Every once and a while you have someone in congress, usually an election year do something you cannot believe. we are not talking about DUI, martial affairs, or ethics, we mean say something that makes sense. You know like they actually understand. Then you have to remember how cold and calculated every move a politician makes really happens to be. This is when you can decipher that they are only doing this for gain and not value. Step up to the plate House of Representatives memeber Ann Kirkpatrick a democrat from Arizona as she introduced a bill to cut pay for members of Congress by 5 percent. We should not think her heart is not in the right place but when you factor in the congress has an approval rating below 20 percent and there is no way that this will pass. you start to think what is the point, political gain for saying you are trying, she is a first-term congresswoman from a mostly republican state. We will give her some credit before we dismiss the idea as in the put your money where your mouth is Kirkpatrick is already handing back five percent of her pay every month to bring down the national debt. The current salary for a member of Congress is $174,000 and the last Congress pay cut was 77 years ago. It must be seen as a good measure as there have been 21 lawmakers from both sides of aisle signed on as co-sponsors and it is being considered by two House committees. We will see if this has any steam or if it is campaign season talk and disappears into the vapor after mid-term elections.
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When the news keeps getting worse at some point Washington can not keep trying to put a shine on it. A new congressional report released says the US long-term fiscal woes are worse than predicted. The CBO predicts that President Obama budget plan would generate deficits over the upcoming decade that would total $9.8 trillion. Which is only about $1.2 trillion more than predicted by the administration but what is a few zeros between the smartest economists in the free world? How can it be will it is really simple, the future-year predictions of tax revenues are a lot less than the administration predicted. This is because the slow economic growth was lower than the White House. This was not hard to predict as since 2007 the deficit has never dipped below 4 percent of the size of the economy. It does not take MIT economists to understand deficits of this size are unsustainable. This of course is not happening in the white house they are using the February first White House budget plan document that avoided difficult decisions on curbing the unsustainable growth of federal benefit programs like Medicaid, even though we keep hearing he can pull $500 billion out of this program from fraud and abuse. The better plan is to have a 18-member fiscal reform commission made through executive order to come up with a plan to shrink the deficit to 3 percent of the economy within five years. When you parley this situation and the ramming through Congress of a new trillion-dollar health-care entitlement you have to wonder what they are thinking and why they do not get it.
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The Texas primary was going to be a pretty good gauge for perception versus reality. When Governor Rick Perry rode it to an easy Republican primary win over Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison the proof is in black and white. The smaller story is republican Governor Rick Perry will now go on to fight Democrat and Former Houston Mayor Bill White, who defeated six opponents to win the nomination. Two things that are important the turnout was the highest in a Texas primary election in 20 years. This is proof the people do care and they are picking candidates they feel will help them and not hurt them. Then of even bigger importance is the attack on the capital, as this is another indication voter is going to blame Washington for wasteful and over spending, job losses and the health care debate. Texas has had a democrat win statewide office since 1994. Even though right now Texas has, a record one million jobless and an extremely high dropout rate Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison could not break through. We are not sure how this will all play into elections in November across the nation. The proof is even a Republican in congress is tainted and no jobs are safe. This might be the reason the Democrats will hammer home healthcare without a Republican vote. The thinking must be no matter what they are going to down in a ball of flames even if they do nothing, they might as well pass the legislation that was cutting their throat because there is nothing to lose. The cards are already on the table and both Republican and Democrats in congress are holding aces and eights the dead man’s hand.
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The Senate has finally given assignments to Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts. You can request three and Senator Brown wound up with two out of three he requested even if he is the lowest ranking member in the committee. He was not hung out to dry either as he was given three key committee assignments. If anything, they are high-level committees that get a lot of face time in the nation news. He was assigned to the Armed Services, Homeland Security, and Veterans’ Affairs committees. He formally requested from the Senate GOP leaders for Armed Services, Homeland Security, and Appropriations. Every Senator that is elected to capital hill wants a seat on the appropriations committee. They do have the have the bottom line on spending for the senate. The appointments were made by Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. The full Senate must ratify the assignments as a parliamentary procedure. He is replacing Ted Kennedy who was the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, now chaired by Tom Harkin. This is a good fit for Brown as he is a 30-year member of the National Guard, and the country is currently involved in two wars. These committees are critical in the defense technology sector.
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In a case of everything old is new again here comes retread Jerry Brown running for Governor of California. The 71-year-old career politician was previously governor from 1975 to 1983. Since then ran for president three times, served as mayor of Oakland, and is now California’s attorney general. The rumor was he was waiting to see if Senator Dianne Feinstein was going to run. He knew he could not compete with her machine and deep pockets. That being said Jerry Brown has already raised $12 million from his Hollywood cronies. The typical suspects with money to burn and no idea how to spend it. Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen. The good news for Jerry is he could really win polls he leads head to head against GOP front runner Meg Whitman by about five points. The former CEO of eBay, Whitman has already spent $19 million on the race. California residents have seen her commercials touting a “New California” daily on most local and cable television throughout the state with no chance for escape. Why does anybody want this job the same reason we asked McCain and Obama two years ago. California is in the economic crises with the state legislature already having to make billions of dollars in cuts to social programs to shore up a $21 billion budget gap this year and an even bigger one the year before. The state’s credit rating has been lowered and unemployment is above 12 percent. Then again just like President Obama the only way to go is up as it cannot get much worse.
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We were a little sad when se heard Joseph P. Kennedy III, the son of a former congressman and the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, was rumored to be next in line to be pushed into running for U.S. House from Massachusetts this year. We have restored our faith in the political gods as the air to the thrown has decided not to run as he wants to remain in his new job as a prosecutor in Cape Cod’s Barnstable County. This was a power grab by trying to use a Kennedy to hold the seat the Delahunt was sure to lose, if he runs at all. The problem is former state Treasurer Joe Malone and state Rep. Jeffrey Perry of Sandwich, to say they are considering running for the Delahunt’s seat. There is a new hope in Massachusetts that Republicans can win other things than the governor’s race. The young Kennedy has the entire lineage and the resume to fit the job. He spent two years in as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic after graduating from Stanford. It is amazing the comparison of Joseph P. Kennedy II to Patrick Patches Kennedy as when we saw the runt of the litter from Ted the run of the litter we understand why. The good news is crisis averted and the 112 congress will be Kennedy free from 2012 moving forward.
You can say what you want about Washington just not getting it over healthcare. But we might be starting to see a change in some of the old guard. This may not be true but the idea a supermajority is the way to hammer things through congress is just bad politics for reelection. We heard the rumblings that three key senators are writing a new climate bill which is different than cap’n’tax or as it called cap’n’trade. This is a new bill that aims to reduce carbon pollution and is being planned to roll out next month, the sponsors are Senator John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joe Lieberman. We love this idea because like healthcare the cap-and-trade bill that passed the House almost a year ago remains President Barack Obama’s preferred approach as he pushes to cut the country’s emissions by 17 percent by 2020 to meet internationally agreed upon goals. We could file under President Obama you can’t always get what you want or you may never get anything you want. Lindsey Graham has been quoted saying that cap-and-trade is dead and this new approach will have a chance. The three major emission sources: electric utilities, transportation and industry would have to meet an overall emissions cap that would grow stricter over time. A carbon tax could be levied on motor fuel. And industrial facilities would be exempted from an emissions cap for several years, before it would be phased in. This is a step that if Washington wants to get anything done listening to the American outrage is starting to be heard. We are not sure if it is the fact the politicians are scared to lose their job or care what constitutes say, but either way America wins.
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We were really excited about the 112 congress we though for the first time in our lives it was going to be Kennedy free. First Scott Brown replaced Ted Kennedy claiming that seat. We thought there was going to be a scare that Joe Kennedy would run to the rescue the family name. He never did and we hoped that with the senate clear the House was the only place a Kennedy renamed. Then the runt of the litter or the runt of the litter Patrick “Patches” Kennedy decided not to run as it looked like he was going to lose anyway. It was to good to be true and now we found out there is rumor circulating that one of Robert F. Kennedy’s grandsons is considering a run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Joseph P. Kennedy III, one of the twin sons of former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II. This is because the current seat holder Democratic Representative William Delahunt is looking like a lame duck down the stretch. Then when Amy Bishop killed three more people in Alabama the blood of those people lies on the hands of the then AG Delahunt who gave her a pass. We know if the boy runs he will be tough to beat, not because he is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School or his work as a prosecutor. The big reason will be then need to put a Kennedy back in congress after the mistake of Martha Coakley. It would be a shame if we could not get at least on term since 1946 without a Kennedy for representation of Massachusetts we have come so far and to lose it all because of this would be shame.
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The House ethics committee is trying to nail Representative Charles Rangel down for a change. This time it seems they have a smoking gun except Rangel has become professional at avoided their grasp. This time the proof is Representative Charles Rangel aides tried at least three times to show him that his Caribbean trips had corporate sponsors, but of course he denies that he has ever seen or heard these written communications. The Ways and Means Committee chairman says he did nothing wrong because his staff never told him about corporate sponsors. There is two staff memos dated from 2008 and a letter addressed to him in 2007. Rangel has been accused of violating rules governing gifts that lawmakers can accept. Rangel will not step down as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee despite being admonished for violating rules by letting corporations pay for his Caribbean trips. Rangel has excelled at deny and see what you need to see as he claimed today that the ethics report exonerates him because it says there is no evidence that he knew the trips were sponsored by corporations. The noose is getting tighter as even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is trying to steer clear, you cannot blame her as Rangel remains under investigation on various other alleged ethics lapses. Is there any wonder there is such a ground swell to remove all incumbents as Washington is broken and Rangel is a poster child.
Everyone who reads the tea512 knows we love a good election. There is a beauty on the radar in the lone star state. The reason is it is a Republican showdown; one that they say has been on target to happen for years. This election is between two of the biggest Texas politicians currently serving the state. This match is between Governor Rick Perry and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and as the days get closer to November it is getting nasty. There is a democrat as it looks like former Houston Mayor Bill White but after all this is Texas. This GOP primary fight that Perry once promised would be brutal has grown meaner in its final weeks. They have beat up each other with Hutchison attacking the Perry record over the last nine years as governor. Perry is slamming Hutchinson over the fact she is all that is wrong with Washington spending the last 16 years in the U.S. Senate. Perry has never lost a public election and has painted Hutchison as a moderate. The local polling numbers show that Perry is leading with 45 percent to 29 percent. The big showdown is Tuesday March 2, 2010. Hutchinson has not campaigned much in Texas as she has been letting everyone know she stayed in Washington to fight President Barack Obama’s health care bill. The only thing we do not like about Hutchinson who once received over 4 million votes, is she is holding both seats so to speak. She will not resign her senate seat until after the primary on next Tuesday she will be out campaigning hard all over Texas this weekend as she dropped in today and loaded up the bus tour. The most interesting thing is that she wants to leave the Senate to be a Governor which other than California might be the only state where this is attractive.
Remember the good old days when President Bush would talk about the patriot act and congress claimed VP Dick Chaney was listening to peoples phone calls. Remember when President Obama said it needed to be looked at and retooled. The Senate voted Wednesday to extend for a year key provisions of the nation’s counterterrorism surveillance law that are scheduled to expire at the end of the month. This was even approved on a voice vote with no debate. The big issues that would expire if this does not pass are authorizing court-approved roving wiretaps that permit surveillance on multiple phones. Court-approved seizure of records and property in anti-terrorism operations and the permission of surveillance against lone wolf, a non-U.S. citizen suspected of engaging in terrorism who may not be part of a recognized terrorist group. The democrats did try to stuff some new privacy protections into the law. The Judiciary Committee wanted to make some changes but in the end it was easier to pass as is, this is why there was no debate. We wonder when this President is going to make good on any of those promises he made to people to get their votes. If this was a Republican president he would have been badgered everyday why he said he was going to do one thing to get elected and completely another once in office.
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File under you do not know that is the end until you fall of the world New York temporary Governor David Paterson decided that he would launch his campaign for a full four-year term. Paterson has only been in charge since March of 2008 as he placed into the job after Eliot Spitzer resigned. This makes Paterson the first Democrat in the race, but he will have plenty of competition. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is one that is rumored to be in the running. This could happen to good candidates not ones that chief of staff admitted not paying income taxes for five years and ultimately resigned and totally mishandled the replacement of the U.S. Senate seat by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. When he pushed Caroline Kennedy then cut her at the knees. Democrats had the power in the Senate, and Paterson was unable to broker any good will to get things done. So far the only Republican candidate is Congressman Rick Lazio who lost this seat to Clinton. It is odd that his tea leaves have told him incumbents are going to pay. Patterson has only about $3 million and campaign donations could be slow as he is not endorsed by the White House. That has not turned out well the last three times anyway. It is going to be an interesting spring as we watch who thinks they should fight for their job and who should just fade away. We believe this is one that should just fade away. We are not sure this is a bad job by handlers or a naive sense that it cannot happen to me.
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President Barack Obama is heading out west to help and is hopeful not to hinder two vulnerable senators including Majority Leader Harry Reid Las Vegas and Michael Bennet of Colorado. It was only a month ago he flew into Boston to save Martha Coakley and she lost. Five months before he helped politicians in Virginia and New Jersey lose. Since he is zero for three on the east coast he thought maybe the west is the best. He is not going ot find a more democratic state than Massachusetts and both New Jersey and Virginia were state were he had easy victories in his presidential run only one year earlier. President Obama is going to Denver to raise money and speak up for Democratic Senator Bennet. The only reason Bennet, is in the Senate is because President Obama tapped, Ken Salazar, to be the secretary of the Interior Then next up President Obama will end up in Las Vegas for another Democratic fundraiser. He will also hold a town hall meeting with business and community leaders in Sin City. The anti-incumbency mood seems to be the highlight of the midterm election season. The other part is the taxpayers will pay almost all the huge costs associated with travel. This is the reason the White House makes at least one official event with the political ones. This is even more insane for President Obama as twice he told Americans not to spend money wastefully in hard times and cited Las Vegas as an example of a spending waste when you have no money.
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Can the republicans use the televised health care summit next week to their advantage? We thought this appears to be a trap as the president will be running the show and use it as a tool to show Republicans are not willing to compromise. The administration will focus on covering 30 million people while the Republican plan only covers around 3million. This could work in the Republicans favor as skyrocketing deficits, adding more might not sit well with an already angry populous. The Republicans will counter with reining in the rising medical costs is the start and not blanket coverage. The first of its kind in year’s half-day event will happen on February 25. The president will moderate the forum, as he picked the location the Blair House guest residence area of the White House. Republicans are only after what they believe America wants, for the Democrats to scrap their existing bills and start over. We expect to see on the Republican side House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, each are allowed four members each. There is no clear cut plan from the Republicans and President Obama wants the Democrats plan online before the summit. We believe the Republicans can make hay here, the can hammer the democrats on not being involved in the process, back room deals, and the up-down votes are what killed the bill. Those are reasons enough to blame the Democrats and stay on the offensive. They cannot attack the President because he has no plan; he wanted this bill but gave the country nothing on paper. The fight is what the Democrats came up with when left to their own devices.
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President Obama has a request from a woman who is serving a 27-year prison term for a crack cocaine conspiracy. She would like President Barack Obama to use his power of forgiveness for the first time since taking office to commute her sentence. Stephanie Lomax who now has a prison name of Hamedah Hasan has two federal judges admit she should have gotten only 12 years at most but federal law dictates that crack crimes carry stronger sentences than those involving powder cocaine. This is a double shot of trouble for the president. The presidential power in the Constitution allows him to shorten her sentence as well as address the disproportion in prison terms for crack and powder cocaine. This is job for congress and it is tricky waters for a president to side step congress on this kind of issue. The states on this kind of action are as follows Clinton pardoned 396 people and shortened the sentences of 61. Bush pardoned 189 people and commuted sentences for 11. The truth of the matter is Lomax was convicted in 1993 a multistate conspiracy to deal crack cocaine. She received a life sentence that was shortened to 27 years. This does not seem like an issue President Obama can get behind, she will be released in 2020 if he does nothing. If she has her sentence reduced to twelve years she would have already served 17 and might sue for having spent an extra five years behind bars. This is a test President Obama needs to step away and let legislatures do their job.
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The question needs to be asked, is Dick Cheney relevant? We wonder this on a Sunday when the AP wire is filled with stories and comments from the Vice President. Vice President Dick Chaney was tapped to go on a nation wide search for a Vice President for President Bush. After an exhaustive search the best man for the job is him. Since has left office which is clearly kicking and screaming he has tried to comment on every issue. He has been vocal and the press is eating it up. Today you can see his comments on Biden and Cheney spar over antiterrorism policies, Cheney says he opposed Bush officials on policies, Cheney cites Bush disagreements on terror suspects, Cheney: Biden should give credit for Iraq to Bush, and finally Cheney mum on supporting Palin in next election. To think that a Vice President over a year removed can still garner this kind of attention seems unprecedented. There it five stories that top the AP over comments from former Vice President Dick Cheney. When you see al this hype or hyperbole you have to ask yourself is there and end game here. Is Dick Chaney delusional enough to think he can run fro president? Maybe he wants to spend the rest of his days as a 1980’s Henry Kissinger? Whatever the reason he is hear loud and proud and refuses to go away quietly. This is in sharp contrast to his former boss President Bush who has not a word about policy since he has left office.
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President Obama is putting a nuclear plan into place just like he said he would. This is a big reach for the Democratic Party as they have been against nukes since 1980. The administration has planned a loan guarantee to build the first nuclear power plant in the United States in close to thirty years. They are hopeful that this will be the shift in energy strategy to lessen dependence on foreign oil and reduce the use of other fossil fuels. President Obama is expected next week to announce the loan guarantee to build the nuclear power plant. The locations for the two new Southern Co. reactors are to be built in Burke, Georgia. This is great news for other sites as there are thirteen other applications before the NRC which are expected to be announced in the coming months even though the earliest any of those could be approved would be late 2011 or early 2012. The federal guarantees are seen as essential for construction of any new reactor because of the tremendous expense involved. His is not anything more than business as usual as once the loans are guaranteed the taxpayers can expect cost overruns and loan defaults. The real dollars for the budget are adding $36 billion in new federal loan guarantees that goes on top of $18.5 billion has already been budgeted making the total of $54.5 billion. The projection is the two reactors would generate power for some 1.4 million people and employ about 850 people and create about 3,000 construction jobs. We hardly ever agree with this President but al least this time we are on board and in agreement.
Washington is starting to listen after all. They have responded to the sharp criticism that a bipartisan jobs bill that was emerging in the Senate would not create many jobs. Desperate to pass something the Senate Democrats have proposed a new, stripped-down version they hope will still get support from both Republicans and Democrats. The latest bill focuses on boosting job creation, renew highway programs, and help states and local governments finance large infrastructure projects. The proposed bill before was 361-pages stuffed with unrelated provisions sought by lobbyists for business groups and doctors. That $31 billion package included an extension of several parts of the USA Patriot Act and higher payments for doctors facing Medicare payment cuts. The new package focused solely on creating jobs. The new bill has a $13 billion payroll tax credit for companies that hire unemployed workers and an additional $1,000 tax credit for workers retained for a full year. This is a tough call as the Republicans are riding a wave new found support across the nation. This will be another test if they are willing to let the Democrats stay on the offensive and are only reacting to Democratic action. The problem for the Democrats is no one believes they know what they are doing and hit or miss the taste of last December will not expire in the American conscience.
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Is there no shame in being a liberal, rhetorical question of course? There is a new grassroots organization that has started an online campaign to counter the tea party movement. The site appeared in January and is dedicated to preventing the teaparty and any candidates from gaining any legislative traction. We will of course give no link love or name the site directly. We do know it was established by the American Public Policy Center in Washington enough said. It also has been reported it is the front end of an elaborate scheme that moves money a complex network of donations from the huge wallets of the biggest labor unions into political slush funds for Democratic activists. The site and system is the creation of two Democratic Party strategists and the system helps hide the true sources of funding, giving the appearance of locally bred opposition in any state they choose. It is not clear if this is the start of a larger campaign to target tea party activists. It is a shame in this political atmosphere that liberals feel threatened by a grassroots organization like this. Did they create this opposition to the Green party or the Rainbow Party? Maybe this is a good sign for the teaparty movement as it might mean the democrats see them as a threat. You would think that since the teaparty is sort of politically aligned with the Republican party in the sense that a candidate for the teaparty will siphon more votes from republican voters than any other affiliation it would be a good thing for the democrats.
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Republicans have publicly welcomed the idea from President Barack Obama for a bipartisan meeting on health care scheduled for the 25th of February . This does not mean the White House is backing away from the plan that already has support of legislation. The question becomes is this a tactic by the president to try to put the Republicans on display for having no plan of their own. This means if they use the plan in place as a starting point what is bipartisan about that as there has been no Republican support. President Obama issued a statement he open to including any good ideas that stand up to objective scrutiny. When he was asked about starting from scratch on Sunday President Obama and the quiet hush around Washington that President Obama is adamant about passing comprehensive reform similar to the bills passed by the House and the Senate. Any plan from the fiscal responsible Republicans is going to be viewed as mean spirited as the last House Republican bill would only cover 3 million uninsured people while the Democratic version would cover 36 million. We see this as a plan attack to show Republicans as obstructionists, possibly encouraging Democrats to use their still-sizable congressional majorities to enact their health care proposals via the budget reconciliation rules, without GOP help.The good news is the televised half day meeting and the inviting of Republican input has extended the debate for several more weeks has caused even uncertainty about the plan. No matter what happens we are long way from Christmas eve when they passed this thing and thought no one could stop them. It will be two months later and no bill passed and only eight months more until the midterm elections.
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