March 11, 2010

Former Obama adviser: Democrats may get ’slaughtered’ in fall

Filed under: Corruption, Politics — Cato Uticensis @ 10:15 AM

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



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March 8, 2010

ACORN Workers Charged with Voter Fraud

Filed under: ACORN, Corruption — Cato Uticensis @ 4:07 PM

You just can’t keep a corrupt organization out of the news. The Wisconsin Attorney General has charged Acorn workers with voter fraud in the November 2008 general election.

Washington Examiner – Two of those charged, Maria Miles and Kevin Clancy, are workers for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the embattled community group.

“The complaint alleges that Miles and Clancy submitted multiple voter registration applications for the same individuals, and also were part of a scheme in which they and other (special registration deputies) registered each other to vote multiple times in order to meet voter registration quotas imposed by ACORN,” Van Hollen states in the release.

Also charged were a couple accused of double voting – once absentee and once at the polls – and a felon who cast a ballot even though he was still on probation for a felony offense.

The charges were brought as part of the Milwaukee Election Fraud Task Force.

Van Hollen’s announcement comes the same day that No Quarter disclosed that the Milwaukee County prosecutor for election fraud accused Milwaukee police of sitting on their hands and failing to investigate such cases for the first half of last year.

Acorn workers have been investigated in at least 14 states and several swing states so far.

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Embattled Eric Massa: “Democrats ousted me over health care”

Filed under: Corruption, Politics — Cato Uticensis @ 10:44 AM

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.”

Read rest here>>>

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.



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March 4, 2010

Paul Ryan: “It’s March Madness” In Washington

Filed under: Corruption, Healthcare — Cato Uticensis @ 1:59 PM

Congressman Paul Ryan says “The back room deals are being cut right now.” He also adds the health care bill will include “abortions.”

Ryan: They can already lose 9 votes in the Senate, so you probably just listed who’s probably gonna vote no on it, and they can still pass this in the Senate, in the House, it’s a simple majority, they do not now have that simple majority for this and their trying to muscle that simple majority right now, this will cover abortions so you lose some pro-life Democrats“…What is at the core of this plan is that the Federal government should take all of this over.”
Do you think that it will pass?
Ryan: “It clearly can pass, but I think we can defeat this, March is it, it is basically March Madness up here“

February 27, 2010

ABC This Week: Pelosi Says Rangel Admonishment “Not Good”

Filed under: Corruption, Politics — Cato Uticensis @ 11:15 PM

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”



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February 26, 2010

Joke of the Week: Pelosi Says She’s Running ‘Most Ethical’ Congress Ever

Filed under: Corruption, Politics — Cato Uticensis @ 7:49 PM

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

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February 20, 2010

Obama And ACORN Lie Exposed (Video)

Filed under: ACORN, Barack Obama, Corruption — Cato Uticensis @ 12:53 PM

The blatant deceit of Barack Obama is troubling to me and others. This is one of the most dishonest administrations in the history of American politics. If you have any doubts watch this hideous Obama lie on ACORN caught on tape.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) released information on Barack Obama’s relationship with ACORN at CPAC this week.

“When I ran project vote, the voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it. Once I was elected there wasn’t a campaign that ACORN worked on down in Springfield that I wasn’t right there with you. Since I have been in the United States Senate I’ve been always a partner with ACORN as well. I’ve been fighting with ACORN, along side ACORN, on issues you care about my entire career.”

Gateway Pundit has the exclusive details on this story! Dittos to Jim Hoft on his great work exposing the continued deception by Barack Obama. As time goes by we are discovering the truth about Barack Obama.

January 28, 2010

Andy Stern Calls Senators “Terrorists”

Filed under: Corruption, Politics — Cato Uticensis @ 11:12 AM

According to Andy Stern,president of the Service Employees International Union, if Senators oppose the card-check bill, which Democrats call the Employee Free Choice Act, he considers them “terrorists”.

There are a lot of terrorists in the Senate who think we are supposed to negotiate with them when they have their particular needs that they want met,” Stern told Bloomberg News. His comments, which appeared in BusinessWeek magazine, apparently were prompted by the senators’ reluctance to support the union-sponsored bill.

Katie Packer, executive director of the Workforce Fairness Institute, which opposes the card-check legislation, roundly criticized Stern over the comments.

“My first reaction after hearing Andy Stern’s comments comparing the senators to ‘terrorists’ was that I was initially speechless,” Packer told CNSNews.com. “It’s unthinkable the images evoked in my head when I think of the word. To accuse someone in the Senate of being a ‘terrorist’ for sticking up for their constituents is unbelievable.”

Packer added: “Mr. Stern ought to lose his job over these comments, and at minimum he should lose his access to the West Wing,” referring to the release of the first visitor log by the White House, which, ironically, listed Andy Stern as the most frequent visitor.

Packer added: “I’m surprised this hasn’t received much media attention. Could you imagine if this were someone on the other side of the aisle who made these statements? The media would be all over it.”

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Can anyone take what Andy Stern says seriously? He’s nothing more than a joke and SEIU members should have him ousted!



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December 24, 2009

Health Care Bill Marked By Arrogance,Corruption,Stupidity

Filed under: Corruption, Healthcare — Cato Uticensis @ 9:43 AM

As of this post the Senate passed it’s version of health care 60-39. Republicans just didn’t have the votes to stop the Senate’s Obama Care. While they didn’t have the votes, they certainly had the better argument. Senator Tom Coburn has eloquently explained why he voted against the Senate Democrats bill:

This vote is indeed historic. This Congress will be remembered for its arrogance, corruption and stupidity. In the year of 2009, a Congress ignored the coming economic storm and impending bankruptcy of our entitlement programs and embarked on an ideological crusade to bring our nation as close to single-payer, government-run health care as possible. If this bill becomes law, future generations will rue this day and I will do everything in my power to work toward its repeal. This bill will ration care, cut Medicare, increase premiums, fund abortion and bury our children in debt.

This process was not compromise. This process was corruption. This bill passed because votes were bought and sold using the issue of abortion as a bargaining chip. The abortion provision alone makes this bill the most arrogant piece of legislation I have seen in Congress. Only the most condescending politician can believe it is appropriate to force Americans to pay for other people’s abortions and to coerce medical professional to take the lives of unborn children.

The Democrats are one step closer to their life-long dream: SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, the crown jewel of socialism. And there seems to be nothing that we the American people can do to stop. With two-thirds of Americans opposed to this deliberate take over of the worlds greatest health care system, Democrats are hell bent to enact passage of a final bill in February 2010.



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November 20, 2009

Climategate: the Death of Global Warming

Filed under: Climate Change, Corruption — Cato Uticensis @ 4:33 PM

My oh my! Did you hear the news about the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit had its emails hacked. The blog Watts Up With That broke the story and published some of the emails.

When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”. These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest:

Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.

One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:

“In an odd way this is cheering news.”

But perhaps the most damaging revelations – the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal – are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.

Here are a few tasters. (So far, we can only refer to them as alleged emails because – though Hadley CRU’s director Phil Jones has confirmed the break-in to Ian Wishart at the Briefing Room – he has yet to fess up to any specific contents.) But if genuine, they suggest dubious practices such as:

Manipulation of evidence:

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.

Private doubts about whether the world really is heating up:

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.

Suppression of evidence:

Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?

Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.

Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address.

We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.

Fantasies of violence against prominent Climate Sceptic scientists:

Next
time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat
the crap out of him. Very tempted.

Attempts to disguise the inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP):

……Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K back–I think that trying to adopt a timeframe of 2K, rather than the usual 1K, addresses a good earlier point that Peck made w/ regard to the memo, that it would be nice to try to “contain” the putative “MWP”, even if we don’t yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back….

And, perhaps most reprehensibly, a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, in other words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone who disagrees with AGW can be written off as a crank, whose views do not have a scrap of authority. ….

This piece of news follows the exposure of Al Gores Photoshop Fraud.

Maybe now Barbara Boxer can get a life (out of the Senate) now. I enjoyed Senator Inhofe’s remark to Senator Boxer, it made my day.



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