Category Archives: U.S. Senate

by | November 3, 2014 · 9:04 pm

Ten Ugly Facts About the State of our Country that Democrats Want to Hide on Election Day

DONKEY3The first nine (and the graphic) are from the geniuses at Cain TV and Diogenes Middle Finger.  The tenth is from U.S. Government sources and will be of special interest to those of you in military families:

As we all get ready to head to the polls tomorrow, Democrats want you focused on the Koch brothers (that evil fang-toothed fictionalized version, not the real ones who are excellent and highly successful businessmen) and their “war on women” crapola.

What they do not want you focused on is the data that shows what failures they have been leading this nation. Many people do not even know the facts I’m about to share, because the mainstream media do not report them. So read them and share them with nine friends who are going to vote tomorrow. It just might help decide whether Harry Reid remains in control of the Senate or is sent to the back bench where he belongs. (Actually that’s not where he belongs, but I’ll not get into that now.)

Ten facts Democrats do not want to talk about:

1. Sluggish economic growth. Yes, we’ve had a couple of strong quarters, but annualized growth throughout the Obama presidency has been less than 2 percent. That is horrendous.

2. Median income is down $3,000 per household since Obama took office. Astonishing.

3. The labor participation rate is down from 67 percent to 62 percent, which makes the published unemployment rate look much better than it really is. The U6 rate, which includes those who have given up looking for work, remains over 10 percent.

4. More part-time jobs have been created than full-time jobs in last six years.

5. The home ownership rate is down from 67 percent to 64 percent.

6. Taxes went up when the Bush tax cuts were allowed to expire. Liberals will say that’s fine because they only went up on the rich. I say the government did what it too often does and chose to target producers and opportunity creators.

7. ObamaCare is a failure! More people are losing their insurance than are becoming newly insured, and 51 percent of those enrolled in the exchanges say they will not re-up given the opportunity the next time around. Then there are the 29ers (people being limited to 29 hours a week because of ObamaCare mandates) and the 49ers (not the San Francisco ones . . . the businesses intentionally staying under 50 employees to avoid the coverage mandate). There are also thousands of doctors refusing patients with ObamaCare coverage because they can’t cover their costs on the reimbursements, while thousands more doctors are retiring early.

8. The national debt has exceeded $17 trillion for the first time in U.S. history. Remember when Obama declared as a senator that running up debt was unpatriotic? Um. Yeah.

9. From the Middle East to Eastern Europe to Russia to Britain to the Falkland Islands to Latin America to Mexico to the Far East, our foreign policy is a muddled mess. Shockingly to Obama the rest of the world did not conform to his global ideals just because he gave speeches saying they should.

10. Twice as many U.S. military deaths have happened in the Middle East under Obama’s watch in half the time as under President Bush’s.  This happened despite aggressive campaigning by Obama against the war in Iraq, promoting him as the bringer of peace to the region, a foreign policy prodigy and the savior of U.S. service men and women.

Please keep these facts in mind as you vote tomorrow.

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by | September 21, 2014 · 12:12 pm

UPDATE: Iraq and Canon Andrew White

2014 Canon White

I’ve been following Canon Andrew’s Facebook feed so I can share first-hand stuff about the ISIS situation with all y’all. Today, he posted this video. You should watch it. And, if you have not already read Son of Hamas, find a copy! I finished it last night. It’s a compelling, personal story that astonished me. I really thought I knew what the biography of the eldest son of the founder of Hamas would be like. It’s not.

Iraqi TV Host Breaks Down in Tears at Plight of Christians [1:51]

Recently, Canon Andrew has been in the United States. The following is from his Facebook Timeline.

Sept 12: I am in England just about to leave for the US in the morning. Whilst back in Iraq the huge crisis for the Christian community continues. The enormity of it is just beginning to sink in. At least 250,000 people have been forced from their homes their churches and their towns. They have been persecuted in ways too awful to describe. Their children have been killed mutilated and made to suffer in ways we never thought possible. Yet in the midst of all this G-d’s glory has never left us.

Sept 15: Today was another amazing full day in DC. … We had a very high profile visit (to the National Holocaust Museum] that was all filmed followed by a lecture we gave. It was hard being in a place to remember the greatest tragedy in history, and yet being so aware of the disaster facing our Iraqi Christians and others. Let us remember the past to try and prevent it from ever happening again.

Sept 17: It is a big day for me today. I begin by opening the [U.S.] Senate in Prayer. Have a series of meetings in the Senate and Congress then this afternoon am presented with the Ann Frank Award by the Dutch Government at the US house of Congress. To have the Dutch Government present one with an award in memory of the great young Anne Frank in the US Congress is truly wonderful. Yesterday we had a great celebration dinner at the Embassy of the Netherlands in DC now today is the great day, a very humbling experience.

Sept 19: I’m on my way to Texas to appear today live on Daystar TV on the Marcus and Joni Show it will be great. Yesterday was a great Day in New York incredible meetings, they worked me hard all day I was up from 4am to1am today. In the evening had an amazing dinner with friends from around the world. Sunday morning I am preaching at Christ Church Plano Texas do come if your in that part of the world.

Canon Andrew’s Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/apbw2

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by | September 19, 2014 · 2:44 am

Ten Buck Friday: Week Three of our Drive for a Psychosis-Free U.S. Senate

Week Three of a Nine Week Mission, to Seek Out new life for the Senate, to Boldly Go where our nation needs to be!
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Focusing on the Senate races (Republicans need just six seats to oust the Dimbulb from Searchlight, Harry Reid as majority leader, ten to show Obama what the country really thinks of him!), is it worth ten bucks a week (1 1/2 lbs. of bacon?) to eliminate Reid’s control and give the Senate responsible leadership again?  Just yesterday, our Senate voted to approve the most controversial part of President Obama’s ‘plan’ to combat ISIS by arming and training Syrian rebels who are known to be, largely themselves, associated with ISIS.  If we had just a few more Republicans in the Senate, we would not be faced with suicidal action like this.

With that in mind, this week we look to the open Senate seat in AR. Can you contribute just $10 to Senate candidate Tom Cotton?

Real Clear Politics has Cotton up 1.7 points on the average, and rates the state as a toss up.
Link: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2014/senate/ar/arkansas_senate_cotton_vs_pryor-4049.html

You can contribute to Tom Cotton here. Good luck and Godspeed, Tom!
Link: http://www.tomcotton.com/landing/cotton-releases-new-ad-urgent/

Also consider these other important close races!
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by | September 7, 2014 · 9:47 am

Another Democrat Doubles Down on Dumb

Montana has one House seat and two Senate seats in the U.S. Congress. The House seat and one of the Senate seats will be changing hands as a result of the November 2014 election, because no incumbents are running. The current Montana rep, Republican Steve Daines, is running for the Senate seat whose Democrat incumbent is retiring.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hand-picked Democrat John Walsh to run against Daines for the Senate seat. Walsh’s campaign imploded after the New York Times revealed Walsh had plagiarized his master’s thesis. The Montana Democrat Party replaced Walsh with Amanda Curtis.

Meet Amanda Curtis [1:49]

Three weeks ago, Rasmussen Reports had the Senate race polling at +20 points to Daines. Things aren’t much better for the House seat. Republican Ryan Zinke (former Montana State Senator and retired Navy Commander) is running against Democrat John Lewis (former top aide to Montana Senator Max Baucus). Real Clear Politics assessment is that “the national climate doesn’t favor the Democrats right now, so Zinke is the clear favorite.”

On July 8, 2014, Democrat John Lewis released his plan to clean up Congress by cutting member salaries if they didn’t pass a joint budget resolution.

Isn’t that a really spectacular idea … to punish members of Congress in the wallets if they don’t do their JOBS?!

Well, yes, as a matter of fact, it is … which could be why Republican Representative Steve Daines introduced the Balanced Budget Accountability Act of 2013 and co-sponsored the No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013 to … cough,cough … cut member salaries if they didn’t pass a joint budget resolution.

In other words … yet another Montana Democrat candidate has been caught plagiarizing important stuff and … cough,cough … the guy he ripped off is the Republican candidate for Senate.

BABY So much stupid

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by | August 20, 2014 · 3:58 pm

Ouch! That’s gonna leave a mark.

Tell Landrieu: Enough Washington [:30]

Louisiana’s 2014 Senate race is one of the big ones in the battle for party control.

Senator Mary Landrieu, the Democrat running for re-election, has multiple problems.

  • She’s used taxpayer funds for campaign plane travel;
  • She’s been a reliable Obama-Reid toady, voting for energy and health care measures Louisianans oppose;
  • She’s facing a popular Republican, Rep. Bill Cassidy, and a Tea Party challenger, retired Air Force Col. Rob Manes.
  • Lousiana is a GOP-majority state.

Louisiana prez votes

Louisiana’s November 4th election requires at least 50% of the vote go to a single candidate. Barring that outcome, the top two go to a December runoff. Even the most optimistic polls don’t show Landrieu getting to the 50%, outright win mark; only one shows Cassidy at 50% without Manes in the race. Democrats hope Manes will split the GOP vote and give Landrieu a chance at the run-off.

RCP polls for Louisiana

Sarah Palin endorsed Manes in May, describing him as a “true conservative” for “opposing amnesty, pledging to protect our Second Amendment rights, and promising to defund Obamacare.”

“As the grandfather of a now healthy 2-year-old baby grandson born at just 28 weeks and 2 lbs., 5 oz., he knows first hand the miracle of life and promises to protect it,” Palin added. “Rob is the admitted underdog in this race. Having spent his career in uniform, he does not have deep pockets or lobbyist connections to fund his campaign. To me, it’s a blessing, not a curse that he’s not held office before. After all, our founders weren’t politicians – many of them in fact were military leaders. Maybe it’s time we got back to those roots!”

As a Tea Partier, I’m hoping they end up with a Cassidy-Manes run-off that will allow voters to really see and hear the relatively unknown Manes and decide for themselves how much change they want in Washington.

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by | August 18, 2014 · 5:59 pm

The Democrat candidate for Senator of Montana

2014_08 Amanda Curtis MN Dem for US Senate

Meet Amanda Curtis [1:49]

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by | August 18, 2014 · 3:06 pm

Rob Reiner is painfully ignorant.

“You look at the Congress right now in the United States. You’ve got a strong tea-party group controlling the whole country, because they have a gridlock, they have a gridlock stranglehold on [Republican House Speaker John] Boehner,” Reiner said. “Boehner can’t make a move, and so for that reason, nothing gets brought up in the Congress.”

Rob Reiner exposes his ignorance

Reiner is painfully ignorant. As of August 2, 2014, the House of Representatives under Majority Leader John Boehner has passed 356 bills, much of it with key support from House Democrats.

These bills would tackle problems associated with job creation, health care, energy production and a host of other issues. They are all languishing in the Senate, because Senate Majority Leader, Democrat Harry Reid, refuses to bring any of them to the floor for discussion or vote.

While Reid and the mindless Democrat Sheeple (e.g., Rob “Baa Baa” Reiner) blame the “do nothing Congress” on the GOP and/or the Tea Party, the FACT is that the gridlock is due entirely to the Democrat leadership.

The following is from the August 4, 2014 Washington Post, a newspaper long known for its sympathy for Democrats:

The Senate has not voted on jobs bills sent by the House, any “fix” for Obamacare or a domestic energy development bill. The Senate will not take up a real vote on the Keystone XL pipeline. It will not take up Iran sanctions.

It did pass Veterans Affairs legislation and Iron Dome funding, not exactly difficult votes. Other than that, not much of consequence has gone on in the Senate, but not because of Republican objections.

The GOP would love to take up many of these subjects, debate them and offer amendments; it is Reid who either won’t take up meaty issues or won’t allow any minority amendments, a practice he has taken further than any modern Senate leader. …

In essence, the Senate has become an adjunct of the White House. Reid’s side comes up with no innovative (or even non-innovative) initiatives of its own and doesn’t allow any from the GOP.

Sources:

Rob Reiner compares tea party to Hamas


http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/17/Sen-Dem-Leader-Reid-Causing-Gridlock-by-Eliminating-GOP-Amendments
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/08/04/harry-reids-reign-of-paralysis/
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/08/02/dems-cry-obstructionists-while-house-passed-over-350-bills-that-sit-on-harry-reids-desk-136037

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by | July 17, 2014 · 4:50 pm

Good news! S. 2578 was defeated!

2014_07 16 S 2578 defeated

  • Inexplicably, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid co-sponsored the bill, then was the sole Democrat who VOTED AGAINST IT!
  • Among those who voted FOR the bill were Democrat Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, who ran as a pro-life advocate in 2006 and 2012, and three Republicans who ran on the Republican anti-abortion platform.

July 16, 2014: Senator Blunt Debunks Democrats’ False Claims [13:28]

On Wednesday, July 16, 2014, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) spoke on the U.S. Senate floor to debunk false claims made by Senate Democrats regarding the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Supreme Court ruling, which found that the Obama Administration infringed on Americans’ First Amendment right to freedom of religion.

This speech is longish (13+ minutes) but very much worth listening to, because he explains just how much the Democrat Party has CHANGED in just the past ten years.

“Everybody is entitled to his own opinion. But everybody is not entitled to his own facts.”

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by | June 29, 2014 · 8:13 am

Obamacrats and the Pain of Joblessness

Coexist with anyone but Republicans

Democrats say they are the party of the people who CARE. Bull. They’ve been in charge in Washington since January of 2007. They OWN the pain of all the Americans who are unemployed and underemployed because of their ineptness and job-killing policies, but they spend most of their time spewing lies about Republicans.

Legislation must be passed by BOTH the House of Representatives AND the Senate, and THEN it must be signed by the President before becoming law. The political party that holds majority control of two (or three) of these three entities has dominance over policy.

For 2007-2008, when the recession began, Democrats had the majority in both the House and the Senate. Republican President Bush gets blamed for the recession, but it was Democrats (including Obama in the Senate) who were calling the shots in Washington.

For 2009-2010, Democrats not only gained the White House, but also enjoyed large majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. With a super majority, Obamacrats were free to do anything they wanted to fix the economy. But while other nations affected by the global recession were showing strong job recovery, the United States experiened more and worse job losses. The Obamacrat Super Majority continued to blame Bush and the eeeeeeevil Republicans, all of whom were mysteriously powerful despite being (a) retired and (b) in the minority.

For 2011-2012, Democrats had the White House and the Senate, while Republicans had the House of Representatives. Obamacrats continued to blame Bush and the eeeeevil Republicans in the House for blocking economic recovery.

For 2013-2014, Democrats again have the White House and the Senate, while Republicans have just the House of Representatives.

  • Since the current session of Congress began in January 2013, the Republican-majority House of Representatives has passed FORTY JOBS BILLS.
  • The Democrat-majority Senate under Harry Reid has refused to discuss or vote on any of them!
  • Yet Obamacrats continue to blame the Republican-majority House for blocking economic recovery.
  • (Obama has also blamed the weather, ATM machines, an earthquake in Japan and numerous other absurdities, none of which touches the real issue, which is his inept leadership.)

Below is a graph comparing the depth of job losses and the number of months to recovery for all post-WWII recessions. I have highlighted four of these and given the month count to recovery for each. I chose:

  • YELLOW: The quickest recovery (1980) when Democrat President Carter had an all-Democrat Congress;
  • BLUE: The second worst recession for total job losses (1948) when Democrat President Truman had an all-Republican Congress;
  • BROWN: The post 9/11 recession when Republican President Bush had an all-Republican Congress; and
  • RED: The All-Democrat 2007-20014 debacle that lasted six and a half YEARS.

Job losses and recoveries by month

Below is a graph comparing long-term joblessness from 1969 to present. Until Obamacrats took over, long-term joblessness never topped short-term, even when overall joblessness rose. Thanks to people like Obama, Reid and Pelosi, long-term joblessness not only topped short-term, but actually sky-rocketed to unprecedented levels.

1969 - 2015 Unemployment by Duration w Party Majority

So yeah … you hard-core Democrats … you just keep right on believing that yours is the party of the people who CARE, cuz that’ll be way easier for you than facing up to the fact that you’re so filled with hate and prejudice for your fellow Americans who vote (R) that you can’t even see straight.

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by | June 28, 2014 · 5:08 am

Senator Sessions makes sense on immigration

Obamacrats created the border crisis and are refusing to do anything to solve it. Anybody who says illegal aliens should be deported is called heartless and racist.  Senator Jeff Sessions’ statement before the Senate is refreshing in its simple truthfulness.

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