HOPE HE LEAVES THE DIM/LIBS...

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/14/america/lieberman.php

IF HE RAN AS VP W MCCAIN, I WOULDN'T HAVE TO HOLD MY NOSE QUITE AS HARD TO VOTE

DEM/LIBS WILL EMBARRASS THEMSELVES OVER THE REPUB VP:

DEM/LIBS WILL EMBARRASS THEMSELVES OVER THE REPUB VP:

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN29443564200...pNews&rpc=22&sp=true

WHAT A BUNCH OF DWEEBS

MORE FROM THE LOW-LIFE LIBBIES:

http://townhall.com/blog/g/9b3375c7-6a27-4b5e-9204-b267282a1ce1

GOOD DECISION BY OBAMA

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Obama_on_Palin.html?showall

ANOTHER GREAT MEMBER OF CONGRESS:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D930NU400&show_article=1

SEE IF THE DIM/LIB MEDIA CAN EXPLAIN IT ALL AWAY

RACISTS ARE LOSING AND THEY KNOW IT:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080905164053.kt1koqqw&show_article=1

CAN WE EXPECT TO SEE AN ARTICLE ABOUT A SEA OF BLACK FACES AT THE DIM/LIB CONVENTION

THE MEDIA CAN NOT SAVE THEM THIS YEAR, EITHER

The only thing missing from the Rangel story is the current market value of the property. Also, as this was an investment, did he write off the costs of his visits to the DR?

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RACISTS ARE LOSING AND THEY KNOW IT:

The ideology of racism in this country doesn't have a Democratic or Republican affiliation, per se. I would find it more deeply rooted in a culture of the conservative Whites and the Rednecks, who aren't intelligent enough to know how stupid they really are anyway. The only way to eliminate racism is to eliminate labeling and with the exception of a few countries, minorities aren't listed.

real Conservqatives, such as myself were out there protesting segragation in the early and mid 1960's. In the 1950's,conservatives like Eisenhower, were ENFORCING the laws requiring an end to forces segragation.

Those fighting against integration today are not Conservatives, but old and new REACTIONARIES. It is true, reactionaries know no party. We will never be free of reactionaries, as it is a very narutal response to an "injury" real or imagined. So we must MANAGE and educate these folk as best we can and severly punish physical violence by them.

BTW, there are many reactionaries who are very anti-conservative and call them the anti-semetic name "neo-con" , dishonestly and utterly incorrectly, of course.

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real Conservatives, such as myself were out there protesting segregation in the early and mid 1960's. In the 1950's,conservatives like Eisenhower, were ENFORCING the laws requiring an end to forces segregation.

The Conservatives I speak of, were from the Old ways and the Old South. They were not reactionaries, but white, conservative, old wealth, who didn't considers minorities as equal on any footing. Immigrants and descendants of those English, German, and Scottish immigrants, who refused to give up the old ways, even as late as the 80s.

DISGUSTING AND TYPICAL OF THE LIBERAL CONGRESS:

Pentagon budget, disaster aid set to advance

By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer

Monday, September 22, 2008

(09-22) 13:19 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Congress is scrambling to pass the Pentagon budget, aid for flood and hurricane victims and $25 billion in loans for Detroit automakers in a late-session burst of activity that's flying under the radar compared with efforts to bail out Wall Street.

Funding for veterans health care and homeland security programs is also in the mix as Democratic leaders ponder what other items should catch a ride on must-do legislation to keep the government running beyond the Oct. 1 start of the 2009 budget year.

A stopgap bill must pass to avoid a government shutdown, so Democrats are viewing it as a locomotive to pull past a skeptical White House measures such as the automaker loan and a doubling of home heating subsidies for the poor.

Passage of the bill is complicated by the question of how much further oil exploration to permit off the U.S. coast. Democrats are seeking to attach a plan to open waters 50 miles off the Pacific and Atlantic coasts to oil and natural gas development, though only if the adjacent states agree to it.

Republicans and the White House want to completely lift current restrictions on coastal drilling, and President Bush' veto pen gives them the edge.

Discussions on the budget are far overshadowed by the ongoing debate over a $700 billion bailout plan for Wall Street. But the amount of money at stake — including a $488 billion Pentagon funding bill that hasn't seen a second's worth of public debate or review — is almost as great.

Details of the emerging legislation remain secret, but its outlines have come out in interviews with aides to both the House and Senate Appropriations committees, as well as aides to top House and Senate leaders.

The legislation is coming together in a remarkably secretive process in which decisions are concentrated in the hands of just a few lawmakers such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis.

The unusual process means thousands of lawmakers' pet projects of the very sort blasted by GOP presidential nominee John McCain on the campaign trail would escape scrutiny, including up to $5 billion worth of such "earmarks" in the defense budget alone.

Congressional leaders hope to pass the budget legislation this week, but several issues remained undecided Monday. For starters, it wasn't clear how much the White House would be willing to accept.

Bush has threatened to veto bills that don't cut the number and cost of earmarks in half or cause agency operating budgets, taken together, to exceed his request.

While top-level congressional leaders haven't made final decisions, elements of the year-end budget package are likely to include:

_Stopgap government funding. Most federal agencies would see their budgets frozen at current levels for several weeks or even into March. Lawmakers want to avoid a postelection "lame duck" session, but fear the White House will force them to return to session in November in hopes Congress would approve a free trade pact with Colombia.

_Security-related budgets. More than $600 billion to fund the 2009 budgets for the Pentagon, Homeland Security Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

_Disaster aid. Up to $25 billion in emergency funding for victims of Gulf Coast hurricanes, midwestern floods and other natural disasters.

_Automaker loans. More than $7 billion is provided to subsidize $25 billion in loans to help the "Big Three" U.S. automakers retool their plants to build cleaner, more energy efficient cars.

_Heating subsidies. Democrats want to double the budget to $5.1 billion for a popular program providing heating subsidies for the poor.

Democrats were also weighing whether to try to add another extension of unemployment benefits to the year-end budget package. Another option would be to add the unemployment insurance coverage to a subsequent $50 billion-plus measure to stimulate the economy with infrastructure spending, aid to states and additional food stamp benefits.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/22...ional/w131939D34.DTL
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WHILE THE TROOPS GET LESS AND THE VETS GET SICK...

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Posted on Mon, Oct. 27, 2008
Tough times: Congress grew 13 percent richer in 2007
Rob Hotakainen | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: October 28, 2008 11:54:18 AM

WASHINGTON — Times are tough, but don't worry about most members of Congress making ends meet.

Their collective wealth grew by 13 percent last year, leaving them in better shape than most Americans to make it through an economic downturn, according to a new analysis of personal financial reports.

Overall, nearly two of every three senators are millionaires. That includes presidential candidates Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. In the House, 39 percent of all members belong to the exclusive club.

Only 1 percent of all Americans are considered millionaires.

"With a median net worth of $746,000, most members of Congress have a comfortable financial cushion to ride out any recession," said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, which conducted the study.

In the House of Representatives, Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., ranks No. 1, with $397 million, followed by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., with $343 million. Rep Robin Hayes, R-N.C., ranks third, with $173.4 million. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., ranks sixth, with $62 million.

In the Senate, the two Democrats from Massachusetts claimed two of the top three spots.

Sen. John Kerry led the pack, with $336 million, while Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ranked third, with $104 million. Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., ranked second, with $241.5 million. Overall, senators had a median net worth estimated at $1.7 million.

The 535 members of Congress, who earn average annual salaries of $169,000 and receive cost-of-living pay increases, had a total net worth of $3.7 billion last year. Although some are likely to take a hit from Wall Street's woes, their average net worth soared by 61 percent from 2004 to 2007.

However, not all members are wealthy and some appear to be bankrupt. The study found that 16 House members and three senators had an average net worth of less than zero.

Obama ranked as one of the biggest financial winners, with his net worth increasing from $800,000 in 2006 to $4.7 million last year, thanks mainly to royalties from his two best-selling books. McCain had a net worth estimated at $28.5 million, with most of the wealth attributed to his wife Cindy's family fortune.

Authors of the study said it's impossible to give a precise net worth for members of Congress because their individual assets and liabilities are disclosed in broad ranges. To conduct the study, the Center for Responsive Politics determined a member's minimum net worth and maximum net worth and then calculated an average, which was used to rank the members.

Because the law does not require them to do so, members of Congress don't disclose the value of their homes unless they produce income. As a result, a member's true net worth is likely to be much higher than what gets reported.

"Members of Congress don't make it easy for the public to keep tabs on their personal holdings and any conflicts of interest those holdings present," said Dan Auble, who manages the center's database of lawmakers' financial information.

Who's the wealthiest of them all?

A new study suggests that members of Congress are in much better shape than most Americans to make it through an economic slowdown.

Here's a list of the members who had the highest average net worth last year:

Senate

1 John Kerry (D-Mass.)........$336,224,883

2 Herb Kohl (D-Wis.)........$241,545,513

3 Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)........$103,560,020

4 Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.)........$93,715,011

5 Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)........$89,509,099

6 Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)........$84,171,162

7 Gordon Smith (R-Ore.)........$46,127,014

8 Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)........$33,308,537

9 Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)........$32,428,089

10 Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.)........$31,421,472

House of Representatives

1 Jane Harman (D-Calif.)........$397,412,077

2 Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)........$343,457,521

3 Robin Hayes (R-N.C.)........$173,409,173

4 Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.)........$165,748,714

5 Michael McCaul (R-Texas)........$64,073,077

6 Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)........$62,468,047

7 Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.)........$50,297,547

8 Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.)........$47,350,092

9 Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.)........$43,716,445

10 Gary Miller (R-Calif.)........$39,978,021

Source: Center for Responsive Politics

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