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Originally posted in the Washington Examiner By: Examiner Editorial 02/13/11 8:05 PM
To hear President Obama, liberal mainstream media outlets and congressional Democratic leaders tell it, Washington is “still” in the grip of evil special interests like Big Oil, Wall Street and the pharmaceutical drug industry. It’s a familiar line, but when the actual numbers for campaign donations by the top 100 special interest donors are toted up, it becomes quite clear which is the biggest one of them all — Big Labor. The union bosses spent more than $500 billion on campaigns between 1989 and 2009, with well over 90 percent of the total going to Democratic presidential and congressional candidates.
That’s more than 10 times as much as was spent by Big Oil during the same period, according to federal campaign finance data compiled by professor Antony Davies of Duquesne University. In fact, Big Labor gave twice as much as the totals for the Big Oil, telecommunications, insurance, pharmaceuticals and real estate industries combined.
Probe a little deeper, as blogger Doug Ross did recently, and something else becomes clear: More than half of all union members are also public employees. In the federal government alone, three unions represent nearly half of the 2 million civil servants. Overall, more than a third of all government workers at all levels are union members, compared with only 11 percent in the private sector. That’s why it is no coincidence that for the third consecutive year, the federal government will spend more than a trillion dollars it doesn’t have. That money will be borrowed, much of it from China and other foreign powers that don’t necessarily have the best interests of America in mind.
Federal spending under President George W. Bush and the Republican congressional majority greatly increased, to be sure, more so than it did under Democrat President Clinton during the prior decade. But Bush and the congressional GOP increased federal outlays nowhere near as much as Obama and the Democratic-led 111th Congress. In fact, as Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., recently pointed out, in a mere two years, Obama and the 111th Congress ran up more debt than the previous 43 chief executives. That’s more in 24 months than President Lincoln spent prosecuting the Civil War, President Wilson spent “over there” in World War I, and President Roosevelt spent defeating the Germans and the Japanese in World War II. Keep all this in mind this week when Obama unveils his 2012 federal budget proposal and claims to have reduced federal spending as much as possible.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2011/02/special-interest-driving-federal-spending-big-labor#ixzz1EthTAZXy
Will Republicans Waiver on Debt Ceiling?
Taken from The Christian Post (ChristianPost.com):
The House passed on Wednesday a bill to end the ban against gays and lesbians serving openly in the military.
This is the third time this year that DADT repeal legislation has reached the Senate. Previously, the repeal was tacked onto a Defense Authorization bill. But after failing to get passed the Senate twice, the House moved to introduce a freestanding bill.
President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates are backing a quick repeal.
Doug Carlson of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission denounced the attempt to ram through a repeal of the 1993 policy in the lame-duck session.
“This Christmas, the upper chamber is hoping to deliver another unwanted present: repeal of two centuries of military conduct policy against open homosexuals in the military,” he said. “To rush through repeal would be no welcomed Christmas present to our troops. It would be a grave disservice to our valiant servicemen and women.”
Family Research Council President and Marine Corps veteran Tony Perkins has called out Congress for sacrificing U.S. troops to a political agenda.
“By making this change, and putting it as a priority over the actual funding of the troops, Congress is choosing to use the military, not as a tool for national defense, but as an instrument of social engineering,” he said after the House vote.
Perkins rejected the House for ignoring the pleas of seasoned commanders, including Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos.
A day ahead of the House vote, Amos said combat Marines are concerned that a DADT repeal may be a distraction.
“I don’t want to lose any Marines to the distraction,” he warned. “I don’t want to have any Marines that I’m visiting at Bethesda [Naval Medical Center] with no legs be the result of any type of distraction.
“Right now is a very intense period of time for a pretty healthy slice of the United States Marine Corps. This is not training. This is what I call the real deal. And the forces that wear this uniform … came back and told their commandant of the Marine Corps that they have concerns. That’s all I need. I don’t need a staff study. I don’t need to hire three PhDs to tell me [how] to interpret it… [I]f they have concerns, I do too. It’s as simple as that.”
The stand-alone bill to repeal DADT was sponsored by Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine).
Recently, I attended the Conservatives for Palin, and I gained some insight I think conservatives want to consider moving forward. The group was not like any I have ever known. There were all kinds of people there—Christians, Jews, Hindus, women, men, black, white, Asian, and even Nordic! They were gay, straight, old, young, republican, democrat, libertarian, and independent, and they all had one thing in common…they believe the stringent adherence to the US Constitution is the answer to the problems we have today.
Even if they are quiet, there are those conservatives who struggle with a female president. Dr. Dathan Paterno, noted psychologist and author says the reality is, that there WILL be a woman president in the near future—that it is in the American psyche. What happens if conservatives choose NOT to nominate Sarah Palin? Certainly the liberals will nominate a woman soon, and then they continue the whining about sexism that has worked for them for so long.
Liberals and establishment politicians of all parties seem to have a special venom for the former Governor of Alaska. If she is really so “unelectable” then why all the fuss? “Thou doth protest…”. If she is really so laughable, then why do the jokes about her keep falling flat? Could it be that they obsess about her for the psychological reason that they can’t stand the threat she poses to them? Could it be because they see her as the greatest threat in recent history to their personal goals, and the establishment media and messaging they have used to control politics in this country for a generation? Could it be that the nomination of Sarah Palin for President is a revolution?
Her nomination presents a real conundrum for liberals and establishment parties of all stripes. If the Republicans nominate Sarah Palin, how will the liberals continue to accuse the right of being sexist? Where will the feminists go to find their beloved glass ceiling victim status? If she has outspoken gay supporters who don’t disagree with her stance that this is a Judeo Christian republic with a founding document that matters more than someone’s sexual preference, then how will the militant gays continue to relegate Christians to radical, homophobic, hating extremists? If a family woman, a mom, can (based on her Christian principle) in fact love someone that the liberals say she hates, then what do liberals do with that? If the constitutional conservatives progress this nation to nominate the first female nominee for president, then how do liberals continue to abuse labels like “progressive” and “tolerant”?
Conservatives have their own issues. First, from a GOP perspective, consultants use their experience with the apparatus to be hired by candidates to run their campaigns. How will they do that if someone climbed to the top on a different tree? Some conservatives may struggle with her rebuke of legalistic philosophy in lieu of one that favors real liberty, and Christ-like love, even for those who live or believe differently than you. Perhaps most difficult for some conservatives to admit–When a woman like Sarah Palin is President, how to we reconcile our own sideline behavior without tremendous guilt? I wish I had a good answer to that last one.
The militant liberals don’t like her, but interestingly she has attracted a broad group of people who do like her. Their loyalty has resulted in an organization that is so talented and proficient, it is difficult to comprehend, even to a seasoned campaign veteran. Her supporters are constitution loving, focused and very, very serious about supporting her (or whomever she taps with her magic winning wand)! Not everyone at the Conservatives for Palin were certain she would run, or that she should, but almost all that I talked to agreed that if she did run, the Country would be shocked at her savvy and self deprecating ability to do so. They all agreed that she is far stronger, far more capable than any of her opponents even know. She is certainly well vetted, beyond that of any other candidate. Most people would agree that no other candidate has endured the ridicule and jabs that Sarah has overcome.
Her critics say she does all she does for money, but with two books and a television show, that argument doesn’t hold any more water than the fame argument, or the power hound. She just won 71%+ of the elections she touched, and many were considered “unwinnable.” She has become a culture icon of sorts. She could take her lipstick, shoes, glasses, mama grizzly, and even barracuda labels, and she could probably start a fashion line and retire to an Alaskan island with a lovely view of Russia.
The liberals have always underestimated Governor Palin and she has continued to shock them as she seamlessly wins elections like a political Houdini of sorts.
All of the accusations about her motives tend to leave the listening public with one logical conclusion: She must be in this because she believes in what she is doing, and genuinely cares about this Country. That is not a half bad motive by most peoples’ standards, and it is hard to argue otherwise and sound rational.
If Sarah Palin runs and wins, it will certainly be a political analyst’s dream to observe. Fear is not a factor for the Palins, and they seem to enjoy the challenge of overcoming all the predictions about their family. They might just shock us again in the weeks to come–and the ones after that.
I spent the better part of the week in Corporate meetings with Mr. Crawford and the Crawford Broadcasting Company in a meeting of the minds as to how to do our part to defeat the hostile takeover of our beloved Country.
In a phone conference, Mr. Crawford told his talent that it is time to go to the mat. He said that around 50% of Christians don’t even vote, and that it is incumbent upon us to change that in our work over the coming days preceding the election.
The look of passion and inspiration was rampant among the Crawford talent after Mr. Crawford’s remarks, and you could feel the conviction in the room. We launched the first in a series of National roundtable discussions involving why Christians don’t vote, why some Christians vote for liberals, and how to shed light on the truth, and severity of the issue.
World renowned author and speaker, Bill Federer was on my show where he raised a poignant point. If we do not activate and vote in this election, we may never vote in a meaningful election again in our lives.
Our free speech is under attack. Our faith is being taken from us. Our freedom is eroding. Our property is being stolen from us. Control of our family’s healthcare has been removed. We are being lied to, and lied about more than ever in this Nation’s history. Christians are under attack, and all other faiths are being exalted.
They can call us paranoid, but it is only paranoid if they aren’t really out to get you. Make no mistake, they are out to get us.
It is time to understand the black and white details of our Constitution, and the reality of separation of Church and State. It is time to not only ask your pastor to preach the hard truth from the pulpit, but leave the church if he is spineless. Let him know before you go that he won’t have a pulpit to preach from if he carries on in his convenient wimp mode.
It is time to get out of the gutter, stop condoning the malicious, the contentious, the crass, the indecent, and the unholy for the sake of convenience.
For moms–it is time to consider the distraction of soccer games, shopping, and carpool, and commit yourself to shaking Christians awake in time to change the course of history.
For dads–it is time to shake the sports habit, the remote control, and the recliner. Realize your job assigned by God is not monetary provision alone, but also political activism if that is what it’s going to take to win back control of our God-given Nation. If you are a Christian, and you choose to sit in your warm, comfy pew one more Sunday, then the blood of your own children is on your hands, and God isn’t going to bless anything else you do.
Start today. Start now. It is almost too late. Politics can no longer be put aside by Christians as merely a calling, it has become an imperative. For God’s sake, and the sake of all that matters, Christians, wake up!
This week on Tuesday, Election Day in Missouri, I want to extend a formal (by blog) invitation to all people to take the ballot of the Party of freedom, as we celebrate “Freedom in the Races” on the Dr. Gina Show with Pastor C.L. Bryant.
Minorities have a special opportunity to make history. In the last election, minorities votes for Democrats in the high 80%. 95% of black voters voted Democrat. All they have to show for their trust in “change” is less freedom, more enslavement, and a Country slouching toward socialism on the fast track.
Tuesday, however, they could choose to step out, reestablish their freedom, and vote for the Party who has extended a hand to them, and who freed them in the first place from the chains that originally bound them. A vote for Republicans on Tuesday would send a stronger message than could be sent from anywhere that we, believers in freedom, are not going to stand for a government that is no longer listening to us.
This government wants to erode our freedoms (healthcare, illegal immigration, debt, spending, U.N., etc.) and re-enslave a people who paid too much for the freedoms we bought with the blood of our Fathers and Grandfathers. We will not be silenced.
On Tuesday, send a message that YOUR vote will no longer be bought by an owner with an agenda. Vote for Freedom, and let it ring!
Listen to the Dr. Gina Show with special guest Pastor C.L. Bryant for our tribute to “Freedom in the Races” on Tuesday, 4-6 pm drive on Truth Talk 630 on your AM dial. You can listen live by clicking the button above right!
The leftist blogs seem to really enjoy my Show! I want to thank them for tuning in, invite them back, and encourage them for risking the side effect that they might actually have a seed planted…
First, the liblogs attacked Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder for his announcement on Truth Talk 630 that he would file suit on Obamacare in the near future (Earth to liblogs–the public opposes Obamacare!).
Then, they and other liblogs attacked Congressman Roy Blunt for coming on The Dr. Gina Show and, well, being Roy Blunt (in their minds, that is a sin, because he stands in the way of the US Senate seat they want for Robin).
Next, numerous blogs attacked Senator Chuck Purgason for using the word “was” instead of “were” on my show (gasp!). We imperfect people should just be thankful that the perfect people out there shine the light on our imperfections, because otherwise, our “forgivenness” would be so meaningless.
And last, but not least, they attacked candidate for Congress, Ed Martin, both for being a Christian in the first place (that can be so offensive to some, Ed, you should be more, uh, sensitive to those who find your faith offensive and ridiculous), and also for “attacking Russ’ faith” on my show. He didn’t, but let’s not get caught up in the details. Even Chris Matthews joined the rancor, using unauthorized, proprietary audio that belongs to Crawford Broadcasting.
How can they have it both ways? Either one is an idiot for believing in God and His hand in our Founding Fathers’ establishment of the Constitution and other founding documents–OR–faith is sacred and no one should attack it. You can’t have it both ways. Well, I guess they can, because they are liblogs. We are just citizens. They work for an administration who has made it very clear that they do not care what we think about Obamacare, Arizona, racism, death threats to police officers and babies, Kagan or Berwick nominations, the trillion dollar deficit, …you get the idea.
The Dr. Gina Show has only been on air now for two weeks. This should be fun!
PS: I had Congressman Todd Akin, and Andrew Breitbart on, too. Can’t you find something to complain about there?
It’s in the blood, I guess. Doesn’t it just make you feel better to know there is an “O”fficial Commie Hunter running around out there (even if he is in New Zealand)? Our “Cousin Trevor Loudon” is the man. The only real problem is that he can’t run for President, because he lives in New Zealand! But he is out there, watching, compiling, writing, and uncovering new data every day to expose the leftist agenda.
He was on my show yesterday, and he was SO requested that I will have him back again on a weekly segment, to be announced soon.
The article is below, but see his official blog and his Commie Files, too. Then remember that Patriots all over the WORLD are rooting us to victory over the left in this fight. And fight on.
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Obama File 105 “A Pattern of Socialist Associations” – Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee, Elena Kagan (the Early Years)
Obama File 104 here
President Barack Obama’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme court, Elena Kagan, has been sold to the public as a “moderate” – yes, a little liberal leaning, but moderate none the less.
In this first of a series of posts, I look at Elena Kagan’s patterns of association.
If Elena Kagan is a moderate, why then has she long associated with people connected to three interrelated organizations – the Communist Party USA, the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee/ Democratic Socialists of America and the far left Washington D.C. think tank, Institute for Policy Studies?
Raised on New Yorks’ Upper West Side, Elena Kagan’s parents were both politically active in a place and era where politics was dominated by the Democratic, Socialist and Communist parties.
Elena’s mother Gloria Kagan campaigned to elect far left Democratic Congressman, William Fitts Ryan. Her older brother Marc Kagan was active in the socialist influenced New Directions movement in the Transport Workers Union. When one of its leaders, Roger Toussaint, was elected union president in 2000, Mr. Kagan became his chief of staff, until a falling out occurred in 2003.
Marc Kagan’s former comrade and boss, Roger Toussaint is prominent in the communist initiated Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, which now led by D.S.A. member William Lucy. He also serves in the leadership of the Center for the Study of Working Class Life at Stony Brook University, alongside Ray Markey from the Communist Party offshoot Committees of Correspondence and D.S.A. leaders Gerry Hudson, Mark Levinson, Stanley Aronowitz and Frances Fox Piven, co-originator of the infamous Cloward – Piven Strategy.
Elena Kagan would later dedicate her Princeton history thesis on socialism in New York City to her activist brother.
I would like to thank my brother Marc whose involvement in radical causes led me to explore the history of American radicalism and in the hope of clarifying my own political ideas.
Kagan first became interested in politics in high school and worked as a legislative intern for Rep. Ted Weiss, a Democrat from New York, during the summer of 1978, and as deputy press secretary for Rep. Liz Holtzman in the summer after her junior year.
The late Ted Weiss was very far to the left. In 1978 Congressmen Ted Weiss, John Burton, Ron Dellums (D.S.A. member), John Conyers (D.S.A. supporter) , Don Edwards, Charles Rangel and others, attended a meeting organized for the Soviet front World Peace Council on Capitol Hill.
W.P.C. delegation members included President Romesh Chandra (Communist Party of India), KGB Colonel Radomir Bogdanov and Oleg Kharkhardin of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union International Department.
In 1981 another World Peace Council delegation led by Romesh Chandra toured the U.S. to publicize the “nuclear freeze” then being promoted by Leonid Brezhnev.
This group met with several far left Congressmen at the Capitol, including Weiss, John Conyers, George Crockett, Ron Dellums, Don Edwards and Mervyn Dymally.
During one of the meetings in these Congressmen’s offices an official of the Communist Party USA reportedly was present and made a speech recommending that the “peace movement” unite in supporting the cause of several terrorist groups including the PLO and the communist guerillas in EI Salvador
Weiss was also close to the Institute for Policy Studies. In 1983 I.P.S. celebrated its 20th anniversary with an April 5, reception at the National Building Museum attended by approximately 1,000 I.P.S. staffers and former staff.
The Congressional I.P.S. committee members included Ted Weiss, Philip Burton , George Crockett, Ron Dellums , Tom Harkin and Leon Panetta, later appointed by President Obama to head the Central Intelligence Agency.
Liz Holtzman is also way left of center. In the late 1980s and early 1980’s the Marxist based Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, or D.S.O.C. (later to become Democratic Socialists of America, or D.S.A.) was highly influential inside the New York Democratic Party and city government – even Mayor David Dinkins was a member.
On August 6 1993, a rally to commemorate Hiroshima Day was held in Dag Hammarskjold Park, New York. The rally was designed “to kickoff a national campaign to collect a million signatures supporting a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, commend president Clinton for extending the nuclear testing moratorium, urge renewal of the Non Proliferation Treaty, urge swift and complete nuclear disarmament.”
The event was sponsored by the radical Metro New York Peace Action Council.
Speakers included Liz Holtzman, then NYC Comptroller, leftist Congressmen Charles Rangel and Edolphus Towns, Leslie Cagan of Committees of Correspondence and the Cuba Information Project, Congressmen Major Owens (D.S.A. member) and Jerry Nadler (D.S.O.C. member) NYC City Councilor Ruth Messinger (D.S.O.C./ D.S.A. member) and David McReynolds, a leader of the Socialist Party USA and also a D.S.A. member.
Nearly 5 years later, in March 1998, McReynolds delivered a eulogy at a memorial service for Chicago D.S.A. activist Saul Mendelson. Fellow D.S.A. comrades Carl Marx Shier and Deborah Meier also spoke, as did then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama.
At Princeton Elena Kagan’s political beliefs emerged in an opinion piece she wrote for the Daily Princetonian a few weeks after Ronald Reagan’s victorious 1980 election night. Kagan described her disappointment at Liz Holtzman’s Congressional loss (Kagan had worked on her campaign) and her own “liberal views”. “I absorbed … liberal principles early,” she said. “More to the point, I have retained them fairly intact to this day.”
In the column, Kagan also expressed her despair the state of the political left at the time, bemoaning the lack of “real Democrats — not the closet Republicans that one sees so often these days” and the success of “anonymous but Moral Majority-backed … avengers of ‘innocent life’ and the B-1 Bomber, these beneficiaries of a general turn to the right and a profound disorganization on the left.”
At Princeton, Elena Kagan’s law school room mate was Sarah Walzer, the daughter of Princeton social sciences professor Michael Walzer.
Coincidentally Michael Walzer was a leader of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, both nationally and on campus..
In 1990 Michael Walzer was identified as a member of Democratic Socialists of America.
Professor Walzer was also upset at Ronald Reagan’s famous victory
Daily Princetonian, March 4, 1981
In her undergraduate thesis at Princeton entitled “To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933,” Kagan lamented the decline of socialism in the country as “sad” for those who still hope to “change America.” She asked why the “greatness” of socialism was not reemerging as a major political force:
In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness. Why, in a society by no means perfect, has a radical party never attained the status of a major political force? Why, in particular, did the socialist movement never become an alternative to the nation’s established parties?
“Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness,” she wrote in her thesis. “Conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation.”
Kagan called the story of the socialist movement’s demise “a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America … In unity lies their only hope.”
Elena Kagan spent a year working on her 1981 thesis, under the direction of Princeton historian Sean Wilentz.
When news of the thesis recently sparked controversy, Wilentz came out in defense of his former student.
Said Wilentz “sympathy for the movement of people who were trying to better their lives isn’t something to look down on… Studying something doesn’t necessarily mean that you endorse it. It means you’re into it. That’s what historians do…
Elena Kagan is about the furthest thing from a socialist. Period. And always had been. Period.”
Few would be more qualified to identify a socialist than Sean Wilentz
In May 1980, Princeton University’s Progressive Forum sponsored a May Day rally opposite the Firestone Library. An advertisement for the event in the Daily Princetonian, “Workers of Princeton unite for a May Day rally” named speakers as Sean Wilentz and Stanley Aronowitz – a prominent D.S.A. leader
Daily Princetonian, May 1, 1980
Today Sean Willentz serves on the board of Dissent magazine, which is effectively a mouthpiece for Democratic Socialists of America.
Dissent’s masthead is Marxist heavy and lists several well known D.S.A. affiliates including the late Irving Howe, Joanne Barkan, David Bensman, Mitchell Cohen, Maxine Phillips, Mark Levinson, Bogdan Denitch, Erazim Kohak, Deborah Meier, Harold Meyerson, Jo-Ann Mort, Carol O’Clearicain (NYC Finance Commissioner under David Dinkins) and Cornel West – a member of Barack Obama’s 2008 Black Advisory Council.
One of Dissent’s two editors is Elena Kagan’s old room mate’s Dad, Michael Walzer.
The other is Michael Kazin, an historian of the Communist Party and a veteran of the 1969 Venceremos Brigade to Cuba.
At Princeton, Elena Kagan won a fellowship to Oxford University, in England, where she studied “the history of British and European trade unionism.”
President Obama himself, has a long history with Democratic Socialists of America.
Is it possible that Elena Kagan shares similar associations?
Should she be asked some questions on the subject?
This administration continues to shock–now they are giving away parts of Arizona?
I said it before, and I will say it again…This is our Alamo. The first and last stand, and we better STAND.
See this post by blogger, Sharp Elbows.
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