National Political 'DISCUSSIONS'

[Hoosier Hillbilly]

...It's so SAD ! 'i' gota + some humor!
Nancy Pelosi called Harry Reid into her office one day and said, "Harry, I have a great idea! I know how we can win back Middle America in 2012 ."
"Great, but how do you propose we go about that, "asked Harry?"
"Well," Nancy responded, "we'll go down to a local Wal-Mart, get some cheesy clothes and shoes like most middle Americans wear, [[[ did 'U' get that? ]]] and then we'll stop at the pound and pick up a Labrador . When we look the part, we'll go to a nice old country bar in Middle America and we'll show them we really enjoy the Countryside and show admiration and respect for the hard working people living there."

A few days later, all decked out and with the requisite Labrador at heel, they set off from Washington in a westerly direction. Eventually they arrived at just the place they were looking for in Alabama . With dog in tow they walk into the bar. They stepped up to the bar.

The Bartender took a step back and said, "Aren't you Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi?" Nancy answered, "Yes we are and what a lovely town you have here. We were just passing through and Harry suggested that we stop and take in some local color."

They then ordered a couple of cocktails from the bartender and proceed to drink them down, all the while chatting up a storm with anyone who would listen.
All of a sudden, the bar room door opened and a grizzled old farmer came in. He walked up to the Labrador , lifted its tail and looked underneath, shrugged his shoulders and walked out the door. A few moments later, in came another old farmer. He walked up to the dog, lifted its tail, looked underneath, scratched his head and then left the bar.

Over the course of the next hour or so, another four or five farmers came in, lifted the dog's tail, and went away looking puzzled.
Eventually Nancy and Harry could stand it no longer and called the bartender over. "Tell me," said Nancy , "why did all those old farmers come in and look under the dog's tail like that? Is it some sort of old custom?"

"Good Lord no," said the bartender ... "It's just that someone has told them that there was a Labrador in this bar with two assholes!"

[Hoosier Hillbilly]

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Terry- Greensburg, IN "Hoosier Hillbilly" January 20th, 2011 2:43 pm ET
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Tune in to the Situation Room at 5pm to see if Jack reads your answer on air. "WE"all know there is no truth to that, it might be 6 pm, and it might be tomorrow. WhAtEvEr! 'i' guess it's up to Wolfe??
2500 + pages of anything is too much @ 1 time. It doesn't take that much explaining to get this Health Care thing fixed. What it takes is monitoring what's going on and correct things one-@-a-time.
1st let insurance companies compete on a nation wide basis, that will save billions.
2nd unless there is excellent evidence certain tests should be run ( the cost of which are astronomical ) don't do them,that will save billions.

3rd Monitor Medicare, as a government 'subsidiary' like it should be,, that will save billions.

4th overhaul (( WELFARE )) so that the ones that deserve it get it & others don't,that will save billions.
'i've already decreased the National Debt a trillon or more, what else can 'i' say?


Terry- Greensburg, IN "Hoosier Hillbilly" January 20th, 2011 3:09 pm ET
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?? The States have representatives in congress, how did this bill get passed to begin with?? Was someone sleeping when the Democrats shoved this up their & "OUR" a$$? How do 'U' figure what happened?
** Was "IT" nothing more than an expression of "POLITICAL POWER"
by the majority? My vote is YES! Pelosi & Reid Let them live with it and abide by it ( which they won't ) & let the rest of "US" decide what "WE" want!
Jack, you seem to be full of opinions, but they're never expressed in your telecast, what do ("U") think? 'U' write books and say; why not on the air?

Gotta keep that Hillbilly image going, 'U' know?

[Hoosier Hillbilly]

~WHAT IS THAT SMELL~
~~~~~~~~~ Forum games??? NOT!
~~~~~~~~~ Political Games ("?")
It remains to be seen...
Top 10 Obama Administration Investigation Targets
by Human Events



Rep. Darrell Issa (R.-Calif.), the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has signaled he will conduct numerous oversight investigations of the Obama Administration. Here are the Top 10 areas ripe for investigation for Issa and other congressional Republicans:

(1) ObamaCare: Any measure that restructures one-sixth of the U.S. economy bears scrutiny particularly when passage of the bill required legislative bribes such as the Louisiana Purchase and Cornhusker Kickback. To paraphrase Nancy Pelosi, now that ObamaCare has passed, let’s see exactly what is in it — and how it got there.

(2) Stimulus: The American people deserve to know what they got for the $787 billion stimulus package that Obama signed in February 2009, including how much money was spent frivolously to publicize the legislation. And where exactly are all those jobs that the administration claims were “created or saved?”



(3) Freddie and Fannie: Previous attempts by congressional Democrats to get to the bottom of the 2008 financial meltdown conveniently overlooked the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. How much of the housing crisis was due to financial donations going to Democratic officials, who overlooked financial transgressions at the agencies so long as mortgages flowed to unworthy credit risks?

(4) Wikileaks: Someone in the administration needs to explain how the lowly serviceman who served up secret documents to Wikileaks could have access to such a large amount of classified material. And were any actions taken to shut down Julian Assange in the months after the initial disclosures and before the embarrassing leak of State Department cables?

(5) Climate science: Considering the Obama Administration used concerns over global warming to advance its cap-and-trade energy tax and, via the EPA, regulate carbon dioxide emissions, a hearing on how climate science is impacting public policy is in order.

(6) ACORN: How much federal money was sent to ACORN and what was it used for? That this vote-stealing, partisan group of thugs received tens of millions of taxpayer dollars is an outrage.

(7) Oil spill response: So many questions over the Obama Administration’s response to the Gulf oil spill last April: Why was the response tardy, and did the administration slow local efforts through unnecessary red-tape? Was science politicized with the administration’s rosy estimates over how much oil was left? Were there legitimate concerns or did politics come into play with the decision to impose an offshore oil drilling moratorium?

(8) Justice Department: There are concerns that politics is running amok in the halls of the Justice Department. From undermining national security by trying enemy terror combatants in criminal courts to unequal enforcement of civil rights laws, Attorney General Eric Holder’s shop should be scrutinized. A good place to start is the department’s handling of the New Black Panthers’ voter intimidation case that was dropped.

(9) Czars: While other Presidents have named advisers without congressional approval, Obama has taken the appointment of policy czars to a new level. With appointments going to people like former Green Jobs czar and Marxist Van Jones, Congress needs to know who has been given authority beyond the scope of the Senate’s confirmation process.

(10) Obama’s presidential eligibility: This one should be easy to settle once and for all. Even Hawaii’s Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie says President Obama’s birth records should be released. Let’s see what the White House does if a congressional subpoena is issued. For a President who promised transparency, there are an awful lot of his personal documents still under wraps.

[Hoosier Hillbilly]

SO! What did you, and do you think?

I guess your saying WHY didn't he say what he thought?

I agree with the following completely:
Bachmanns response
The tea party favorite called on Obama to support GOP ideas.
Rep. Michele Bachmann -State of the Minnesota


After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks that the President signed, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don’t have.

But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt at President Obama’s direction; unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country.

...

For two years President Obama made promises… He claimed that he would find solutions to fix our economy and help create jobs. Well, here are a few suggestions:

The President could stop the EPA from imposing a job-destroying cap-and-trade system.

The President could agree with House Republicans and commit himself to signing a Balanced Budget Amendment.

The President could also agree to an all-of-the-above energy policy whereby we increase American energy production, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, reduce the price of gas at the pump, and create good-paying jobs in the U.S.

The President could turn back some of the 132 regulations put in place in the last two years that each have an impact of $100-million or more on our economy.

...

Thanks to all of you, there’s reason to hope that real spending cuts are coming. Last November many of you went to the polls and voted out big-spending politicians and you put in their place men and women who have come to Washington with a commitment to follow the Constitution and cut the size of government. And I believe that we are in the early days of a history-making turn here in the House of Representatives.

Last week we voted to repeal ObamaCare, and each day going forward, we must work hard to dismantle the massive government expansion that has happened over the past two years.

[Hoosier Hillbilly]

9,000 earmarks in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill:
Gang tattoo removal,
Maine lobster,
La Raza & more!
By Michelle Malkin
You want earmarks? There are lots and lots and lots of earmarks in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill coming down the road. Not that any of the people who are going to vote for it will actually read it, of course. If they did, they couldn’t look into the camera and sanctimoniously declare that, uh, you know, “There are no earmarks.”

The Modesto Bee reports:

During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidates Barack Obama and John McCain fought vigorously over who would be toughest on congressional earmarks.

“We need earmark reform,” Obama said in September during a presidential debate in Oxford, Miss. “And when I’m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”

President Barack Obama should prepare to carve out a lot of free time and keep the coffee hot this week as Congress prepares to unveil a $410 billion omnibus spending bill that’s riddled with thousands of earmarks, despite his calls for restraint and efforts on Capitol Hill to curtail the practice.

The bill will contain about 9,000 earmarks totaling $5 billion, congressional officials say. Many of the earmarks — loosely defined as local projects inserted by members of Congress — were inserted last year as the spending bills worked their way through various committees.

So while Obama and McCain were slamming earmarks on the camp aign trail, House and Senate members — Democrats and Republicans — were slapping them into spending bills.

“It will be a little embarrassing for the president if he signs a bill with that many earmarks on it,” said Stan Collender, a veteran Washington budget analyst.
Hill staffer Tom Jones is going through the omnibus spending bill with a fine-tooth comb, and Twittering his earmark findings, including:

* $200,000 for “Tattoo Removal Violence Prevention Outreach Program,” pg. 283;

*Maine lobster earmark in the omnibus, pg. 173;

*$5.8 million earmark for the “Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate…for the planning and design of a building & an endowment,” pg. 232;

*and National Council of La Raza, $473,000 earmark from Sens. Bingaman and Menendez, pg. 212.
Looks like sometimes you gota eat pork whether you want to or not!... or @ least pay for someone else to get it!
Pork is suppose to be the other white meat - can you guess why I made it brown?
Because it's a bunch of S _ _ T!

[Hoosier Hillbilly]

Barack Obama,
during his Cairo speech, said:
quote: "I know, too, that Islam has always been a part
of America's story." unquote

AN AMERICAN
CITIZEN'S RESPONSE:




Dear Mr. Obama:


Were those
Muslims that were in America when the Pilgrims
first landed? Funny, I thought they were
Native American Indians.


Were those
Muslims that celebrated the first Thanksgiving
day? Sorry again, those were Pilgrims and
Native American Indians.


Can you
show me one Muslim signature on the United
States Constitution?




Declaration
of Independence ?


Bill of
Rights?




Didn't
think so.




Did
Muslims fight for this country's freedom from
England ? No.




Did
Muslims fight during the Civil War to free the
slaves in America ? No, they did
not. In fact, Muslims to this day are
still the largest traffickers in human
slavery. Your own half brother, a devout
Muslim, still advocates slavery himself, even
though Muslims of Arabic descent refer to black
Muslims as "pug nosed slaves." Says a lot
of what the Muslim world really thinks of your
family's "rich Islamic heritage," doesn't it Mr.
Obama?




Where were
Muslims during the Civil Rights era of this
country? Not present.




There are
no pictures or media accounts of Muslims walking
side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr. or
helping to advance the cause of Civil
Rights.




Where were
Muslims during this country's Woman's Suffrage
era? Again, not present. In fact,
devout Muslims demand that women are subservient
to men in the Islamic culture. So much so,
that often they are beaten for not wearing the
'hajib' or for talking to a man who is not a
direct family member or their husband.
Yep, the Muslims are all for women's rights,
aren't they?




Where were
Muslims during World War II? They were
aligned with Adolf Hitler. The Muslim
grand mufti himself met with Adolf Hitler,
reviewed the troops and accepted support from
the Nazi's in killing Jews.




Finally,
Mr. Obama, where were Muslims on Sept. 11th,
2001? If they weren't flying planes into
the World Trade Center , the Pentagon or a field
in Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people on
our own soil, they were rejoicing in the Middle
East . No one can dispute the pictures
shown from all parts of the Muslim world
celebrating on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and other
cable news networks that day. Strangely,
the very "moderate" Muslims who's asses you bent
over backwards to kiss in Cairo , Egypt on June
4th were stone cold silent post 9-11. To
many Americans, their silence has meant approval
for the acts of that day.




And THAT, Mr.
Obama, is the "rich heritage" Muslims have here
in America ..




Oh, I'm sorry, I
forgot to mention the Barbary Pirates.
They were Muslim.




And now we can
add November 5, 2009 - the slaughter of American
soldiers at Fort Hood by a Muslim major who is a
doctor and a psychiatrist who was supposed to be
counseling soldiers returning from battle in
Iraq and Afghanistan .




That, Mr. Obama
is the "Muslim heritage" in America
.

[Hoosier Hillbilly]

Lobbyist-describing it mildly wouldn't you say?A second look at activist influence
Report may understate the sway lobbyists have over lawmakers.
Washington experts aren't so sure that citizens have more influence over lawmakers than lobbyists.

A survey of congressional staff released this week showed that many of them believe their bosses are more swayed by constituent visits than those from paid lobbyists.

Not so fast, grassroots advocacy consultant Christopher Kush says.

If face-to-face interactions indeed rank highest in terms of effectiveness, why would lobbyists using the same techniques not achieve the same results?

"Paying attention to constituents is a time-tested approach to longevity on Capitol Hill," he said. "At the same time, lobbying also boasts a well-documented history of influence."

The Congressional Management Foundation found that 97 percent of congressional staffers thought in-person constituent meetings could change their bosses' minds on an issue. Only 81 percent said the same about lobbyists.

"There are pitfalls to a limited survey of opinions," said Kush, whose Soapbox Consulting helps influence groups with congressional advocacy.

He also had a bone to pick with one finding in the report -- that the content matters more than delivery method when it comes to contacting lawmakers.

By its own data, the study says in-person lobbying is more effective than letters, e-mails and phone calls.

And Larry Sabato, who runs University of Virginia's Center for Politics, pointed out a problem with surveying congressional staff in general rather than exclusively chiefs of staff.

"Only the top congressional staffers, usually just the chief of staff, really are in a position to judge what influence lobbyists actually have on the member," Sabato said.

While it's "natural" that lawmakers would care what members of their districts or states think, Sabato noted, "You need a lot of both votes and money to win your next election."

[Hoosier Hillbilly]

Obama's Director of National Intelligence (oxymoron) James Clapper had no idea
Obama "snaps & snorets" @ one of his Czars~~!!US intelligence on Arab unrest draws criticism
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. intelligence agencies are drawing criticism from the Oval Office and Capitol Hill that they failed to warn of revolts in Egypt and the downfall of an American ally in Tunisia. President Barack Obama has told National Intelligence Director James Clapper that he was "disappointed with the intelligence community" over its failure to predict the outbreak of demonstrations would lead to the ouster of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunis, according to one U.S. official familiar with the exchanges, which were expressed to Clapper through White House staff.
[shadow=red,left,300]Obama didn't have gutts enough to do it himself-sound familiar?[/shadow]--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

James R. Clapper, Jr. has extensive experience in intelligence matters, having worked in the field during his four-decade career in the U.S. Air Force and in the administration of President George W. Bush. However, his nomination by President Barack Obama on June 5, 2010, to be Director of National Intelligence was controversial due to Clapper’s aggressive support for outsourcing intelligence work, including prisoner interrogations, to private contractors, and his multiple payroll connections with defense and intelligence contractors. On July 29, the Senate Select Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to approve Clapper's nomination.

[Hoosier Hillbilly]

Time mag 'keeper':
news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599204587800

[Hoosier Hillbilly]

This cartoon deserves more consideration, attention, and discussion than it will probably get in general in most places::BUT:: 'i'm going to take it and go with it;

let's assume the engine(locamotive) is the present 'power' "we" need to keep "us" on track and chugging along;
THE GOVERNMENT
Now look and see who's hooked on to it! Yep that's exactly how it is - 'i' don't see 3 cars that should be attached and aren't.
(((of the people)))+(((by the people)))[/color
]+((([glow=red,2,300]for the people!!![/glow])))
~~~~~~~and 'U' can see the last results- the caboose is not hooked to the 3 in front of it.

This 'cartoon' pretty much says it all! Whos's government is this anyhow??

[shadow=red,left,300]comments welcome!!!![/shadow]

[Hoosier Hillbilly]

[shadow=red,left,300]This'ns good - really good![/shadow]



The leaders of the newly-empowered Republican Party in the House are having trouble keeping their members in line. They miscalculated the opposition of their young firebrands to intrusive government when they brought the Patriot Act up for renewal, and they were blindsided by the Tea Party demand for deeper cuts than the members of the [old guard] were comfortable with proposing. Boehner & Co. quickly got out in front of the bus rather than be run over, but it was an embarrassing week for the leadership. I couldn't resist making the comparison with the revolt in Egypt

~~~ Say it isn't So!...love'n it!

[Hoosier Hillbilly]

JERUSALEM – Israel's foreign minister claimed Wednesday that Iran is about to send two warships through the Suez Canal for the first time in years, calling it a "provocation," but he offered no evidence. The Egyptian authority that runs the canal denied it

Suez Canal - is that something else "WE" gave to them?

[Hoosier Hillbilly]

TRUTH OR LIES
The Saudi Prince is Fox News (News Corp's) second largest shareholder behind Rupert Murdoch only. Rupert Murdoch and the Saudi Prince are involved in various business structures. This same Saudi Prince that is the second largest shareholder of Fox is the same Prince that offered Mayor Guilliani of New York a $10M following 9/11 and the Mayor told him to go scratch it. Truly, we would hope that Fox viewers would have the same balls as the Mayor did and tell Fox to go scratch. The Saudi Prince has sole exclusive in Saudi Arabia to air Fox News at anytime, anyplace, anywhere he chooses. And you can bet with all the negative coming out of Fox, Saudi Arabia has a field day with it. Nothing like spreading U.S. information purposely where it should not be.

[Hoosier Hillbilly]

Honest to "GOD!" Seriously! this politics thing is driving me 'nuts' and 'i'm not dealing with it on a daily basis, no wonder 'our' congresspeople' haven't got any sense left. 'U' try dealing with a bunch of idiots on a daily basis and 'U' become one!

What are "WE" ~~~~~~~~~gona do? IS THERE AN ANSWER OR ARE 'WE' [glow=red,2,300]DOOMED[/glow]!
[glow=red,2,300]
'*'U'*' TELL 'ME'![/glow]

[Hoosier Hillbilly]

February 21, 2011
The Real Revolution Has Begun
By J. Robert Smith
How delicious is irony, how fickle fate?


Just a little more than two years ago, liberals were ecstatic about Barack Obama's election and Democrats' control of Congress. Liberal pundits were all atwitter about the brand new Democratic Era that voters had ushered in. America would finally become what America should have been years ago: a European-style social democracy.


Boy, did Democrats misread their mandate! With very little hindsight needed, it's apparent to all but ideologically-blinkered liberals that the Democrats' gross overreach isn't what voters wanted or expected. Voters wanted a redo of the Clinton years. Instead, in the person of Barack Obama, voters got an amalgam of FDR and LBJ with a dash of Neville Chamberlin thrown in.


But here's the real kicker. Two years of Obama-Reid-Pelosi overreach and excesses may have been the table-setter for the real revolution now unfolding. Voters and taxpayers first needed to see the irresponsibility and recklessness of unalloyed liberalism to appreciate that conservative government is far superior. Thank you, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid.


Of course, the real revolution began last year with the 2010 midterm elections. Yes, the GOP made the largest gains in U.S. House seats since 1948. But the underappreciated story is that the GOP racked up huge gains in state legislative contests, and further down ballot, Republicans swept plenty of local offices. State legislatures control congressional redistricting. Republicans now dominate enough key statehouses to lock-in GOP congressional electoral advantages for a decade.


Had voters limited their ballots to throwing out the rascals in Congress, a fair argument could be made that 2010 was just a protest vote -- an attempt by voters to shake up the Democrats. But when voters drill down to change party control of legislatures, city halls, and county commissions, you can bet that they're thoroughly repudiating the party in power. The 2010 repudiation of Democrats was a clear expression of what voters did and didn't want from government.


Move now to the present time. Republicans are on the march in Congress. Late last week, House Republicans passed a budget bill containing $61 billion in cuts. It's not the $100 billion that conservatives aimed for, but it's substantial and can be considered a down payment. The House Republican proposal now goes to the Senate. The budget process wrangling is just in its first phase. Moving forward, the GOP will have multiple opportunities to push more cuts.


And look what else House Republicans are doing. They're using the budget process to hamstring Obamacare by denying it funding. Shutting down and then nixing ObamaCare would be an historic victory in the fight to end liberalism's nearly hundred-year dominance; it would be one of those critical turning points in history -- like Vicksburg and Gettysburg -- a momentum shifter that leads to other key victories, such as entitlements reform.


Also, Indiana Republican Mike Pence offered and passed an amendment cutting funding for the odious abortion mill called Planned Parenthood. Another amendment, offered by Oregon Republican Greg Walden, that passed, chokes off funds for the Federal Communications Commission's net-neutrality gambit. Net -neutrality would concentrate more power in the FCC's hands and stymie free speech across the internet. Net-neutrality could well have been made in China.


Of course, the revolution just beginning isn't confined to the Halls of Congress. Chris Christie, New Jersey's intrepid Republican governor, fired the first shots last year in the burgeoning struggle to bring sanity back to state affairs. Christie's efforts aren't limited to balancing state budgets and reining in taxes, important as those things are. Christie is working to limit government and expand the playing field for the private sector. As we're seeing, government without proper limits is a ruinous beast. California is a prime example.


Now newly elected Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is making headlines because he dares to say that his state is broke and that the public employees' gravy train needs to end. Governor Walker wants to end collective bargaining for public employees, excepting police and firefighters, on the simple, common sense premise that employees shouldn't be negotiating the hours they work, among other things.


In Ohio, Governor John Kasich is gearing up to slash budgets, rollback taxes, cut regulations, and confront the Buckeye State's public employee unions. There'll be fireworks aplenty in Columbus.


Thomas Jefferson is being proven right again. The states are the laboratories of democracy. Christie, Kasich, and Walker are seeking to demonstrate that limited, financially responsible government is best for economic and societal health. If successful -- and we should all have high confidence that these governors will succeed -- the lessons will not be lost on voters and politicians in other states. Revolutions are like that; it takes just a few courageous leaders to embolden others and for revolutions to spread.


A marvelous, if unintended, consequence of this burgeoning conservative revolution is what it's doing to liberalism. The budding conservative revolution is starting to place strains on liberalism; beginning to make liberals and their allies fight defensive battles in multiple -- and multiplying -- places. Call this a modified Cloward-Piven -- or Cloward-Piven turned on its masters.


Challenging liberal governance, and pressing limited government reforms, will help bring down liberalism across the nation. And that should be an indisputable aim of the new conservative revolution. Liberalism became a pox on the nation years ago. Marginalizing liberalism would be an incomparable service to generations to come -- and to those kids being lied to now by too many Wisconsin teachers.


"Change We Can Believe In." Mr. Obama's slogan always had a nice ring to it, but it was misapplied and a little ahead of its time. With the conservative revolution, change we can really believe in has arrived. How's that for rich irony?

***We are now involved in a serious revolution. This nation is still a place of cheap political leaders who build their career on immoral compromises and ally themselves with open forms of political, economic and social exploitation. What political leader can stand up and say ‘My party is the party of principles?