Message to Kerry from Iraq
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006| Our troops in Iraq are sending John Kerry a message. Please enjoy this photo taken today by our brave soldiers in Iraq! Feel free to email this your friends and family.
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Liberal Democrat Lies !!!
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Ron Paul TX 14th The Taxpayer’s Best Friend
Monday, October 23rd, 2006Do Tax Cuts Cost the Government Money?
October 23, 2006
Whenever tax cuts are discussed in Washington, the media and most politicians use the phrase, “cost to government.” “How much will this tax cut cost the government?” we are asked, as though some crime is being contemplated when we consider reducing taxes. The American people have every right to fund the federal government at whatever level they deem acceptable, and if they choose– through their elected representatives– to reduce that funding level, they are not somehow injuring the government. If Congresses passes a new law that results in you paying $1000 less in taxes next year, have you taken something from the government that rightfully belongs to it? Or has the government simply taken less from you?
You don’t cost the government money, the government costs you money!
Of course it’s reasonable to demand that politicians cut spending when they cut taxes. That’s the definition of real fiscal conservatism: government should not take too much from the private economy in taxes, but neither should it spend too much and run up deficits. That’s why I vote against the wasteful appropriations bills that relentlessly increase federal spending year after year.
I reject the notion that tax cuts harm the economy. The economy suffers when government takes money from your paycheck that you otherwise would spend, save, or invest. Taxes never create prosperity. Private-sector innovation and productivity are the engines that drive our economy, regardless of what politicians tell us.
Tax reduction is my first priority in Congress. The reality is that most working Americans lose about half of their incomes to federal, state, and local taxes. “Tax Freedom Day,” representing the portion of the year you must work to pay for government at all levels, is roughly June 1st for most Americans. Imagine all of your hard work this year between January and the end of May going to the government!
One tax in particular should be eliminated as soon as possible– the tax on Social Security benefits. Those benefits were never taxed between the 1930s and 1984. Treating them as taxable income represents nothing more than a trick to reduce Social Security benefits by stealth. I supported legislation that successfully repealed a 1993 tax increase on benefits, and my own bill, HR 180, would go further and eliminate all taxes on Social Security. Our seniors paid taxes throughout their working lives to fund the Social Security system, and it is immoral to tax them again on their benefits.
Various other taxes also must be reduced. Capital gains taxes are terribly counterproductive, punishing those who save and invest. Payroll taxes impose a tremendous compliance burden on businesses, especially smaller entrepreneurs who cannot hire an accounting department. Federal gas taxes should be slashed to provide taxpayers relief at the pump. Most importantly, federal spending must be dramatically reduced so that all Americans can go back to working for themselves instead of working to pay their taxes.
Spencer for Senate 2006
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006With a communist dictator in North Korea and an Islamic fascist in Iran threatening the world with programs to build nuclear weapons, we do not need Senator Clinton’s appeasement. She plays politics with our national security. She has opposed bunker busting bombs that would stop these nuclear threats. She has flip-flopped on border security.
Senator Clinton’s desire to satisfy the radical anti-war left puts all of us at risk.
I won’t play politics with our national security.
Spencer for US Senate from New York 2006.
Legacy of the Clinton Doctrine (Do Nothing)
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006The Clinton Legacy: North Korea’s Bomb
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
Monday, Oct. 9, 2006
North Korea’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon may have taken place during the watch of George W. Bush — but it was under the Clinton administration’s watch that the communist regime began gathering necessary materials and constructing the bomb.
As Western powers race to confirm that North Korea did in fact explode a nuclear device in Gilju, a remote region in the Hamgyong province, some see it as a culmination of weak U.S. action during the 1990s that led to this fateful day.
Fateful Beginnings
After entering into an agreement with the United States in 1994, the Clinton administration ignored evidence the North Koreans were violating the agreement and continuing to build a nuclear weapon. “In July of 2002, documentary evidence was found in the form of purchase orders for the materials necessary to enrich uranium,” NewsMax’s James Hirsen previously reported.
“In October 2002, Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly met with his North Korean counterpart for scheduled talks. Kelly confronted North Korea with the tangible evidence of its duplicity. After a day of outright denial, North Korea abruptly reversed its position and defiantly acknowledged a secret nuclear program.”
Timeline of a Nuclear Bomb
A review of recent history shows that that the Clinton administration gave up a clear and perhaps last best chance to nip the North Korean bomb in the bud:
1985: North Korea signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
1989: The Central Intelligence Agency discovers the North Koreans are building a reprocessing facility — a reactor capable of converting fuel rods into weapons-grade plutonium. The fuel rods were extracted 10 years before from that nation’s Yongbyon reactor.
The rods represent a shortcut to enriched plutonium and an atomic bomb.
Spring, 1994: A year into President Clinton’s first term, North Korea prepares to remove the Yongbyon fuel rods from their storage site. North Korea expels international weapons inspectors and withdraws from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Oct. 21, 1994: The United States and North Korea sign a formal accord based on those outlines, called the Agreed Framework. Under its terms:
(None of the above came to pass. Congress did not make the financial commitment — neither did South Korea. The light-water reactors were never funded. The enumerated steps toward normalization were never taken.)
Jan. 2002: In President Bush’s State of the Union Address, he famously labels North Korea, Iran, and Iraq as an “axis of evil.”
Oct., 2002: Officials from the U.S. State Department fly to Pyongyang, where that government admits it had acquired centrifuges for processing highly enriched uranium, which could be used for building nuclear weapons.
Oct. 20, 2002: Bush announces that the United States is formally withdrawing from the Carter-brokered 1994 agreement.
Dec., 2002: North Korea expels the international weapons inspectors, restarts the nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, and unlocks the container holding the fuel rods.
Jan. 10, 2003: North Korea withdraws from the Non-Proliferation Treaty — noting, however, that there would be a change of position if the U.S. resumed its obligations under the Agreed Framework and signed a non-aggression pledge.
March, 2003: President Bush orders several B-1 and B-52 bombers to the U.S. Air Force base in Guam — within range of North Korea.
April, 2003: North Korea’s deputy foreign minister announces that his country now has “deterrent” nuclear weapons.
May, 2003: Bush orders the Guam-based aircraft back to their home bases.
October, 2003: The North Koreans announce they have reprocessed all 8,000 of their fuel rods and solved the technical problems of converting the plutonium into nuclear bombs.
Legacy of the Clinton Doctrine (Do Nothing)
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006The Clinton Legacy: North Korea’s Bomb
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
Monday, Oct. 9, 2006
North Korea’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon may have taken place during the watch of George W. Bush — but it was under the Clinton administration’s watch that the communist regime began gathering necessary materials and constructing the bomb.
As Western powers race to confirm that North Korea did in fact explode a nuclear device in Gilju, a remote region in the Hamgyong province, some see it as a culmination of weak U.S. action during the 1990s that led to this fateful day.
Fateful Beginnings
After entering into an agreement with the United States in 1994, the Clinton administration ignored evidence the North Koreans were violating the agreement and continuing to build a nuclear weapon. “In July of 2002, documentary evidence was found in the form of purchase orders for the materials necessary to enrich uranium,” NewsMax’s James Hirsen previously reported.
“In October 2002, Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly met with his North Korean counterpart for scheduled talks. Kelly confronted North Korea with the tangible evidence of its duplicity. After a day of outright denial, North Korea abruptly reversed its position and defiantly acknowledged a secret nuclear program.”
Timeline of a Nuclear Bomb
A review of recent history shows that that the Clinton administration gave up a clear and perhaps last best chance to nip the North Korean bomb in the bud:
1985: North Korea signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
1989: The Central Intelligence Agency discovers the North Koreans are building a reprocessing facility — a reactor capable of converting fuel rods into weapons-grade plutonium. The fuel rods were extracted 10 years before from that nation’s Yongbyon reactor.
The rods represent a shortcut to enriched plutonium and an atomic bomb.
Spring, 1994: A year into President Clinton’s first term, North Korea prepares to remove the Yongbyon fuel rods from their storage site. North Korea expels international weapons inspectors and withdraws from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Oct. 21, 1994: The United States and North Korea sign a formal accord based on those outlines, called the Agreed Framework. Under its terms:
(None of the above came to pass. Congress did not make the financial commitment — neither did South Korea. The light-water reactors were never funded. The enumerated steps toward normalization were never taken.)
Jan. 2002: In President Bush’s State of the Union Address, he famously labels North Korea, Iran, and Iraq as an “axis of evil.”
Oct., 2002: Officials from the U.S. State Department fly to Pyongyang, where that government admits it had acquired centrifuges for processing highly enriched uranium, which could be used for building nuclear weapons.
Oct. 20, 2002: Bush announces that the United States is formally withdrawing from the Carter-brokered 1994 agreement.
Dec., 2002: North Korea expels the international weapons inspectors, restarts the nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, and unlocks the container holding the fuel rods.
Jan. 10, 2003: North Korea withdraws from the Non-Proliferation Treaty — noting, however, that there would be a change of position if the U.S. resumed its obligations under the Agreed Framework and signed a non-aggression pledge.
March, 2003: President Bush orders several B-1 and B-52 bombers to the U.S. Air Force base in Guam — within range of North Korea.
April, 2003: North Korea’s deputy foreign minister announces that his country now has “deterrent” nuclear weapons.
May, 2003: Bush orders the Guam-based aircraft back to their home bases.
October, 2003: The North Koreans announce they have reprocessed all 8,000 of their fuel rods and solved the technical problems of converting the plutonium into nuclear bombs.
GOP Stars 2006
Monday, October 9th, 2006Michele Bachmann (MN-06)
Michele Bachmann is running to fill Republican Mark Kennedy’s old seat in a district that went 57% - 42% for George Bush in 2004. However, her opponent Patty Wetterling gave Kennedy a tough run for his money in 2004 and is likely to put up a tough fight. This is an important seat, one that the GOP can’t afford to lose — and we won’t as long as Michele gets the funds she needs to compete.
Chuck Blasdel (OH-6)
Chuck Blasdel is in a dogfight with Charlie Wilson for a seat currently held by Democrat Ted Strickland. This is expected to be a tight race, in a nearly evenly split district, and a few thousand dollars could mean the difference between this seat moving into the red column or staying blue.
Max Burns (GA-12)
John Barrow, the Democratic incumbent, narrowly defeated Max Burns in a tough race in 2004. Now, Burns is back for another round. In what looks to be a tough year for Republicans, turning this district from blue to red could turn out to be critical in the GOP’s fight to hold onto Congress.
John Gard (WI-08)
John Gard is running to fill the seat currently held by Republican Mark Green, who’s running for Governor. This is a tough race and one the GOP needs to win. Gard is a strong candidate and if he has the money in hand, he can hold on to this important seat for the GOP.
Diana Irey (PA-12th)
Diana Irey is running against none other than John Murtha, in a district where John Kerry only squeaked out a 51%-49% victory in 2004. With Murtha veering wildly off to the left, Irey has a chance to win — if she gets the funding she needs to run ads. Sure, it’s an uphill fight because Murtha has a huge fund raising advantage. But, just imagine the message beating John Murtha in 2006 would send to the Democratic Party!
Jeff Lamberti (IA-03)
Jeff Lamberti, the Co-President of the Iowa Senate, is sparring with Democratic incumbent Leonard Boswell in a district that went 50/50 for Kerry and Bush in 2004. The House Race Hotline says this district is the top contender for a Republican pick-up and so this would be a great race to contribute to for Republicans wanting to go on the offensive. Jeff is a strong proponent of reducing taxes and regulations on business, implementing litigation reform, and limiting government spending. That means he’d be a fantastic replacement for Boswell.
David McSweeney (IL-08)
Melissa Bean occupies a seat that probably shouldn’t be hers. There’s a good chance to reclaim this one for the GOP. Bean took it away from Phil Crane two years ago and the Republicans in Illinois want it back. David McSweeney emerged as the GOP nominee, but spent nearly all of his $2 million to do it. He’ll need to mobilize the Republican base to turn Bean out, and needs funds to do it. This is one you can put back in our column.
Ray Meier (NY-24)
Ray Meier is a state Senator from New York who’s locked into a tough battle to hold onto Sherwood Boehlert’s seat in New York. But, he’s definitely a candidate worth supporting. Meier, who was an officer in the U.S. Army Reserves, has a record fiscal conservatism. He was an Oneida County Executive from 1991 to 1996, during which time he proposed six straight balanced budgets, eliminating a $9 million deficit and building a $13 million fund balance. Also, as a Co-Chair of the Senate bipartisan Task Force on Medicaid Reform, he helped enact a cap on the local cost of the Medicaid program as part of the 2005-06 New York State budget, saving localities and taxpayers millions of dollars. He can help the taxpayers save money in Congress, too, but he needs your help to get there.
Ralph Norman (SC-05)
Liberal Democrat, John Spratt, is running in a very Republican district which George Bush won 57% to 42% in 2004. Last time around, Spratt ran against a competitor who only raised $1,215. Yet, that candidate still managed to get 37% of the vote. This time around, Spratt is going to have to face a real challenge from conservative Ralph Norman, who is capable of beating Spratt — if you help him get the funding he needs to win.
Rick O’Donnell (CO-07)
Rick O’Donnell is looking to hold a seat vacated by Bob Beauprez in a district that went 51-48 for Kerry in 2006. It’s tough duty, but Rick seems to be doing fine so far. That’s good news and Rick is a candidate any conservative can feel good about supporting. He has been endorsed by the Club for Growth, implemented the nation’s only vouchers for public colleges and universities (including letting students take their vouchers to some private institutions), created the nation’s first e-alert system to warn small businesses of pending government regulations, and forced regulators to do a cost-benefit analysis of the regulation’s impact on job creation. This is definitely a guy we want in Congress.
Peter Roskam (IL-06)
Peter Roskam is involved in a dogfight with his opponent, Tammy Duckworth, to hold onto a seat held by Republican Henry Hyde. This is an important seat for the GOP to keep in the Red column and Roskam is the type of conservative we want in Congress. That’s why he has been endorsed by Dick Cheney, Dennis Hastert, the Illinois Federation for Right to Life PAC, Concerned Women for America PAC, and Phyllis Schafly among others. Make sure that Peter Roskam has the funding he needs to win.
Van Taylor (TX-17)
Van Taylor is a Harvard Grad who fought with the 2nd Force Reconnaissance Company in Iraq. As a Captain, Van led missions behind enemy lines for the 4500 Marine Task Force Tarawa, including the leadership of the Task Force’s first platoon to enter Iraq before the start of the main invasion. While in Iraq, Van was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal for Valor, the Combat Action Ribbon, and the Presidential Unit Citation.
Now that he is out of the military, he has turned his attention to defeating Democratic incumbent Chet Edwards who is, believe it or not, holding a seat in a district that went 70-30 for George Bush over John Kerry in 2004. If Van gets enough support, he can bring that seat back in the Republican column where it belongs.
Scott Tipton (CO-3)
Scott Tipton is trying to knock off Democratic incumbent John Salazar in a district that went 55%-44% for George Bush in 2004. This is a seat that should be held by a Republican, but it’s a huge district, and Tipton needs lots of cash to overcome the name recognition advantage Salazar holds. If he gets the money he needs, this is a seat that will turn from blue to red.
Chris Wakim (WV-01)
Democratic incumbent Alan Mollohan is facing his most serious challenge yet from former Army Captain Chris Wakim. Wakim is running a strong campaign and when you consider Mollohan’s serious ethics issues and that the district went 58% to 42% for George Bush in 2004, it’s clear that this is a district that can be changed from blue to red with the proper funding.
Mike Whalen (IA-01)
Mike Whalen is fighting to retain a seat held by Republican Jim Nussle, who’s running for Governor. After the great job Nussle has done, you’d think this would be an easy seat for a Republican to retain. However, the district went 53% to 46% for Kerry in 2004, which means that Whalen is going to really need your support to keep this seat in the red column.
Andrea Lane Zinga (IL-17)
In 2004, former CNN anchor Andrea Zinga went up against incumbent Democrat Lane Evans. He beat her in fund raising nearly 3 to 1 and handily defeated her 61% to 39%. This time around, Evans has retired and Zinga is running against Phil Hare, who trails her in name recognition and in fund raising. If Zinga gets the money she needs, she can definitely carry this district, which only went 51% to 48% for Kerry over Bush in 2004.
Mike Bouchard: Michigan
Mike Bouchard is a Michigan Sheriff who started to become competitive with incumbent Democrat Debbie Stabenow after he completed a long, tough primary race. If Bouchard gets the money he needs to run ads, he can beat Debbie Stabenow and we can replace a liberal Democrat with a conservative Republican who is tough on crime, terrorism, illegal immigration, and pork.
Thomas Kean: New Jersey
Granted, Tom Kean has a tough fight on his hands in New Jersey, a state that went 53%-46% for John Kerry in 2004. But, so far, Kean has been running strongly against short term, incumbent Senator Robert Menandez in a state that seems to slowly be getting redder. This Senate seat, which used to belong to John Corzine, is primed for a Republican takeover and if he can get the money, Tom Kean can be the candidate to pull it off.
Mark Kennedy: Minnesota
The open seat in Minnesota is considered by many to be the number one race to watch in the Senate. Rep. Mark Kennedy is the Republican candidate and could pick up a Democratic seat for the GOP. This one’s expected to be close and the Democrats will pull out all the stops to keep the seat. Kennedy will need as much help as we can give him to take it away.
Mike McGavick: Washington
The former chief of Safeco Insurance, Michael McGavick, is running against first term Senator Maria Cantwell. National Journal’s Hotline & the Cook Report have both said that Cantwell may be the Democrats’ most vulnerable incumbent and despite the fact that McGavick has been outspent 3 to 1 so far, he’s right in the thick of this race. The key here is going to be cash. If McGavick can get the funds he needs for advertising, he has an excellent shot to beat Cantwell in November.
Michael Steele: Maryland
The current Lieutenant Governor is looking to pick up a Democratic seat and the Democrats have lined up a desperate strategy to prevent that. Steele is a high profile Republican, who enjoys considerable support from the African-American community. The national Democrats are hoping to undermine that strength by savaging him from now until Election Day. Their plan – leaked inadvertently – calls for a concerted effort to knock him down in the eyes of African-Americans rather than highlighting their candidate’s strength.
Nelson for Wisconsin 3rd 2006
Friday, October 6th, 2006We’re told that the desecration and burning of the American flag — even by illegal aliens — is a sacred right, but that prayer in a public school, the display of the Ten Commandments or even the very mention of God in public is somehow forbidden!
Radical judges and homosexual activists are trying to ram so-called “same-sex marriage” down our throats and our elected leaders — as a body — are unable to agree on the simple concept that marriage is between one man and one woman.
Our schools are now war zones. America leads the world in teen pregnancy, illiteracy and drug use and pornography floods our streets like an open sore! No child is safe and our leaders do nothing!
Radical Islamic Fascists have vowed to wantonly kill Americans — they state clearly that they want our destruction and our elected leaders seem more preoccupied with safeguarding the “rights” of these terrorists — rights that they don’t even have under the Constitution — than safeguarding Americans!
Maybe you’re angry too?
Maybe you believe — like me — that Congress needs a leader with some righteous anger right now?
Paul Nelson.
From Star Parker
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006You would think that even Rosie O’Donnell could grasp that there is indeed a difference between “radical Christianity” and “radical Islam.”
No doubt conservative Christian evangelicals were who Rosie had in mind as “radical” Christians.
But, really Rosie, it must mean something, even to you, that no Christian leader has suggested that you be executed, or even that your house should be blown up. You must see some difference between not approving of your views and issuing a contract on your life.
Maybe sometime I’ll publish the letters I get from homosexual activists. Some don’t sound much different from the stuff coming out of the hills of Afghanistan. In Rosie’s vein, I can easily say there isn’t much difference between radical Islam and radical homosexual activism.
If we’re going to be looking for common ground, I actually see more between so-called radical Muslims and liberals than I do with conservatives.
They share the same unrealistic, childish view of the world driven by an infantile-like egotism.
Consider the experience of the great Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci who died of cancer last week. Fallaci spent her final years writing about the decline and collapse of her beloved Europe and its transformation into “Eurabia.” By simply being critical of Islam, Fallaci was indicted in her native Italy.
So Fallaci, in her declining years, could only return to her home country if she was willing to risk up to two years imprisonment for simply writing unflattering commentary about Islam.
Are you listening Rosie? Do you really understand the nature of the dear freedom that you have?
European reality, where America’s and Rosie O’ Donnell’s own left want to take us, demonstrates the common ground and meeting place of the far left and the far right.
Once the rules of civilization, the precious gift of our tradition and culture, are cast to the trash heap, they get replaced with new rules of the game that are generated by power and politics. The legal landscape of a totally secularized Europe is now re-written by the politically correct whose world view originates in their latest urge du jour.
The result is Italy casts out one of its great, liberal journalists whose crime is to be honest about those who want to destroy her country.
Freedom to speak is the gift of the civil, not of the politically correct.
Rosie O’Donnell doesn’t get it. She hasn’t a clue about the civilization and the tradition that opens the door for her to broadcast her adolescent meanderings to millions every afternoon. Out of pure ignorance she reduces the value of the gift she has to zero. History tells us that once you don’t understand what you have, you lose it.
The radical Islamists, like the politically correct in the morally relative West, make up their own rules and don’t appreciate the real truths of the world in which they live.
Does the president of Iran honestly comprehend where he stands? First of all, he wants nuclear power — the same nuclear power discovered and developed by Western science, the product of our open, honest, and thoughtful Western civilization he so abhors.
How about at least a thank you Mr. Ahmadinejad?
But, maybe more to the point, Ahmadinejad acts the way he does because he is as detached from the realities in which he lives as Rosie O’Donnell.
If we wanted to play ball with Ahmadinejad according to his own supposed rules, the game would be over in 10 seconds. If we really wanted to exercise our power, he’d be history. We could blow his regime to kingdom come and deliver him readily to the black eyed virgins in heaven that his jihadis so long for.
We don’t do it because we are civil and not because we can’t. Because we value life, what it means and the values that sustain it and make this dear gift possible. This is what those in the world of Islam that think they are powerful need to grasp.
It is sad and ironic that Muslim attacks on churches in response to innocent remarks made by the Pope in an important and thoughtful speech about faith and reason coincided also with Fallaci’s death.
Fallaci, who found inspiration in the message of this Pope, saying: “I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It’s that simple.”
She also wisely observed, “The moment you give up your principles and your values, the moment you laugh at those principles and those values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.”
Pay attention, Rosie.
Raj Peter Bhakta for Pennsylvania 13th
Friday, September 29th, 2006Protecting the Homeland
September 11, 2001 changed our lives forever. Protecting America and preventing another terrorist attack should be our highest national priority. I will always vote to make sure that our police, firefighters, and other first responders have all the tools they need to keep America safe.
Immigration Reform
I am a first generation American. My father was born in India and my mother was born in Ireland. We would not be the country we are today had immigrants not paved the way. We do, however, need sensible immigration reform. I support stricter standards for asylum applicants and additional funding for border enforcement as well as efforts to attract the best and the brightest from around the world.
National Security
We as Americans owe our gratitude to those who serve in our military. Many say that they “support the troops.” We must back up those words with action. I will ALWAYS vote to make sure our servicemen and women have the tools they need to keep themselves safe when they are in harm’s way. I will NEVER vote to cut off funding for our armed forces when they are serving in battle.
Raj Peter Bhakta for the Pennsylvania 13th Representative to US Congress.