigrants.
Critics say it would lead officers to target Hispanics. Supporters, including Brewer, say the law prohibits racial profiling and other human rights abuses.
The U.S. Justice Department sued to block the measure, arguing federal law trumps the state's authority to enforce immigration laws.
A federal judge in July sided with the Justice Department and blocked enforcement of the law's most controversial provisions a day before it was scheduled to take effect.
In its report, the State Department does not specifically allege that Arizona's law would lead to racial profiling.
"A recent Arizona law, S.B. 1070, has generated significant attention and debate at home and around the world," the report says. "The issue is being addressed in a court action that argues that the federal government has the authority to set and enforce immigration law. That action is ongoing; parts of the law are currently enjoined."
A State Department spokesman had no immediate comment on Brewer's letter.
Brewer, a Republican, is running for election in November. Her popularity in Arizona and her national profile have soared since she signed the immigration measure in April.

To Much!

Comments by Bailey:
I'm sitting and drinking a cup of coffee this morning and I'm thinking does any of these comments I post on the internet really matter to anyone except me? I think not as it is like dropping a grain of sand onto a sandy beach by the seaside. There are millions of blogs, websites, and information on the internet, way to much for a human being to process. And everyone is constantly coming up with a gimmick to get you to notice their blog. So what I write and post means very little to anyone else except for myself, but I'll keep on doing it because it makes me feel better! Maybe that is whats wrong with our country, there is to much of everything!

The 545 People Responsible For All Of U.S. Woes

BY Charley Reese

(Date of publication unknown)-- -- -  Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code. Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy. Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices - 545 human beings out of the 235 million - are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.

I excluded all but the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it.

No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislation's responsibility to determine how he votes.

A CONFIDENCE CONSPIRACY

Don't you see how the con game that is played on the people by the politicians? Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of Tip O'Neill, who stood up and criticized Ronald Reagan for creating deficits.

The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating appropriations and taxes.

O'neill is the speaker of the House. He is the leader of the majority party. He and his fellow Democrats, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetos it, they can pass it over his veto.

REPLACE SCOUNDRELS

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 235 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts - of incompetence and irresponsibility.

I can't think of a single domestic problem, from an unfair tax code to defense overruns, that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.

When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red. If the Marines are in Lebanon, it's because they want them in Lebanon.

There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take it.

Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exist disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation" or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people and they alone are responsible. They and they alone have the power. They and they alone should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses - provided they have the gumption to manage their own employees.

This article was first published by the Orlando Sentinel Star newspaper

Mayor Michael Bloomberg

By CRISTIAN SALAZAR, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 55 mins ago

NEW YORK – Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered an impassioned speech at an event marking the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, saying that not allowing a proposed mosque to be built near ground zero would be "compromising our commitment to fighting terror with freedom."

"We would undercut the values and principles that so many heroes died protecting," Bloomberg said at the dinner Tuesday in observance of Iftar, the breaking of the daily fast during Ramadan.

The mayor said he understood the "impulse to find another location for the mosque" but a compromise won't end the debate.

"The question will then become how big should the no-mosque zone around the World Trade Center be," Bloomberg said. "There is already a mosque four blocks away. Should it, too, be moved?"

Sharif el-Gamal, the mosque site's developer, and Daisy Khan, a co-founder of the group planning the mosque, were also at the dinner attended by about 100 people, including members of the Muslim community and city officials such as police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

Comment below by Bailey:

The American people are losing control of our country because of people like Mayor Bloomberg talking crap like above. As if we don't have enough problems with Muslims behind us telling us we need to run our country their way, and the Mexicans in front of us saying no do it our way. Our own politicians on our left giving into them all just for the votes. And then on the right side of us every other foreigner trying to take over our country. And then there's Obama? And when any American speaks up and says their tired of all this crap, they make us into the bad guys. What a screwed up country this has become! Look out people I think we're surrounded from all sides with no where to turn. Whatever happen to people coming to our country for a better way of life and assimilating into our culture? If they want America to be like their own country, why even come here in the first place?

August 20, 2010 10:55AMhttp://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2010/08/wallis_admits_t.html

Wallis Admits to Soros Funding

Sarah Pulliam Bailey

Jim Wallis has admitted that Sojourners has received funding in the past from liberal billionaire George Soros' Open Society Institute.

Last month, Marvin Olasky asked Wallis to admit his affiliations on the left when reported on the money from Soros in World magazine.

George Soros, one of the leading billionaire leftists—he has financed groups promoting abortion, atheism, same-sex marriage, and gargantuan government—bankrolled Sojourners with a $200,000 grant in 2004. A year later, here's how Jim rebutted a criticism of "religious progressives" for being allied with Soros and MoveOn.org: "I know of no connections to those liberal funds and groups that are as direct as the Religious Right's ties to right-wing funders."

Since then Sojourners has received at least two more grants from Soros organizations. Sojourners revenues have more than tripled—from $1,601,171 in 2001-2002 to $5,283,650 in 2008-2009—as secular leftists have learned to use the religious left to elect Obama and others.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Sniveling Little Snitch!        

Iran Begins Fueling First Nuclear Reactor

BUSHEHR, Iran -- Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel Saturday into Iran's first nuclear power plant, which Moscow has promised to safeguard to prevent material at the site from being used in any potential weapons production. 
Is this a stupid move or what?
Old Post from 8/13/10  Obama administration plans to buy 21 Russian-made choppers for use in Afghanistan, rather than buy American-made.

Where are all the jobs?

We're still waiting for all the jobs Obama was sending our way, oh that's right he meant the ones in government positions or in China. Heck I  would like to work for US Government myself! I hear they start people out making more money then the average worker makes working at a private company for years! Also most of the jobs are going over  seas because they're not taxed out of business like Obama wants to do them here in America.

United We Stand ?

Do you stand with President Obama in support of this mosque or do you stand with the countless 9/11 families who believe its location is inappropriate? To some of you this might be a question you would have to stop and think about.  But if that is the case then you must be one of the poor little bleeding heart political correct freaks that have already wreaked America. If  it wasn't for you and your far left president you voted into office, this question would not have ever been asked in the first place! What a bunch of Idiots we've all become! No wonder the world looks on America with disrespect.

The average federal salary has grown 33% faster than inflation since 2000.

At a time when workers' pay and benefits have stagnated, federal employees' average compensation has grown to more than double what private sector workers earn, a USA TODAY analysis finds.

Federal workers have been awarded bigger average pay and benefit increases than private employees for nine years in a row. The compensation gap between federal and private workers has doubled in the past decade.

Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The data are the latest available.

The federal compensation advantage has grown from $30,415 in 2000 to $61,998 last year.

Public employee unions say the compensation gap reflects the increasingly high level of skill and education required for most federal jobs and the government contracting out lower-paid jobs to the private sector in recent years.

"The data are not useful for a direct public-private pay comparison," says Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union.

Chris Edwards, a budget analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute, thinks otherwise. "Can't we now all agree that federal workers are overpaid and do something about it?" he asks.

Last week, President Obama ordered a freeze on bonuses for 2,900 political appointees. For the rest of the 2-million-person federal workforce, Obama asked for a 1.4% across-the-board pay hike in 2011, the smallest in more than a decade. Federal workers also would qualify for seniority pay hikes.

Congressional Republicans want to cancel the across-the-board increase in 2011, which would save $2.2 billion.

"Americans are fed up with public employee pay scales far exceeding that in the private sector," says Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., the second-ranking Republican in the House.

Sen. Ted Kaufman, D-Del., says a pay freeze would unfairly scapegoat federal workers without addressing real budget problems.

What the data show:

•Benefits. Federal workers received average benefits worth $41,791 in 2009. Most of this was the government's contribution to pensions. Employees contributed an additional $10,569.

•Pay. The average federal salary has grown 33% faster than inflation since 2000. USA TODAY reported in March that the federal government pays an average of 20% more than private firms for comparable occupations. The analysis did not consider differences in experience and education.

•Total compensation. Federal compensation has grown 36.9% since 2000 after adjusting for inflation, compared with 8.8% for private workers.

What it amounts to is the employee (federal worker) makes more then the boss (taxpayer)

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN

Russia's nuclear agency says that it will fuel Iran's first nuclear power plant, the Bushehr Plant, next weekend, defying U.S. calls to hold off until the Ahmadinejad regime proves it's not developing nuclear weapons — at the same time the Obama administration plans to buy 21 Russian-made choppers for use in Afghanistan, rather than buy American-made.

Federal workers earning double their private counterparts

Federal workers earning double their private counterparts
http://dailycaller.com ^ | Aug 11 2010 | dailycaller.com 
Posted on Wed Aug 11 2010 16:57:27 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by NoLibZone
At a time when workers’ pay and benefits have stagnated, federal employees’ average compensation has grown to more than double what private sector workers earn, a USA TODAY analysis finds.
Federal workers have been awarded bigger average pay and benefit increases than private employees for nine years in a row. The compensation gap between federal and private workers has doubled in the past decade.
Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The data are the latest available.
The federal compensation advantage has grown from $30,415 in 2000 to $61,998 last year.

Pretty sorry mud slinging!

As one New Hampshire Dem lawmaker reportedly resigns for making anti-Palin remark on Facebook, a candidate from the same state apologizes for saying he wished Sarah Palin and the father of her grandchild, Levi Johnston, had been on the plane that crashed and killed ex-Sen. Ted Stevens

Democrats pass $26 billion union enrichment bill

by KIM PRIESTAP on 11. AUG, 2010 in 2010 MIDTERMS, DEMOCRATS, POLITICS, UNIONS, ELECTIONS

Yesterday morning I woke up to a voice mail from Republican representative Michele Bachmann who had left a recorded message about Nancy Pelosi’s calling the House back to session to pass a $26 billion “jobs” bill. Jobs bill doesn’t even come close. It’s actually a union enrichment bill, which is a real slap in the face to American taxpayers because already public sector unions earn twice as much as their private sector counterparts. Arrogance, thy name is Democrat. Read more about this from Kim at 

http://politics.upnorthmommy.com/2010/08/democrats-pass-26-billion-union-enrichment-bill/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+KimsPoliticalInsights+(Kim+Priestap+-+No-nonsense+conservative+opinion)

Reid ripped for questioning how Hispanics could be Republican

Posted by Laura Myers
Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 at 10:09 AM

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid is getting a lot of partisan heat for saying, "I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican."
And his GOP opponent Sharron Angle is fanning the flames to take advantage of Reid's gaffe that has riled Hispanics who aren't Democrats like him.

Angle's communications director Jarrod Agen emailed links (listed at the end of this blog) to stories and blogs criticizing Reid for his remarks. And he noted that the Senate majority leader's hit on Hispanic Republicans comes after his campaign skewered Angle last week for saying Democrats were making "God our government."

"Last week it was religion. This week it’s ethnic politics," Agen said in a statement. "Harry Reid cannot give any good reasons why people should vote for him, so now he is turning to race and ethnicity. He is desperate to change the subject from the economy, which he knows is a losing issue for him."

Agen piled on by pointing out polls show Reid's son, Rory, isn't doing well in his gubernatorial race against Brian Sandoval, a Hispanic and a Republican.

"Of course the other ironic tidbit is that while Harry says he doesn’t know how there could be any Hispanic Republicans, his son is getting crushed by a Hispanic Republican in the Nevada Governor’s race," Agen wrote.

The Reid campaign didn't back away from the senator's comments, which came Tuesday while he was answering questions after addressing Hispanic activists in Las Vegas. Reid blamed Republicans for blocking his attempts to pass comprehensive immigration reform this year, something he had promised he would do as he seeks to shore up support he needs to win from Latino voters, who made up 15 percent of the Nevada electorate in 2008.

A Reid campaign statement said, "Sen. Reid has long enjoyed the support of many Hispanic Republicans in Nevada and appreciates that support."

"Sen. Reid’s contention was simply that he doesn't understand how anyone, Hispanic or otherwise, would vote for Republican candidates because they oppose saving teachers’ jobs, oppose job-creating tax incentives for small businesses, oppose investments in job-creating clean energy projects, and oppose the help for struggling, unemployed Nevadans to put food on the table and stay in their homes," the statement continued.

But Reid's sharp remark came not as he was talking about jobs and the economy at the Hispanic event, but as he slammed the GOP opposition to comprehensive immigration reform at a time when Republicans are gaining support for backing Arizona's law cracking down on illegal immigrants.

Angle backs Arizona and she has said she opposes Democratic plans for immigration reform because they would grant amnesty to people who broke the law -- a notion Reid rejects, saying illegal immigrants would have to pay fines and penalties and "go to the back of the line" to seek U.S. citizenship.

The Reid campaign also accused Angle of ignoring Hispanic media, a charge Agen dismissed as a weak attempt to "paint our campaign as anti-Hispanic."

In contrast, the Reid campaign sought to display his Hispanic credentials by using a Latino spokesman to defend the senator.

"Sharron Angle’s extreme and dangerous agenda for Hispanic Nevadans is something she obviously wants to hide, which is why she and her allies will do or say anything to attack Sen. Reid and shift the focus from the intense heat her campaign has been under," Reid campaign spokesman Jose' Dante Parra said in a statement. "Despite the efforts of Republicans like Sharron Angle to change the U.S. Constitution and block comprehensive immigration reform, Sen. Reid will continue to wake up and fight every day for the interests of Hispanic Nevadans."

State-Aid Package (Funds for Teachers and Medicaid)

Cost:

$26,100,000,000*

On Aug. 5, the Senate approved a bill (HR 1586) that would increase Medicaid funding to states and provide funds to states to prevent layoffs of teachers. The bill includes $10 billion for teachers and $16.1 billion for Medicaid reimbursements to states. Republicans call the bill a political payoff to teachers' unions. The House is expected to vote on the bill the week of Aug. 8.

Update: As of  August 11, it passed. Way to go Dems!

Hard Hearted?

I don't want to sound hard hearted but I'm sure that everyone at one time or another has lost a family member or good friend. But you or I don't jump on a plane and go on a expensive vacation to Spain. As for paying for it out of your own pocket, are you not suppose to? All I can say is show me the receipts!! The last time I heard the tax payer was paying for the secret service and air force one? And guess what  the poor Lady did not know the secret service was booking her into the most expensive Hotel around? Yeah Right! I'm lucky to be able to pay my electric & water bill.

Glenn Beck Says

84% of Americans don't like the way things are looking. But what's even more disturbing is the fact that 67% of the political class (that's your politicians) think everything is going just fine. How can the politicians be THIS clueless? 

Black Political Activist Herman Cain

Black political activists who also call themselves members of the Tea Party movement on Wednesday rebuked charges of racism running rampant in the group.

At a news conference in Washington, the black members asserted that the Tea Party is not at all racist and that the accusations come from outsiders trying to discredit and sabotage the movement.

"The injection of race has come from those who want to destroy us," said Selena Owens, an regular speaker with the Tea Party Express, one of the many libertarian, anti-tax groups in the movement that organized the news conference.

Herman Cain, a radio talk show host, said the accusations are "hurled at us to divide us and to deflect attention away from the failed policies of this congress and this president."

Kevin Jackson, author of "The Big Black Lie" added, "There are two kinds of people I have never seen at a Tea Party: a racist and anyone who owns a yacht. And if they do own a yacht, they pay their taxes."

By Jake Gibson

Published August 04, 2010
FoxNews.com

Way to go Judge Hudson!

The state of Virginia can continue its lawsuit to stop the nation’s new health care law from taking effect, a federal judge ruled Monday.

U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson said he is allowing the suit against the U.S. government to proceed, saying no court has ever ruled on whether it’s constitutional to require Americans to purchase a product.
“While this case raises a host of complex constitutional issues, all seem to distill to the single question of whether or not Congress has the power to regulate — and tax — a citizen’s decision not to participate in interstate commerce,” Hudson wrote in a 32-page decision.
“Given the presence of some authority arguably supporting the theory underlying each side’s position, this court cannot conclude at this stage that the complaint fails to state a cause of action,” he wrote.
The decision is a small step, but in no way a minor matter to opponents of the health care bill rejected by all congressional Republicans but signed into law by President Obama earlier this year.

Left Side View

Myth: Social Security is going broke.

Reality: There is no Social Security crisis. By 2023, Social Security will have a $4.3 trillion surplus (yes, trillion with a 'T'). It can pay out all scheduled benefits for the next quarter-century with no changes whatsoever.¹ After 2037, it'll still be able to pay out 75% of scheduled benefits--and again, that's without any changes. The program started preparing for the Baby Boomers retirement decades ago.² Anyone who insists Social Security is broke probably wants to break it themselves.

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Myth: We have to raise the retirement age because people are living longer.

Reality: This is a red-herring to trick you into agreeing to benefit cuts. Retirees are living about the same amount of time as they were in the 1930s. The reason average life expectancy is higher is mostly because many fewer people die as children than did 70 years ago.³ What's more, what gains there have been are distributed very unevenly--since 1972, life expectancy increased by 6.5 years for workers in the top half of the income brackets, but by less than 2 years for those in the bottom half.⁴But those intent on cutting Social Security love this argument because raising the retirement age is the same as an across-the-board benefit cut.

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Myth: Benefit cuts are the only way to fix Social Security.

Reality: Social Security doesn't need to be fixed. But if we want to strengthen it, here's a better way: Make the rich pay their fair share. If the very rich paid taxes on all of their income, Social Security would be sustainable for decades to come.⁵ Right now, high earners only pay Social Security taxes on the first $106,000 of their income.⁶ But conservatives insist benefit cuts are the only way because they want to protect the super-rich from paying their fair share.

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Myth: The Social Security Trust Fund has been raided and is full of IOUs

Reality: Not even close to true. The Social Security Trust Fund isn't full of IOUs, it's full of U.S. Treasury Bonds. And those bonds are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.⁷ The reason Social Security holds only treasury bonds is the same reason many Americans do: The federal government has never missed a single interest payment on its debts. President Bush wanted to put Social Security funds in the stock market--which would have been disastrous--but luckily, he failed. So the trillions of dollars in the Social Security Trust Fund, which are separate from the regular budget, are as safe as can be.

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Myth: Social Security adds to the deficit

Reality: It's not just wrong -- it's impossible! By law, Social Security funds are separate from the budget, and it must pay its own way. That means that Social Security can't add one penny to the deficit.¹