This is a MUST READ: Were Democrats Jim Costa and Dennis Cardoza bought off with water for votes???? You DECIDE:

Have the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats dipped to a new level to secure votes for their government takeover of health care-trying to use water as a political weapon to secure two votes for their bill?

Background:  For years, California has experienced an artificial water shortage due to environmental lawsuits and liberals in Washington, DC, fundamentally changing the operation of water projects by diverting large amounts of fresh water.  The result has been a government-imposed drought that has cost jobs and harmed agriculture.

 Curiously Timed Announcement:  On March 17, 2010, the Department of Interior (DOI) announced that they were allowing new water supplies to flow through the Central Valley Project in California.  The news was not scheduled to be released for at least two weeks, but DOI explained that the early announcement came at the behest of two particular House Democrats:

“Typically, Reclamation would release the March allocation update around March 22nd, but moved up the announcement at the urging of Senators Feinstein and Boxer, and Congressmen Costa and Cardoza.”

The timing of the announcement is suspicious because Reps. Jim Costa (D-CA) and Dennis Cardoza (D-CA) are reportedly undecided Democrat swing votes on the government takeover of health care.  They also happen to represent districts that have large agricultural interests which have been decimated by three years of regulatory drought in the region, which has had devastating economic effects.  The Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats have turned a blind eye to the region’s agony and staggering unemployment.

Water for Votes:  Could this announcement be the political favor that these Congressmen need to seal their vote for the bill?   Rep. Costa has already warmed up to the bill in public since the DOI announcement was made, saying of the bill’s CBO cost estimate, “It’s a good score,” and saying of new discussions between him and President Obama’s health care team, “I’m going to listen to them.”  It seems only fair that Costa listen to President Obama, because the President obviously listened to him on March 13, 2010, when Costa told reporters, “he used some of his time with President Barack Obama to urge more consideration for the Valley’s water and employment needs.  Obama said he understood.”  The President seems to have understood very well and acted in a timely manner.

For his part, Rep. Cardoza recently released a statement asserting that he was still undecided on the bill, saying “This evening I and my staff have been going through the bill to determine all of the details and how the legislation will affect my constituents.”  As Secretary of Interior, former Democrat Senator from Colorado, Ken Salazar said, “This is good news for the large majority of water users served by the Central Valley Project.”  Perhaps when a vote on the final passage of the Democrats’ health care takeover occurs, Democrat leadership and the President will get the “good news” they’ve be looking for from Costa and Cardoza.

Shameful Double Standard:  The San Joaquin Valley is home to numerous farm communities that are suffering from high levels of unemployment because they have been blocked from accessing water for a number of reasons, including the protection of a three inch smelt fish.  Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) has long drawn attention to the water shortages in the region.  He introduced H.R. 3105, the Turn on the Pumps Act, which would restore the flow of water in California by waiving the Endangered Species Act (ESA) provisions responsible for the Delta pumping restrictions.  This bill would help the people of the San Joaquin Valley, as well as Southern California residents, and is virtually identical to legislation that passed Congress without controversy in 2003.  Unfortunately, Democrats would rather use the water shortage as a political weapon, threatening the livelihoods of Americans to get votes for their health care takeover.

If Reps. Cardoza (D-CA) and Costa (D-CA) negotiated their coveted health care votes in exchange for a small increase in water, couldn’t they have at least secured all of the water Central Valley residents deserve and need? 

Is only 25 percent of contracted water for a year in California in exchange for a nationwide 100 percent government takeover of health care really a good deal for their constituents?

 

Via GOP.gov

Former Obama adviser Steve Hildebrand offers a stark warning for Democrats at the White House and Congress:

“I think that there is a real shot we [Democrats] are going to get slaughtered in elections this fall if we aren’t leading the efforts to reform Washington. We campaigned in ’06 and ’08, and if voters don’t see that change, we haven’t lived up to that promise.”

Democrats have had four years to drain the so-called “swamp” of corruption and have, as Nancy Pelosi said, “The most honest, the most open and the most ethical Congress in history.” In four years the so-called “swamp” has gotten more corrupt. It’s time to find some fresh faces, time to vote out ALL corrupt politicians.

Via CNN

Chicago style politics is being used to convert “no” votes on health care to “yes” votes. Case in point, out going Democrat Congressman Eric Massa.

“Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill,” Massa, who on Friday announced his intention to resign, said during a long monologue on radio station WKPQ. “And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they’ve gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.”

Massa insisted that he did not know the basis of a House ethics committee investigation into his conduct until after he announced his retirement last Wednesday, and he took House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) to task for going public with information related to the probe before it is completed.

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However Rep. Massa hinted he may rescind his resignation, but also added to do so would place he and his family in the midst of a piranha feeding frenzy.

Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) suggested on a New York radio station Sunday that he could rescind his resignation — scheduled to take effect at 5 p.m. Monday — after asserting that an ethics investigation into allegations that he sexually harassed one of his aides may have been orchestrated by Democratic leaders to get him out of office before the health care vote.

Responding to a caller to his weekly radio show on WKPQ Power 105 FM, a recording of which was made available via the Web site of local station 13 WHAM-TV, Massa said: “I’m not going to be a Congressman as of 5 o’clock [Monday] afternoon. The only way to stop that is for me to rescind my resignation. That’s the only way to stop it. And the only way that’s going to happen is if this becomes a national story.”

During the hour-and-a-half show, Massa said that Democratic leaders are using the House ethics committee to get him out of office before the vote on health care because he voted against the House health care bill last fall.

“Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill, and this administration and this House leadership have said, ‘they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill, and now they’ve gotten rid of me and it will pass.’ You connect the dots,” Massa said Several times during the broadcast Massa raised the prospect of rescinding his resignation if national news media picked up on his story of being railroaded out of office by Democratic leaders.

In response to a caller’s suggestion that Massa disseminate his allegations by contacting Fox News, Massa stated: “I can’t call Fox News. You guys gotta call Fox News. I can’t do it. … Here’s why. I’m in the center of this storm, so obviously I’m not objective.”

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If the allegations Congressman Eric Massa is making is true, he should stand his ground, rescind his resignation and fight for what he believes is right. Once again we see the Obama White House and their Democrat thugs in the House resorting to the type of bullying that Americans will not put up with.

ABC has released a sneak peek of tomorrow’s ‘This Week.’

Vargas: “This is why so many Americans think Congress is corrupt”
Pelosi: “No it doesn’t, no it doesn’t”

Honest to goodness, sometimes you just can’t make this stuff up.

CNS News: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) insisted on Friday that she is running the most ethical and honest Congress in history. At the same time, however, she indicated she will not ask House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D.-N.Y.) to resign his chairmanship—at least for now.

Rangel was admonished this week by the ethics committee for taking corporate-funded trips to the Caribbean.

Pelosi noted that the ethics committee is looking into other issues involving Rangel, and made it clear that she was interested in seeing the

Let me give you a reality check:

“Nations richer and more powerful in their day than we are in this, have been sabotaged, defeated, enslaved.
Babylon was the largest and richest nation of its time, but its lust for luxury made it an easy mark for the Medes and Persians who overran it, and divided its land and enslaved the people between them.
Rome was a greater military power than we ever were, but when free bread and circuses became more important to the people than hard work and patriotism, Rome was invaded and looted by the tougher Vandals.
The Incas were the most civilized, richest people in the Americas, but ruthless, better-armed invaders destroyed them as a nation, and looted everything they owned and had spent generations in creating.
In every case it was the self indulgent weakness of the victim which made victory of the invader easy.
Undoubtedly there were Babylonians, Romans, Incas who warned against overindulgence and weakness, who warned that each citizen is responsible for his nation, and that that responsibility cannot be shrugged off on officials.
But to those who warned of impending trouble there was then as now the smug sneer, ‘It can’t happen here.’

But it did.”
-Anonymous

Via Breitbart.tv