About Me

Name: Defend America
Email: guy.ratki@gmail.com Biography
Loading...

Create Your Own Blog Find Other Townhall Blogs

Comments

Archives

Search

"A Liberty Issue"

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, August 01, 2009 9:44:16 PM
A Liberty Issue
Government health care would be wrong even if it “controlled costs.”

By Mark Steyn

My conservative friends — and even a few media liberals — are agreed: The bloom is off the Obama rose. He’s not the Obamessiah, just another 50-percent president. He tried to do too much too fast, and his numbers are sinking. The Europeanization of health care is dead. Fuhgeddabouddit.

I wouldn’t be so sure. President Obama has no choice but to move fast, in part because the image he presented during the campaign — a post-partisan, post-racial, post-anything-unpleasant-and-controversial, pragmatic centrist — was a total crock. He has a vast transformative domestic agenda and — because most of its elements are not terribly popular — he has to accomplish it at speed, or he won’t get it done at all.

Health-care “reform”? As we’ve seen this past week in the House of Representatives, put not your trust in “Blue Dog Democrats.” And, as we’ll no doubt see in the weeks ahead in the Senate, put not your trust in “moderate Republicans” whose urge to “reach across the aisle” is so reflexive it ought to be covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzlmYWZhMjZjZDAwYjMxOTZkZTNmODI5ZDAyZmExNDY=
Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (0) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive

August 1st in American History

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, August 01, 2009 3:44:55 PM
1790 - The first U.S. census was completed with a total population of 3,929,214 recorded. The areas included were the present states of Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia


1876 - Colorado became the 38th state to join the United States.
Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (0) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive

Documents Released About Infamous Flyover

Posted by Defend America on Friday, July 31, 2009 10:00:03 PM
Jim Gerahty reports on this on The Campaign Spot blog on National Review Online:

"3 million New Yorkers did not have a need to know."

On page 11 of the 533 page Friday afternoon document drop from the White House, a quote from an e-mail referring to the disastrous Air Force One flyby of lower Manhattan: "3 million New Yorkers did not have a need to know."

Page 22: "Will probably receive some local press, but WH (White House) shouldn't catch any questions about it."

Page 82: "The following press release will be offered when/if press inquiries are made." Love that "if." Apparently they thought it was possible no one in the press would ask about it.

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Nzc5YTZmYTk3MTI0MDJiODNkNzI5OGU3NTNiYTA1NWE=



Tags: White House  
Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (0) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive

Final Important House Panel Approves Health Care Bill

Posted by Defend America on Friday, July 31, 2009 9:21:20 PM

Final House Panel Approves Health Reform Bill

The vote was made possible by a deal brokered earlier this week between Democratic leaders and conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats, though health reform legislation still is being held up in one Senate committee

By Chad Pergram

FOXNews.com

Friday, July 31, 2009

WASHINGTON -- A key House panel approved its version of major health care reform package Friday night, setting the full House up for a debate on the legislation after its August recess.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee, which voted Friday, was the last of three panels to approve a health bill. The vote was made possible by a deal brokered earlier this week between Democratic leaders and conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats, though health reform legislation still is being held up in one Senate committee.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/31/final-house-panel-approves-health-reform/

The vote was 31-28, with 5 Democrats voting no and no Republicans supported the bill.
Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (0) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive

Is There Nobody Else to be Put on Time Magazine's Cover?

Posted by Defend America on Friday, July 31, 2009 9:19:43 PM

'Paging Dr. Obama' Makes It Seven Time Mag Covers Since Election for Obama

By Brent Baker | July 31, 2009 - 10:21

Time magazine's August 10 edition with President Barack Obama on the cover (“Paging Dr. Obama”) trying to heal the nation in a photo illustration as a physician, wearing a white smock with a stethoscope around his neck, brings to seven the number of issues the magazine's cover has featured Obama just since November's election -- make that eight for the First Family if you add in June 1's genuflecting “The Meaning of Michelle.” Amongst the seven of President Obama: “Person of the Year” and Obama as FDR.

Tags: Media   obama  
Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (0) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive

What's Another $88 Billion Between Friends?

Posted by Defend America on Friday, July 31, 2009 9:05:00 PM
Lawmakers may extend the stimulus
By Walter Alarkon and Kiera McCaffrey
Posted: 07/30/09 08:29 PM [ET]
A disparate collection of lawmakers and special interests is pushing to extend tax credits and other benefits — effectively proposing another economic stimulus with a price tag of at least $88 billion.

Their wish list applies to measures in February’s $787 billion stimulus that were passed to provide a temporary jolt to the economy.

Nearly six months later, these measures have developed entrenched constituencies, and members of both parties are pressing to retain favored priorities. Members are under acute pressure from voters to cushion workers and businesses from the worst recession in decades.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/lawmakers-may-extend-the-stimulus-2009-07-30.html
Tags: stimulus  
Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (0) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive

Let's Waste More Time and Make the Bureaucracy Even Larger

Posted by Defend America on Friday, July 31, 2009 6:30:27 PM

Americans Spent Nearly 10 Billion Hours on Government Forms Last Year

Posted July 31, 2009
  • 9.9 billion: Number of hours Americans spent on government paperwork last year
  • 2 billion: Increase in hours from 2004, a 25 percent increase
  • 1 billion: Estimated number of hours in 1981
  • 7.7 billion: Number of hours spent on IRS forms, or 80 percent of the total
  • $460 billion: Estimated labor cost of the 9.9 billion hours of federal paperwork
http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2009/07/31/americans-spent-nearly-10-billion-hours-on-government-forms-last-year.html
Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (0) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive

Senate Finance Committee Says September is the New Deadline

Posted by Defend America on Friday, July 31, 2009 5:52:43 PM
See you in September
By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN | 7/31/09 5:14 PM
With recess looming, Senate Finance Committee sets Sept. 15 as new health care bill deadline.
Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (0) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive

Robert Gibbs Mocks Media Coverage of Beer Summit 2009

Posted by Defend America on Friday, July 31, 2009 5:39:47 PM
I can't post the video here, but here is the link for the video:

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/31/video-gibbs-rips-media-for-moronic-coverage-of-moronic-white-house-publicity-stunt/

Tags: obama  
Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (0) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive

There will be a Vote on Government-Run, Single-Payer Health Care

Posted by Defend America on Friday, July 31, 2009 5:35:04 PM
Liberals will get single-payer vote on House floor
By Mike Soraghan | Posted: 07/31/09 05:33 PM [ET]
Seeking to dampen liberal anger about deals cut with centrists, Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman said House leaders have agreed to allow a floor vote on a government-run, single-payer system.
Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (0) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive

Abortion Option in ObamaCare Once Again

Posted by Defend America on Friday, July 31, 2009 5:31:34 PM

House Pro-Abortion Health Amendment Passes: Pro-Life Amendment Passed then Struck Down

Waxman predicts committee passage today

By Kathleen Gilbert

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 31, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A pro-abortion amendment proposed as a "common ground" amendment was voted into the House version of President Obama's healthcare overhaul by the Energy and Commerce Committee late Thursday, while a pro-life amendment achieved brief approval before it was struck down again hours later.

California Democrat Lois Capps, whose voting record was rated 100% pro-abortion by NARAL, introduced the faux "common ground" amendment that, while appearing to prohibit the abortion mandate in the healthcare overhaul, actually calls for the public plan to cover abortions and mandates that at least one abortion-covering plan be available in every U.S. region.  The amendment was passed 30-28.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jul/09073103.html
Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (2) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive

It Really is Terror Now

Posted by Defend America on Friday, July 31, 2009 4:43:58 PM

AP

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, blasted for not mentioning 'terror' during her first appearance before Congress, has reinserted the term into her lexicon.
Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (2) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive

Is a Picture Really Worth a Thousand Words?

Posted by Defend America on Friday, July 31, 2009 4:30:36 PM

Obama's revealing body language (updated and expanded))

Thomas Lifson
This picture truly is worth at least a thousand words.

Tags: obama  
Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (0) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive

House Passes Bill to Regulate Wall Street Executive's Compensation

Posted by Defend America on Friday, July 31, 2009 2:41:36 PM

House Passes Executive Compensation Bill

The House Friday passed legislation to expand regulatory oversight of executive compensation and give shareholders a bigger say over what corporate executives are paid. [Read More]

The vote was 237-185. 2 Republicans voted with the Democrats to regulate executive compensation, while 16 Democrats crossed over and voted with the majority of Republicans.

Here is the roll call, Republicans are in italics:


---- AYES    237 ---

Abercrombie
Ackerman
Adler (NJ)
Altmire
Andrews
Arcuri
Baca
Baird
Baldwin
Barrow
Bean
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boccieri
Boswell
Boucher
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown, Corrine
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Castor (FL)
Chandler
Childers
Chu
Clarke
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Crowley
Cummings
Dahlkemper
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
Davis (TN)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dic--
Dingell
Doggett
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Driehaus
Duncan
Edwards (MD)
Edwards (TX)
Ellison
Ellsworth
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Foster
Frank (MA)
Fudge
Giffords
Gonzalez
Gordon (TN)
 Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Hare
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Heinrich
Herseth Sandlin
Higgins
Hill
Himes
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hodes
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kagen
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilpatrick (MI)
Kilroy
Kind
Kissell
Klein (FL)
Kosmas
Kucinich
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Luján
Lynch
Maffei
Maloney
Marshall
Massa
Matheson
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McNerney
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Melancon
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Minnick
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy (NY)
Murphy, Patrick
Murphy, Tim
Murtha
Nadler (NY)
 Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Perlmutter
Perriello
Peters
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Polis (CO)
Pomeroy
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Rangel
Reyes
Richardson
Rodriguez
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schauer
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sestak
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shuler
Sires
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Space
Speier
Spratt
Stark
Stupak
Sutton
Tanner
Taylor
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Titus
Tonko
Towns
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Velázquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch
Wexler
Wilson (OH)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth

---- NOES    185 ---

Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Austria
Bachmann
Bachus
Barrett (SC)
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Berry
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehner
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boozman
Boren
Boustany
Boyd
Brady (TX)
Bright
Broun (GA)
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Cantor
Cao
Capito
Carter
Cassidy
Castle
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Deal (GA)
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dreier
Ehlers
Emerson
Fallin
Flake
Fleming
Forbes
Fortenberry
 Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Gingrey (GA)
Goodlatte
Granger
Graves
Griffith
Guthrie
Hall (TX)
Halvorson
Hastings (WA)
Heller
Hensarling
Herger
Hoekstra
Hunter
Inglis
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan (OH)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Kirkpatrick (AZ)
Kline (MN)
Kratovil
Lamborn
Lance
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lewis (CA)
LoBiondo
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
Markey (CO)
McCarthy (CA)
McClintock
McCotter
McHenry
McKeon
McMahon
McMorris Rodgers
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mitchell
Moran (KS)
 Myrick
Neugebauer
Nunes
Nye
Olson
Paul
Paulsen
Pence
Petri
Pitts
Platts
Poe (TX)
Posey
Price (GA)
Putnam
Radanovich
Rehberg
Reichert
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schmidt
Schock
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Snyder
Souder
Stearns
Sullivan
Teague
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Turner
Upton
Walden
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)

---- NOT VOTING    11 ---

Gohmert
Grijalva
Harper
Lee (NY)
 Linder
Markey (MA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul
 McHugh
Salazar
Wamp



Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (0) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive

House Passes Bill to Save 'Cash for Clunkers'

Posted by Defend America on Friday, July 31, 2009 1:48:07 PM

House Racing to Pass $2 Billion Bill to Boost 'Cash for Clunkers' Program

The House approved an additional $2 billion Friday for the financially strapped "cash for clunkers" car-rebate program, whose early success threatened to sink the system.

FOXNews.com

Friday, July 31, 2009

The House passed emergency legislation Friday approving an additional $2 billion for the "cash for clunkers" program, whose immediate popularity this week threatened to sink the program.

Skipping over regular procedure to obtain an immediate floor vote, the House Democrats' legislation would shuffle around funds from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act, an emergency stimulus for the original $1 billion budget for rebates on new cars that lawmakers worried had been exhausted in only a week.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/31/democrats-house-plans-pass-billion-boost-cash-clunkers-program/
Tags: House   bill  
Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (0) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive
« Previous12Next »