According to an article in STLtoday.com, Illinois Attorney General met with President Obama regarding Roland Burris' Senate seat. Also in the meeting were Valerie Jarett, Obama's senior advisor and his Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. 
Senator Dick Durbin's financial disclosure statements show that one day after he and fellow congressional leaders were urged by then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to craft bank-bailout legislation, he sold almost$ 43,000 worth of mutual fund shares. He then bought a similar amount in Berkshire Hathaway stock. Altogether Durbin sold investments worth $116,000 in September.
Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.
Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health.
Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.Is this the change that was voted for? If this concerns you contact your Senator or Representative right away. To find your Congressman go to: http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/index.htm
Today’s announcement by the St. Louis City Board of Elections makes it clear that voter fraud continues to thrive in Missouri, despite Robin Carnahan’s attempts to cover up the problem. Earlier this year, she issued an incomplete and less-than-professional report claiming that the state’s elections are ‘free of fraud.’ We now know that this is simply not true. Carnahan, the chief elections officer in the State of Missouri, has diminished the impact of voters who abide by the law, instead, attempting to whitewash her record of overlooking the existence of voter fraud in Missouri.
We commend the St. Louis Board of Election’s diligence in the face of Carnahan’s indifference, and we hope that the U.S. Attorney fully investigates these allegations.
To mark his first 100 days in office, President Barack Obama will be holding a townhall forum in Arnold. The event is open to the public but you will need tickets.“Our request will shed light on why ACORN’s ongoing and well-documented voter registration fraud merited no response in her 205 page analysis of the 2008 elections,” said Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party. “We believe it is important to determine if Secretary of State Carnahan’s cozy relationship with ACORN has clouded her judgment.”
FACT SHEET: Robin Carnahan turns blind eye to ACORN voter registration fraud
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From STLToday:
Automotive genius and economic expert, Barack Obama, has fired GM CEO, Rick Wagoner.GM CEO Rick Wagoner is stepping down immediately, sources told FOX Business on Sunday, and is being succeeded by the company’s Chief Operating Officer, Fritz Henderson.
GM declined to comment on the reports about Wagoner’s resignation.
A White House official told FOX Business that Wagoner was asked by the Administration to step down as a precondition for the company to continue to get help with its restructuring.
AP Washington -- President Barack Obama's budget would generate unsustainably large deficits averaging almost $1-trillion a year over the next decade, according to the latest congressional estimates. The Congressional Budget Office figures predict Mr. Obama's budget will produce $9.3-trillion worth of red ink over 2010-2019. That's $2.3-trillion worse than the White House predicted in its budget. Worst of all, the CBO says the deficit under Mr. Obama's policies would never go below 4 per cent of the size of the economy, figures that economists agree are unsustainable. By the end of the decade, the deficit would exceed 5 per cent of gross domestic product, a dangerously high level. The figures could imperil efforts to enact Mr. Obama's budget.
Fly this flag, participate in a "Tea Party", make it known publicly that you are Pro-Life and state officials will consider you a terrorist. See their "report".
During their last meeting, the St. Louis County Republican Central Committee members voted to support County Councilman Greg Quinn’s call for lower property assessments than currently offered.
While property values have been increasing 10% annually in some areas, County Executive Charlie Dooley proposed and passed a onetime 9% reduction in property assessments. Since it is apparent that property values have fallen from 25 to 30 percent, a 9 percent reduction seems manipulative at best.
State Senator Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, thinks that if property values went up 22 percent in 2007, they should drop by that or more this year. However, the county is resisting such a drop. In a recent development, not only are county property assessments dropping very slowly, commercial property values are, according to the county, on the rise.
The Republican Central Committee will support Quinn in addressing these manipulative moves.
For more information:
Visit the county’s web site: www.stlouisco.com.
County Chief Operating Officer defends Phoney Assesment
Can I Take my Taxes as a Chritable Deduction? <---My favorite
Thousands showed up on Fountain Square in support Sunday afternoon to express their frustration with the government's new stimulus bill. The tea parties are spreading across the country showing a revival of conservative sentiment. The crowds are also growing larger and angrier.
Steele biography from Fox News:Michael S. Steele served as Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 2003 through 2007.
Steele is chairman of GOPAC.
When Steele was elected Lieutenant Governor of Maryland in 2003, he became the first African American elected to state-wide office in that state.
He is currently a partner in the international law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf in Washington, D.C.
From 1991-1997, Steele was a corporate securities attorney at the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Washington, D.C., specializing in sophisticated financial transactions on behalf of Wall Street underwriters.
He also was a corporate finance counsel for the Mills Corporation and founded his own company, The Steele Group, a business and legal consulting firm.
His writings on law, business and politics have appeared in The Washington Times, Politico.com, Townhall.com, and The Journal of International Security Affairs, among others.
Named a 2005 Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellow in Public Leadership and awarded the 2005 Bethune-DuBois Institute Award for his ongoing work in the development of quality education in Maryland, Steele has served on a variety of boards and commissions, including the Export-Import Bank Advisory Board, the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors, and the Republican National Committee.
Born in 1958 at Andrews Air Force Base in Prince Georges County, Maryland, Steele was raised in Washington, D.C.
He spent three years as a seminarian in the Order of St. Augustine in preparation for the priesthood, but ultimately chose a career in law instead.
He earned his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1991.
Steele serves on the Administrative Board of the Maryland Catholic Conference and is a member of St. Marys Catholic Church in Landover Hills, MD, where he attends mass regularly with his wife Andrea and their two sons.
Washington, Jan 23 -
The House Democrats’ trillion dollar spending bill, approved on January 21 by the Appropriations Committee and headed to the House floor next week for a vote, could open billions of taxpayer dollars to left-wing groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). ACORN has been accused of perpetrating voter registration fraud numerous times in the last several elections; is reportedly under federal investigation; and played a key role in the irresponsible schemes that caused a financial meltdown that has cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars since last fall. House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and other Republicans are asking a simple question: what does this have to do with job creation? Are Congressional Democrats really going to borrow money from our children and grandchildren to give handouts to ACORN in the name of economic “stimulus?” Incredibly, the Democrats’ bill makes groups like ACORN eligible for a $4.19 billion pot of money for “neighborhood stabilization activities.” Funds for this purpose were authorized in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, signed into law in 2008. However, these funds were limited to state and local governments. Now House Democrats are taking the unprecedented step of making ACORN and other groups eligible for these funds:
Jefferson City - Voter fraud is, sadly, not a new thing in Missouri. Here, the dead have voted, a canine has registered, and the credibility of the process has been undermined. For the third election cycle, in Missouri, an ACORN employee has been indicted on federal voter fraud charges. According to the indictment, between June and August 2008, an ACORN employee submitted voter registration cards that were either false or forged.
“ACORN and its Democrat supporters have a great deal of explaining to do to Missouri voters. While ACORN continues to submit hundreds of fraudulent voter registrations in our state so that people can cheat on Election Day, high profile Democrats in Missouri like Claire McCaskill and Robin Carnahan downplay the seriousness of this illegal activity. It’s time for the Democrats to express some outrage over the continued and systematic election fraud that taxpayer funded ACORN perpetrates in our state every two years,” said Tina Hervey, communications director, Missouri Republican Party.
“This indictment should once again be a wake-up call. The pattern of fraudulent activity by ACORN cannot be ignored any longer – Robin Carnahan’s number one priority should be to protect the integrity of Missouri elections from future assaults by cleaning up the voter registrations rolls and joining the call for voter IDs,” said Hervey.
Missourians Against Illegal Immigration opposes the appointment of Linda Martinez as Director for
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 2009, if appointed,
Linda Martinez, working pro bono for the Bryan Cave Law Firm, led the fight on behalf of business people and landlords in
Through her actions in fighting against
Paraphrasing Governor Matt Blunt at a Press Conference in
We feel strongly that
Based on the above, Missourians Against Illegal Immigration asks our State Senators to reject the confirmation of Linda Martinez as Director of Missouri’s Economic Development Department. We further ask Governor Nixon to appoint another candidate for this vitally important job - a person all Missourians and all business people can have confidence in.
Bank examiners were originally leery of CRA. Their emphasis had been on safety and soundness. Bank lenders were equally suspicious of bending policies. As time passed, legislative bodies began to enact programs working with banks to improve communities and satisfy terms of the act. At the same time an entire division of CRA examiners became part of the regulatory force. Zealous enforcement of the act was their agenda. If banks did not meet an outstanding or satisfactory rating on CRA, approval for acquisitions became difficult and organizations like ACORN protested.As chairman of the bank, Baur should know what he is talking about. He goes on to outline how other intrusion into the private sector compounded the problems. See: Financial crisis traces roots to 1977 Community Reinvestment Act
John Zogby was recently commissioned to do a poll of Obama supporters. For more information see http://www.howobamagotelected.com/. Above you can see how people answered the questions. Below, you can see the results of the
Zogby Poll:
512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points
97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates
Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions
57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)
71.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)
82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)
88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)
56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).
And yet.....
Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes
Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter
And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her "house," even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!
Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.
Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we "gave" one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)
From Michael Zak:
In light of our current economic situation and the election of Barack Obama, I highly recommend reading "Liberal Fascism" by Jonah Goldberg. This is a great historical look back at politics of the last hundred years and can give insight into the future.
In an interview, Goldberg states about his definition of fascism: "I’ve got a long definition in the book, but a short one would be an instinctual religious impulse - usually gussied-up as a secular or modern ideology - that seeks to impose uniformity in thought and action throughout the entire society. All oars in a fascistic society must pull together. The personal is political because everything goes together. Political correctness is one name we give to such efforts in civil society. "
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