BHO: Dropping’ like a rock

Gallup: “Obama’s descent in his approval rating below 50% is an important symbolic milestone in his presidency.” With less than a year in office, he now stands at 49%.

Rasmussen: The Daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday showed that only 29% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10

Overall, 48% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. Fifty-two percent (52%) now disapprove.

The message is clear: Forcing Socialism on the United States doesn’t play well with the American people.

Thud

The sound of dissent makes a loud kerplunk.

Another indisputable indicator Americans are tiring of the status quo

Republican candidates maintain a steady six-point advantage over Democrats in the most recent edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national survey indicates that 44% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 38% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent.

Support for each party rose one point from last week. Republicans have consistently held the lead for over four months.

Voters not affiliated with either party continue to heavily favor Republicans, 41% to 24%.

Democrat Fed-Med: Health care Americans cannot afford

After weeks of secretive drafting, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-UT) unveiled Barack Obowma’s socialized, government takeover of American health care.

The Democrat’s $849 billion measure designed to remake the nation’s health care system, relies on cuts in future Medicare spending  (read: Rationed Care to America’s seniors) to cover costs, higher payroll taxes for others (read: Redistribution of wealth) and new taxes on patients undergoing elective cosmetic surgery.

Democrat aides say the mammoth, 2,074-page bill would reduce deficits by $127 billion over a decade and by as much as $650 billion in the 10 years that follow, citing as-yet-unreleased estimates by the Congressional Budget Office.

Question: How does increased spending lead to lower deficits?

“This bill has been behind closed doors for weeks,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). “Now, it’s America’s turn, and this will not be a short debate. Higher premiums, tax increases and Medicare cuts to pay for more government. The American people know that is not reform.”

Reid’s measure, which takes at least 34 hours to read, would require most Americans to carry health insurance and would provide hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to cover costs for those at lower incomes. In a further encumbrance to struggling American businesses, medium and large companies would not be required to offer coverage, but they would be forced to pay fees if the government ended up subsidizing their employees’ insurance.

Halloween is over, but for a fright, read the AP article here.

Politico has more here, including a stomach-turning video of Reid. His mouth is moving, so you can be assured he’s lying.

Who can quarrel with this Dem?

New York’s Democrat Gov. David Paterson has broken ranks with his fellow partisans and is openly criticizing President Obowma, saying he thought it was a terrible idea to move 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspected terrorists to New York for trial.

“This is not a decision that I would have made. I think terrorism isn’t just attack, it’s anxiety and I think you feel the anxiety and frustration of New Yorkers who took the bullet for the rest of the country,” he said.

Paterson’s comments break with Democrats, who in large measure support Obowma’s decision, according to NYCBS2.

“Our country was attacked on its own soil on September 11, 2001 and New York was very much the epicenter of that attack. Over 2,700 lives were lost,” Paterson said. “It’s very painful. We’re still having trouble getting over it. We still have been unable to rebuild that site and having those terrorists so close to the attack is going to be an encumbrance on all New Yorkers.”

Republicans, including former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, have said the group should be tried in a different location under military tribunal because the attacks are considered an act of war.

More here.

Legalizing grateful Democrats in time for the 2010 elections

Obowma’s Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently addressed a gathering at the Center for American Progress, a liberal Washington, D.C. policy group. She unveiled new arguments for an amnesty/legalization program for illegal aliens living in the U.S. in her duplicitous presentation, Napolitano actually claims such a program will enhance national security and protect American workers from unfair competition from lower-paid, easily exploited illegal immigrants.

“Let me emphasize this: we will never have fully effective law enforcement or national security as long as so many millions remain in the shadows,” Napolitano said, adding that the “recovering economy would be strengthened as these immigrants become full-paying taxpayers.”

Recovering economy? With the soaring unemployment numbers recently surpassing the dreaded double-digit marker, Americans likely missed that  piece of fabrication.

Under the administration’s plan, illegals who hope to gain legal status would have to register, pay fines and all taxes they owe, pass a criminal background check and learn English.

None of that standing in line as legal immigrants to this country do. Nope.  Sneaking in moves you right to the front of the line, encouraging the arrival of even more lawbreakers.

Some were quick to challenge Napolitano’s claims that border security had significantly improved or that American workers would be helped by bringing illegal immigrants into the system.

“How can they claim that enforcement is done when there are more than 400 open miles of border with Mexico?” asked Rep. Lamar Smith (TX) the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee. He said the administration should “deport illegal immigrant workers so they don’t remain here to compete with citizen and legal immigrant job seekers.”  Read Rep. Smith’s  reply to Napolitano here.

The full New York Times report can be read here.

Terrorism: Let’s call it by its rightful name

Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, Fort Hood’s top commander has obviously gotten the word from on high. He’s calling for “counseling  and healing,” in the wake of the terrorist attack on the base last week by a Muslim extremist and base psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who fired more than 100 rounds Thursday, killing 14 people including a pregnant woman and her unborn baby. Twenty-nine people were wounded in the carnage and 15 soldiers remain hospitalized, with eight in intensive care.

Cone bizarrely announced the military base is launching a comprehensive program to help soldiers and civilians with “whatever difficulties they may be facing,” and went on to say, “we’re going to take a very hard look at ourselves” and consider whether the post needs new security and psychological assessment measures that could have prevented the attack.

Psychological assessments and “hard looks at ourselves?” 

What would have prevented the attack was less political correctness when Hasan engaged in anti-American rants, consorted with other known Muslim extremists and action on the part of authorities after they became aware of numerous emails he sent attempting to contact people associated with Al Qaeda and did nothing.

Although we are now being told the massacre was “not terrorism,” the reality is that Hasan’s attack at Ft. Hood was indeed an act of Islamic terrorism. He justified his actions based on his interpretation of Islam. At the onset of his attack Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar!”  — God is great!

Yet he began getting press sympathy almost immediately as the MSM began discussing his “post-traumatic stress disorder,” although he had never been deployed to a war-zone. The words “Muslim” and “terrorism” are nearly obliterated from coverage. Months ago, Homeland Insecurity Chieftain, Janet Napolitano had no trouble issuing a disreputable report accusing our returning service personnel of presenting potential threats, but excised the word “terrorism” from usage in her capacity as an Obama cabinet member.

The Washington Post, however, links to the power point presentation Hasan used during a presentation to senior Army doctors in June 2007. Instead of the medical topic scheduled, he lectured on Islam, suicide bombers and prophetically discussed threats the military might encounter from Muslims conflicted about fighting wars in Muslim countries.

President Barack Hussein Obama and his wife Michelle are scheduled to attend today’s memorial service. Former President and onetime Texas Gov. George W. Bush and his wife Laura have already been to the base to personally offer condolences.

Tea Parties against amnesty legislation: Saturday, November 14

This Saturday November 14, 2009 promises to be an historic day as Americans of every race, political party, and religious denomination unify behind Tea Parties Against Amnesty & Illegal Immigration that have quickly formed in over 50 cities in reaction to the news that Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) plans to introduce Comprehensive Amnesty legislation by the end of November.

Illegal Immigration is being encouraged and supported by radical leftist groups working with illegal alien profiteers and duplicitous politicians. For illegal Immigration to be stopped and reversed, your help is needed now.

Please support the Tea Parties Against Amnesty and Illegal Immigration by signing up as a supporter and/or volunteer. Anna Gaines is the Arizona contact person.

If the sellout politicians succeed in turning an estimated 20+ million illegal aliens into new, and predominantly Democrat voters, then it will not matter what your other issues are — American citizens will have lost control of our nation.

The Tea Parties Against Amnesty & Illegal Immigration are being organized by Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC). Visit their website www.AgainstAmnesty.com. The website also provides event locations and times accompanied by maps.

Given consistent findings that Americans overwhelmingly support efforts to halt illegal immigration, it’s not surprising that 68% of U.S. voters oppose sanctuary cities, according to Rasmussen Reports.  A New York Times/CBS News poll found that 69% of American adults believe illegal immigrants should “be prosecuted and deported for being in the U.S. illegally.”

The time to act is now.  There may not be another opportunity.

Bi-partisan support for Dem’s Fed-Med? Here he is

As Nancy Pelosi glowingly reported on the “bi-partisan” passage of the House’s version of Obama’s nationalization and massive power grab of America’s health care system, here are the facts.

Just a single Republican, Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao, voted with the Democrats. The Los Angles Times provides an overview of the sellout chap who represents a predominantly Democrat district..

Check out the nation’s congressional representatives and their votes here.

Uber-liberal Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) — because this version didn’t go far enough left to suit him — joined with Republicans in voting against the monstrosity. Bad reason, good vote.

In the end the $1 trillion+ bill, HR 3962, erroneously titled Affordable Health Care for America Act, passed 220 – 215, with 39 Democrats joining 176 Republicans. 

The vote against the bill was indeed bi-partisan; the vote in favor was a sham.

Outrageous criminal penalties for noncompliance with Dem fed med scheme

The non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation  (JCT) confirms that a failure to comply with the Democrats’ nationalized health mandate can lead to 5 years imprisonment and criminal fines of up to a quarter of a million dollars!

Here are the stunning facts released by Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee U.S. Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail.

The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

This is not the game of Monopoly, folks, where drawing the Go Directly to Jail card is part of an entertaining amusement that is forgotten once the board is folded up and put away. We are talking about our own government forcefully compelling citizens to comply with their socialized scheme or face major consequences.

According to the Congressional Budget Office the lowest cost family non-group plan under Nancy Pelosi’s bill would tally in at $15,000 per year in 2016.