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FEC Gridlock Broken with Confirmations
Jun 25th 2008 10:30PM
Filed Under:eBush Administration, Senate, Breaking News, 2008 President
The Senate last night confirmed five new commissioners for the Federal Elections Commission under the terms of a deal reached with the Bush Administration to end a six-month long stalemate that had prevented the elections watchdog from issuing rulings and enforcing election laws. Democratic Senators refused to confirm a Bush nominee, Hans von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department official in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division, over his advocacy for policies that the Democrats considered to be discriminatory. Von Spakovsky withdrew his name soon after the deal was struck between the Administration and Senate negotiators, paving the way for last night's confirmations.The FEC has been unable to operate since October 2007 due in part to a hold placed on von Spakovsky's nomination by Sen. Barack Obama. Obama placed the hold out of concern over certain decisions made by the Voting Section during von Spakovsky's tenure, specifically the Justice Department's defense of a Georgia voter identification law and a Texas redistricting plan, both of which were later upheld by federal courts. In retaliation for Obama's hold, Republican Senators placed holds of their own on three other nominees to the commission, leaving only two confirmed commissioners, not enough for the Commission to reach a quorum, hold a meeting, or issue a ruling.
With its new commissioners in place, the FEC will now be able distribute federal campaign funding to Sen. John McCain, Sen. Obama has reversed an earlier pledge to accept federal campaign financing, and rule on an outstanding Democratic Party challenge to McCain's decision to opt out of federal financing for the primary campaign. The new members of the Commission include Cynthia Bauerly, the former legislative director for Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Republicans Caroline Hunter and Donald McGahn, Matthew Petersen, and Steven Walther.
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(Page 1 of 1)REPLACE-DEMS-IN-CONGRESS10:35AMJun 26th 2008
IN JANUARY 2005, PELOSI PROMISED TO UNITE OUR COUNTRY. SHE AND THE BIG-WIG DEMS HAVE DONE NOTHING OTHER THAN BASH THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION. THEY HAVE VOTED AGAINST EVERYTHING. UNITED WE STAND --- DIVIDED WE FALL. REPLACE ALL DEMS IN CONGRESS.
OBAMA WAS "SELECTED" BY THE DNC --- NOT "ELECTED" BY THE PEOPLE.
OBAMA IS A TYPICAL CHICAGO MOBSTER. HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET WHAT HE WANTS. HOW MUCH BLOOD MONEY HAS HE COLLECTED? HOW MUCH DID HE GIVE TO THE DELEGATES TO GAVE HIM THE CANDIDACY? HE WAS NOT "ELECTED" BY THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA.
THE BIASED MEDIA AND DNC DID NOT TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT BOY-BAMA UNTIL AFTER HALF OF AMERICA HAD VOTED. HIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN BASED ON LIES. HE PLAYS THE RACE CARD ON A REGULAR BASIS. THE MAN SIMPLY CANNOT BE TRUSTED.
OBAMA ACKNOWLEDGED “PRIEST PFLEGER” WAS A KEY SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL ADVISEMENT TO HIM.
APPARENTLY ALL “PASTORS” IN OBAMA’S CHURCH ARE RADICAL RACISTS.
REMEMBER JEREMIAH WRIGHT?
OBAMA SAID: “I cannot disown him any more than I can disown my WHITE grandmother (and why does he feel the need to qualify his grandmother as being WHITE anyway??? and how does his grandmother WHO HELPED RAISE HIM, get lumped in the same category with his pastor anyway???)”
Fast forward two or three weeks:
“Oh, wait, he’s gone too far this time…now I can disown him….”
Reverend Wright was no less the same person than he ever was in April than he was in March, but NOW he’s an inconvenience and a political liability.
Kind of makes you wonder how much longer Grandma (with her uneasiness around strange AA men) was left in the beams of his two-faced ray of sunshine.
OBAMA WILL SAY ANYTHING TO GET WHAT HE WANTS. HIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN BASED ON LIES. BE CAREFUL WHO YOU VOTE FOR!
McCAIN 2008 — HILLARY 2012.
NO-OBAMA10:36AMJun 26th 2008
GODD OLE FLIP-FLOPPING OBAMA! BUT IT'S OKAY BECAUSE THE DNC AND BIASED MEDIA LOVE THEIR 'GOLDEN BOY'.
Obama believes the D.C. handgun law is constitutional --- In 2007.
Now his camp says --- DRUM ROLL PLEASE......
Obama Camp Disavows Last Year's 'Inartful' Statement on D.C. Gun Law.
Even an uncool kid like me can see a LIAR.
Obama is just a Liar --- liar, liar your ‘Elitist’ Wall Street COOL Versace Pants on fire.....
"Obama has sidestepped the question of whether the ban in the nation's capital runs afoul of the Second Amendment."
SideStepped? Move to the side? --- Which Side? --- Up, down, to the left, to the right --- It's THE HUSTLE!
VOTE McCAIN IN 2008.
ANYBODY-BUT-OBAMA11:20AMJun 26th 2008
GODD OLE FLIP-FLOPPING OBAMA! BUT IT'S OKAY BECAUSE THE DNC AND BIASED MEDIA LOVE THEIR 'GOLDEN BOY'.
Obama believes the D.C. handgun law is constitutional --- In 2007.
Now his camp says --- DRUM ROLL PLEASE......
Obama Camp Disavows Last Year's 'Inartful' Statement on D.C. Gun Law.
Even an uncool kid like me can see a LIAR.
Obama is just a Liar --- liar, liar your ‘Elitist’ Wall Street COOL Versace Pants on fire.....
"Obama has sidestepped the question of whether the ban in the nation's capital runs afoul of the Second Amendment."
SideStepped? Move to the side? --- Which Side? --- Up, down, to the left, to the right --- It's THE HUSTLE!
VOTE McCAIN IN 2008.
BIG BAD JOHN -- HERO McCAIN2:15PMJun 26th 2008
BIG BAD JOHN McCAIN! --- He has proven he loves our country enough to die for us. He has two sons fighting for us now.
Barack Hussein Obama only acknowledges his "white" heritage when he's in trouble --- otherwise, he claims to be a "black" man. He plans to help the people of Africa. We need a President who will help the people of the United States of America.
Re: The CORONATION of "Barry" Obama...
When this young, bi-racial "Changeling" first began this race, I was amused at how swiftly he steam-rolled the Clinton machine. My amusement came to a screeching halt however...when I woke up one day and realized that "hey...this guy could end up as our president...!!!"
Time out. The more this guy (and his mean-spirited wife) opened their mouths, the more I read from their writings, followed by the Rev. Wright debacle, followed by the Father Pfleger spectacle, followed by one political gaffe after another...well...my original amusement has now turned to outright panic and so has it ...for just about everybody I know.
I don't quite know who is behind the sudden rise of this otherwise, obscure, inexperienced Senator from Chicago and the press has also bought into it with them, but this bothers me more than anything.
Who? What? And...the biggest one of all...................why???
I must say that I am willing to overlook Jeremiah Wright, Pfleger, and the Muslim accusations.
What scares me to death are his political gaffes that show he will be a president in training.
There is something seriously wrong with the Democratic Party to have selected this novice for the most important job in the country.
VOTE McCAIN IN 2008.
FLIP-FLOPPING-OBAMA2:22PMJun 26th 2008
THE QUESTION IS: "WHO IS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA"?
THE ANSWER IS: "NOBODY KNOWS"!
Obama's flip-flop pattern is the only consistency this man has. After he takes the position before one set of voters (that they want to hear), he later side steps that position by saying that he was misunderstood, his statements are being taken out of context, or that the attack is simply divisive.
This is nothing more than piggy-backing Obama-esque damage control onto the most important SCOTUS opinion of this century. Obama's position is perfectly clear: He supports the wholesale banning of all semi-automatic firearms in America. This is, and has been on record for many months.
Ae listed on Obama's section of Ontheissues.org, his gun-control position is:
Principles that Obama supports on gun issues:
-Ban the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic weapons.
-Increase state restrictions on the purchase and possession of firearms.
-Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks with firearms.
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Gun_Control.htm
Obama sending out a statement which preceeds the SCOTUS decision is silliness. Ever since the Supreme Court heard the arguments, most people understood that SCOTUS was signalling that they would correctly opine that the 2nd Amendment was an 'Individual Right'.
Sorry, Obama --- You still cannot rewrite your previously stated positions as they suit you. Quit trying and stand up for what you, not the polls, believe in.
OBAMA SIMPLY CANNOT BE TRUSTED. HE AND THE DNC STABBED HILLARY IN THE BACK. HE WAS "SELECTED" --- NOT "ELECTED".
VOTE McCAIN IN 2008 --- HILLARY IN 2012.
iynaroc022:36PMJun 26th 2008
HONESTY ISSUE:
Will the real John McCain please stand up. For people that want to meet the real john McCain, please read these two articles: Corruption, Flip-Flop and Lies
http://www.realchange.org/mccain.htm
http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/levin040501.shtml
Now that's the McCain, the reformer we know.
AGE ISSUE:
Data just released show America is behind most industrialized nations when it comes to life expectancy. That is why we need universal healthcare like Obama is advocating. Just food for thought:
- For average white American male, life expectancy is 72 years and John McCain is already 72 years old, so he might kick the bucket any time now
- For average black American male, the life expectancy is 70 years and Barack Obama is only 46 years old.
D. L. GRAHAM3:37PMJun 26th 2008
TOMMY CHRISTOPHER DR. DUH!
CHYRON: Barrack Obama Is Dr. No. No To Drilling Offshore Oil.
BARACK OBAMA: Offshore drilling would not lower gas prices today.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
CARNACK SAY'S: Drilling off shore started after the (2012) elections will benefit future generations as it was begun during a time of lesser costs the (2012) dollar was less than the cost of waiting. DUH!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
CHYRON: No To A Gas Tax Holiday.
BARACK OBAMA: I think John McCain's proposal for a three month tax holiday is a bad idea.
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CARNACK SAY'S: The gas tax holiday that was rejected by the (2012) election was a sound one, and the limited windfall tax placed upon the (ENERGY) companies, for a short duration, until they agreed to and began to provide on line energy producing products Solar Panel Technology, Wind Power, Nuclear Power, Mississippi River dam power, and the effective use of coal (ON LINE SYSTEMS) prior to the elimination of the limited windfall tax repeal was an effective plan.
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CHYRON: No To Innovation. No To The Electric Car.
BARACK OBAMA: In this campaign, John McCain is offering the same old gimmicks.
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CHANACK SAYS: The Re-introduction of electricity as the means of providing a upgraded mass transit system after the (2012) election, in public bus's, and the rail transport system proved to be not only a job producing non outsourcing source that served Wall St. but also Main St. Along with the new Magnetic Rail Systems that were developed by the (Energy) systems companies.
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CHYRON: No To Clean, Safe, Nuclear Energy.
BARACK OBAMA: I start off with the premise that nuclear energy is not optimal. I am not a nuclear energy proponent.
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CARNACK SAY'S: After the (2012) election the building of state of the art Nuclear Facilities (Grid System) across the United States and in Alaska and (Hawaii along with thermo energy from volcanic technology), as part of the over all (Energy) Corporations Mix, or New energy think, drove the American Economy to the highest it has ever been in history, and help to make the United States the Standard of what any nation should be.
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CHYRON: Barrack Obama Truly Is The Dr. No Of Energy Security. Paid for by John McCain 2008.
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CARNACK SAY'S: The (PDN) Presumptive Democratic Nominee and the (PRN) Presumptive Republican Nominee proved in the (2008) that they were of the OLD TWO PARTY THINK, but in (2012) when a NEW INDEPENDENT PRESIDENT from the NEW INDEPENDENT PARTY was elected the NEW DIGITAL, ENERGY, AND INFRA-STRUCTURE MINDED GENERATION TOOK CONTROL, and from that point on THEY WERE IN AND THEY WERE READY!
Jim5:39PMJun 26th 2008
WHAT OBAMA DOESN'T WANT VOTERS TO KNOW ABOUT HIS UNCLE
WRIGHT..
http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/03/20/rev-wright-got-his-masters-degree-in-islam-in-west-africa/
Wrights Own Words..
Most of our members do not know that my Master’s Degree from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School was in the area of Islam in West Africa during the 19th Century — when the trans-Atlantic Slav
Trade was at its zenith. Islam has as many manifestations as Christianity and Judaism.
Rev Wright teacher of Islam was a DR Fazlur Rahman..
Once the election was underway, Barack Hussein Obama was very careful to promote himself as a Christian and the keystone of his Christian identity was Trinity Church, a Church shaped around a former Musli
whose Divinity School Masters Degree was on Islam and who used the Church to preach hatred for America and support for terrorism. That man of course is Jeremiah Wright.
With the revelations that Jeremiah Wright is a former Muslim and received his Masters degree from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School on Islam in Africa– Obama’s affiliation with Wright’s Trinity Church takes on a whole new meaning.
When Obama attended Wright’s Trinity Church, was he really attending a Church or a Mosque that Wright had built with a Christian facade over it.
Wright has admitted to incorporating ideas from Black Muslims into Trinity. He himself is a former Muslim who promotes an Islam centered view of America and Israel as demon states. There are Synagogues that are actually Churches dedicated to targeting Jews. Muslims have been covertly imitating some of this. There is a Jews for Allah and Muslims have been trained to lead religious discussions with Christians by equating Christianity with Islam , proclaiming that they too believe in Jesus. If there are Messianic Christian synagogues, why not a Prophetic Christian mosque?
Either way, conspiracy theories aside, the Church that Obama was attending had more in common with a Mosque than with a conventional Church. It was led by a former Muslim whose specialty was and is Islam. A former Muslim who hates America and Israel and who preaches ideas that are basically Black Muslim ideas. So Obama’s claim that Trinity Church normalizes him as a Christian goes out the window, because Trinity Church is no mainstream Christian Church. It’s as close as anyone can come to attending a Mosque without actually attending a Mosque.
Consider Obama’s “I’m not a Muslim” defense reverted back to square one. Or is that Mosque one.
Also Obama’s Chicago church reprinted a manifesto by Hamas that defended terrorism as legitimate resistance, refused to recognize the right of Israel to exist and compared the terror group’s official charter – which calls for the murder of Jews – to America’s Declaration of Independence.
copy of manifesto.... Guess Obama didn't see this one either...
...http://www.bizzyblog.com/wp-images/TUCChamasColumn072207.jpg
This is how Obama learned to lie so well..
http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Taqiyya-Islamic-Principle-Lying-for-Allah.htm
here is how taqiyya is used in america..
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9730604_ITM
According to Christian ethics lying is a sin; In Islamic jurisprudence and theology, the use of taqiyya against the unbelievers is regarded as a virtue and a religious duty
Taqiyya has been used by Muslims since the 7th century to confuse and split 'the enemy'. A favored tactic was ‘deceptive triangulation'; to persuade the enemy that jihad was not aimed at them but at another enemy.
Just two of the roles that a taqiyya uses.
Outwitting:
The skilled taqiyya-tactician doesn’t want the matter at hand to be debated or discussed; so his opponent must be outwitted or preemptively outflanked by the use of taqiyya. The objective is to divert attention away from the subject through duplicity and obfuscation
Role playing as the victim:
When placed under scrutiny or criminal investigation, (even when there is overwhelming, irrefutable evidence of guilt or complicity), the taqiyya-tactician will quickly attempt to counter the allegation by resorting to the claim that it is, in fact, the accused who are the 'the victims'. Victims of Islamophobia, racism, religious discrimination and intolerance. Currently, this is the most commonly encountered form of distraction and 'outwitting'….. Defence by offence.
Go back and review all of Obamas speeches, rallies and debates..You'll see a clear message.. Obama is a taqiyya tactican...simple as that..
John Dean9:57AMJul 5th 2008
Oh well, Our government is off on vacation again, hmmmm seems like it has been over 8 years now.
With most sitting on their hands as gas goes out of site, so many are loosing their homes,businesses are closing left and right, and air lines are almost grounded, yet our elected go on vacation.
To have the right we need to protest more and cut the apathy to zero for once.
We need another Boston Tea Party, after all, back then it was Taxation without resprsentation, so now, isn't it the same? Our taxes pay their wages, benefits, and their familes as well, we have paid Billions for a war started on a lie, we have never had an elected official ask us directly what we needed or wanted, no, they do what they want to benfit themselves before anyone else.
This government should be showing the example, rather it does what it wants, and what if we did the same, went without regard for a budget, spend others money without asking, taking excessive vacations without guil.
No, this country is falling apart at the seems, and the biggest problem is the apathy in this country, when did you last write, call, visit your elected official and tell them how you feel. Well, sadly most don't respond anyway. In NC Dole is a joke, Fitzpatrick is a biggot and never responds, and Burr the new guy has no clue what he wants, he just follows the flock.
Living almost 59 years in Pa, an RN, hurt of the job, and dealing with the laws on workmen's comp, you learn the hard way no one cares about you, the laws totally protect the company and they are allowed to hold you in limbo for a long time, long enough to almost loose your home, unable to do things you loved doing, and for what? They figure $588 a month for X years they feel you might have worked. Yeah right, who can live on $588 a month? Man try in this country, we have so many poor and this government doesn't even know they exist.
Look at New Orleans, look at the waste there, the only thing that seems to stir up any feelings is to pass a constitutional Law prevents gay marriage, yet anyone can have a gun in their home, make sense? NRA thinks so. Blind lobbying, they should be outlawed totally and forced out of Washington, then perhaps our elected officials could try thinking for themselves for a change.
Any I angry, you bet, in almost 4 years our laws have taken me from Upper Middle class to poverty, barely making it, eating 3 times a week, and home bound since I can't afford gas. You bet I am angry and you can bet my elected officials know it too.
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