The Senate will be voting on another of Pres. Obama’s nominees. This time it is for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and the nominee is Judge David Hamilton. This nominee has been a fundraiser for ACORN and has prohibited praying in the name of Jesus in the Indiana state legislature, but allowed prayers mentioning Allah. Are you saying no surprise here, because of Pres. Obama’s lefty type nominees so far? But does he come across as someone that those on the right and/or Republicans in the Senate would vote for?
Well the following Republicans voted for cloture to allow a floor vote on Hamilton's nomination, thus assuring his confirmation: Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), Susan Collins (R-Me.), John Cornyn (R-Tex.), Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Olympia Snow (R-Me.), John Thune (R-S.D.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.)The only one that possibly gets a pass is Sen. Lugar who represents Indiana, where Hamilton has served as a federal district judge. The rest, I wonder why! Well maybe they feel it was a lost cause and he would be eventually confirmed anyway so they voted to help get it over with and to move on to something else. Read more here.
It appears that Conservative Party’s Doug Hoffman could be New York’s 23rd congressional district’s representative after all. This 3rd Party candidate has unconceded since absentee ballots have yet to be fully counted. It was reported that Mr. Hoffman had lost to Democrat candidate Bill Owens by a little over 5000 votes, but it was actually close to 3000 votes.
Remember, the Republican moderate, liberal candidate, Deidra Scozzafava dropped out a few days before the election. Though Mr. Hoffman lost, the vote total for him was very respectable for a third party candidate. He needs to have 65 percent of the absentee ballots in his favor in order to pull off the upset win and remove Rep. Bill Owens from office. Read more here.
Doug Hoffman a conservative ran as a third party candidate. I have yet to get on the third party bandwagon. I feel that the third party hurts one of the two major political parties while being an enormous indirect help to the other party and rarely ever wins against either of the two major party candidates.
The day after the November election, I blogged on how Mr. Hoffman’s candidacy resulted in the first Democratic Party win in that congressional district since the Civil War. Now there is a possibility that I may have to eat crow though Mr. Hoffman says that his possible victory after the full count of the absentee votes is a long shot.
Being a Fox Newser, I tend to only catch Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" segment at one its rerun times every so often. I find it to be comedic entertainment. Last night, I caught MSNBC program from the beginning. First thing, he went into diatribe against Rep. Bart Stupak.
Rep. Stupak is a Democrat against abortion and was able to get an amendment against any federal funding abortion on demand in the House version of the health care bill(some say it will be gone in the Senate version of the bill). Mr. Olbermann proudly boasts of the legality of abortion i.e. infanticide i.e. baby killing and that it is officially supported in the Democrat platform.
Mr. Olbermann putting his finger on the print-out of the Democrat Party Platform where it says they support the abortion decision of "Roe vs Wade" should make anti abortion Democrats cringe and convicted. I know was spiritually convicted during my years as a Democrat over the topic of Democrat support for infanticide came up.
NOTE: It is no secrete that there are some Republicans that are okay with infanticide and call themselves pro-choice, but the Republican Party officially takes the stand against abortion, while the Democrat Party's official stand support abortion on demand.
It's election day all across the country. In my neck of woods, the election is not considered a major one. I am voting for judges, tax collector, borough mayor, school board members and local etc. Regardless of political party and who and what is at stake, every registered voter should be doing their civic duty by casting their vote. Non voting excuses are not acceptable. Please get to your polling place and vote.
The governor's race in New Jersey and Virgina are in the national spotlight do to possible Republican victories. New Jersey Incumbent Governor Jon S. Corzine could lose to Republican challenger Chris Christie, but it is being reported that Pres. Obama's last minute campaigning for Gov. Corzine has given him a few percentage points over Mr. Christie in a few polls. Other poll have them neck in neck. Third party candidate Chris Daggett is proving to be thorn in both the sides of Gov. Corzine and Chris Christie. In Virgina Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell has kept a double digit lead in the polls over his Democrat opponent R. Creigh Deeds for some time.
Also in the national spotlight is the congressional race where the Republican candidate Dierdre Scozzafava has been deemed a rhino Republican who is even to the left of some Democrats has bowed out of the election just a couple of day ago and endorsed the Democrat candidate Bill Owens. She had received endorsements from Republican notables such as Newt Gingrich. 3rd party candidate Doug Hoffman who is very conservative received endorsements from notable Republicans such as Fred Thompson and Sarah Palin.
Eyes are upon this race to see if there will be a third party victory. Republicans already got served in the 2006 and the 2008 elections with a national Democrat Victory and now they may get served albeit a smaller serving, but nevertheless a stinging victory from the rejected conservative Doug Hoffman, because he is leading in the polls. Vote Today
There are Democrats against abortion! Well I knew that. I live with some. There are some Democrats rising up in objection to the funds in the proposed health care bill to pay for abortion on demand. There are about 40 congressional House Democrats including Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich) who will side with Republicans and prevent the health-care bill from coming to the floor for a vote if an amendment with language similar to the Hyde Amendment which did not allow federal funded abortions is not allowed.
Democrats and Speaker Pelosi are not happy with Rep. Stupak, who is adamant about taxpayers not paying for abortions. Rep. Stupak who is the Energy and Commerce subcommittee chairman wants a vote on the House floor to strike language on federal funds paying for abortion. Otherwise Rep. Stupak desires health care reform. He has been working with Democrat leaders, but have yet to come to an agreement over the abortion issue. He has been on C-SPAN and I saw him on Fox and Friends stating his case against funding abortion on demand in the health care bill. Read more here and/or here.
Rep Stupak says,"This is who I am. It's reflective of my district. If it costs me my seat, so be it."
Now, I have found out that Rep. Stupak has been caught telling folks in a town hall meeting that he will go along with abortion i.e federally funded abortion on demand in the health care bill. Read all about that here. The video in the link of his go along with abortion in the health care bill statement has been removed.
What is believable? I guess we will have to wait and see if Rep. Bart Stupak will eventually fall into place, be a good Democrat, hold down the party line and turn his head the other way on the abortion issue with the health care bill. Personally, I hope what I have seen of him on the these news programs is the real deal.
If you have read the "About" on this blog and/or my profile page on Facebook, you will see that I present myself as an independent conservative. This is due to when I made the initial decision to no longer be a Democrat. I wanted to go Independent, but could not because I am a voting resident of the state of Pennsylvania. Independents and other third political parties are closed out in PA's closed primary voting system. Third party candidates do not do well and are pretty much a lost cause in PA, therefore I went Republican.
I still contain an independent streak within me and can see both the Democrat and Republican parties as pots calling the kettle black. Neither of these parties are perfect and they take turns being in the spotlight for bad behavior. Former President Bush and both Houses of the Republicans Congress were in enough trouble with conservatives for voting in the Democrat vain for tremendous spending that has led in part to the current economic crisis. Republicans lost because many conservatives voted for third party candidates or did not vote at all. Then, there were the scandals dealing with the personal behaviors of a few elected Republicans.
Now its the Democrats' turn. People (mostly Independents) who voted for Pres. Obama are going through buyer's remorse, because they see the kind of change he was talking about is not the change they wanted. The Democrats are fearing losses in 2010. Some of the President's picks for his administration have had tax problems and then there is Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-New York) head of the House Ways and Means Committee and his tax issues currently in the news. There are also the controversial Czar picks with the main concentration right now on the Safe School Czar Kevin Jennings who was part of a post on a few Czars I did last week. Folks like Sean Hannity will not let this appointment go. You have to really wonder how in the world did Kevin Jennings ever get chosen period!
Because of my independent streak, I sift through the complaints I have heard from people about the treatment of Pres. Obama. Personally, I am thus far critical of his policies and other choices in the running of this country, but I deplore personal attacks and threats on the Pres. and his family. This first non white President is getting threats of harm well over that of any other U.S. President. After saying that there are some Obama supporters who see any valid criticism of his presidency as unlawful and personally threatning. I liken that fervor to the Nixon and Reagan years when their most ardent supporters stood on "My Country Right or Wrong."
Liberals! Liberals! Liberals! Some Obama folks who said nasty things about George Bush think Pres. Obama is just about the only President to have nasty things said about him. Okay! So now everyone take a look at this. Warning: Some disgusting language.
Do you think Pres. Obama picked some rather odd people to be part of his administration? How about the czars? Let's take a brief look at four of them:
Cass Sunstein the Regulatory Czar believes that animals ought to be able to sue with human representation in court. Read more about that here. He believes that the President and those in his administration should be interpreting federal law, not judges. He is against that aspect of our constitutional checks and balances. Mr. Sunsteins asked,
"Why is the executive not permitted to construe constitutional ambiguities as it sees fit?" asks Sunstein. "The simplest answer is that foxes are not permitted to guard henhouses ... but who is the fox?"
Mr. Sunstein believes there should be a new bill of rights. The rights he feels people should have can only be found in utopia. In reality, we know there is no such place on earth. Besides who pays for all services related to the rights for everyoner? Read all about presidential interpretation and his new bill of rights here.
UPDATE: Cass Sunstein says, Government must fund abortion. He declares 'no problem' forcing taxpayers with religious, moral conflict.
From what the Science Czar Dr. John Holdren has written, it so strongly appears that he is an eugenicist. He stated in a textbook that he is for government mandated green abortions. Dr. Holdren feels this is constitutionally acceptable. He is for population control for the sake of the environment/planet. For Dr. Holdren, as far as the 14th amendment is concerned, the fetus is a non person. He is also for sterilizing welfare recipients. He is a firm believer in health care covering the costs of abortions.
For more, you can go to this link which I have already shared with my Facebook friends. Dr. Holdren has also written that the traditional family is outdated and that large families should be punished. Read more about that here.
Mark Lloyd the Diversity FCC Czar praises marxist Hugo Chavez and feels that whites should step down and let blacks, gays and "other people" have the power. He makes a lot of controversial statements like that. Many are likening Mr. Lloyd to the former Green Czar Van Jones in the sense that they are both very friendly to marxism.
Mr. Lloyd strongly desires to changes things in the media. As far as the 1st Amendment is concerned, Ponder Mr. Lloyd 's quote:
“It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.”
Kevin Jennings the Safe Schools Czar is a former teacher who founded the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education. Network (GLSEN). He has personally used the "safety" concept in the advocacy of homosexuality in the public schools. You can read more about that here. In dealing with his homosexuality, Mr. Jennings feels that God failed him. He thoroughly dislikes anyone who gives recognition to God.
In the past he has promoted homosexual conferences under his GLSEN. Teenagers at these conferences learned in extremely graphic detail about all the mechanics and variations of homosexual love making. Go here for additional information on Kevin Jennings.
It appears that Conservative Party’s Doug Hoffman could be New York’s 23rd congressional district’s representative after all. This 3rd Party candidate has unconceded since absentee ballots have yet to be fully counted. It was reported that Mr. Hoffman had lost to Democrat candidate Bill Owens by a little over 5000 votes, but it was actually close to 3000 votes. 
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