by Center Right News on February 24, 2010
Watching this video assembling the vehement pronouncements of prominent Democrats inveighing against circumvention of the filibuster, It would be easy for a citizen to become cynical about politics. It would be easy, but it would be right.
Naked Emperor News has compiled the wise words of Democratic worthies including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, Dianne Feinstein, Christopher Dodd (who is in especially good form) and Max Baucus denouncing the threat that Senate Republicans might abolish the use of the filibuster to obstruct judicial nominations.
The video leads off with Barack Obama worrying about “majoritarian absolute power” — you know, the kind the Founders warned against. And it continues with timely thoughts from relevant actors, most of whom have continued in the Senate and will have the opportunity to adapt their past wisdom to current needs. It’s a living Constitution, after all!
via Power Line – Speaking of reconciliation…
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by Center Right News on February 22, 2010
by Rep. Paul Ryan
Imagine your family’s finances if you spent and borrowed like Washington: you’d owe $60 in credit-card loans for every $100 of income. Every month you’d pay back a little but borrow even more. In 10 years, you’d owe $87 for every $100 you made. At some point you’d hand off the debt to your kids. If they worked until 2035, they’d owe more than $180 for every $100 they earned. In 2050, your grandkids would owe more than $320. By 2080 they’d owe seven times their earnings. Of course, lenders would cut them off well before then, and your family would be ruined. But this is the path your government is on right now.
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by Center Right News on February 19, 2010
by Harold Gershowitz and Stephen Porter on February 16, 2010
Democrats have now packaged their agenda and the policies that it includes under the term “progressive” to obscure the liberal label, hoping by this camouflage to make their programs more acceptable to the American people. As with most fictitious names this one is designed to obscure reality. True, “progressive” could describe anyone who favors or advocates progress. If, however, the programs and policies our government embraces in the pursuit of progress are based on concepts and ideas that simply return or revert to old, thoroughly tested and failed economic and political schemes of the past, regressive would be a far more accurate soubriquet for today’s Congressional and White House liberals. They campaign and politic under a progressive banner, while committing the nation to vastly increased government control of the economy, an ever-corpulent government payroll and unrestrained spending and debt for which the taxpayers for generations to come will ultimately be responsible.
We were recently reminded by none other than Lech Walesa, the founder of Solidarity (and subsequently the President of Poland), who faced down the old Soviet Union twenty years ago, of just how frightening and regressive the course is on which the Administration and the Congress are taking us. During an interview conducted by blogosphere journalist Andrew Marcus, Walesa lamented America’s current drift toward socialism. He said that while we still lead the world militarily, we are growing weak economically and we have forfeited both political and moral leadership. He went on to warn of the waste inherent in centralized government control and seemed saddened that this was the path the United States was on. We could only think of the profound irony of this former union leader, an electrician from a shipyard in Gdansk, who risked his life to free his country from the socialist policies of the Soviet Union, providing such counsel to the elite ideologues now steering our ship of state.
We are witnessing the emergence of a central government hostile to industry, covetous of the earnings and savings of America’s most productive and most successful citizens, seemingly contemptuous of voters at the state level who are registering their disapproval of Washington in election after election, unrestrained and irresponsible in its willingness to spend money it doesn’t have and incur debt it has little or no way of repaying without printing money or heavily taxing its citizens for generations to come. [click to continue…]
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by Center Right News on February 4, 2010
by Center Right News on February 2, 2010
Founding Bloggers exposed CNN’s bias in there coverage of the tea party movement in Chicago last year. Now they have done it again! This original Founding Blogger’s video rips Chicago media coverage of Lech Walesa’s endorsement of tea party candidate Adam Andrzejewski.
Eye (Don’t) Witness News – The Lech Walesa Story : Founding Bloggers
Last week, Nobel Laureate, Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, and former president of Poland, Lech Walesa, traveled to Chicago to endorse a political candidate for governor of Illinois.
Who he endorsed doesn’t matter. The fact that he is here endorsing anyone at all should be considered newsworthy. … Read the rest of this extraordinary piece here.
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