Net Neutrality Gains Ground

The federal government does not feel it has enough control yet as it absorbs banks, businesses, healthcare and the like and so it is now going after the internet.  Conservatives like myself have been warning for months about the Fairness Doctrine, which would utterly destroy the radio talk show business.  This is basically legislation that would give the government the ability to decide who runs and owns radio stations and thus, what types of programs can be aired on radio.  Our warnings worked and the government backed away from the Fairness Doctrine, but as we all know, these policies do not go away, they just morph into something else.  Net Neutrality is one of those morphed policies.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting:

As phone and video services have migrated online, the FCC has struggled to stretch its authority over new technologies. The FCC’s net neutrality proposal, driven by Chairman Julius Genachowski, is the strongest move yet by the federal government to assert control over the rules of the road on the Internet.

Google and AT&T have been embroiled in a battle over the net neutrality proposal, which gained ground last week when FCC Commissioners unanimously voted to move forward net neutrality and will be manipulated in the coming weeks into a policy that will be crammed down the throats of internet users and providers.  This is a forerunner to government control of the internet.  Keep in mind that the President has already granted himself emergency control over the internet and has a Cyber Czar to police the internet.  These net neutrality rules will enforce that power.

Google supports net neutrality because it gives them farther reach.  High speed internet will have to be provided to all areas of America and internet services will be unable to block anything on the internet, specifically Google.  Google, incidentally blocks whatever it pleases or works against conservative websites like Atlas Shrugs.  Google is also in bed with GE, which puts them in bed with the Obama administration.

The Wall Street Journal also reports:

AT&T and other Internet-access providers want latitude to manage traffic on congested wireless networks and freedom to devote a chunk of their wired networks to selling more expensive services. Internet providers are worried regulators are assuming veto power over their efforts to develop new revenue streams from their Internet lines.

Google and other Internet companies fret that phone and cable companies will hobble their efforts to offer competing services online or will try charging them more for better connections to consumers.

Google wants phone and cable companies to deliver all traffic equally, so carriers can’t get in the way of it offering consumers high-definition TV shows or movies on YouTube or phone services like Google Voice.

This would all be a great idea if not for the fact that the government is getting involved.  And anyone paying attention to the FCC knows that its new head thinks Hugo Chavez is great and applauds his revolution.  The FCC also has a board where Democrats outnumber Republicans.  The Progressives are slowly powergrabbing everything they can and we need to wake up and fight it to save our freedom.

Justice Ginsburg And Eugenics

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was interviewed by the New York Times Magazine this weekend and made a comment about Roe v. Wade that has me thinking this woman embraces Progressivism all the way to its eugenics core.  Ginsburg claimed that the decision was made in Roe v. Wade because the Supreme Court’s majority had a desire to stall “populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”  The question that Ginsburg was asked when she made this unbelievable comment was, “Are you talking about the distances women have to travel because in parts of the country, abortion is essentially unavailable, because there are so few doctors and clinics that do the procedure?  And also, the lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women?”

Justice Ginsburg’s full response to the question was: ”Yes, the ruling about that surprised me.  Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have to many of.  So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion.  Which some people felt would risk coercing women into abortions when they didn’t really want them.  But when the Court decided McRae, the case came out the other way.  And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.”  The McRae case was a decision that prohibited the use of Medicaid or any federal funds for abortions.   The reasoning of Ginsburg seems to be that she thinks the government would want to fund abortions so that poor women could have access to them – not just because she thinks a woman has a right to choose – but because the government thinks babies born to the poor are of a population we do not desire to have grow.

Eugenics is “the study of, or belief in, the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics).”  This was a science embraced by the Progressive Movement that started around the time of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency.  The idea that Wilson and his administration would fund abortions for the poor is very plausible.  But would the government at the time that Roe v. Wade was decided embrace eugenics?  That would be 1973 and Richard Nixon was president.  I hardly think that Nixon would have supported such a notion.  So what exactly was Ginsburg trying to say with her comment?  Is this possibly something that she would support if it were brought before the Court?  Would she support it just so that poor women would have access to abortions or would she have other reasons as well?  Keep in mind that Ginsburg during her confirmation hearings supported a stance on abortion that would allow for no state restrictions on abortion.  Currently, Roe v. Wade restricts abortion on babies that would be viable outside the womb.  Sounds like Ginsburg and Obama share opinions about abortion.

Ginsburg also stated her support of Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court Justice during the interview.  A Justice has never before endorsed a nominee to the court.  It would seem that this interview puts into question the judgement of Ginsburg – a Supreme Court Justice!  If Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed to the Court – which I have no doubt will happen – we can expect much of the same from her as well since she will have the loftier judgement of a latina woman.

Sonia Sotomayor Is A Racist

Progressives everywhere feign indignation over the obvious fact being stated by conservatives that President Obama’s Supreme Court Justice nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, is a racist as revealed by many of her statements and rulings throughout the years,  Only those who are intellectually dishonest could deny such a claim.  Tom Tancredo, who has endured the label of “racist” for years, was one of the few GOP members to be audacious enough to speak the truth:

The left can deny the facts all they want, but they cannot explain away statements that Sotomayor has made like this one, “Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences … our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. … I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”  So a Latina woman would give better rulings than a white man according to Sotomayor.  If the tables were turned, Latinos would be crying, “Racist!”  And keep in mind that this statement was made at a gathering of  La Raza Law Journal.  La Raza is a racist group whose name translates as “The Race” with an air of superiority.

Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich have both referred to Sotomayor as racist.  Gingrich tweeted: ”Imagine a judicial nominee said ‘my experience as a white man makes me better than a latina woman.’  New racism is no better than old racism.  White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.”

In a famous ruling that is coming before the Supreme Court – interesting that President Obama did not mention this and instead chose to speak about Sotomayor’s baseball ruling – Sotomayor joined an unsigned opinion rejecting a lawsuit from a group of firefighters in Ricci v. Destefano.  She chose to not even deliberate in the lawsuit.  This lawsuit was filed on behalf of white firefighters who claimed reverse discrimination and that their civil rights were violated when results from a test that they passed were invalidated because not enough minorities passed the test to be promoted – only one Hispanic firefighter passed.  The lead plaintiff, Frank Ricci, battled dyslexia and spent months studying for the test, which he passed, but because no African-American firefighters passed he was denied a promotion. Second Circuit Judge Jose Cabranes, a Clinton appointment and liberal, wrote after hearing that Sotomayor rejected the case: “The opinion contains no reference whatsoever to the constitutional claims at the core of this case. This perfunctory disposition rests uneasily with the weighty issues presented by this appeal.”

Being a racist should be enough to keep someone off the Supreme Court bench, but even worse than this is the fact that Sotomayor believes that the Judicial Branch has the ability to legislate from the bench.  She even stated coyly during a speech that the Appeals Courts “create policy” and then quickly tried to cover herself by saying she should not say that since she was being taped.  As a Supreme Court Justice, she will be required to uphold the Constitution and our rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, but in a Second Amendment battle in Maloney v. Cuomo, Sotomayor joined an opinion holding that “it is settled law” that the Second Amendment only limits federal, and not state, gun control laws.  Thus she believes that states can take away gun rights.

This woman must come under heavy scrutiny from the GOP!  They must not back away fearing that they might be tagged as racist and lose the Hispanic vote if they fight this nomination.  This is the battleground and this is the time.  Jeff Sessions gave a lukewarm statement that they would be thorough with Sotomayor, but he sounded weak and timid.  The GOP needs to start echoing the leaders outside of Congress like Limbaugh and Gingrich and fight for our Constitution!

The Congressional Circus

The building that should presently house the House of Representatives and the Senate has now become a circus tent covering over a band of buffoons, contortionists and performers.  The Speaker of the House, who is third in line to the presidency, performs acrobatics regularly as she tries to convince the country that the CIA lies about everything and that she is clueless when it comes to interrogation techniques.  Yesterday she performed her regular act before the media at her regular weekly press conference.  She brought along several other Democrat clowns to catch her if she fell.  Deflection seemed to be the word of the day for the Madame Speaker.

There was an outcry across this country when it was revealed that our representatives no longer read the bills that they are required to vote on and when the Republicans demanded that the new energy bill, which is really cap and trade legislation, be read aloud in full before the Energy and Commerce Committee, the Democrats hired a speed reader to handle the task.  This young man promised that he could read one page every 34 seconds which meant it would take only nine hours for him to read the entire bill.  The exercise was begun much to the merriment of Henry Waxman who sponsored the bill, but was never fully completed.

And finally there is Barney Frank who was asked by a Fox News representative if he would call for an investigation of ACORN.  He quickly pointed back to George Bush whose administration had also funded ACORN and commented that no one said that there was any misuse of funds at that time.  When pressed, he quipped that Fox was being very unfair to Bush.  And thus Frank’s high wire act ended.  I know the image of Barney Frank in colorful tights balancing on a thin wire over your head is sickening, but I call them like I see them.

So our Congress is now a three-ring circus and no one really is surprised since we have known for years that Washington D.C. is run by a bunch of clowns.

Omnibus Pork Bill Passes Senate By Voice Vote

According to the Senate website, the definition of voice vote is as follows:  “A vote in which the Presiding Officer states the question, then asks those in favor and against to say “Yea” or “Nay,” respectively, and announces the result according to his or her judgment. The names or numbers of Senators voting on each side are not recorded.”  I added the emphasis so that the American people realize what happened with this vote.  The results are based on human judgement and we cannot go after our representatives in Washington who voted for this crap.  I can understand the value of having voice vote available in instances of post office namings and other side-bar items, but on something this devastating to an already over taxed system!  Talk about disenfranchisement.

And there were a couple of amendments attached to this that most people will not hear about, but I happened to see because I pulled up the Roll Call List.  There was an amendment from Senator Vitter that would have made the automatic cost of living increase for Congress null and void and they would have had to vote themselves a raise each year instead, which would have benefited we the people.  That was tabled.  Also, Senator Sessions introduced an amendment that would have extended the pilot program of E-Verify to make sure illegals were not being employed.  That was tabled.  Of course, both of those amendments and the vote for cloture on the bill were done as most votes are: recorded individually.

Now it is on to our unprincipled leader, President Obama, who will break yet another campaign promise and sign on with over 8,000 earmarks in the Omnibus.  Wonder if any of the Kool-Aid drinkers are waking up yet?

Day After Fiscal Responsibility Conference New $410 Billion Spending Bill Proposed

In an utter show of what we can expect from our ever growing big government here in America, the president held an inane fiscal responsibility conference yesterday.  The whole farce was a waste of time with Obama acting like he was some kind of teacher breaking his students into little discussion groups and then asking for their comments on what they discussed and conclusions they came to without really solving any of the problems this country faces.  And this is nothing compared to the hypocrisy on display at this event.  Didn’t these baffoons just pass the wasteful and completely irresponsible porkulus bill last week?  Fiscal responsibility my arse!

And then today we get the news that Congress had some unfinished budget business and they are now proposing another bill totaling $410 billion dollars.  That is nearly half a trillion.  This measure is to fund the government for the remaining seven months of fiscal year 2009.  Since the Democrats are in control of the White House, they put together all of their unfinished bills into this monstrosity and will vote on it in the House this week.  Republicans are fighting the bill because it is yet again another expansion of government and will add to the deficit.  Gee, I could have sworn I heard something about cutting the deficit in half…

 

“With the deficit rising like a hot air balloon and consumer confidence on the brink, the last thing we need is more excessive spending coming from Washington,” Representative David Dreier, a senior Republican, said in a statement.

And if you are not already steamed, you should know that this bill contains at least $5 billion in earmarks coming from 9,000 different projects.  Some of those projects include money for tattoo removal, bullying programs, Maine lobsters and $473,000 to the National Council of La Raza!

My definition of responsible must be wrong.

Senate Reaches Compromise To Sell Out America’s Future

This is another pile of bullcrap.  The Gang of Four as I will call them – Susan Collins, Arlen Specter, Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman – have crafted a “compromised” bill that they claim they can get 60 votes on.  Who are they fooling?  This is the same crap they tried to feed us before.  They thought they could balloon it to almost one trillion and then cut it back and have Americans support them.  I’ve been listening to the outrageous statements from the Gang of Four and here are some excerpts:

Ben Nelson was up first and he claimed that they have “saved the American people $110 billion dollars”.  Can you believe that?!  Saved us money!?  Well, thanks so much you blowhard!  He pointed out that the bill is now at $780 billion.  I feel so much better.  He also pointed out that there are $300 million in tax cuts.  What, I should be happy?  $300 million out of $780 billion?!  Can you tell I’m losing it here?

Next up is Susan Collins, a RINO.  She claims they are going to help hard working Americans after throwing out the 600,000 lost jobs number which all four speakers use.  My comment is if these are hard working Americans they don’t want the governments help.  Collins outlines some of the spending as $6 billion for special education and $14 billion in Pell Grants.  How do those stimulate the economy?

Arlen Specter gets up and claims there are parts of the compromise that still give him “heartburn”.  He says that there are items that really should be part of regular appropriations.  Then why support this pork-engourged non-stimulus bill?  He claims they are in there because the committee had seen fit to include them.  He claims that over-used lie that this gives tax cuts to 95% of Americans.  He also points out some spending like $1.4 billion for childcare, $1 billion for Head Start  and he said $13 billion for special education.  How does this stimulate?

Then Joe Lieberman got up and as he spoke I reached for the duct tape to hold my head together.  He called this process “unifying”.  He said that help won’t come from the private sector  and so the only place this help can come from “is the federal government”.  He said that tonight they were going to show the American people that “the US government passes the test”.  He went on to say that soon they would take on healthcare reform and climate change.  I think he must be trying to redeem his bad name with the Democrats.  What would his friend John McCain say?

Actually, I was very proud when Senator McCain got up to speak and reminded everyone that this is not really bi-partisan.  Only two Republicans have crossed over – I’m not sure where Olympia Snowe is in this thing, I thought she supported it.  He also took the veil off this bullcrap that the Gang of Four had placed there and reminded everyone that there are amendments that the Senate had already agreed to and when they are added to this compromise, the price tag is now $827 billion which if $7 billion over the bill the House passed on to them.  Sentor McCain said that if this passes it will be a “very bad day for America”.

Senator John Thune revealed that many of the targeted amendments that the Republicans put forward were defeated.  He reminded the Senate that they will be handing this debt to their children and grandchildren.

Senator Tom Coburn told those struggling out there that once they get a job they are on the hook for $12,000 and for those currently working they are already on the hook for $12,000.  “Federal workers don’t create wealth,” Coburn said.  He called it a “generational theft bill” and reminded everyone that they haven’t even fixed the housing problem.

Senator Linsey Graham pointed out that the Democrats lost 11 people in the House and more importantly, as the American people found out more about the bill, they lost the people’s support as well.

Continue to call the Senators over the weekend and tell them we still do not want their bullcrap.

Democrats And The President Live It Up At Kingsmill Retreats

I could have sworn that the president was decrying Wall Street fat cats for their big spending and executive bonuses while receiving money from the American people in bailouts.  I must have been mistaken because surely at a time in this country that we have not “seen since the Great Depression” and with the country in the middle of a recession that we may “never recover from”, the government would not go to some lavish spa on taxpayer dime?!  But that is just what they are doing.  They were wining and dining and congratulating themselves last night in Williamsburg at Kingsmill Retreats.  You see everything is permissible for government.

Gateway Pundit live blogged the speech that President Obama gave last night and here are some of the excerpts:

“He just congratulated the liberal House for creating and passing the most massive spending bill in American history filled from top to bottom with pork for every Left Wing organization that helped get them get elected.

Obama just said the scale and scope of the bill is just right.
He also just excused the pork in the bill.
Obama says the point of a stimulus bill is ‘to spend.’
That’s what a stimulus bill is supposed to do- spend.”

Obama called Nancy Pelosi a “rock” – gag me!  He reminded the Democrats that the people are watching and that we did not send them there to get bogged down.  What!?  I sure the hell did not send them there.  Why do they need an expensive retreat to get the stimulus passed?  To demonstrate how well they can irresponsibly spend money?  And of course, he claims there is not one earmark in this bohemoth.  What a liar!

Sure glad they are living it up while I work to actually pay my taxes.

President Obama Attempts To Build His Philibuster-Proof Senate

If anyone believes the nomination of Republican Senator Judd Gregg to the position of Commerce Secretary is anything other than an attempt by President Obama to create a philibuster-proof Senate, they’re drinking the Kool-Aid.  Of course, the media is praising Obama for building a bi-partisan cabinet, but when it comes to the president it is all smoke and mirrors.  Senator Gregg hails from New Hampshire where a Democrat sits in the Governor’s house and thus it is expected that the Governor will appoint a Democrat to fill Gregg’s seat.  If Al Frankenstein wins in the court battle for the Minnesota Senate seat there will be 60 Democrats in the Senate making it philibuster-proof for the Republicans.  Then the Dictator’s plans will have no backstop.  No philibuster in Senate and Nancy Pelosi has made rules in the House preventing the Republicans from having any power.  The Democrats will rule and I hope that this will wake up the sheeple after they see the road the Dems will take America down and start throwing the Dems out of office.

Senator Gregg was described by the AP as a fiscal conservative which might lead people to believe that he is a good choice for Commerce Secretary.  I have just one word to say in regards to that – TARP.  Gregg helped devise the TARP bailout which is anything but fiscally conservative.  Senator Gregg will probably accept the position because our representatives do not care much about the country anymore.  He will not think about a philibuster-proof Senate, he will think about the chance of losing his seat in two years so why not go for a sure thing like a four year cabinet seat that could become an eight year term if President Obama is re-elected.

I hope Senator Gregg will not accept the position if he is indeed the President’s pick, but I’m not holding out much hope.  In some ways it would be good for the Dems to have full control so nothing could be blamed on the Republicans, but somehow I know it will get twisted around and be Bush’s fault or Rush’s fault or whatever.  After all, the gays and blacks still believe the Democrats are on their side when they actually never have been.

Eleven Democrats Make Vote Against Recovery Plan Bi-partisan Effort

Poor President Obama.  He had wanted to make this Recovery Bullcrap of his a bi-partisan effort in passing it, but all the meetings and wining and dining had no effect on the Republicans as they stuck to (or at least appeared to) their principles and voted down the bill unanimously.  And even better is the fact that eleven Democrats joined the Republicans in a bi-partisan effort to vote against the stimulus.  I promised to post their names and here they are:

1. Bobby Bright - Alabama’s second district

2. Parker Griffith- Alabama’s fifth district

 3. Allen Boyd - Florida’s second district – Yeah for Florida!

4. Walt Minnick- Idaho’s first district

5. Brad Ellsworth - Indiana’s eighth district

6. Frank Kratovil - Maryland’s first district

7. Collin Peterson - Minnesota’s seventh district

8. Gene Taylor- Mississippi’s 4th district

9. Heath Shuler- North Carolina’s 11^th district

10. Paul Kanjorski - Pennsylvania’s 11th district

11. Jim Cooper- Tennessee’s fifth district 

Let’s hear it for the Blue Dogs!