Earmarks

Earmarks. Why is this procedure even allowed. I would think it would be illegal. I always thought this was a Democrat tool. The pork helped ensure their re-elections and was a way to reward campaign support. Well, the Republicans are just a guilty. Mitch McConnell has 118 earmarks in the current omnibus bill. Here he is ranting about the Democrats loading the bill with earmarks and he is just as bad. Their/his reason........if they don't get their pet projects financed, their voters/constituents will be getting the short end. If the Democrats take their earmarks out Republicans will take theirs out. I think everyone in DC is tone def. They just don't get it. QUIT SPENDING/WASTING OUR MONEY!!!!!! No more earmarks...none...zip...zero.... period. If you want your pet projects funded, bring them up in an appropriations bill, not hide it in another unrelated bill!! How about making the states fund their own projects. If they can't afford it, save until they do have it like everyone else!! Even though I am a card carrying Conservative Republication..... I'll vote for an Independent if I think my Republican candidate is being disingenuous. I'd never vote for a Democrat based on their current philosophy.

Bush tax Cuts

In November I blogged the following: "Keep track on how many times you hear those scare tactics. Those are the buzz words that the Democrats use to get their votes....."save the teachers/children, firemen and police"....WHO can vote against them? If the teachers, firemen and police had received all the money the Democrats had promised, they would be the highest paid employees in America. You would think that the teachers, firemen and Police would be upset that the Democrats use them as "Poster Children" yet they keep receiving peanuts."
Nancy Polsie has said it again. By raising the tax rates on the very rich they can use some of the additional taxes to give our teachers a raise. This is one of the Dems. argument's about extending the Bush Tax cuts. Save the Middle class but raise the rates for the very wealthy. Evidently the Dems. have done some polling and this tactic works......on the ignorant and ill informed.... which is exactly the Dems. voting base. I just wish the American people would understand that by making the Bush Tax cuts permanent does not change the tax structure as it is right now. This has been the tax structure for close to 10 years. The difference....the Dems. need more money to spend....pure and simple!!! After the 2012 elections there will not be much of the Democratic Party left.

Elections

Let’s see……Obama said. “We won the election, you lost, deal with it”……. ”We're driving and the Republicans can go to the back of the bus”, “Republicans are the enemy”…. He shut out the Republicans in all the meetings when they crafted the stimulus, cap and trade, and the health care bills. He and the Democrats wanted to go it alone and excluded the Republicans in all the policies they set.....just did it their way. Guess what?? Now he wants the Democrats and Republicans to compromise and find common ground. He wants to engage the Republicans and work with them. Hummmmmm. I wonder how come the change of attitude?????

Elections

As I think back on what the country went through this past year, all the political ads, debates, town halls, etc., I really wish the politicans (both parties) would have said exactly how they are going to fullfill their promises. He said "I'm going to create 200,000 new jobs for Iowa" (our new govenor) How can YOU create 200,000 new jobs? "I'm going to reduce taxes" (everyone) HOW? When Clinton was President he said "this bill will add 100,000 new police to our communities". HOW??? His bill was then passed and the bill was funded. 37,000 new police were added (not 100,000). 3 years later, after the funds ran out and the communities had to fund the new police themselves, many of the police were laid off. Most of the communities couldn't afford more police and didn't need them. Politicans tend to grossly exaggerate and even lie to win votes. So much for 100,000 new police to protect our communities. One of the big issues in the Braley vs. Lange contest was Braley accused Lange of supporting "laying off teachers and hurting our children" because Lange was against the 87 billion dollar emergency bill that Pelosi pushed through in an emergency session. Every Republican was against it. She said it was needed to "Save our teachers, police, and firemen" (read unions) The problem was those were the words President Obama used to push through the stimulus in early 2009...."we need to save the jobs of our teachers, firemen and Police". Keep track on how many times you hear those scare tactics. Those are the buzz words that the Democrats use to get their votes....."save the teachers/children, firemen and police"....WHO can vote agaist them? If the teachers, firemen and police had recieved all the money the Democrats had promised, they would be the highest paid employees in America. You would think that the teachers, firemen and Police would be upset that the Democrats use them as "Poster Children" yet they keep recieving peanuts. Evidently approx. 900 billion dollars, for the stimulus, wasn't enough to "save the teachers,etc". By the way, 100 billion dollars in the stimulus, still hasn't been spent. The Republicans suggested that 100 billion be used, instead of adding another 87 billion to the deficient. Of course Pelosi wouldn't have anything to do with that and the Demoncrats rammed the 87 billion thru. If you ever have a chance to respond to a politican directly, ask for specifics not retoric. If they can't or won't answer you, don't vote for them. We need to hold our elected leaders accountable to their champagin promises. Just look at all the promises that Obama made during his champaign. People voted for him because of those promises. How many promises has he already broken and he hasn't been in office for even 2 years? I feel sorry for those who were duped and believed him.

Fall elections

I was asked if I was going to blog about the election. I really didn't give it much thought…..but…. “Happy Days are here again…....The sky is blue…….” I really do feel better where our country is now going. The brakes have been slammed on!! In 2 more years, we’ll finish the job and reverse the direction. In Iowa we got rid of 3 activist Supreme Court Judges and elected a conservative Governor. We can now stop the run away spending, get taxes back in order, start recovering jobs and eliminate the give-a-way programs that have hurt Iowa’s economy so much. My Representative to Congress was re-elected (D)Bruce Braley… barely! Ben Lange ran an honest and upbeat campaign with NO negative ads! He just talked about where he thinks the country should be heading and the programs that Braley supported. Just truthful facts. Braley could not dispute the facts nor run on his record of supporting Obama and Pelosi so he did nothing but run negative ads about Ben. His ads were deceitful, mean spirited and outright LIED about Ben. It's too bad people belived his garbage instead of researching the facts for themselves. It seems that if you are a Democrat today, you really aren't interested in the truth but believe mis-leading sound bites and false information. They are incapable of thinking for themselves. If Ben would have just countered some of the deceitful ads… just a little……. The good thing is that Bruce Braley is now irrelevant in Congress…his votes against the Republican agenda will not matter …except in 2012. Braley recieved 49% of the vote and Ben 48%. In the past 2 elections Braley has been well over 50%. I’ll guarantee now ….if he continues to support Obama and runs in 2012… he’s toast!!
The fun now begins!!

Gays in the Military

Trust me......"Don't ask, don't tell" is the best thing for gays, if they want to be in the Military! Keep their mouth shut! I can speak from experience in the Marine Corps, gays are not welcome or tolerated. Period! You cannot put a known gay man in a communal squad bay and not expect trouble. As a straight man, you should also have the right to not have to shower and sleep in the same room as a gay. But then Obama knows best.......with all his military experience.

House and Senate 2007

What I like about listening to Rush or Glen Beck is that you are told facts that are not even mentioned on the major networks. We have forgot what was really going on during the last few years of Bush. Obama keeps blaming Bush but guess who was in charge of the House and Senate in 2007 & 2008? Reid and Pelosi. The Democrats were in charge of the spending. The recession started when the Democrats took over the Congress....they were in charge! Yea, Bush signed the bills but the Democrats were the ones who sponsered them. They were both to blame! Unemployment was at 4.6% when the Democrats took over. Also Obama did not vote against ANY spending bill while he was in the Senate. If he always wants to blame Bush he must also blame Reid and Pelosi, the Democrats and himself if he is going to be honest. My mistake....that's something he isn't!

Even if you don't like the personality of either Glen Beck or Rush you can't deny the facts they point out. One week of watching Glen Beck will inform you more about what's really going than any other program. Please watch....you will be better informed.