Pork Offsets: Support the Club For Growth

Were you fooled into believing the Democrats in 2006 were fiscally responsible?  Such that they wouldn’t attach $24 billion in pork to $100 billion in emergency military spending for our troops in harm’s way?  You’re not alone.  Is your republican congressman a RINO, like Ted Stevens?  Is your congressperson giving away your children’s economy for their own reelection campaign?

Well now you can make amends for your mistake.  Today’s pork offset is support for the Club for Growth.  Donate to them, email their news releases to your friends and family, blog them.  The same lies that were told in 2006 will be told in 2008, and the only way to make sure people aren’t fooled is to spread the word now, before the spin machine can get into gear.

Tune in later for more Pork offsets.  The road to pork neutrality is long, but the longest of journeys begins with a single step.  The Democratic party has only been in charge for a couple of months, and already their Pork footprint is enormous, and already they are making efforts to cover it up.

Pelosi Claims to Carry Message from Israel; Israel says “huh?”

Pelosi, perhaps feeling the heat from her recent junket to Syria, is claiming that she carried a diplomatic overture from Israel to Syrai, from Haaretz:

The Prime Minister’s Office was quick to issue a denial, stating that “what was discussed with the House speaker did not include any change in Israel’s policy, as it has been presented to international parties involved in the matter.” 

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According to sources at the Prime Minister’s Office, “Pelosi took part of the things that were said in the meeting, and used what suited her.”

The same sources explained that the decision to issue a statement of denial stemmed from questions from Israeli and foreign press regarding a change in Israel’s official stance on negotiations with Syria. 

Pelosi should probably explain to PM Olmert that in her experience, delivering accurate messages is not a path to success.  In the future, heads-of-state should consider only speaking to upstart unauthorized non-heads-of-state with witnesses present and cameras rolling.  Sometimes those types of people have agendas that don’t include the truth.  Good luck on your next international tour Mr. Speaker,  maybe next year you can ease tensions across the Taiwan Strait with your mad diplomacy skillz.

“We were very pleased with the assurances we received from the president [Assad] that he was ready to resume the peace process. He’s ready to engage in negotiations for peace with Israel,” Pelosi said. 

Speaker Pelosi… Setting back Women’s lib 5 generations.

(via Haaretz, HT BBSnews.net)

Pelosi’s Foreign “Policy”

Boker tov links together two stories on Nancy Pelosi, one on her trip to Syria, the other on her refusal show support for Great Britain, and suggests that we connect the dots.

(Via Boker tov)

Pork Offsets

Are you a Democrat that was fooled in 2006 by a party claiming they would clean up the system and protect taxpayer money? Do you have a RINO congressman who’s ’stealing the bacon’ from your neighbor’s fridge? Are you being manipulated by Big pols (as in Sens. Stevens and Byrd, not people of Polish origin) to sell the next generation down the drain for their reelection campaigns?  Do you feel gulty about it? Good, that’s the first step. Over the next week or so, I’m going to suggest more ways for your to reduce your Pork Footprint and live an Earmark Neutral life. Tune in.

Senate choose boozes over body armor

The Club for Growth has a tally on a Senate vote defeating one of Tom Coburn’s anti-pork amendments. The vote preserves $100 million in pork for Democrat and GOP conventions in 2008. Most Republicans voted to remove the pork. Most Democrats voted to keep it.

(Pause for readers to recover from their shock)

The Senate just voted down one of Coburn’s amendments, 44-52. The rider to the Iraq emergency supplemental bill would have denied the $100 million earmark to next year’s political party conventions.

As Coburn said previously, “Members will have to make a difficult choice between booze and balloons or body armor and bullets.”

Notably, “conservative” Democrat Sens. Jim Webb and Bob Casey, who replaced former GOP Sens. George Allen and Rick Santorum in 2006 promising fiscal responsibility, voted to keep the pork.

(Via Club For Growth)

McNulty: How to Make a Mountain

Out of Molehill, in 10 Days…

From ABC’s exclusive report on the role of Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty.  Read, and listen as you say to yourself, over and over, “oh no he didn’t…”

The official, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, ignored White House Counsel Harriet Miers and senior lawyers in the Justice Department when he told the committee last month of specific reasons why the administration fired seven U.S. attorneys — and appeared to acknowledge for the first time that politics was behind one dismissal. McNulty’s testimony directly conflicted with the approach Miers advised, according to an unreleased internal White House e-mail described to ABC News. According to that e-mail, sources said, Miers said the administration should take the firm position that it would not comment on personnel issues.

How hard is it to “We do not comment on personnel issues”?  A trained monkey could make the hand signs.

But McNulty, who worked on Capitol Hill 12 years, believed he had little choice but to more fully discuss the circumstances of the attorneys’ firings, according to a a senior Justice Department official familiar the circumstances. McNulty believed the senators would demand additional information, and he was confident he could draw on a long relationship with New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, in explaining in more detail, sources told ABC News.

It keeps getting worse.

(Via ABC)

The Groundhog Doesn’t Want to See His Shadow

This the end of the culture of corruption. Apparently Democrats weren’t upset that Republicans were corrupt, they were just insulted at how poorly they covered up their crimes. (Emphasis Mine)

Democrats promised reform and instituted “a moratorium” on all earmarks until the system was cleaned up. Now the appropriations committees are privately accepting pork-barrel requests again. But curiously, the scorekeeper on earmarks, the Library of Congress’s Congressional Research Service (CRS)–a publicly funded, nonpartisan federal agency–has suddenly announced it will no longer respond to requests from members of Congress on the size, number or background of earmarks. “They claim it’ll be transparent, but they’re taking away the very data that lets us know what’s really happening,” says Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn. “I’m convinced the appropriations committees are flexing their muscles with CRS.”

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But other CRS staffers are happy to talk privately about the political pressure members often exert, despite Mr. Mulhollan’s new directive that all employees inform management within 24 hours of any contacts with the media. “The director operates out of fear members will get upset,” says Dennis Roth, a CRS labor economist who is president of a union representing 250 CRS workers. “The groundhog doesn’t want to see his shadow, so he stays in the dark hole so he won’t.”

“There is real anxiety members will complain if CRS says something is an earmark when the new appropriations committees say it isn’t,” says another CRS staffer. He notes CRS “caught hell” last year with its report finding that more than 95% of all earmarks in fiscal year 2006 bills weren’t written into law and thus not legally binding.

The concern now is that free-spending appropriations committees will use the new CRS gag rule to define earmarks downward.

They did say they were going to ‘clean up’ the system. Excuse me. I’m going to go watch The Godfather.

(Via WSJ, HT Club For Growth)

Conservative Democrats are Pro-gun afterall

You had to wonder if their rhetoric about guns was as empty as their rhetoric about spending and taxes.

Not so.

An aide to Sen. Jim Webb was arrested Monday when he entered a Senate office building with a loaded pistol, Capitol Police said.

Spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said the aide was charged with carrying a pistol without a license and possessing an unregistered firearm and unregistered ammunition.

(Via Forbes)

$24 billion worth of pork

In 2006, a lot of Freshman Democrats got elected on the promise that they were actually conservatives. Today they are expected to vote on an Iraq war supplemental that is filled with billions in pork projects. The Club for Growth is doing it’s job by targeting freshman who promised fiscal responsibility on the campaign trail.

The Club for Growth PAC denounced the Democratic House leadership for stuffing the Iraq war supplemental bill with $24 billion in outrageous pork projects and called upon the following Democratic freshmen to live up to their campaign pledges to restore fiscal responsibility to Congress and cut pork.

Nancy Boyda from Kansas, Heath Schuler from North Carolina, Nick Lampson from Texas, Tim Mahoney from Florida, and Harry Mitchell from Arizona are all being singled out by the Club for Growth. Follow the link below for details.

Via Press Release from The Club For Growth blog)

Mr. Valerie Plame, timeline

What did Joe Wilson know and when did he know it? As most honest participants suspect, his knowledge changed in a remarkably non-linear fashion. After having tea with persons of interest in Niger, he seemed to know little. After Bush’s SOTU in 2003, he seemed to know little. After certain documents were outed as forgeries, Wilson was clueless. 5 months after the SOTU when he began advising John Kerry’s campaign, was on a panel for democrats, and saw a Kerry administration post become a possibility, he suddenly knew a whole lot that wasn’t so, and he told everyone whose ear he could grab, probably by leveraging his wife’s credibility.

Sweetness and Light breaks it down from Bush’s 2003 SOTU to present, accounting for what now know from the US Senate Select Committee on Inteligence.

So why did we have a 3 year witch hunt, in the press, the dhimmocratic party, and finally in the US attorney’s office to catch a guy for misremembering several year old details? We know Fitzgerald knew the source of the press leak when he started his investigation, and that he apparently spent 41 months and millions of taxpayers dollars, not to mention valuable US attorney time that could have been spent investigating voter fraud. Because Joe Wilson, a man normally happy to live off his wife’s hand-me-downs, got ambitious. And while the president was setting aside legacy ambition, losing popularlity to manufactured scandals in order to keep fighting a noble war to bring liberty to the midst of tyranny and change the course of history, Joe Wilson was padding his resume to kiss up to a future boss.

After 3 years of relentless whining, Americans have more or less come to the conclusion that no one could have debassed himself so unless he was right, and the polls have reflected their weariness. Americans overestimated Wilson’s pride. When brutal regimes and and heavy American sacrifices cannot wear down the will of the American people, the Dhimmicratic party reports for duty.

There’s an episode of Fraiser where Bulldog falls for Roz, and takes a job babysitting for her so he can scare her dates off. While she’s out of the room, Bulldog tells one of her dates to take a hike, and then to prove his resolve, grabs his own thumb and folds it gruetesquely backwards. “If that’s what I’ll do to myself, imagine what I’ll do to you.” As 2008 looms, the possibility of a Dhimmicrat in the White grows stronger. Whoever it is, they’ll need a Secretary of State. And they won’t have forgotten the vital role Wilson played in helping the sound an American retreat. If he takes office, remember how he debassed himself these past few years, and if he’ll do that to himself, imagine what he’ll do to America.

(kudos to Sweetness and Light)