Rick Santorum endorsed presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney in an email to supporters sent late Monday night.

The one-time Republican presidential hopeful and former Pennsylvania senator said “the primary campaign certainly made it clear that Gov. Romney and I have some differences. But there are many significant areas in which we agree.”

“We both agree that President Obama must be defeated. The task will not be easy. It will require all hands on deck if our nominee is to be victorious. Governor Romney will be that nominee and he has my endorsement and support to win this the most critical election of our lifetime,” said Santorum.

While his backing could shore up Romney’s position with the GOP’s conservative base, some could view it as a lukewarm endorsement of the party’s eventual nominee.

When it comes right down to it, this isn’t about Obama or Romney. This election is about the very survival of the United States.  Was Romney my choice?  That would be a big fat NO!  Will I vote for him in November?  Damn skippy I will!  Why?  Because we will not survive another four years of socialist/marxist rule!

You folks who have decided you won’t vote for Romney because he doesn’t represent everything you wanted in the candidate….stay home!  Voting 3rd party, or write in will only get us another four years of complete destruction.  If you want the socialists to completely take over, then just use your vote for Obama.  Don’t give me that crap about ‘standing on principles’.  Standing on principle is great and I’m all for it, but when it comes to this country, you need to get your head screwed on straight, and stand WITH those of us who KNOW we have to boot Obama from the White House.  We didn’t get this far down the sewer in one day, and we sure won’t be getting out of it in one election cycle.  If giving Obama his pink slip isn’t your goal, then you have lost sight of our real problems, and it ain’t Mitt!  Our problem is the GOPer elites, who need to be replaced, and the lame stream media, that needs to relearn the meaning of investigative journalism.  IF we stand together, eventually, we just might be able to TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK!

Obama has not been a leader.  He, and his minions, have basically crowned him king, and kings don’t give a flying flip about the peons that pay his bills.

Before the 2008 election, when Barack Hussein Obama was running, there were so many reasons NOT to vote for him, but the masses didn’t listen.  As my overly liberal sister put it, “It’s time.”  Time for what?  To vote for a half black, half white man?  If that’s the reason people voted for him, they seriously got the shaft, didn’t they.

Listed in 2008:

1. He supports infanticide, literally!

2. His spiritual mentor for 20 years has been Jeremiah Wright whom Obama personally chose out of many Chicago pastors. It strains credibility that he didn’t know about Wright’s views. He listened to tapes of Rev. Wright when he was at Harvard Law! So why did he choose him and stick with him for so long? The only possible explanation is that he approved of Wright’s tirades.

3. He is a close friend of William Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn, unrepentant Weather Underground terrorists.

4. He is a target for assassination, not because he is black but because he is a Muslim apostate, according to devout Muslims around the world. Therefore, he cannot be a good Chief Diplomat to the Middle East.

5. He was mentored by a communist.

6. His economic plan will harm the US economy and create more fiscal irresponsibility with the Congressional Budget. Why do we want to return to the days of Jimmy Carter?

7. He is in favor of unilateral disarmament, leaving America defenseless against its enemies.

8. He is unaccomplished. He hasn’t really done anything of worth relative to the office of the US presidency. He’s only been in the Senate for about two years (assumed in office Jan of 2005 and announced his candidacy for the presidency in Feb 2007). One can’t be simultaneously a full-time senator and a full-time presidential candidate. Soon he will have campaigned for almost as long as he has been in the Senate.

9. He is willing to personally meet with hostile dictators like Hugo Chavez and Ahmadinejad with no preconditions. They don’t deserve such a privilege of meeting the President of the USA. Reagan negotiated from a position of strength, when he thought he could gain something. What does Obama hope to gain?

10. Three other people: Tony Rezko, Eric Holder, Jim Johnson. Why does Obama associate with such shady characters?

Has anything changed since then?  No, actually, it’s gotten worse.  He now has a record he can’t run on because it has been such a massive failure.

Let’s look at each one through today’s eyes.

1.  He still supports the murdering of babies and he expects the taxpayers to pay for it.

2.  He may have thrown Jeremiah Wright under the bus when it came out that Wright was an American hating bigot, but that ‘teaching’ is still ingrained in Obama’s life.  We just see it more clearly that Obama is also an American hating bigot.

3.  Still buds with Ayers and Dorn, even though the denials keep right on coming.

4.  He attended a Muslim school in Indonesia.  Whether he was ever really a Muslim or not, he obviously has way too many close ties with the very people who want to destroy us.  Putting members of the Muslim Brotherhood in posts of authority is irrational to any true blue American, yet, there they are, right out in the open for all to see!  And please, let’s not forget about the great “apology tour“!

5.  Obviously, the goals of communism are still alive and well with The One!  “FORWARD!“  I mean, after all, when you want to take from those who produce, and give it to those who sit on their collective asses in mommy’s basement, what else could you call it?

6.  Dear Lord in heaven!  Someone needs to teach that man basic math!  All his big talk, giving OUR money to failed companies, wanting us to believe it’s for the greater good to fund a bankrupt business that pushes ‘green’ crap that was doomed to failure from the git go!

7.   Yep, his dreams of a weak America against her enemies hasn’t changed.

8.  The only thing Barack Hussein Obama has accomplished since being sworn into office is perfecting his campaign technique.  He’s quite accomplished at reading a teleprompter.  He has the ‘blame Bush’ down pat, and he’s taken a bad economy, under the failed House leadership of Nancy Pelosi, and made it a WHOLE lot worse.  I don’t know, but I honestly don’t think that’s much to crow about, do you? Bush was no prize, but he hasn’t been in office for nearly four years.  Time to take credit where credit is due.  Oh, and bin Laden is dead, although Obama isn’t the one who risked his life to get the sleeze weasel, he is taking credit for it, naturally.

9.  It seems to me that having a chat with folks who want to murder innocent people, and that would include U.S. citizens, isn’t a real bright idea.  Nor is letting terrorists walk away scott free.  But yet, that is what this administration is doing, and thinks it’s a good idea.  I disagree.  I’m all for firing squads, don’cha know.

10.  Well, Obama is still associating with shady character, Eric Holder.  While Obama could be considered the WORST president this country has ever seen, I’m fairly sure that Holder is THE worst, and quite possibly the most corrupt, attorney general ever to head the Department of Justice.

As a whole, this entire administration has been an abysmal failure.  Unless, of course, you consider the destruction of a nation a success, then, by golly, he’s been one heck of a prez.

US President Barack Obama has lifted a ban on financial aid to the Palestinian Authority.

Obama stated that the aid was “important to the security interests of the United States.”

Could someone please explain to me how aiding and abetting terrorists is so “important to the security interests” of our country?????

The US Congress froze a $192 million aid package to the Palestinian Authority after its president, Mahmoud Abbas, defied US pressure and sought to attain UN endorsement of Palestinian statehood last September. The presidential waiver means that aid can now be delivered.

Said phony president really needs to pull his head out of the muzzies asses and start thinking about our REAL security once in a while.  The actions of this guy proves time, and time again, he is not on the side of the U.S. and the American people.  How the hell did this clown get to the top elected office of the land, and WHY the hell is he still there?????

Section 3 of Congress’s Palestinian Accountability Act, which applies to 2012, stipulates that “no funds available to any United States Government department or agency … may be obligated or expended with respect to providing funds to the Palestinian Authority.” Obama has now signed a waiver, however, the White House said Friday, and asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to inform Congress accordingly.

The House of Representatives holds the purse strings. The majority in said House are Republicans. Well, at least they SAY they are, so someone please tell me how Obama can get his hands on a single dime, without the ok of the House? My understanding, and I may be totally off base, he shouldn’t be able to, so how is it that he can just wave his magic wand, and POOF! Funds available to a bunch of ruthless thugs who would kill our closest….ONLY….ally in the region, and us too, if given half a chance. Does NO ONE up there in that cesspool we call a Capital have a backbone? Should we send them some spines?

The AFP news agency quoted White House spokesman Tommy Vietor as saying the $192 million aid package would be devoted to “ensuring the continued viability of the moderate PA government under the leadership of [Palestinian Authority] President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.”

“Moderate”? Seriously? Are these people so freakin’ clueless? They LIE! They lie to us infidels on a regular basis, and the morons just suck it up like mother’s milk. Give me a flippin’ break! The media keeps assuring us that Obama is a real smart guy. If that’s true, then he is also a traitor. If not, then for the love of all that’s holy, get him the hell out of our White House!

And once again, I will repeat….THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PALESTINIAN!

H/T: The Blaze

You’ll also notice, that those in the middle ‘class’ bracket pay more than the tier above them.  Wonder why that is?  Because the government is doing it’s best to kill the “middle class”.

Of all the many complaints about airport security and the TSA, one of the most common is that they make little distinction between plausible security threats and passengers unlikely to be doing anything wrong.

And a recent incident in Wichita, Kansas has reinforced that argument, as a four-year-old girl was apparently subjected to a humiliating ordeal after she hugged her grandmother while she was waiting in line.

The girl was accused of having a gun and declared a ‘high security threat’, while agents threatened to shut down the whole airport if she could not be calmed down.

When asked about the overbearing treatment the girl received, a TSA spokesman did not apologise and insisted that correct procedures had been followed.

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE!!

Haven’t we let this utter………………..BULLSHIT to go on long enough?  This has gone far beyond bad jokes.  Our government is ALLOWING one of ITS agencies to terrorize old women, children, the infirm, and people just trying to get from point A to point B with as little hassle as possible.

It wasn’t bad enough that airlines no longer give actual service to their customers, who PAY for the privilege of having rude ticket agents abuse them, be crammed into tiny seats with no leg room like cattle, and have their property stolen. No…that wasn’t enough. Now we are subjected to humiliation, a total violation of our 4th Amendment rights, and small children are traumatized.

Instead of watching for those who WOULD do harm, because their so called ‘religion’ tells them to, this government agency runs roughshod over innocent American citizens!

I would like to know when Congress is going to put a stop to this.  NOW would be a real good time.  It should NEVER have gone this far!  We have been stripped of our liberties, one at a time, slowly over the years, and no one seems to notice.  The frog was put into the cold water.  Now, apparently, that’s just not fast enough for OUR employees.  No..they’ve turned the burner up, and the water is on the verge of boiling.  It’s time for us frogs to jump!

Screw the politically correct.  Shove that multiculturalism where the sun don’t shine, and take your diversity and choke on it!  I don’t give a flying flip if I offend anyone or not!  Man didn’t give me the right to be ‘secure in my person‘, God did.  It’s man, in the form of far over reaching government, who has violated nearly every aspect of ‘Divine Law‘.

When will see passengers, or just the general public, lined up against the wall and shot, because they object to the invasion of their person.

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes … but when a long train of abuses and usurpations … evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.” – Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence

Citing an increasing debt burden, Egan-Jones Ratings Co. downgrades the US credit rating another notch. This is the second time they have done this in 8 months.

Here is what the President Sean Egan said in a telephone interview:

Reason for downgrade: “the increasing debt load coupled with the fact that there has been no tangible progress in addressing the country’s growing debt to GDP”

“Unfortunately, the debt is growing fairly rapidly while the GDP is not.”

The debt has climbed 23.6% from 2008 to 2010.

What is Obama doing to address this? Probably taking a vacation or campaigning.

This is dated April 9.  It’s now April 22.  Am I the only one who never heard a word about another downgrade?  I realize I haven’t been keeping up with the outside world as well as I should….too much going on…but seriously, I do watch the news once in a while, and if I heard about this, it evidently went in one ear, and out the other, which I find highly unlikely!

H/T: Lanie

Social-diversity programs as applied to the U.S. military have been accompanied by a startling number of sex crimes: 515 rapes, 414 aggravated sexual assaults and 349 forcible sodomies documented by the Criminal Investigation Command in just 2011, according to an analysis of several military reports.

Where to even start on this one. *shakes head*

“Pentagon officials regularly praise their own work and proclaim undeserved ‘success,’ even though evidence of sexual misconduct, both consensual and non-consensual, continues to accelerate, year after year,” said Elaine Donnelly, chief of the Center for Military Readiness.

If the increased number of sexual assaults in the Army is what they consider ‘success’, we have got some major problems going on in the Pentagon.

The organization studied several new military reports to arrive at its assessment of what’s been going on in the ranks over the past few years, as Barack Obama and his compatriots in Congress eliminated the longstanding “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that banned open homosexuals from the military.

Repealing DODT was a really bad idea. For many years, gays served in the military, many with honor, but they weren’t allowed to ‘flaunt’ their sexuality. Many of those around them ‘knew’, but as long as it wasn’t blatant, then most had no problem. However….the increase in assaults can NOT be blamed on this repeal. The increase in assaults began when someone had the bright idea that men and women were the same, and should be trained together. Are they out of their flippin’ minds? Obviously, the answer is……………..YES!

“It is time to reconsider and change flawed policies that are weakening the culture of the only military we have,” Donnelly said.

Gee….y’think? Contrary to what the feminazis would like the world to believe, men and women ARE different. We think differently, we react to the same situation differently, and in case some fool in the Pentagon hasn’t noticed, our bodies are quite different. When you put men and women in tight quarters together, you are going to have problems. Contrary to what we’d all like to believe, not everyone who joins the military is honorable!

She said so far, teams of professional sexual assault response counselors, untold hours of mandatory training, preemptive punishments, bureaucracy, conferences, meetings, and feel-good gimmicks have produced:

• A hike of 22 percent since 2007 in the sexual assaults in all branches
• A doubling since 2006 of the number of violent attacks and rapes in the Army, from 663 in 2006 to 1,313 last year
• A “chilling trend” of violent sex crimes rising at the rate of 14.6 percent annual, “and the rate is accelerating”
• A 28 percent increase in the offense rate, and a 20 percent increase in offenders from 2006-2011 in sex crimes in the active-duty Army
• A jump in male sexual assault victims from 10 percent in 2010 to 14 percent in confidential reports for 2011
• The need to fire senior enlisted Navy officers at the rate of nearly two per month because of sexual misconduct.

Well now, I don’t know about you, but I think their little social experiments are a massive FAILURE!

Donnelly explained the problem has been developing for some time. She cited the 1997 recommendation from the Kassebaum-Baker Commission for the Army to end the gender-integrated basic training because it was “resulting in less discipline, less unit cohesion, and more distraction from training.”

But the advice was ignored, she said.

Ignored?  I’m SOOOO surprised.    I repeat, men and women are different. It’s not rocket science! Lowering standards to accommodate females training with the males wasn’t such a bright idea either. And let’s not forget that many recruits come out of areas that, shall we say, produce less than stellar citizens. Gang infiltration of the military has become a HUGE problem. Don’t they do background checks on recruits?

And Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, even while noting that the military branch experiences three sexual assaults every day, called for observance of a “Sexual Assault Awareness Month” that included “adult interactive plays.”

In case you aren’t aware, Mabus is an Obama appointee.  I know…another shocker.  All the feel good ‘let’s be aware’ crap they force on people isn’t going to change facts!  I wonder if he’s aware how much of a pussy he sounds like coming up with dumb ideas like this?  Naw…none of ‘em up there in the ‘the swamp” have a clue.  Just because he served a whopping two years on a ship does not make him a military expert, nor does it make him a good choice for that position.  If you want a qualified Navy Secretary, you find one that made a career of it, and knows the ins and outs of that branch.  Ya don’t come up with a freakin’ lifetime politician, who lost touch with the real world a long time ago!

“Despite tangible evidence of failure, the same officials expect free-rein to implement policies that would worsen the situation. On Feb. 9, 2012, Pentagon briefers announced their intent to promote ‘diversity’ by incrementally implementing controversial recommendations of the Military Diversity Leadership Commission,” she said.

That word ‘diversity’ has caused more problems that it could ever solve!  Oh, sure, it would be nice if these feel good programs had a positive effect, but can you name one that hasn’t made matters worse?   I don’t want ‘diversity’ in our military.  I want lean, mean, fighting machines!  I want our soldiers trained to fight, to win…not sexually assault their fellow soldiers.  All these ‘progressive programs’ are turning our military into a bunch of pussies!  I know many who served our country with honor who are just as appalled as I am at what the strongest and BEST military force in the world is being turned into.

The report said the next White House administration, to minimize damage and reverse course, should “put the needs of the military above ‘diversity metrics.’” And the military should reinforce core values and policies that are known to reinforce personal discipline, it said.

The needs of our military should ALWAYS come first! Without discipline, you have chaos. I thin we’ve seen enough D.C. caused chaos for 10 lifetimes in just the last few years.

Basic training also needs to be separate for genders, women should be exempt from direct ground combat units, and military policies should be “based on reality, not ‘social fiction.’”

This is just plain common sense! I repeat, men and women are DIFFERENT!

“For more than 20 years, feminists, social engineers, and ‘diversity’ advocates have used sexual politics and scandals to intimidate Pentagon officials. Policy makers who capitulated to sexual politics have not been held accountable for their decisions, but they ought to be now. It is time to drop the groupthink and reexamine conventional wisdom,” the report said.

If Pentagon officials can be intimidated by a bunch of bull dykes (yeah…go ahead…call me a bigot…don’t care!), then they are in the wrong business! The Pentagon should be above petty politics, and whining activists!

“Contrary to claims of complete success warranting further ‘progress,’ the Army’s own analysis of risk factors reveals a connection between liberal social policies and escalating violent sex crimes in the military. Exposing female soldiers to even more violence – at the hands of land combat enemies – would not solve the problem. It would only make it worse.”

Once again…I’m shocked! SHOCKED, I tell ya! Aren’t you? Moronic liberals always seem to forget, there are consequences for EVERY action. It’s past time to lay the blame directly at the feet of the liberal>progressive>socialist>commies! In all honestly, I do believe it is their intent to destroy the military. A weakened military makes for a weak country. A weak country is ripe for a takeover. One thing the progressive fail to remember. There are a whole lot of military, former military, and plain ol’ civilians that will stop them in the quest to turn the U.S. into a “worker’s paradise’, where everyone is the same….miserable in poverty.

The Thomas More Law Center announced a federal FOIA lawsuit against the Navy, seeking to obtain records that are expected to show intentional deception by the Pentagon “to gain congressional support for repeal of the 1993 law regarding open homosexual conduct in the military, usually called ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’”

The lawsuit is based on the IG report obtained by Donnelly, “which suggested that a distorted Pentagon study of homosexuals in the military was produced and leaked solely to persuade Congress to lift the ban on open homosexuality.”

Again, to lay this increase of sexual assault solely on the doorstep of the repeal of DADT is just as misleading as the report stating the most of the military supported the repeal. The increase in assaults started before the repeal, yet actually about the time the Democrats took control of Congress. Hmmm….

Oh, and let’s not forget that this administration called the murder of 14 people at Fort Hood “work place violence’.  Are they going to call these assaults foreplay?

The day the Democrats took over was not January 20, 2009, it was actually January 3, 2007, the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress. The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995. For those who are listening to liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is “Bush’s Fault”, think about this:

On January 3, 2007, the day the Democrats took control of Congress:

The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush’s Economic policies had SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION!

Remember that day…?

January 3rd, 2007 was the day Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee. The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?

BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!  THANK YOU DEMOCRATS (especially Barney), for taking us from 13,000 DOW, 3.5 GDP and 4.6% Unemployment to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!

(BTW: Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie – starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy. Barney blocked it and called it a “Chicken Little Philosophy”, but…the sky did fall!)

And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac?  OBAMA!!!

And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie?  OBAMA and the Democrat Congress, especially BARNEY!!!!

So when someone tries to blame Bush…  REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007…. THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!

Bush may have been in the car, but the Democrats were in charge of the gas pedal and steering wheel while they were driving the economy into the ditch. Budgets are not passed in the White House. They are passed by Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 (until the 2010 election and the Republicans took the majority in the House) is the Democrat Party.

Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009, as well as 2010 & 2011. Obama has now gone more than 1,000 days without a budget, and is still blaming it on the Republicans! In that first year, Congress had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending when Bush, somewhat belatedly, got tough on spending increases.

For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed “Lame Duck President” George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budget. And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of those massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009. Let’s remember what the deficits looked like during that period:

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.

If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself and a Democratic Congress.

In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is: “I inherited a deficit that I voted for, and then I expanded that deficit four-fold since January 20th 2009.”

Of course, the left will do all they can to silence the truth, but as Jesus said in John 8:32, “…And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

“The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.”

Shared by Sharon, with a few additions of my own.

Beware the Taxmageddon
The Foundry

Brace yourself. In a mere 271 days, you and your fellow Americans will be hit with a tax hike the likes of which this country has never seen. The Washington Post aptly called the unprecedented $494 billion tax hike “Taxmageddon,” and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke described it as a “massive fiscal cliff.” Whatever your preferred imagery, it’s a really big deal.

Despite all the warnings, President Barack Obama has kept his silence while Congress has made no apparent effort to prevent this impending calamity to families and the economy. The prevailing wisdom is that “something will get done” in a lame duck session of Congress after the election. But why wait? And why after the election?

Here’s why you should be worried. For starters, remember that this is the same President who in 2009 promised, “if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime.” That’s a vow he’s broken, and in 2013, things are going to get even worse if this year Obama doesn’t lead and Congress doesn’t act. Katy, bar the door, there’s big trouble in store.

The tax man won’t draw his billions from the American taxpayer with just one big needle — the massive tax increase will be the product of tax policies expiring in seven different categories, on top of five new Obamacare tax hikes taking effect. In a new paper, Taxmageddon: Massive Tax Increase Coming in 2013, Heritage’s Curtis Dubay details the tax hikes that will occur if President Obama and Congress do not act before the end of the year:

Almost 34 percent of the tax increase from Taxmageddon comes from the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts. These cuts are best known for reducing marginal income tax rates, but they also reduced the marriage penalty, increased the Child Tax Credit and the adoption credit, and increased tax breaks for education costs and dependent care costs.

Another 25 percent of Taxmageddon comes from the expiration of the once-temporary payroll tax cut. The expiration of the patch on the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) — which would raise the income threshold over which families qualify for the AMT to prevent middle-income families from paying this tax that is only supposed to impact “the rich” — accounts for 24 percent of the total potential 2013 tax increase.

The balance of the tax hikes comes in part from new taxes under Obamacare, the expiration of tax cuts in the 2009 stimulus, the expiration of a group of policies known as “tax extenders,” changes in the current policy on the death tax (in 2013, it will rise from 35 percent today to 55 percent and the exemption will fall from $5 million to $3.5 million), and the expiration of businesses’ ability to fully expense new capital investments.

This $494 billion in higher taxes will certainly hit families and business hard in 2013, but their effects are already being felt. Dubay explains that Americans must plan for tomorrow, and the tremendous uncertainty about tax policy makes the future much more uncertain, thus discouraging the investments and other actions needed to spur the economy to create jobs faster today.

So while the President and Congress appear content to put off ’til the 11th hour what they can and should do today, those who will have to pay the higher tax burden are waiting to see what the future holds. Dubay says that this is “slowing job creation and stopping many of the millions of unemployed Americans from going back to work.”

Early on in his presidency, Barack Obama said he knew about the impact of taxes. Back in 2009, on a visit to Elkhart, Indiana, Obama emphatically stated his belief that raising taxes in a recession is a bad idea. Though America is not in recession today, it still struggles with very high unemployment, and so the President’s logic applies with equal force — raising taxes is a drag on job creation. Unfortunately, in a speech in Washington on Tuesday, President Obama unabashedly revealed that preventing tax hikes is not his priority. In fact, he wants to see even more taxes imposed on the American people and on job creators all in the name of “fairness” — may of which are in his budget. That’s a political doctrine, not an economic policy, and it’s a proven recipe for economic disaster.

If the President doesn’t work with Congress to take action soon to prevent a 2013 Taxmageddon, his brand of “fairness” will result in the biggest tax increase in the nation’s history. And that storm will wreak even more damage on America’s already fragile economy. Congress shouldn’t wait for Obama to take the lead in preventing a policy nightmare he might actually favor. Instead, it should act now to prevent these tax hikes from crushing America’s families and our economy.

Another Vision to Solve the Budget Crisis
The Foundry

While Washington’s eyes are focused on the historic Obamacare hearings at the Supreme Court, work continues across the street in the House of Representatives where some Members of Congress — though not all — are doing their best to clean up Washington’s budgetary mess.

It has now been 1,064 days since the U.S. Senate passed a budget, the national debt is nearing $16 trillion, and the deficit is at $3 trillion. In the face of this mess, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) yesterday unveiled its plan to balance the budget in five years, and it does so with entitlement reforms, sharp and aggressive spending cuts, avoiding tax hikes, including pro-growth tax reform, and providing for a strong national defense.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), RSC Chairman, and Rep Scott Garrett (R-NJ), also of the committee, issued a statement saying that their plan is a clear, practical way to cut spending and balance the budget — and that leadership is needed in Washington’s budgetless vacuum:

Our country’s spiraling debt crisis has reached a tipping point. We need a plan that makes the hard decisions now, not later, to solve our spiraling debt crisis. In the absence of President Obama coming forward to lead our country on the most pressing issue of our time, the RSC stepped up to the plate today by putting forward a bold solution to balance the budget in five years.

The RSC’s budget proposal follows the one issued by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), which cuts spending in budget year 2013 and into the future, includes market-based reforms to health entitlements, and features a solid, growth-oriented tax plan. Contrast those plans with President Obama’s FY 2013 budget, which delivers a fourth consecutive annual deficit exceeding $1 trillion with spending that rises from $3.8 trillion to $5.8 trillion in 2022.

Or just pause for a moment to consider the Senate’s non-efforts. Though it would take Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) only 51 votes to pass a budget resolution, he is instead opting for inaction. As The Wall Street Journal‘s Stephen Moore writes, “The reality is that Mr. Reid has made a calculation that Democrats are better off with no budget at all. This allows them to attack Mr. Ryan’s cuts to programs like Medicare without Democrats having to show their own hand.”

The RSC’s plan isn’t perfect — Heritage’s Patrick Knudsen says it “falls short in substantiating many of its significant spending cuts with adequate policy detail.” Those details are necessary because budgets should be policy driven, not numbers driven. But Knudsen explains that it is, nevertheless, an “ambitious effort aimed at solving the twin crises of spending and debt.” Among the plan’s features, it contains $3.4 trillion in entitlement savings, repeals Obamacare, includes a solid (though very basic) step for Social Security by gradually raising the retirement age, and adopts Ryan’s plan to boldly transform Medicare into a premium support program. Knudsen concludes, “Notwithstanding its limitations, the aims and convictions behind this plan should not be ignored.”

Among some quarters, aims and convictions are lacking on Capitol Hill, and leadership on the left is taking a pass on doing anything to get spending under control. And while everyone pays a price for higher debt, including slower economic growth, higher taxes and a lack of entrepreneurial independence, there is one group of Americans much worse off than the rest. America’s Debt-Paying Generation — those who are under 30 — will struggle throughout their lives to pay down the debt we’re racking up today.

Heritage’s Saving the American Dream plan offers a fiscal blueprint that all budget proposals should follow — change and simplify the tax code, cut bureaucratic and regulatory spending, and begin reforming Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid so that those who need it most can count on them. It’s a good sign that conservative voices in Washington are offering ideas to help avert America’s fiscal disaster. Now it’s time for Congress to act on them.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday evening that the 2010 healthcare law, which prompted complaints from conservatives that Democrats far exceeded their constitutional authority, actually helps people meet the goal outlined in the Declaration of Independence, which promotes mankind’s rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Speaking on the House floor, Pelosi called on her colleagues to remember “what our founders put forth in our founding documents, which is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And that is exactly what the Affordable Care Act helps to guarantee.”

Pelosi explained that the law gives people the flexibility they need to pursue these goals, since it makes it easier for them to switch jobs in order to pursue their career or family goals.

Seriously, the woman needs to lay off the botox.  It’s turned what little brain she had into plastic mush!  You seriously need to actually read those documents….on a regular basis…because evidently, you have NO clue what’s in them.  Rights come from God and responsibilities belong to the people for their own choices and lives, NOT the government.

What “gives people the flexibility” to pursue their goals is a government that doesn’t intrude on every aspect of their lives! A government that actually does what it was created to do, and back the hell off from everything else! That includes our health care! It’s none of their flippin’ business. People can’t pursue their personal goals anymore because they can’t afford them. Why? Because of the Nancy Pelosis of the world have made sure they can’t by sucking the life out of their dreams.

And, by the way, ya dumb broad…there are NO guarantees….for anything!  *shakes head*  And people keep voting for that lunatic?  Says a LOT of San Fransisco, doesn’t it!  Can we kick them out?

Thank you Nevada, for giving us such a useless piece of crap in the form of Harry Reid.  Sharon Angle may not have been perfect, but at least she has something resembling a brain.  Reid, on the hand, is about as brainless as a a split log!  When bringing up the subject of impeachment, perhaps we should talk about removing the brain dead Reid from his current position of power?

An examination of “administrative earmarks” around the time of congressional votes on key pieces of President Obama’s agenda suggests the White House used its power to fund local projects as a means to “buy” votes for major legislative efforts.

Administrative earmarking refers to the federal government’s allocation of funds from its discretionary budget for specific projects. The practice is less transparent than legislative earmarking, since, according to the Congressional Research Service, “[t]here is no source that defines and comprehensively identifies Administrative earmarks.”

But an analysis of grants from agencies during the early years of the Obama administration shows that the districts of moderate Democrats, whose support was so crucial for Obama during the 111th Congress, received large sums right around the passage of three key pieces of legislation: Obamacare, Dodd-Frank financial regulations, and the cap-and-trade bill.

During the run-up to votes in the House of Representatives for each of those pieces of legislation, the rate of administrative earmarking spiked. This chart shows the number of grants requested by 12 federal agencies, as documented at Grants.gov.

The number of grants given by those agencies spiked precisely when the House was considering each of the three pieces of legislation.

Even more troubling: during the same time periods, significant grant money went to the districts of numerous Democratic representatives who looked to face tough battles for re-election. The legislation Obama was attempting to get through Congress was generally unpopular, and vulnerable members needed other ways to appeal to constituents. Federal grants made for a perfect opportunity.

Then-Rep. Chris Carney (D-PA), for instance, kept his support for Dodd-Frank quiet. His website never posted a press release announcing his “yes” vote on the bill. It did, however, tout two federal grants totaling $3.6 million for businesses in his district two days before the Dodd-Frank vote.

Then-Rep. Zach Space (D-OH) hailed from a district reliant on the coal industry, which would have been hit particularly hard by cap and trade. He voted for the measure, but neglected to publicize the vote on his website. He did, however, announce eight federal grants totaling roughly $1.8 million all made during the month before the House passed cap and trade.

All told, 32 vulnerable House Democrats received significant federal grant money in the periods leading up to or directly after their votes on at least one of these three pieces of legislation (see charts below), suggesting those grants were used either to encourage or reward votes in favor of the administration’s position.

The use of administrative earmarks to “buy votes” is not new. President Richard Nixon saw the practice as “a way to gain political support for Nixon’s re-election by using federal resources and grants to influence key states and voting blocs.”

President Franklin Roosevelt was an early pioneer of the political use of administrative earmarking. He “deliver[ed] large defense projects to key states whose electoral votes he wanted to secure,” according to historian Burt Folsom.

But while administrative earmarking is a practice used by nearly every administration, CRS found in a report published in April 2010 — immediately after the time period at issue — that “[b]oth the number and value of earmarks requested solely by the President increased since FY2008.” The number of earmarks had increased by 54 percent, CRS found, while the value of those requests had increased by a whopping 126 percent.

The timing of those requests also suggests political factors at play. Heritage’s Hans von Spakovsky, a former Federal Elections Commissioner, said the administration’s actions “show how taxpayer funds are used for crass political purposes — it is a rank abuse of the government’s power and another sign of this administration’s lack of a moral compass.”

Sheets of vulnerable seats 2000 through 2008 and what ‘bought’ them  here.  (near bottom of page)

IMHO, Representative Allen West is one of the most honorable people we are lucky enough to have in Congress. I honestly wish there were more like him.

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

He has not upheld the Constitution. He has not preserved or protected anything. He has usurped power that does not belong to the executive branch of our form of government (Republic).   Congress stomps their feet, but does absolutely nothing to stop him.  After three years, one of which the Republicans controlled the House, why has no one brought impeachment proceedings against the fascist?  Why hasn’t he been arrested and charged with treason?  I can tell you why…  We have a bunch of cowards in Congress who, while whining about the blatant violations of the current POTUS, don’t have the cajones to actually stop him from ripping our Constitution to shreds.

1. Grant reprieves and pardons (except in impeachment cases)
2. Appoint Ambassadors (again with the consent of senate)
3. Appoints public ministers and consuls (with the consent of senate)
4. Can reject or accept the judges of the supreme court (with the consent of senate)
5. Can appoint basically any officer that is ranked below him with the consent of the senate
6. Can fill up vacancies during the recess of the senate

I have seen nothing in the document that states the president force anyone to do anything.

1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. (emphasis added)

WE, The People are granted five VERY important freedoms in the First Amendment:

Speech
The First Amendment says that people have the right to speak freely without government interference.

Press
The First Amendment gives the press the right to publish news, information and opinions without government interference. This also means people have the right to publish their own newspapers, newsletters, magazines, etc.

Religion
The First Amendment prohibits government from establishing a religion and protects each person’s right to practice (or not practice) any faith without government interference.  (emphasis mine)

Petition
The First Amendment says that people have the right to appeal to government in favor of or against policies that affect them or that they feel strongly about. This freedom includes the right to gather signatures in support of a cause and to lobby legislative bodies for or against legislation.

Assembly
The First Amendment says that people have the right to gather in public to march, protest, demonstrate, carry signs and otherwise express their views in a nonviolent way. It also means people can join and associate with groups and organizations without interference.

Nowhere does it state that the president can force religious organizations to go against their doctrine.  Who would you rather answer to, Obama….or God.  I choose God!

Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t think anyone should be discriminated against, for any reason.  I do, however, feel that making a certain group of people a ‘special class’ is ridiculous!   It is more and more obvious that this country has lost it’s roots, and we are now floundering in the cesspool of ‘secular religion’.  The intent of the bills on the surface, and I’m just guessing here, is to stop bullying.  Well, we already have laws that are suppose to do that, as in ya don’t punch someone in the nose because they don’t think or act like you. 

Congress evidently believes they can overrule God!

Leviticus 18:22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.

This is not the only passage in the Bible that sets down the law, but it is the most well known one.

A brief summary of what this bill will do (from an email from the Public Advocate of the United States):

*** Require schools to teach appalling homosexual acts so “homosexual students” don’t feel “singled out” during already explicit sex-ed classes;

*** Spin impressionable students in a whirlwind of sexual confusion and misinformation, even peer pressure to “experiment” with the homosexual “lifestyle;”

*** Exempt homosexual students from punishment for propositioning, harassing, or even sexually assaulting their classmates, as part of their specially-protected right to “freedom of self-expression;”

*** Force private and even religious schools to teach a pro-homosexual curriculum and purge any reference to religion if a student claims it creates a “hostile learning environment” for homosexual students.

In reality, the bills are promoting discrimination, but that’s not all that unusual for the radical left.

SEC. 5. FEDERAL ADMINISTRATIVE ENFORCEMENT; REPORT TO CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.

(b) Enforcement- Compliance with any requirement adopted pursuant to this section may be effected–

(1) by the termination of or refusal to grant or to continue assistance under such program or activity to any recipient as to whom there has been an express finding on the record, after opportunity for hearing, of a failure to comply with such requirement, but such termination or refusal shall be limited to the particular political entity, or part thereof, or other recipient as to whom such a finding has been made, and shall be limited in its effect to the particular program, or part thereof, in which such noncompliance has been so found; or

So, let me get this straight…no pun intended…if a public school doesn’t doesn’t comply with this law, and put their (both student and faculty) eternal souls at jeopardy, the federal gubmint will cut off funding? Somehow, refusing to return OUR money to OUR schools just doesn’t seem right. Well, of course not…it’s wrong, aka LEFT.

Section 7, STATE IMMUNITY

(a) State Immunity- A State shall not be immune under the 11th Amendment to the Constitution from suit in Federal court for a violation of this Act.

So, a state can’t opt out of this obvious violation of the 1st Amendment? Am I reading that correctly?  People are suppose to be free to speak their minds, practice their faith, and NOT be penalized.  With these bills, a person can NOT practice their faith, or speak about it to others.  But yet, the religion of government is free to impose their will on the American people.  Does anyone else have a problem with this, besides me?

Please, go read BOTH bills.  They aren’t very long.  I don’t much care for bullies, of any gender, or status.  What I am seeing in these bills is the bullying of the American people by the very Congress whose salary they pay.

There is a petition to Congress, opposing these bills, not that Congress gives a flying flip what WE, The People have to say, but it doesn’t hurt to give it a shot!