Right out of the chute, Dems propose massive debt increase

$1.9 Trillion

Yes, the Democrats want to increase our nation's debt ceiling by another $1,900,000,000,000. This allows the Democrats to borrow another $1.9 Trillion so they can spend more money.

If Republicans attempt to stop the $1.9 Trillion, America will default on the loans President Obama has taken out on our behalf. Remember, he did it for our own good.

Of course, the media, ever the defenders of Obama, are making excuses:

The record increase in the so-called debt limit is required because the budget deficit has spiraled out of control in the wake of a recession that cut tax revenues, the Wall Street bailout, and increased spending by the Democratic-controlled Congress. Last year's deficit hit a phenomenal $1.4 trillion, and the current year's deficit promises to be as high or higher.

Our audacious President

You gotta love our audacious President now, right?

Exactly one year to the date of being sworn in as the President of the United States, our President is desperately attempting to save his presidency.

Of course, the President tries to convince people that he and Scott Brown share something in common and then proceeds to blame the voter anger not at himself, but at President Bush.

"Here's my assessment of not just the vote in Massachusetts, but the mood around the country: the same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office," the president said in an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos. "People are angry and they are frustrated. Not just because of what's happened in the last year or two years, but what's happened over the last eight years."

Let me get this straight, the reason that Scott Brown won is because voters were angry about the last eight years?

I have to admit it is pretty funny that today the President is attempting to attach himself to Scott Brown's coattails. However, this was still a staggeringly audacious statement for President to make.

14 months ago, the people of Massachusetts showed very clearly they were angry at President Bush. In only took one year of a President Obama for the anger to build so much that the people in Massachusetts were willing to put a seat held by a worshiped Kennedy into the hands of a hated Republican who drives a truck. They did not do that because of the last eight years. They did it because of the last year that has been solely controlled by the liberals in Washington.

There is more, but I have to get to a city council meeting.

Kleefisch for Lt. Governor

KLEEFISCH ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY FOR LT. GOVERNOR


(Oconomowoc)-Former TV news anchor Rebecca Kleefisch announces her candidacy for Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor today. After being encouraged by many of Wisconsin’s business and political leaders, Rebecca announced she will seek the state’s second highest office on an agenda of “kitchen table common sense.”
“This election is about ‘kitchen table common sense’,” Kleefisch said her announcement. “Wisconsin families make tough decisions around their kitchen tables every day, but government doesn’t seem to feel the same pressures you and I do. When you’re in the middle of a recession, you don’t use accounting tricks to fake a balanced budget. You balance it. You don’t tax and regulate businesses out of the state. You create ways for them to grow. And you sure don’t disregard the will of the people who want smaller, more accountable government. You pay attention.”
The UW-Madison graduate and mother of two daughters says she’s running because she can’t afford to watch liberal politicians rob her kids of their futures. She also has a clear vision for the role of the Lieutenant Governor.
“The Governor is the CEO of the state,” Kleefisch said. “The Lieutenant Governor is the Marketing VP. We need someone who understands how to craft compelling, articulate messages for why job creators should come to this state, start up in this state and expand in this state.”
Kleefisch has worked in marketing and public relations in addition to being an award-winning TV and print journalist. Job retention and creation will be her top priority as Lieutenant Governor.
“To change our job forecast, we need to change minds about Wisconsin’s business climate,” Kleefisch said. “I’m confident a Republican administration will right our economic ship, but then we need to reach people with the message that, ‘Wisconsin is open for business again!’”
Kleefisch plans to use her marketing background to attract jobs to Wisconsin. She also plans to showcase the most cutting-edge marketing tools in her own campaign. She’s announcing her candidacy at 11 a.m. via a high-tech closed circuit internet presentation where members of statewide media are invited to ask questions using Facebook, another social media phenomenon. She also plans innovative use of new media, including the use of texting, tweeting and online networking as a platform for messaging and fundraising. Her website is www.Rebeccaforreal.com.

Congressman Ryan comments on results in Mass

Congressman Ryan was just on the Jay Weber show commenting on the meaning of the race results in Massachusetts.

Here it hear

The Congressman's first comment "I'm in Washington right now and looking out my window and seeing pigs flying around the Capitol"

Brown wins!

Yeah!

AP is calling it for Scott Brown.

It is a revolution!

Battle in Massachusetts is getting good

Oh boy, this is getting good. Sit back, conservatives, grab your popcorn and enjoy the show.

We already know that team Obama and Democrats have been attempting to distance themselves from Team Coakley. In the middle of the actual election day, Team Coakley decided to respond to Team Democrats/Obama and sent out a memo:

The Coakley campaign is bridling at finger-pointing from the White House and Washington Democrats, and an outside adviser to the campaign has provided to POLITICO a memo aimed at rebutting the charge that Coakley failed and making the case that national Democrats failed her.

The adviser, who made the case to my colleague Jonathan Martin on the condition of anonymity in response, he said, to "the current leaking coming out of the White House and the DNC that is chalking all of this up to a “bad candidate”.

The adviser, who cited internal polling numbers to make the case, e-mails that, "There’s more to the story than that. If Martha is guilty of taking the race for granted, so is the White House and the DNC."

The adviser pointed to internal polling to argue that Coakley held a wide -- 20 point -- lead on Dec. 19, and that the damage she took between that survey and a Jan. 5 Rasmussen poll putting the race at 9 points came from the national scene: The Senate vote on health care, with the controversy over Ben Nelson's deal for Nebraska, and the Christmas Day bombing.

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Not to be outdone on election day, a DNC official has "officially" blasted back:

This memo is a pack full of lies and fantasies - The DNC and the DSCC did everything they were asked and have been involved in the race for several weeks not just the last one.

The campaign failed to recognize this threat, failed to keep Coakley on the campaign trail, failed to create a negative narrative about Brown, failed to stay on the air in December while he was running a brilliant campaign. It's wishful thinking from a pollster, candidate and campaign team that were caught napping and are going to allow one of the worst debacle in American political history to happen on their watch that they are at the 11th hour are going to blame others.

Before the DNC and DSCC got involved there was barely a single piece of paper on what the narrative is on Brown. The candidate in this race and the campaign have been involved in the worst case of political malpractice in memory and they aren't going to be able to spin themselves out of this with a memo full of lies.

Hey conservatives, anyone need some butter for their popcorn?

I am telling you, this is priceless. Remember November is coming also!

PS. The polls are still open. Are voters supposed to watch this battle and go and cast a vote for Coakley?

Scott Brown has already won

No matter what happens today, Scott Brown has already won today. The Democrats are spooked, really spooked. In fact, I am not certain that I have ever seen so many frightened Democrats.

If a Democrat seat is not safe in a highly liberal state, then no seat anywhere in the US is safe for a Democrat. Scott Brown's rise has proven that America is looking at this liberal agenda and are not happy.

Yes, I would prefer for Scott to win, but I think his candidacy has severely damaged the liberal agenda nationwide.

He had a dream

Today is a great day to celebrate the wisdom and guidance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He had a dream and even today we continue to fight for his dream.

Thank you Dr. King

In fond remembrance, Joyce Beula

In fond remembrance...

On January 13, 2010 The Kenosha County GOP, the community of Twin Lakes and her family lost one of its most faithful members, Joyce Beula.

Joyce was a faithful and excited party member with the GOP for longer than I have been alive. She would tell me stories of working on her first campaign for Barry Goldwater. I would tell Joyce, "I wasn't even alive then!". She would throw back her head and laugh. She loved it, she loved Paul Ryan, she loved Samantha Kerkman, she loved us all.

I remember in 2007, right before the meeting was to begin for our annual county GOP caucus, I had a private conversation with Joyce. I knew my name was on the ballot for the Chairwoman's position, and I was nervous. I told her this and she smiled knowingly. I was nervous about leading the county GOP in a very bad political climate for Republicans. She told me several times, "you are going to be fine, you are exactly what this party needs".

In 2008, we knew Joyce's health was failing but she so desperately wanted to help with the campaign. I called her up and invited her to ride on our GOP parade float in Twin Lakes. She was thrilled. Over and over again there were shouts from the crowd in Twin Lakes. "Hey Grandma!" They all knew her and loved her.

Well, Grandma Joyce Beula, you will be missed.

Rest in peace. Joyce, we will carry on with your passion of getting good conservatives elected for the country that you dearly loved.

RIP.

Kathy Carpenter
Chairwoman
Republican Party of Kenosha County

Pray for another Massachusetts Miracle

This video is spreading like wildfire.

Can Americans produce another Massachusetts Miracle?

Congressman Paul Ryan on Health Care

Remarks presented at the Hillsdale College and Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship Forum on Health Care Reform and the American Character

Someone has said that before there was the New Deal, there was the "Wisconsin Deal." In Wisconsin, where I come from, the politics of Progressivism still runs strong. It was imported through the University of Wisconsin where they read their Hegel, Max Weber, and other powerful German minds. These thinkers taught the American Progressives to make a sharp distinction between "administration" and "politics." These philosophers and their American disciples wanted to remodel society on the basis not of opinions or "values" but according to ‘rational calculation.'

The best known Wisconsin Progressive in American politics was Robert LaFollette. "Fighting Bob" was a Republican, as was that other early Progressive, Theodore Roosevelt. Progressivism has always been a powerful strain in the Republican bloodstream, as we saw in the presidential election last year.

The Progressives, like the American Founders, saw self-government in a large nation-state as a challenge. Can a modern democracy be both free and well governed?

These thinkers, particularly Weber, were not blind to the problem of how untrained average citizens were supposed to preserve freedom in a society administered by bureaucratic ‘specialists without soul.' But popular resistance to their agenda made the Progressives more and more elitist.

Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson brought the Progressive movement to Washington, sowing the seeds for the paramount political problem of our time: centralized administration.

Progressivism came in on two great waves: the 1930s New Deal and the Great Society of the 1960s. President Obama often invokes Progressivism and plans to generate its third, and greatest, wave. American businesses large and small must be brought under centralized direction. Contracts, the very core of personal and social freedom, are scrapped or rewritten by the administration as decades old bankruptcy laws are cast aside in the reorganization of the auto makers. The compensation which employers pay to secure the services of executive employees is now reviewed and second-guessed by a presidential "pay czar." Marriage and family life, church and voluntary organizations are all being weakened mostly by nonrepresentative government agencies. First wave Progressives demanded the popular referendum. Third wave Progressives do everything possible to stop local and state referenda which citizens would use to end this assault on the pillars of free society.

Health Care reform is a prime example of Progressivism in action.

The delivery of health care services has grown costly, leaving many without coverage. But survey after survey shows that 75 or 80 percent of Americans or more are personally satisfied with the quality of their own health care.

The Democratic leaderships' brazen attempts to rush through a health care reform with little public debate and deliberation have disgraced the annals of government by consent. They frantically scribble thousand-page laws behind closed doors and demand midnight votes from members who are given no opportunity to read the legislation they are voting about. This farcical process flunks the Constitution's "due process of law" test.

The Framers saw every individual as having a "right of personal security" which includes being protected against acts that may harm personal health. This right is integral to the natural right to life which it is government's purpose to secure. But the personal right to protection of health does not imply that government must provide health care, any more than the right to food in order to live requires government to own the farms and raise the crops. Government's obligation is normally met by establishing conditions for free markets to thrive. Societies with economic freedom almost always have a growing abundance of goods and services at affordable cost for the largest number. When free markets seem to be failing to meet this goal - and I'd argue today's health care delivery is an example - government should not supply the need itself but look in the mirror, correct its own interventions, and unleash competition and choice.

Washington DC is no place to run health care services for the nation. Thus the Framers left public health decentralized. But if there were any doubt, the history of Medicare and Medicaid is the proof. Real cost control has become a national nightmare. Fraud has proliferated despite every effort to stop it. Program costs are always underestimated. In 1966 the cost of Medicare to the taxpayers was about $3 billion. The House Ways and Means Committee estimated that Medicare would cost taxpayers only about $12 billion by 1990 (adjusted for inflation). The actual cost? Nearly nine times as high - $107 billion. By 2006 Medicare reached $401 billion while Medicaid added another $309 billion for a total of $710 billion.

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I do not think they get it

Whether or not Scott Brown wins on Tuesday, even the most non-partisan person has got to be wondering where the heads of the Democrats are at.

Do they not see that even a tight race in Massachusetts means that America has turned on the Democrats/President's agenda?

There is a real and legitimate uprising taking place all across this country in an attempt to stop this President's agenda.

Today, thousands of people will be at another Tea Party in the dead of winter in Wisconsin. Do the liberals not see why people are doing this?

The uprising is here and it is now.

The Democrats can keep telling themselves that it is the evil insurance companies that are behind this, but they know they are wrong. The reality is that no conservative has handed as much power to insurance companies as these Democrats are doing right now.

The Democrats have mandated that every single American hand money over to the insurance companies. The Government mandate in this bill is the biggest boondoggle for insurance companies in the history of this country.

Dare we dream?

When PPP came out with their new poll this week on Brown vs. Coakley, showing Brown up by 1%, I was hesitant to get excited.

When Rasmussen come out with their new poll this week, showing Brown down by 2%, I was still hesitant to get excited.

When the Suffolk poll came out last night showing Brown with a 4% lead on Coakley, it certainly has raised some eyebrows.

Dare we dream?

Well, do not get too excited yet, another poll out yesterday shows the Democrat with a 8 point lead.

A miserable week for the President's poll numbers

This week as been interesting. Each day the White House has rolled out of bed, they have had to face another monumental announcement on a new horrible poll that has been released:

Monday: CBS Poll "Obama's approval rating dips to a new low" 46% approval rating

Tuesday: CNN Poll "Americans split on success of Obama Presidency" 48% disapprove 47% Approve

Wednesday: Gallup Poll "President Obama at all time lows in handling of economy, health care"

Economy 56% disapprove 40% approve

Health Care 58% disapprove 37% approve

Quinnpiac Poll: "Obama approval at 45%"

Thursday: Allstate/National Journal Poll "Majority would vote against Obama" 50% of Americans would vote against Obama, 39% of Americans would vote to re-elect Obama


Perhaps tomorrow morning, the White House should just stay in bed. Things could not get worse if they stay in bed, right?

Donate to victims in Haiti

There are a ton of missionaries in Haiti, family friends and church friends that I know personally. We are not sure of their safety at this moment. I know this, if they are safe, they are working themselves 24/7 trying to help the people they serve.

If you can donate, please do. The devastation is horrifying. Say a prayer for all of the missionaries, and every single person in Haiti right now.

Donate to the American Red Cross.

A majority of Americans today would vote against President Obama

Don't blame Rasmussen for this poll, liberals.

A year into his tenure, a majority of Americans would already vote against Pres. Obama if the '12 elections were held today, according to a new survey.

The Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll shows 50% say they would probably or definitely vote for someone else. Fully 37% say they would definitely cast a ballot against Obama. Meanwhile, just 39% would vote to re-elect the pres. to a 2nd term, and only 23% say they definitely would do so.

Racine Bonfire Tea Party

Thanks to Americans for Prosperity. Join the movement against Obama and the Democrats take over of our lives.

2010 Taxpayer Action Rally & Bonfire
Date January 16th, 2010
Time 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Sponsor Racine Tea Party and Americans for Prosperity
Location 4505 Highway H Franksville, WI


Notes

Joe the Plumber
Vicki McKenna - WISN
State Representative Robin Vos
State Senator Joe Leibham
Tim Dake - WI Grandsons of Liberty
Adelle Weeks - global warming expert
Mark Block . Americans for Prosperity
Linda Hansen . Wisconsin Prosperity Network

Make calls for Scott Brown

Cannot afford to make a donation, that is okay. Most of us have nationwide long distance calling plans on our cell phones, so this is a good way to contribute to the Scott Brown campaign if you so choose.

Follow the link.

How ironic?

From the most transparent government ever:

at 2:15 PM, the Vice President will meet with Earl Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board. This meeting is closed press. ###

Closed to the press? So much for transparency...How ironic is that? Transparency and Accountability Board meeting behind closed doors.

Ryan: Public Option Dead in name only

WisPolitics

Congressman Paul Ryan:

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan believes that even if a public health insurance option is not included in a final health care bill, the legislation, if passed, would likely create the conditions for government-run health care down the road.

"I think it's dead in name but not in substance," the Janesville Republican told WisPolitics today following a speech to the Madison chapter of Financial Executives International. "I think what the majority is going to try to do is put something that effectively creates a public option but allows them to say that it's not in this bill."

Ryan argued that a provision of the Senate bill -- which would allow the Office of Personnel Management to set up an insurance "system" -- "more or less plants the seeds for a public option to occur."

"I always thought the public option was kind of a stalking horse, and it was always something that would be traded away at the end of the day," Ryan said.

Ryan also predicted Democrats would be unable to move carbon cap-and-trade legislation through the Senate, in part due to the political toll the health care debate has taken on the party.

"I don't think it can survive a filibuster," Ryan said, adding that he doesn't think efforts by the Obama administration to regulate carbon emissions through the EPA would be successful, either.

Ryan also addressed his appearance next month at a pair of New Hampshire GOP fundraisers. He said he was invited by the state Republican Party and former U.S. Sen. John Sununu, reiterating that "there's no way" he's running for president in 2012.

"New Hampshirites are going to have a huge say-so in picking our next nominee, and I wanted to give my 2 cents in saying, 'Please pick a nominee who understands the economic and fiscal crisis in this country. Pick somebody who knows it, understands it and will take it on,'" Ryan said.

"My point is to simply give kind of a 'Paul Revere' speech on the fiscal crisis in this country, so New Hampshirites use that as one of the litmus tests and the standards that they hold the eventual nominee to."

Listen to Ryan's comments here.