By John Ellis
January 18, 2010

When politicians are caught out in lies, their supporters often resort to
the old cliché: all politicians lie. But that is itself a lie: most don’t.
Even among those who do, there are enormous differences in the importance
and frequency of the lies. And it surely now clear that this nation has a
far from routine problem in the scale and regularity of President Obama’s
lying.

When politicians lie they are usually trying to avoid political damage, or
to make themselves look good. Bill Clinton lied (and got himself impeached)
to avoid embarrassment about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Hillary
Clinton lied about being under fire in Bosnia to enhance her non-existent
foreign affairs profile. Richard Nixon was forced from office because he
lied to cover up his involvement in a political dirty trick. John Kerry lied
about his Vietnam combat experience to blunt his anti-military reputation.
But Barack Obama’s lies are far more corrosive and destructive, because they
go the heart of legislation and governance, and so seriously undermine trust
in government. His lies generally take a specific form: they attempt to
persuade people to vote for him or his policies by categorically assuring
them that they need not have the anxieties that they have been expressing.
They say, essentially: trust me, support what I want, and I promise that
what you fear will never happen. But in every case it soon becomes clear
either that he knew perfectly well that what the public feared would in fact
happen, or that he was giving a firm assurance that he was in no position to
give, or that he had no intention of following through on his promise.

The accumulated weight of Obama’s deceit is overwhelming:

During his campaign for the presidency and since, Obama repeatedly assured
us that he would protect Medicare against cuts; but he now presses for
passage of bills that include savage cuts in Medicare.

To obtain passage of his first stimulus bill, Obama assured us that 90% of
the jobs created would be in the private sector; but as he well knew, most
of them were to be in the public sector.

Early in the health care debate, Obama assured us that he had not said that
he favored a single payer system; but he was on record as having said
exactly that.

Obama gave primary voters a firm assurance that if he became the nominee of
the Democratic party he would (unlike Hillary Clinton) abide by the campaign
finance limits of public funding; but as soon as he became the party’s
nominee, he reneged on that pledge.

During the presidential campaign Obama criticized the presence of former
lobbyists in the Bush administration and solemnly assured us that he would
appoint no lobbyists to his administration; but once elected he proceeded to
appoint even more lobbyists than his predecessors.

Obama criticized the size of George Bush’s deficit and promised to stop
deficit spending if elected; but he has already quadrupled the size of the
deficit he objected to and recklessly continues new federal spending in the
trillions.

When campaigning Obama criticized bills before the congress that were too
long for anyone to be able to read and promised to stop that; but the bills
he has been backing throughout his first year are much longer (at 2000+
pages) than the ones he criticized.

Candidate Obama promised an end to the corruption of earmarks and pork, but
in the bills he has supported this year there have been more and bigger
earmarks than ever before.

Candidate Obama promised us that CIA personnel involved in the interrogation
of terrorists would not be prosecuted; but his administration is now doing
exactly that.

Obama assured a joint session of Congress that the health bill he supported
(pre-Stupak) would not provide public funding for abortions; but bitter
resistance on the part of House Democrats to inclusion of language to that
effect soon proved that it did not yet exclude such funding.

Candidate Obama promised that he would make sure that there was always
enough time for the public to read legislation before it was enacted; but he
has done exactly the opposite, repeatedly pressing for even faster passage
of even longer bills.

Candidate Obama met fears that he would be a tax and spend liberal by
promising, emphatically and repeatedly, that those earning under $250,000
would see no increase in their taxes of any kind; but he now urges passage
of a healthcare bill that breaks that pledge in many different ways, and his
unrestrained increase in federal spending makes more tax increases
inevitable.

Candidate Obama promised bipartisanship and an end to partisan bickering;
but in a display of especially ruthless partisanship his allies have shut
Republicans out of all key meetings on his health care initiative, with the
unprecedented result that domestic legislation of historic importance
garnered not a single Republican vote in the Senate.

Candidate Obama criticized his opponent’s plan to tax employer paid
healthcare benefits, and promised he would not tax them; but the bill he now
backs would do just that.

Obama had promised that he would not sign a healthcare bill that would add
one dime to the federal deficit; but the bill he now backs adds trillions in
new federal spending, offset only by new sources of revenue that are both
uncertain and more properly seen as offsetting the already existing deficit.

Obama coerced congress into passing his stimulus bill by promising that if
it were passed unemployment could go no higher then 8%; but unemployment is
now at 10%, and he could not possibly have had good reason to exclude that
possibility.

Obama promised that his cap and trade legislation will create jobs; but its
massive tax increases are sure to hobble the economy and destroy jobs, while
green jobs in significant numbers can at best be hoped for, but never
promised.

Obama has repeatedly assured the American people that if they like their
current health plan they can keep it; but the House bill which he has
supported creates huge incentives for employers to drop their coverage and
shift their members to a public option.

Obama has often assured the public that under his health plan everyone will
be able to keep their current doctor; but many are certain to lose their
doctors when ObamaCare’s large cuts in Medicare funding induce more doctors
to withdraw from Medicare, as they also would were employers to transfer
patients to a public option to save themselves money.

Obama assured a joint session of Congress that his health plan would not
fund illegal aliens; but his allies had been busy voting down amendments to
that effect. (This was the point of Joe Wilson’s outburst.)

Obama claimed that John Deere’s CEO had told him that Deere would begin
hiring again as a result of the stimulus bill; but that individual
immediately announced that he had said no such thing, and that Deere would
in fact be laying off more workers.

Candidate Obama promised that Guantanamo would be closed by January 1, 2010;
but it is still open.

Candidate Obama promised that his administration (unlike his predecessor’s)
would be so transparent that TV cameras (C-Span) would be there for key
deliberations; but an unprecedented level of secrecy prevails as the final
stages of ObamaCare are negotiated behind closed doors and kept so secret
that even the Senate majority whip admitted that he had no idea what was
going on. Requests for Obama to honor the promise of C-Span cameras are
being ignored.

To gain traction for his attempt to return a would-be socialist dictator in
Honduras to power, Obama claimed that he had been overthrown in an illegal
coup; but the congressional research service pointed out correctly that
ex-President Zelaya had been removed for constitutionally sufficient cause
by legal and constitutional means.

Obama claims that he wants a public option only to increase choice and
competition; but the House bill would clearly reduce choice both by
squeezing unsubsidized private health plans out of the market, and by
setting rigid conditions for acceptable plans that would narrow available
options.

Candidate Obama claimed that violent radical Bill Ayers was just another guy
in his neighborhood; but the record shows that the two had worked closely
together.

Obama assured us that his stimulus bill would create or save a million jobs;
but he was claiming as fact what could never have been more than a wild (and
highly improbable) guess, and his more recent attempts to justify that guess
have been fraudulent.

Obama assured us that his health plan would never ration care, or “pull the
plug” on grandma; but the legislation he backs sets up panels to make
crucial decisions on when to withhold care, and it makes such deep cuts in
Medicare that rationing is inevitable.

Obama now assures us that health insurance premiums will not go up if
ObamaCare becomes law, insisting indignantly that people who say this have
not read the bill; but the legislation forces insurers to cover preexisting
conditions, which will compel them to raise premiums substantially.

This is an extraordinary record of serial mendacity. One or two instances
might charitably be regarded as rash promises later regretted, or as the
wishful thinking of someone who had not thought through the implications of
what he was saying. But when it happens again and again–and my 30 instances
are by no means exhaustive–only one judgment seems possible: this is the
record of a habitual, shameless liar, a man who will say anything to get
what he wants. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, goes
the old saying. But scores of times? How shameful is that for the country
when this disgraceful record is never the subject of a reproachful editorial
in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or CBS news? Richard Nixon was
removed from office, and Bill Clinton impeached for a single lie. Who could
look at Obama’s record without concluding that his lying is in a completely
different league to theirs?

President Obama evidently believes that he can solve any problem with a
speech. But he doesn’t really care whether what he says is true or not, nor
does he feel any responsibility to honor the assurances and promises he
makes. As a result, this nation is now in a position where it cannot believe
a word that he says, and that gives us an unprecedented crisis of confidence
in the Presidency. Democratic government will atrophy if we allow lying on
this scale to count as the business as usual of politics. When will the
press and the Congress hold him accountable?

—

John Ellis is President of the California Association of Scholars, and a
Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz

——————–

The political game is over and the clean up of the mess is beginning.
A clear cut read on the power of only 545 people that are employed by
the People to Work for the People of the United States of America.

This is a good read and is completely neutral, …not anti republican or
democrat. Read to the very end–incredible!!

Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinal who has been
a journalist for 49 years. He has hit the nail directly on the head,
defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume
responsibility for the judgements made that impact each one of us every
day. It’s a short, but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering!

545 PEOPLE–By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and
then campaign against them..

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are
against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation
and high taxes, WHY do 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 equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 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 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 legislator’s responsibility to
determine how he votes.

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 a
Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President 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 and
approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House?
Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and
fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they
want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if
they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not
replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of
incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic
problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you
fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the 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 Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it’s because they want them in
IRAQ

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement
plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.

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 this power. Above all, do not
let them con you into the belief that there exists 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 the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees…

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel
Newspaper.

What you do with this article now that you have read it……… Is up
to you.

This might be funny if it weren’t so darned true.

Be sure to read all the way to the end:

Tax his land,

Tax his bed,

Tax the table,

At which he’s fed.

Tax his tractor,

Tax his mule,

Teach him taxes

Are the rule.

Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts
Anyway!

Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.

Tax all he has

Then let him know
That you won’t be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He’s good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he’s laid…

Put these words
Upon his tomb,
Taxes drove me
to my doom…’

When he’s gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax..

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service FeeTax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years
ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had
absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world,
and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What in the hell happened? Can you spell ‘politicians?’

I hope this goes around THE USA at least 100 times!!! YOU can help
it get there!!!
GO AHEAD – - – BE AN AMERICAN!!!

After Attacking Bush During Periods Of Job Growth, And Pledging Their Stimulus Would Create Millions Of Jobs, Where’s The Dems’ Outrage?

RNC CHAIRMAN MICHAEL STEELE: “For close to a full year the American people have been forced to watch and in many cases bear the burden of our ever increasing national unemployment rate which unfortunately remained in the double digits throughout the month of December.  More than 85,000 Americans lost their jobs in the month of December, meaning more than 2.8 million Americans have lost their jobs since the stimulus passed, and the national unemployment rate remains at 10 percent.  The American economy is a powerful and amazingly resilient system that will always naturally return to balance because of the determination and unique ingenuity of the American worker.  But President Obama’s singular focus on enacting his government-run liberal policies are single-handedly preventing this return.  It’s time for President Obama to heed the recent words of Democrat Senator Ben Nelson and finally do what he should have been doing over the past year – put his full and undivided attention on fixing our economy.”

LEADING DEMS ATTACKED BUSH WHEN MILLIONS OF JOBS WERE BEING CREATED …

In 2003, Over 87,000 Jobs Were Created. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, Accessed 1/6/10)

• But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Criticized 2003 Job Creation As “Far From Enough.” “The slight increase in jobs last month is wonderful news for 57,000 Americans. But the 2.1 million Americans who have been actively looking for work for more than two years … know that it is far from enough …” (Rep. Nancy Pelosi, “Pelosi: ‘Slight Jobs Increase Far From Enough — We Must Do More to Create Jobs and Growth,’” Press Release, 10/3/03)

In 2004, Over 2 Million Jobs Were Created. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, Accessed 1/6/10)

• But In 2004, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) Claimed Bush “Created A Climate … Where The Number of Jobs Is Not Growing.” “This President has created a climate in this country where the number of jobs is not growing. It did not have to be that way.” (Sen. Dick Durbin, Congressional Record, 10/08/04, p. S10764)

In 2005, Over 2.5 Million Jobs Were Created. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, Accessed 1/6/10)

• But Pelosi Called 2005 Job Creation Numbers “Anemic.” “Today’s anemic jobs numbers confirm that President Bush has still failed to create a single new private-sector job since he became President.” (Rep. Nancy Pelosi, “Pelosi: ‘Today’s Anemic Jobs Numbers Confirm the Administration Has Failed to Create a Single New Private-Sector Job,’” Press Release, 6/3/05)

In 2006, Over 2.1 Million Jobs Were Created. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, Accessed 1/6/10)

• But Pelosi Claimed Bush Policies “Favored The Privileged Few At The Expense Of America’s Working Families.” (Rep. Nancy Pelosi, “Democrats Will Restore the Economic Security of America’s Working Families,” Press Release, 9/22/06)

By 2007, 5.7 Million Jobs Had Been Created Under Bush. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, Accessed 1/6/10)

• But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) Claimed Bush Had “Shameful History Of Losing American Jobs.” (Sen. Harry Reid, “Reid: As Unemployment Reaches Two-year High, American Jobs Are The Latest Casualty Of Bush’s Failed Economic Policies,” Press Release, 1/4/08)

THEN PROMISED THEIR $787 BILLION STIMULUS WOULD CREATE MILLIONS OF JOBS

In February, Obama Signed $787 Billion Stimulus Bill, Claiming It Would “Fix The Economy.” “President Obama on Tuesday signed the $787 billion stimulus package … ‘We have begun the essential work of keeping the American dream alive in our time,’ Obama said, calling the legislation ‘the beginning of the end’ of what needed to be done to fix the economy.”  (Michael A. Fletcher, “Obama Leaves D.C. To Sign Stimulus Bill,” The Washington Post, 2/18/09)

And Obama Pledged That Stimulus Would Create 3.5 Million Jobs By End Of 2010. “[W]hat makes this recovery plan so important is not just that it will create or save 3.5 million jobs over the next two years …” (President Barack Obama, Remarks At The Signing Of The American Recovery And Reinvestment Act, Denver, CO, 2/17/09)

SO DEMS NEED TO CREATE 6.3 MILLION JOBS IN 2010 TO MEET THEIR OWN STANDARD, A LEVEL OF JOB GROWTH THAT HAS NEVER BEEN ACHIEVED

2.8 MILLION Jobs Lost Since Obama’s Signed His $787 Billion Stimulus In February 2009. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, Accessed 12/10/09)

• Including 85,000 More Jobs Lost Last Month. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, Accessed 1/8/09)

In Addition To 3.5 MILLION Jobs Obama Promised Would Be Created By His $787 Billion Stimulus By December 2010. (President Barack Obama,Remarks At The Signing Of The American Recovery And Reinvestment Act, Denver, CO, 2/17/09)

That Equals 6.3 MILLION Jobs Dems Need To Create This Year Alone To Declare Economic Success, A Level Of Job Growth That Has Never Been Achieved in American History. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, Accessed 1/6/10)

• Because In 1946, 4.3 MILLION Jobs Were Created, Largest Job In A Single Calendar Year In American History. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,www.bls.gov, Accessed 1/6/10)

KNOWING AMERICANS WILL JUDGE THEM ON JOB CREATION, AT LEAST ONE DEM IS OUTRAGED OVER SQUANDERED 2009

Obama Says “The Yardstick Should Be … Am I Creating These Jobs?” (Sam Stein, “Obama: Judge Me On The Jobs I Create,” The Huffington Post, 12/15/08)

• Pelosi: “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs … We Will Measure Our Success In That Way; And Hopefully The American People Will, Too, In The Next Election.” (Greg Sargent, “Pelosi: Judge Dems’ Success On Whether We Create ‘Jobs, Jobs, Jobs,’” “The Plum Line” Blog, 12/3/09)

DGA Chairman, Gov. Jack Markell (D-DE), Says “Burden Of Proof” On Dems To Show That They’re Creating Jobs. “When you’ve got as many people unemployed in the country as you do, it’s understandable that folks will be looking to their leaders to do everything possible to create jobs. As Democrats, there’s a burden of proof here.” (Peter Wallsten and Naftali Bendavid, “Departures Shake Democrats,” The Wall Street Journal, 1/7/09)

• But Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) Says Obama Made A Mistake In Pushing Health Care, And Should Have Focused On Jobs. “I think it was a mistake to take health care on as opposed to continuing to spend the time on the economy… I would have preferred not to be dealing with health care in the midst of everything else, and I think working on the economy would have been a wiser move …” (Chris Zavadil, “Nelson: We Should Have Waited On Health Care,” The Fremont Tribune, 1/6/10)
• And Obama’s Liberal Agenda Preventing Small Businesses From Creating Jobs, “Could Impede An Economic Recovery.” “But a health-care overhaul grinding through Congress could bring unknown new obligations to insure employees. Bush-era tax cuts are set to end next year, and their fate is unclear. Legislation aimed at tackling climate change might raise businesses’ energy costs. … Many companies say they have responded by freezing hiring, cutting benefits and delaying expansion plans. With at least 60% of job growth historically coming out of the small-business sector, according to the government’s Small Business Administration, that kind of inertia could impede an economic recovery.”  (Gary Fields, “Political Uncertainty Puts Freeze on Small Businesses,” The Wall Street Journal, 10/28/09)

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Tea-party leaders are delivering a bold ultimatum to all congressional candidates in 2010: Pledge to repeal the health-care reform bill in its entirety if it passes – or you will be booted from office.

FreedomWorks Press Secretary Adam Brandon told WND the message couldn’t be any clearer. Asked whether he believes the tea party movement will seek to oust politicians who refuse to repeal the legislation, he emphatically declared, “Absolutely.”

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Max Pappas, vice president of FreedomWorks, echoed Brandon’s statements in an interview with Gary Sargent, Washington blogger for the Plum Line, this week.

This photo of a Code Red tea party protest was posted on Flikr.

“This has an unusual ability to be repealed, and the public is on that side.” he said. “The Republicans are going to have to prove that they are worthy of their votes.”

Both Brandon and Pappas emphasized that Congress must try to repeal the whole bill if it passes.

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Brandon said most people are opposed to the bill’s requirement that citizens pay a fine if they don’t maintain insurance for themselves and their families. Under the current bills, the government will also collect taxes for 10 years, but only pay out benefits for the last six years. As WND reported, majority Democrats in the U.S. Senate have inserted in the fine print a provision that it would take a supermajority of 67 votes in the Senate for future legislative bodies to even consider amendments to its provisions for “death panels.”

Other serious concerns about the current legislation include possible health-care rationing, denial of treatment, substantial cost increases and stifling of medical innovation.

Also, the Senate bill provides that Medicare fees for doctors would be cut by 20 percent beginning in 2011, but the Heritage Foundation notes, “Nobody believes these cuts will be allowed to happen.” If the cuts don’t take place, it would result in an added $196 billion to the deficit in the first 10 years and $765 billion in the following one, according to Congressional Budget Office calculations.

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As WND reported, FreedomWorks is partnering with the American Liberty Alliance and several other groups to launch a massive Tax Day tea party at the White House Ellipse on April 15, 2010.

“We’re delivering this one right to the White House,” Brandon said. “It could spill out over into the Washington Monument, so it’ll be a hell of a visual.”

Brandon said FreedomWorks has been told “legislative entrepreneurs” are already planning a Senate bill calling for repeal of the health-care legislation, should it pass.

“That means there will be something we can start to rally around in 2010,” he said. “We’re going to remind them every step of the way that this bill was a real stinker.”

He said Democrats plan to tell the electorate this year: “We said we were going to do this, and we did it.”

“They passed a terrible bill. Not only was it a terrible bill, but it was a disgusting process to watch,” Brandon said. “It was almost like they were playing mafia with taxpayer dollars.”

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In an earlier interview with the Plum Line, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee spokesman Eric Schultz said Democrats are conspiring to hold Republicans’ feet to the fire as well.

“Republicans on the ballot next November who opposed the bill will be in the precarious position of telling voters they plan to rollback landmark health-care reform which will have afforded coverage to hundreds of thousands in their state,” Schultz said. “We absolutely intend to make Republicans look voters in the eye next November and make it clear they want to take affordable health-care reform away from them.”

ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper asked Senate minority leader Mitch McConnel, R-Ky., “Do you think that Republicans running for Senate in 2010 should run on a platform of vowing to repeal the health-care reform bill, should it become law? And will that be one of your first items should you regain control of the Senate, repealing what you guys call Obamacare?”

McConnell appeared to evade the question and Tapper asked once again, “Respectfully, sir, you didn’t answer my question, which is should Republicans campaign on a platform of repealing the health-care reform measure? And will that be one of the first items on your agenda should you become the new Senate majority leader after the 2010 elections?”

Then McConnell replied, “There’s no question that this bill, if it were to become law, and frankly even if it doesn’t become law, will be a big, if not central issue not only in the 2010 election, but in the 2012 election.”

However, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, wasn’t so hesitant to declare his intentions.

“If they somehow manage to get the votes and get enough Democrats to walk the plank and commit suicide, in the next Congress, I’ll be chairman Joe Barton of the Energy and Commerce committee, and we’ll repeal it,” Barton told the Hill today.

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press”: “I suspect every Republican running in ‘10 and again in ‘12 will run on an absolute pledge to repeal this bill. The bill – most of the bill does not go into effect until ‘13 or ‘14, except on the tax increase side; and therefore, I think there won’t be any great constituency for it. And I think it’ll be a major campaign theme.”

Brandon said, “Now, realistically, with Obama as president and with the current Congress, could you get repeal? No. But we can build up the momentum so that during the next Congress it gets repealed.

“Would President Obama veto that one? I don’t know. I think when President Clinton saw the writing on the wall, he became a pretty moderate guy. So we’ll see if Obama would then say, ‘This doesn’t reach any of our goals.’”

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Brandon said Americans must act now because Democrats didn’t get everything they wanted, so they will be back for the rest of their demands.

“This issue isn’t done and over. Their final goal is to create a system where in 10 to 15 years from now, we will have a single-payer system,” he said. “We’re going to stop that and repeal this. We have to pull this weed out by the roots. “

The USA has a corruption problem according to Judical Watch as the top 10 most corrupt politicians are named for 2009.  The city of Chicago is noted for providing the most politicians on the list.  Included is the United States President.  It would seem that it is better to invest in Asian countries.  Particularly Singapore real estate for the long term(next 20 years).

http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2009/dec/judicial-watch-announces-list-washington-s-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-2009

Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) — To close out 2009, I decided to do something I bet no member of Congress has done — actually read from cover to cover one of the pieces of sweeping legislation bouncing around Capitol Hill.

Hunkering down by the fire, I snuggled up with H.R. 4173, the financial-reform legislation passed earlier this month by the House of Representatives. The Senate has yet to pass its own reform plan. The baby of Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, the House bill is meant to address everything from too-big-to-fail banks to asleep-at-the-switch credit-ratings companies to the protection of consumers from greedy lenders.

I quickly discovered why members of Congress rarely read legislation like this. At 1,279 pages, the “Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act” is a real slog. And yes, I plowed through all those pages. (Memo to Chairman Frank: “ystem” at line 14, page 258 is missing the first “s”.)

The reading was especially painful since this reform sausage is stuffed with more gristle than meat. At least, that is, if you are a taxpayer hoping the bailout train is coming to a halt.

If you’re a banker, the bill is tastier. While banks opposed the legislation, they should cheer for its passage by the full Congress in the New Year: There are huge giveaways insuring the government will again rescue banks and Wall Street if the need arises.

Nuggets Gleaned

Here are some of the nuggets I gleaned from days spent reading Frank’s handiwork:

– For all its heft, the bill doesn’t once mention the words “too-big-to-fail,” the main issue confronting the financial system. Admitting you have a problem, as any 12- stepper knows, is the crucial first step toward recovery.

– Instead, it supports the biggest banks. It authorizes Federal Reserve banks to provide as much as $4 trillion in emergency funding the next time Wall Street crashes. So much for “no-more-bailouts” talk. That is more than twice what the Fed pumped into markets this time around. The size of the fund makes the bribes in the Senate’s health-care bill look minuscule.

– Oh, hold on, the Federal Reserve and Treasury Secretary can’t authorize these funds unless “there is at least a 99 percent likelihood that all funds and interest will be paid back.” Too bad the same models used to foresee the housing meltdown probably will be used to predict this likelihood as well.

More Bailouts

– The bill also allows the government, in a crisis, to back financial firms’ debts. Bondholders can sleep easy — there are more bailouts to come.

– The legislation does create a council of regulators to spot risks to the financial system and big financial firms. Unfortunately this group is made up of folks who missed the problems that led to the current crisis.

– Don’t worry, this time regulators will have better tools. Six months after being created, the council will report to Congress on “whether setting up an electronic database” would be a help. Maybe they’ll even get to use that Internet thingy.

– This group, among its many powers, can restrict the ability of a financial firm to trade for its own account. Perhaps this section should be entitled, “Yes, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., we’re looking at you.”

Managing Bonuses

– The bill also allows regulators to “prohibit any incentive-based payment arrangement.” In other words, banker bonuses are still in play. Maybe Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. shouldn’t have rushed to pay back Troubled Asset Relief Program funds.

– The bill kills the Office of Thrift Supervision, a toothless watchdog. Well, kill may be too strong a word. That agency and its employees will be folded into the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Further proof that government never really disappears.

– Since Congress isn’t cutting jobs, why not add a few more. The bill calls for more than a dozen agencies to create a position called “Director of Minority and Women Inclusion.” People in these new posts will be presidential appointees. I thought too-big-to-fail banks were the pressing issue. Turns out it’s diversity, and patronage.

– Not that the House is entirely sure of what the issues are, at least judging by the two dozen or so studies the bill authorizes. About a quarter of them relate to credit-rating companies, an area in which the legislation falls short of meaningful change. Sadly, these studies don’t tackle tough questions like whether we should just do away with ratings altogether. Here’s a tip: Do the studies, then write the legislation.

Consumer Protection

– The bill isn’t all bad, though. It creates a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, the brainchild of Elizabeth Warren, currently head of a panel overseeing TARP. And the first director gets the cool job of designing a seal for the new agency. My suggestion: Warren riding a fiery chariot while hurling lightning bolts at Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

– Best of all, the bill contains a provision that, in the event of another government request for emergency aid to prop up the financial system, debate in Congress be limited to just 10 hours. Anything that can get Congress to shut up can’t be all bad.

Even better would be if legislators actually tackle the real issues stemming from the financial crisis, end bailouts and, for the sake of my eyes, write far, far shorter bills.

(David Reilly is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)

Sources http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=a48c8UpUMxKQ