Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts

Friday, March 20, 2009

Washington at it's worst by Gary Bauer

Yesterday’s Capitol Hill “show trial” of AIG chief executive Edward Liddy was disgusting. Of all the people in the hearing room, Liddy was the least responsible for the bonus fiasco. Liddy was asked by the feds to run AIG last fall. He works for a dollar a year. He basically took the job to help our country. Yet the finger-pointing politicians in the committee room were the same politicians who, along with the White House, rammed through the “stimulus” bill without allowing enough time to read the details – and now a $165 million “detail” has come back to bite them.

Yesterday, Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) admitted that he removed a provision from the bill that would have addressed the bonuses. And he did so after receiving a request from the Obama Administration! This admission comes after Dodd’s unequivocal denial that he had anything to do with it. And here’s something else you should know. This week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) promising to punish AIG for the bonuses. In his letter, Geithner wrote that AIG will have to pay back to the Treasury “the amount of the retention awards just paid.” And, “In addition, we will deduct from the $30 billion in assistance an amount equal to the amount of those payments.”

Don’t miss what has happened here. This administration and its liberal allies in Congress approved of the AIG contracts and protected them legally in the “stimulus” bill, and now they are going to “fine” AIG for obeying the law they wrote. That’s Washington at its worst! But rather than admit they caused the bonus problem, Obama and his liberal allies went back to the strategy that has worked so well so far – attack business, Wall Street, executives and fan the flames of class warfare. President Obama did his best imitation yesterday of a Latin American demagogue, telling a campaign rally in California that families earning more than $250,000 a year “can afford” his tax hikes. “It’s not like suddenly they’re going to have to go to the poor house. But what that does is it allows us to pay for health care…” Translation: Anyone who fights against higher taxes doesn’t care about the sick and suffering.

For anyone falling for this, consider this fact. If you are a family of four living in New York, California or a lot of other high tax states and you earn $250,000, after state, local and federal income, sales and property taxes, you are fortunate to have $125,000 left BEFORE Obama raises your taxes. Does anyone think those “rich” people are why we are in trouble today? British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once rightly observed, “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” That’s one lesson Washington liberals refuse to learn.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Obama is FAR LEFT on Abortion!

According to an article by Robert George of the Witherspoon Institute (Public Discourse, Ethics, Law and the Common Good) "Barack Obama is the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of President of the United States. He is the most extreme pro-abortion member of the United States Senate. Indeed, he is the most extreme pro-abortion legislator ever to serve in either house of the United States Congress."

WOW!!! What do you know.

Read yourself about what Barack Obama really is deep down inside under neath all those lies and BS!

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/viewarticle.php?selectedarticle=2008.10.14_George_Robert_Obama%27s%20Abortion%20Extremism_.xml

Friday, September 12, 2008

So Obama is JESUS...and Sarah is Pilate?

BOY O BOY! Bible Prophecy is coming closer and closer to US! The scriptures tell us that there will come a day when man will call himself the Christ AND...that the people will want it that way.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=248028

From the article:

Democrat compares Obama to Jesus; Palin to Pontius Pilate

A Democrat defending Barack Obama's former work as a "community organizer" has compared his party's presidential nominee to Jesus Christ.

A conservative activist says Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee) then went on to suggest that Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin was like the Roman governor who had Jesus crucified.


On the House floor Wednesday, Cohen said, "Barack Obama was a 'community organizer' like Jesus." The congressman then added, "Pontius Pilate was a governor."


AMAZING!!! Man has no idea what he's doing anymore.