Democrats are looking to increase the debt by $1.9 trillion.  This means that Obama and his liberal allies in the Congress have increased the debt more in 2 years than the Republicans did in 6.  Remember, these were the same people who said they could fund all their projects, and all their liberal ideas by raising taxes on the rich, cutting waste, and ending the war in Iraq.  Yikes!  It doesn’t look like it’s going well and unless these liberals stop all this spending we’ll soon be defaulting on the debt and that will throw us in a recession like the world has never seen.  Too bad liberals continue to spend our nation into the ground all under the compassionate belief that they are “helping the needy”.  We will all suffer for their “compassion”.  The wealth of this nation will be wiped out in 5 years unless these people are reigned in and this runaway spending is stopped.

Senate Democrats on Wednesday proposed allowing the federal government to borrow an additional $1.9 trillion to pay its bills, a record increase that would permit the national debt to reach $14.3 trillion.

The unpopular legislation is needed to allow the federal government to issue bonds to fund programs and prevent a first-time default on obligations. It promises to be a challenging debate for Democrats, who, as the party in power, hold the responsibility for passing the legislation.

It’s hardly the debate Democrats want or need in the wake of Sen.-elect Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts. Arguing over the debt limit provides a forum for Republicans to blame Democrats for rising deficits and spiraling debt, even though responsibility for the government’s financial straits can be shared by both political parties. Continued…

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Last night’s victory was more than just a wake up call to the Democratic Party, it was the beginning of a revolution.  No, the revolution is not between conservatives and liberals.  The revolution I speak about is within the Democratic Party.  This revolution will be fought by the Pelosi wing of the party and the Liberman wing.  Yes, I know he’s an “independent”, but  not by choice.  It was liberals who tried to defeat him, because he put security of this country ahead of convenient political posturing.

I’m looking forward to this revolution in the Democratic Party not because I want to see the Democrat bloody themselves, but because I want to see the Democrats going back to putting the needs of the nation ahead of a vacuous ideology rooted in socialism and Marxism.    Sensible Democrats must wrestled control back from these people who attempted to turn our democracy into a Hugo Chavez style regime.  Yes, call that hyperbole, but that is the road that Pelosi, Obama, and Reed were taking us.

The revolution as begun already as a number of Democrats are calling for the health-care bill to be thrown out and not abandoned, but redone, not under the cloak of darkness or under the thumb of special interest, but with Republicans putting all option on the table to include Tort reform, and open competition.

The revolution continues as Obama’s socialist choice to head the TSA has withdrawn his nomination.  Radical liberals are being shown the door and told to exit.  If Democrats want to survive as a viable party it is they who have to change.  America didn’t vote against conservatism in 2008, they voted against Republicans who became too much like liberal Democrats.  America sent Republicans a message in 2008; don’t be like liberals.  Hopefully, Republicans have learned.  Conservatism can and will win.

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- Senator McCain and Republican leaders are courting other Democrats who are upset with their party’s radical shift to the left and their Marxist agenda. Two Democrat Congress acknowledge that they’ve been approached by the Republican leadership, but have given reassurance to Pelosi and other Democrat leaders that they have no plans on switching their party.

- William Daley of Chicago wrote a warning in the Washington Post to Obama, “The announcement by Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith that he is switching to the Republican Party is just the latest warning sign that the Democratic Party — my lifelong political home — has a critical decision to make: Either we plot a more moderate, centrist course or risk electoral disaster not just in the upcoming midterms but in many elections to come.”  Hopefully, Pelosi, Reed, and their puppet Obama will ignore Daley’s warnings.  Read more here.

- The Senate passed their version of the health-care bill which doesn’t live up to Obama’s promises;  it raises taxes across the board, it leaves 8% uninsured, it’s funded through tax increases and not premiums, verification for illegals is weak, and it cuts medicare and medicaid.

- Fox is working with 19 Entertainment to order more seasons of the hit show ‘American Idol’.  People familiar with the talks say that Fox is committed to renewing the hit show for 3 or more seasons after the current contract expires in 2011.  The news comes just as rumors have been circulating that judge Simon Cowell may leave the show when his contract is up to focus on bringing his hit show ‘X Factor’ to the United States.

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There they go again.  Democrats are covering their asses again and I apologize, but there’s no other way to say it.

For over a year Democrats have been passing responsibility for the banking debacle.  Those who have actually educated themselves on the subject rather than listening to the lies that the Democrats have perpetuated know that both House and Senate Republicans, as well as the Bush administration, were calling on regulating the banking industry and for an audit of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.   Democrats accused Republicans of wanting to “lynch” Frank Raines, the CEO of Fannie Mae and an African-American.  We now know that had an audit been conducted and regulations in place, we might have been able to avert the banking disaster that ensued back in September of 2008.  So who were these Democrats that stood in the way of these banking regulations and why?

Well, the who is very easy.  Simply pull up any YouTube video and Democrat after Democrat on the banking committee defended the industry from 2001 all the way through 2008.  The why may have gotten a little bit more difficult to learn.  And this article tells you why… why we may never know the answer.

Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren’t present.

Towns’ action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican on the committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), over Towns’s failure to launch an investigation into Countrywide Mortgage’s reported sweetheart deals to VIPs.

For months Towns has refused Republican requests to subpoena records in the case. Last Thursday Committee Republicans, led by Issa, were poised to force an open vote on the subpoenas at a Committee mark-up meeting. The mark-up was abruptly canceled. Only Republicans showed up while Democrats chairs remained empty. 

Republicans charged that Towns cancelled the meeting to avoid the subpoena vote. Democrats first claimed the mark-up was canceled due to a conflict with the Financial Services Committee. Later they said it was abandoned after a disagreement among Democratic members on whether to subpoena records on the mortgage industry’s political contributions to Republicans. 

A GOP committee staffer captured video of Democrats leaving their separate meeting in private chambers after the mark-up was supposed to have begun. He spliced the video to other footage of the Democrats’ empty chairs at the hearing room, set it to the tune of “Hit the Road, Jack” and posted it on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s minority webpage, where it remained as of press time. 

Towns’s staffers told Republicans they were not happy about the presence of the video camera in the hearing room when they were not present. Issa’s spokesman said the Democrats readily acknowledged to Republicans that they changed the locks in retaliation to the videotape of the Democrats’ absence from the business meeting even though committee rules allow meetings to be taped.

“It’s not surprising that they would choose to retaliate given the embarrassment we caused by catching them in a lie on tape,” said Issa spokesman Kurt Bardella. “If only they 
would use their creative energy to do some actual oversight rather than resorting to immature tactics, but I guess we’re getting some insight into what lengths they’ll go to avoid addressing the Countrywide VIP issue.” 

Towns’s office said in a statement the locks were changed on Republicans “because they don’t know how to behave.” As for the video the GOP made, Towns’s office pointed out: “The minority is using taxpayer dollars to make these campaign style videos.” 

The partisan sniping recalls a similarly bitter name-calling match between House Republicans and Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee in 2003 when Republicans controlled the majority and former Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) chaired the panel. The episode ended in Thomas, known for his acerbic tongue, summoning the Capitol Police to evict an outraged gaggle of Democratic colleagues from a library in the Longworth House office building. 

The committee had convened that morning to consider a bipartisan bill that would revise the nation’s pension and retirement-saving system.

Democrats objected when Thomas brought up a 90-page substitute measure that had been released shortly before midnight the night before. Democrats said they needed more time to read it. Thomas disagreed. 

In response, Democrats objected to a normally perfunctory motion to dispense with the reading of the dense legislation. A clerk obligingly began reading it line by line. 

Democrats departed to a library just off the main hearing room, leaving only Rep. Fortney “Pete” Stark (D-Calif.) to prevent the Republicans from obtaining unanimous consent to skip the reading. After a few minutes, Thomas asked again for the unanimous consent, and instantly brought down his gavel. Stark told reporters he had objected, but Thomas had replied, “You’re too late.”

Even before Thomas gaveled the reading to an end, he had directed staff to call the Capitol Police to remove the Democrats form the library. 

Countrywide, now owned by Bank of America, was reported to have given VIP loans and treatment to lawmakers and officials at the federal and local level who were in a position to influence policy affecting the mortgage giant. Issa has repeatedly reminded Committee Democrats that Bank of America officials had said they would turn over records on the VIP program – but only in response to a subpoena. 

Towns, who received a mortgage loan from Countrywide but insists he was not part of the VIP program, has said he declined to launch an investigation because he does not want to interfere with an ongoing Justice Department probe into the matter.

Something tells me there are a whole lot of Democrats on that committee that are looking to protect themselves from some very lucrative deals that they got in exchange for preventing Republicans from passing legislation that would have regulated the industry.  And, by the way, didn’t Pelosi promise more transparency?

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Are the tides finally shifting for Republicans?  I think so.  Most analyst are turning to the New Jersey and Virginia governor’s races as a barometer for the mid-term elections.  In both those races, the Republican candidate holds a comfortable lead.  Other pundits turn toward Nevada where the Senate Majority Leader is in trouble. Democrat Senate Harry Reid loses by a significant margin against his potential Republican challengers in a hypothetical match up.

For me, races for Governor or Senate doesn’t indicate squat.  The late President Reagan would say that all races are local and it’s to the local races I look.  Last Tuesday, Wake County, here in North Carolina, had its races for school board.  While the races are said to be “non-partisan”, Republicans and Democrats each backed their candidates.  In the end, the Republican backed candidate won 3 out of the 4 school board seats by an average of a whopping 24% with the forth heading to run-off in November.  For Wake County, the Democrat loss was unusual.  And they didn’t stop there.  In the Raleigh City Council race, the Republican candidate unseated the incumbent Democrat.  Other Democrat City Council member did win reelection, however, their races were much closer than in previous years.  Raleigh  Mayor Meeker, who ran as a conservative Democrat, easily won his race for reelection.

So what’s causing the early shift in tides?  If you listen to Democrats, Americans voted overwhelmingly in 2008 for change- which they have interpreted as a rejection of conservative ideology.  Democrats would be naive to believe that.

In 2008, American grew tired of runaway spending and high deficits.  Americans wanted a balanced budget.  Americans were tired of the corruption that began to plague government and wanted to see accountability.  Americans were tired of seeing bailouts for large corporation who were unable to manage their businesses.  Americans did not go to the polls and vote to give up their freedoms or to vote themselves higher taxes.  Americans did not vote for redistribution of wealth guised as a Stimulus Bill. Americans did not vote to weaken our defenses in an effort to placate our adversaries. Americans did not vote for a socialized health-care system managed by the government.  Americans did not vote to lose the war in Afghanistan. Americans did not vote socialism over capitalism.  What Americans thought they were voting for was a government who would be accountable to the people and responsible with their tax dollars and using those tax dollars wisely and more efficiently to the betterment of all Americans and not a select few.  These local elections show that America may finally be awaking to find that they were lied to.

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