This is in addition to alleged plants in Nevada and Florida and… elsewhere? If this is true, a) it’s despicable and b) shows the desperation of those on the left.
The 3rd Congressional District contest took a strange turn last week when an obscure, third-party candidate entered the fray.
Peter DeStefano, the independent Tea Party candidate this fall, didn’t announce himself as a candidate. Rather, his name surfaced for the first time as a viable candidate in an internal poll commissioned by Rep. John Adler and released to several blogs.
“Several members questioned (DeStefano’s) authenticity or his allegiance to the Tea Party,” Haney said the following day. “I asked him to stick around, said “I’d like to talk to you.’ Immediately after the meeting he disappeared.”
By Friday, Haney said the Burlington County Tea Party was ready to denounce DeStefano as a fraud candidate designed to split the conservative vote.
Cantor praised Bachmann for providing “another avenue for people to have their voices heard” but said he thinks the tea party is better left outside Washington.
“I met with several of groups that operated under that moniker in Virginia; they’re not all uniform,” Cantor said in his third-floor Capitol office. “That’s part of the beauty of the tea party movement; it’s organic. And it’s certainly not Washington. So I think it’s better left with the people.”
He came out last year in opposition to the Supreme Court nomination of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, but now says that he “probably” took that position because he felt pressure from the GOP primary. Asked if he felt differently now, he said: “Perhaps.”
“I want to do what is in my heart,” Mr. Crist said last week. “But other influences have some effect, to a degree.”
Isn’t that the epitome of a stereotypical, slimeball politician? The kind Hollywood loves to portray? Doing and saying whatever it takes to get a taxpayer-funded job even if it means completely changing your position 180 degrees a couple months down the road?
Not doing things becuase you believe them to be appropriate but because you know them to be expedient. Maneuvering for a taxpayer-paid job by any flip flopping means necessary?
Even if you are a liberal who agrees with his newly-stated liberal flip flops, how can you trust him when he was favoring the exact opposite positions only a handful of weeks ago? How can you trust that his positions won’t completely change — due to either his capriciousness or through the purchase of his vote with pork as was done with the “Louisiana Purchase” and “Cornhusker Kickback” or with lobbyist campaign dollars?
Indeed, isn’t Charlie Crist’s spinelessness a sign that he is the type of politician who, so easily swayed and free of governing principles, would be a prime target to offer his vote to fellow politicians offering the most pork or lobbyists offering the most campaign dollars?
No one can see the future. But we can judge a man by his character.
Don’t forget, he promised campaign donors that their money was going towards electing a candidate who shared their positions only to change course 180 degrees. And the money? When donors asked for their money back, Crist said “no” and laughed about it. Charlie “Take The Money And Run” Crist.
Florida, this dishonorable man should not represent us in Washington.
More union thuggery caught on tape. This time reportedly: California Nurses Association Union’s 2009 Director of Collective Bargaining Mike Griffing. Does his $164k salary job description include roughing up and trying to silence folks with differing political views? Will CNA condemn his actions and take any actions of it’s own?
Despite candidate Obama’s pledge that “If you’re a family that’s making $250,000 a year or less, you will see no increase in your taxes,” the White House now acknowledges that the ObamaCare IRS-enforced individual mandate IS legally a tax. It’s estimated to cost Americans $4billion a year. After the bill was rammed through Congress and signed into law, the truth can be admitted I guess… and statements can be proven to be the lies many of us said they were.
But Obamacare does contain tax hikes. Tons of them. From taxes on tanning beds to taxes on employment and investments, Obamacare is a certified job-killing machine.
None of these taxes touches the lives of every American as closely as the individual mandate to purchase health insurance. For the first time in American history, Obamacare forces all Americans to purchase a product or face sanction from the Internal Revenue Service. This is clearly a tax, as pointed out by ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos during a September 20th interview with the President himself. In an exchange that can only be described as “Clintonesque” Stephanopoulos pressed President Obama to admit his individual mandate was a tax. But President Obama refused to acknowledge reality and denied it. Stephanopoulos was forced to read the definition of “tax” straight from Merriam Webster’s Dictionary. But even then Obama refused to come clean: “George, the fact that you looked up Merriam’s Dictionary, the definition of tax increase, indicates to me that you’re stretching a little bit right now. … Nobody considers that a tax increase.” Well nobody but President Barack Obama’s Justice Department.
The New York Times confirmed Friday that in preparation for defending constitutionality of the Obamacare individual mandate in court, an Obama Justice Department legal brief argues that the penalty used to enforce the mandate is “a valid exercise” of Congress’s power to impose taxes. Mr. Obama’s own Justice Department further repudiates the President’s earlier statement by noting that the penalty is imposed and collected under the Internal Revenue Code, people must report it on their tax returns, and that the Congressional Budget Office estimates that it will cost Americans $4 billion a year. Yale Law School professor Jack Balkin told a meeting of progressive activists last month that President Obama “has not been honest with the American people about the nature of this bill. This bill is a tax.”
The Daily Caller’s review of Journolist records show liberals in media plotting to bury the Rev Wright story during Barack Obama’s run for the presidency and brand conservatives as racist.
In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.
and a plea to bury the story:
Chris Hayes of the Nation posted on April 29, 2008, urging his colleagues to ignore Wright. Hayes directed his message to “particularly those in the ostensible mainstream media” who were members of the list.
The Wright controversy, Hayes argued, was not about Wright at all. Instead, “It has everything to do with the attempts of the right to maintain control of the country.”
Hayes castigated his fellow liberals for criticizing Wright. “All this hand wringing about just how awful and odious Rev. Wright remarks are just keeps the hustle going.”
“Our country disappears people. It tortures people. It has the blood of as many as one million Iraqi civilians — men, women, children, the infirmed — on its hands. You’ll forgive me if I just can’t quite dredge up the requisite amount of outrage over Barack Obama’s pastor,” Hayes wrote.
Hayes urged his colleagues – especially the straight news reporters who were charged with covering the campaign in a neutral way – to bury the Wright scandal. “I’m not saying we should all rush en masse to defend Wright. If you don’t think he’s worthy of defense, don’t defend him! What I’m saying is that there is no earthly reason to use our various platforms to discuss what about Wright we find objectionable,” Hayes said.
If Massachusetts is the laboratory for ObamaCare, consider this an explosion. The Boston Globe reports that employers have begun doing precisely what everyone knew they would do when insurance prices spiked: dump health plans. Companies that used to offer health-care coverage are paying the fines and saving money by dumping their employees into state-run coverage
14% tax increase for flawed transportation that loses even more tax payer $ for each mile traveled and is not the “investment” some claim it to be? http://notaxfortracks.com/
The Dutch lose in World Cup and in their ObamaCare-esque health care. The lesson? Repeal of ObamaCare is only part of what needs to happen. Via Hot Air.
The Tampa Tea Party is conducting a rally denouncing Florida Tea Party at the Supervisor of Elections office at noon on July 1st. The purpose of this rally is to declare
that the Florida Tea Party has nothing to do with the Tea Party movement;
that, in particular, the Florida Tea Party has nothing to do with the Tampa Tea Party;
that the numerous press accounts of financial and other linkage between Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson and the Florida Tea Party indicates that probable purpose of the Florida Tea Party is deliver victory to the Left in November by splitting the right-of-center vote;
to call for the immediate withdrawal of Matthew Russel, Florida Tea Party candidate for FL house district 57, to preserve his good reputation of not being party to an apparent dirty-tricks operation.
The leaders of the various 912 and Tea Party groups around Florida consider the Florida Tea Party, which was incorporated last year by Fred O’Neil, to be a sham. The Florida Tea Party has nothing to do with the Tea Party/912 movement.
The Tampa Tea Party, and the leaders of other groups in the Tea Party/912 movement around the state of Florida, have rejected the strategy of a third political party because a third party will only split the right-of-center vote and ensure that the Left wins elections that it would normally lose. We were concerned that the Florida Tea Party would prove to be one of the Left’s dirty-tricks operations. Subsequentreportsindicatethatwe may have guessed correctly.
See this video for more evidence of the evident purpose of the Florida Tea Party.
Gallop poll says more people identify themselves as conservative than they do moderate or liberal. Highest level since 1992. Conservative: 42%, Moderate: 35%, Liberal: 20%. Gallop: “record-high level of conservatism (since at least 1992) if it is maintained for the full year.”
Poll also finds that a large number of independents identify themselves as conservatives as well. Check the link for the graph on that.
Joe Biden asks “What do I owe you?” for this custard. Business owner jokes, lower taxes and we’ll call it even. Vice President of the United State’s response? Calls the business owner a “smart ass.” These people are running our country!?!
It’s telling that, whether Biden’s “smart ass” insult was meant as playful ribbing or not: he took the small business owner’s request for lower taxes as an attack. Feeling a bit sensitive about your administration’s business-harming tax and spend policies, Sheriff Joe?
The AP decided today to fact-check one of the Obama administration’s favorite claims — that they have passed so many tax cuts that Tea Partiers should be rallying to thank him. The White House unveiled a small business tax credit this week, as part of the ObamaCare bill, that they claimed would stimulate job creation. However, as the AP discovers, it may actually hinder both job creation and salary growth:…
“America on Fiscal Suicide Watch” Doug Ross presents infographics from The Chicago Tribune.
The interest alone on the debt is projected to be over $1 trillion — and that’s if interest rates don’t go up significantly, which they will.
The only reason countries like Greece haven’t yet imploded is the promise of a backstop by big brother, AKA the International Monetary Fund, AKA the U.S. But when the U.S. hits these levels, there won’t be anyone to backstop us.
The standout moment came when a heckler started shouting at Crist (around 3:10 into clip), “What about the guys who gave you money when you were a Republican?!”
“I’m going to keep it!” Crist cheerfully responded, drawing roars of approval. Check out his wink right after.
“The additional spending — if approved over the years by Congress — would bring the total estimated cost of the overhaul to about $1 trillion…
“The CBO released the estimates in response to a request from California Rep. Jerry Lewis, ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee. A spokeswoman for Lewis said the inquiry was filed before the House voted on the bill…
“The CBO estimated in March that the net cost of the overhaul would be $788 billion over 10 years, but cautioned that it couldn’t make an estimate of the discretionary costs without more time and information.”
Freedom-loving Americans are coming together on April 15th at Chillura Park in downtown Tampa. Join them for the Bay Area’s largest Tax Day Tea Party event ever!
There will be live music, singers and entertainment.
Speakers will address:
Obama-Care Stimulus Spending National Security The Latin Americanization of Federal Finances Climate Change Alarmism and the Left Dodgy Climate Change Science Amnesty Expensive Floridian Rail Boondoggles And more View Speakers
When:
Thursday, April 15th, 2010 Sign waving begins at 4:00pm Entertainment begins at 5:00pm Event begins at 5:30pm Event will end by 8:00pm
